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Powerboat P1 Releases Broadcast Plans For UIM Class 1 World Championship Series

For offshore racing fans, the long wait—sixth months—between the 2021 Race World Offshore -produced world championships in Key West, Fla., and the first race of the 2022 American Power Boat Association Offshore National Championship Series is almost finished. The season-opener in Cocoa Beach, Fla., is just five days away.

Huski is one of six Class 1 teams that will open its 2022 world championship series-chase in Cocoa Beach, Fla., this Sunday. Photo by Cole McGowan copyright Powerboat P1 .

But the Thunder On Cocoa Beach event also kicks off the eight-race Union Internationale Motonautique World Championship Series, which will finish in early November with the APBA/UIM Offshore World Championship.

 According to a press release from Powerboat P1 / P1 Offshore this morning, all eight Class 1 races in the six-venue championship will be broadcast on television nationally on Bally Sports through its family of regional sports networks. In Cocoa Beach, Sarasota and St. Petersburg, Fla., where Powerboat P1 is the race promoter, CBS Sports Network will screen the Class 1 and APBA offshore national championship racing, together with live streaming on the P1 Offshore Facebook page and Powerboat P1 YouTube page.

Television coverage begins next month with highlights of the action from Thunder On Cocoa Beach and will include a Class 1 season-review show airing in December. Livestream coverage of the Cocoa Beach contest will be carried on the P1 Offshore Facebook page , and is scheduled to begin Sunday at 10 a.m.

The potential reach of the Class 1 worldwide broadcast deals this season, according to the release, is more than 230 million homes with coverage on leading sports channels including the UK and Western Europe, Australia, Singapore, Japan, the Philippines, South Africa, Egypt, Thailand, Malaysia, the Middle East and South America.

  “Powerboat P1 is committed to the long-term development of offshore powerboat racing and quality broadcast television coverage is an essential building block for any successful motorsport,” said Azam Rangoonwala, the chief executive officer of Powerboat P1, in the release. “The power of the internet along with technology means there are a number of platforms available to sports fans via various media methods. Yet, good old-fashioned television is still king, for now anyway.”

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It’s a powerboat racing website that has covered circuit racing, offshore racing and PWC since 2016. Maintained by The Race Factory based in Norway who have specialists in event planning and promotion, social media, graphic design, and photography. We are currently working on our vision and believe that we can and will make a different in powerboating. We will dedicate our time to produce accurate factual stories and to promote the sport to a wider global audience.

Without an official promoter in place this year, the UIM Class 1 World Powerboat Championship has been placed on the back-burner, but the Abu Dhabi International Marine Sports Club (ADIMSC) has stepped into the fray to keep the prestigious racing series out of the wilderness and the club will host a three-race, four-day UIM World Championship this week (November 21-25) off the Abu Dhabi Breakwater.

Class 1 racing is one of the most famous power boating disciplines in the world and it was an obvious step for the ADIMSC to step into the breach, according to Salem Al-Romaithi, assistant general manager of the club on Marina Mall, Abu Dhabi.

“At the Abu Dhabi International Marine Sports Club we support a wide range of water sporting activities. Class 1 is a vital one of those,” said Al-Romaithi. “Class 1 is one of the most important of all the UIM racing disciplines and has a tremendous pedigree and history. We were keen to run a UIM World Championship, while it is in a transition year without a promoter in place. Team Abu Dhabi will have two boats out on the water, as we did when we won the title last year. The goal, of course, is to retain the title and lay down the solid foundations for the sport to return to the regular calendar in 2017.”

Indeed, Team Abu Dhabi made history last season when the American duo of Gary Ballough and John Tomlinson broke the Victory Team’s stranglehold on Class 1 silverware to confirm a first ever world title for Team Abu Dhabi at the second race off the Breakwater last November.

Tomlinson returns to defend his crown this season alongside Faleh Al-Mansoori and the American and the Emirati face a serious threat from team-mates, Rashed Al-Tayer and Majed Al-Mansoori, and a selection of other entrants. These include multiple world champions, Arif Saif Al-Zafeen and Nadir bin Hendi, from the Victory Team and the new driver line-up of Italy’s Giovanni Carpitella and England’s Class 1 debutant Ian Blacker in Zabo Racing.

“The transition of the sport ahead of the appointment of a new promoter by the UIM means that Christian Zaborowski and Niclas Johansson were committed to other business projects and this has given an exciting opportunity for Ian to make his debut,” said Zabo Racing’s team manager Oivind Dreier Sivertsen.

Last season’s success for Team Abu Dhabi and their American-built MTi was the first non-Victory hull success for 12 seasons in Class 1 racing and it ended an eight-year winning streak for the Dubai-based team.

