CLASS 1 VICTORY CLASS 1 MARITIMO

January 2009 n.1
SPECIAL EDITION
BOOT DÜSSELDORF
CLASS 1
SET FOR OUTSTANDING SEASON
VICTORY
THE TEAM TO BEAT
CLASS 1
BACK RACING
IN SPAIN AND ITALY
MARITIMO
CONFIRM TWO BOAT ENTRY
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ADVERTORIAL
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CLASS 1 SET FOR
OUTSTANDING SEASON
The 2009 Class 1 World Powerboat Championship is set for a potentially outstanding
year, with Championship Organiser, IOTA (International Offshore Team Association),
confirming two new venues on the calendar - Alicante, Spain and Stresa, Italy - with a
possible third new venue to be announced in the coming weeks.
IOTA also revealed a provisional 12-boat line-up for the season, which includes
new boat designs, new pilots and the likelihood of a new team and 13th boat to be
confirmed.
Following the climax to the 2008 season in Dubai, the majority of raceboats, workshops
and hospitality units were shipped to Doha - where the season kicks off with the Qatar
Grand Prix on 25 April - and where special facilities to house the raceboats have
been laid on by Championship Organisers, IOTA and the Qatar Marine Sport Federation
(QMSF).
Understandably, the World, Middle East and Edox Pole Position Champions, Victory,
have remained at home in the UAE at their state-of-the-art facility in Dubai, whilst
Spanish outfit, Duemme Offshore, opted to ship their two boats back to Spain.
In the build-up to the first race, all but one of the teams competing in the Championship
will enjoy the benefits of pre-season preparation and winter testing under the sun in
the Middle East.
AL ZAFEEN BACK TO
PARTNER BIN HENDI
Victory Team’s general manager, Gianfranco Venturelli, has confirmed that 2007 World and
European Champion, Arif Saif Al Zafeen, will make a welcome return to racing this season to
partner the newly crowned 2008 World, Middle East and Edox Pole Position Champion, Nadir Bin
Hendi, in Victory 1.
The decision sees Al Zafeen and Bin Hendi rekindle a formidable partnership that saw them win
the season opener in Qatar last year, before an injury - sustained in a Formula 2 race - sidelined
Al Zafeen, with the team drafting in the services of 2001 World Champion, Mohammed Al Marri,
to replace him.
Venturelli also said that at this stage, no decision had been taken on the line-up for their second boat.
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ADVERTORIAL
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NICOLINI KEEPING
HIS OPTIONS OPEN
Qatar 95’s Matteo Nicolini is keeping his options open as to which boat he will opt to
run in 2009 - their current Michael Peters-designed, Victory-built hull or the new Nicolini
Offshore-designed NOC1CAT that raced in Moscow and Arendal - confirming that he will
run a series of crucial pre-season tests, with the first in Doha in February.
Nicolini and Abdullah Al-Sulaiti ended the season as the top Qatar outfit, taking a
sensational race win in the last race of the year to finish above their team-mates and
take third overall in the championship standings. “The boat with Sterlings is very strong
and with some additional development to the modifications we have already done, we
can improve the performance,” he said.
“We will test both boats properly in February, running our current boat with V8s to try to
find a strong flat water set-up and will also test the new boat with both V12s and V8s.”
REBUILT QATAR
96 WILL BE A
NEW AND VERY
DIFFERENT BOAT
Qatar 96 throttleman, Steve Curtis, says that their rebuilt raceboat will be ‘like
having a virtually new boat’ and will bear little resemblance to the old ‘Spirit of
Norway’.
Following Sheikh Hassan and Curtis’ crash in qualifying in Doha last year,
which all but destroyed the team’s number one boat, Qatar 96 has been almost
totally rebuilt. The main rebuild of the hull and deck was carried out at Nicolini
Offshore’s facility near Lake Lecco in Italy, before being moved to the team’s
second European base in Norway, where Curtis has spent the early part of 2009
overseeing the crucial re-rigging before the boat is shipped to Qatar at the end
of February to test in March. “There was very little left after the crash and it was
simply a case of starting from scratch,” commented Curtis. “The positive side is
that we have been able to rebuild to suit not just Sheikh Hassan and myself, but
to suit the courses we run these days. We have made extensive modifications
to the hull and in other key areas, focusing on acceleration and ultimately a boat
that will be quick in all conditions.”
MARITIMO CONFIRM
TWO BOAT ENTRY
Australia’s Maritimo Racing Team has confirmed they will enter two of their new
specification Class 1 raceboats in their bid for race and title honours in 2009.
The new lighter hull, powered by two Mercury 790 V8s - designed and built by Australia’s
premiere manufacturer of long-range luxury motoryachts, Maritimo – was unveiled in
Dubai at the end of last year, finishing in fifth place on its race debut. “In some ways, it
was disappointing that we had no time to test before taking the boat out of the box, but
what we saw was very encouraging,” said Maritimo team owner, Bill Barry-Cotter. “We
identified some fundamental issues, the main one being the rudder configuration, but we
will put them right and make one or two other minor modifications before Doha.”
The 2007-8 Australian Offshore Superboat Champions, Tom Barry-Cotter and Pal Virik
Nilsen, who competed in three Class 1 races last year, posting two top-six finishes,
will head the two-boat assault, with the experienced and straight-talking New Zealand
throttleman, Peter ‘Muddy’ McGrath, joined in the second boat by Italian Giorgio Manuzzi,
who raced last year alongside Nicola Giorgi in SeveneleveN.
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ADVERTORIAL
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CLASS 1 SUPPORTS THE QATAR
ORPHAN FOUNDATION
At the beginning of 2008 the International Offshore Team
Association (IOTA) reached an agreement with the Qatar Marine
Sports Federation (QMSF) to launch “Class 1 for Dhreima” – an
initiative to support the Qatar Orphan Foundation.
Sheikh Hassan Bin Jabor Al-Thani, President of the QMSF and
IOTA, was instrumental in encouraging Class 1 – a sport in
which he has been a leading figure since 2003 – to become
an active vehicle to raise awareness of the foundation. “In
presenting this initiative I wanted to emphasise how sport, in
whatever form or however extreme, can support the values and
the importance of the activities of an organisation such as the
Qatar Orphan Foundation.”
During the course of the year, the association between Class
1 and Dhreima developed a series of activities and events
that took place at races, with the purpose of highlighting
the activities of Dhreima and finding synergy with similar
organisations based in countries that host Class 1 GP events.
The Qatar Orphan Foundation - Dhreima was launched on 10
June 2003 under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Moza
Bint Nasser Al-Misnad, Chairman of the Supreme Council. “We
in the Qatari Orphan Foundation believe that our community
values of solidarity, compassion and cooperation make us truly
capable of providing all the support the children need,” said
Nabil Ali Bin Ali, Chairman of the Dhreima Board, adding, “and
we are extremely happy that the Class 