“Winning the title at the second race last year marked a great day for Abu Dhabi,” recalls Tomlinson, who had won the title himself back in 1997. “I remember, it was calmer than I thought it was going to be and it didn’t rough up. We got a really good run at the start, made the first corner and were able to run at the front for a couple of laps.

“Then, as we went around the turn on the outside leg, one engine went into guardian mode with a turbo over heat. We had no throttle and had to drop the rpm. We were able to put it back in gear, throttle up and get going again, but the focus was all about getting to the finish to secure that title.”

Team Abu Dhabi is sponsored by Etihad Airways and runs under the patronage of His Highness Dr. Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifa Al-Nahyan, advisor to the Head of State and chairman of the board of directors of the Abu Dhabi International Marine Sports Club (ADIMSC).

UIM Class 1 racing in its present format dates back to 1992, although numerous offshore races had been held across the globe since the 1950s and Britain’s Steve Curtis won two titles himself in 1985 and 1987.

Italy’s Walter Ragazzi and Finland’s Jukka Mattila won that first Class 1 title in ’92, before Dubai’s Victory came into play the following year and fought a number of memorable battles with Spirit of Norway, Qatar and several Italian teams over the subsequent seasons. The most successful racer of all time is Victory Team’s Arif Saif Al-Zafeen with 43 GP wins to Steve Curtis’s 42. Norway’s Bjorn Rune Gjelsten is third with 34 victories.

The format for the 2016 UIM World Championship will be three counting races over four days, split by a Kilo Run for a separate Trophy. After technical inspections tomorrow (Monday), pole position qualifying and races one, two and three will take place on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, with the Kilo Run breaking up the World Championship action on Wednesday afternoon.

The racecourse will feature some action inside the Breakwater and part outside of Lulu Island on what could be a particularly tricky offshore section if the weather deteriorates.

Spectators are welcome and food and entertainment will be available throughout the racing days, adjacent to the pit area, on the Abu Dhabi Breakwater.

Timetable of events

Monday, november 21.

09.00-14.00            Technical inspections

16.00-17.30            Official practice

Tuesday, November 22

10.30-11.30            Pole Position Race 1

16.00-17.00            UIM World Championship Race 1

17.30                              Prize giving on podium

Wednesday, November 23

11.00-12.00            Free practice

16.00-17.00            Kilo Run Trophy

17.30               Prize giving on podium – Speed Run Trophy

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Abu Dhabi , UAE, Monday, 09 June 2003 - With the Federation of Russia Grand Prix scheduled for August 17, the UIM Powerboat Homologation Committee plans to visit the site of the race, not far from Moscow center, from June 16-20, 2003. The Federation of Russia Grand Prix is the fifth race on the 2003 UIM F1 Powerboat Championship calendar and the ninth time that an F1 Powerboat Championship event takes place in Russia.

Organisers of the 2003 event plan a great show for an expected 50,000 spectators. Since 1989, FI Powerboats have raced in Minsk (1989), Leningrad (1990,1991), St Petersburg (1995,1996) and Moscow (1997, 1998 and 1999).

"After three years away, I am happy to see the F1 Powerboat Championship back in Moscow, thanks to the Moscow Government and to 7TV Sports Television Channel," said Nicolo di San Germano, promoter of the UIM F1 Powerboat series. "This Grand Prix is an exciting new event, even though the Federation of Russia has hosted F1 Powerboat racing before.

"The last Grand Prix in Moscow gave us a lot of action on the river in the city's famous Gorki Park. But the 2003 edition will take place in Strogino, seven kilometres away from the center of Moscow. Found by Pierre Bogdanov, President of the Russian Federation Motonautique, this new location will allow FI Powerboat racing on a much wider circuit, compared with Gorki Park. "

The charismatic di San Germano has worked assiduously since 1993 to make F1 Powerboat racing a global sport. "I am gratified to see that some of the concepts that I initiated have begun to take root," di San Germano said. These include among others proper racing pits and hospitality units.

"In the last ten years, the F1 Powerboat racing programme has taken the contenders to Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and Far East" di San Germano said. The promoter has dreams of additional locations in the future. "But today," he said, "I really hope that the Homologation Committee will find that the circuit in Strogino meets all the necessary criteria for a good show, perfect organisation, and, above all, safety."

Local powerboat racer seals amazing victory in Italy after seven-year hiatus

A local powerboat racer grabbed an amazing victory in Italy driving his Formula 2 powerboat after a 7-year hiatus from the sport.

Matthew Palfreyman, from Aughton, kicked off the UIM F2 World Championship with a victory in Brindisi. The boats in which Palfreyman races can reach over 120mph.

Having been a member of Lancashire Powerboat Racing Club (LPRC) since he was 12 years old, he has brought glory back to the club based out of Carr Mill Dam in St Helens at the age of 32.

The Brit qualified third, with pole being taken by home favourite Tullio Abbate. In second was Giacomo Saachi-Abbate, Tullio’s nephew. Palfreyman would get a good getaway moving him straight into second, only to take the lead heading into the bottom corner.

After various driver's barrel rolled themselves out causing yellow flags, including Saachi-Abbate, the Lancashire driver controlled the lead all the way to the finish line. Palfreyman finished five seconds ahead of second place and believes his team is ready to fight for the championship.

He said: “I think that’s the toughest race of my career and it’s all a little bit of a blur to be honest.

“Tullio and Giacomo seemed to have a problem at the bottom turn, and I knew the boat was capable of it, so I made my move, and it paid off.

“I’d like to thank all my team and family for helping me win here this weekend, it’s a great result for the whole team and now we are ready for the fight to become World Champions.

“But for now, it feels great to be bringing the silverware home to Britain.”

Palfreyman won his first junior LPRC Club Championship in 2005 and since then has been a prolific name in the international powerboat community. He won the Formula 4S World Championship in 2011 and was runner-up the following year.

The Brit has been competing in the super-fast F2 boats since 2013, finishing second in the 2015 World Championship Series.

During his seven-year gap away from the sport, Palfreyman has remained involved with the boats through mentoring up and coming drivers alongside building his own software support and technology business.

More importantly, during this time he became a father to his 20-month-old son.

With all this time spent away focusing on matters aside from powerboat racing, Palfreyman clearly never lost his skill inside his 120mph Rocketship.

The teams next race will be held at Carr Mill Dam on 20 th July.

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The UIM E1 World Championship adds Lake Como GP to its 2024 electric boat racing calendar

Nascent electric boat racing series E1 recently completed its third Grand Prix of its inaugural season. As the nine initial teams, led by a mix of celebrities and professional athletes, compete around the globe en route to the championship in Hong Kong this fall, E1 has added another gorgeous location for a summer GP – Lake Como.

The UIM E1 World Championship is a young but exciting new electric racing boat series announced in 2022. Since then, co-founders Rodi Basso and Alejandro Agag have assembled an impressive roster of team owners, including Tom Brady , Rafael Nadal, Steve Aoki, Sergio Perez, and, most recently, Will Smith .

E1 kicked off its inaugural season in February with the Jeddah GP in Saudi Arabia , in which Team Brady took 1st place, followed by Team Rafa . Brady’s team would score a second win during the series’ Venice GP in May, leading in points heading into the Puerto Banús GP in Spain, which took place earlier this month.

Team Miami, led by Marc Anthony, took first and now leads in overall points as we approach GP #4, which will take place in Monaco next month. Today, E1 announced Lake Como as a new addition to the 2024 race calendar alongside some slight changes to the number of total GPs this year.

E1 will race on beautiful Lake Como this August

Per a release by E1 earlier today, it has added the Lake Como GP to the 2024 race calendar, scheduled for late August.

The race across the waters of gorgeous Northern Italy will depart from the world-renowned Grand Hotel Villa d’Este in a nine-team bout that hopes to promote electric motorsports and draw awareness to sustainability across the world’s precious marine-centric regions. Per E1 CEO and co-founder Rodi Basso:

A destination that’s synonymous with luxury and elegance, Lake Como and the iconic Villa d’Este are the perfect fit for E1. The Lake provides ideal racing conditions that will amplify the jeopardy and competitiveness that has quickly become a hallmark of the Championship. Together with Villa d’Este, we will work to deliver a memorable and world-class race weekend experience unlike any other.

Like all E1 events, the UIM Championship will work alongside local partners, like Hotel Villa d’Este, to protect blue habitats like Lake Como. The addition of the Lake Como GP is a welcomed one but alters the original 2024 race calendar announced by E1 last December.

The race on Lake Como will replace a previous GP scheduled in Rotterdam , Netherlands, this September. We also noticed E1 nixed a separate GP in Geneva, which was originally scheduled for this coming weekend. Here’s how the revised race schedule now looks:

• Monaco – July 27-28
• Lake Como – August 23-24
• Hong Kong (Championship) – November 9-10

With only three Grand Prix remaining this season, the title as the first-ever UIM E1 World Champion is still up for grabs. We will be following this exciting new electric boat racing league throughout the rest of 2024 and are working on attending a race event to share the experience with you.

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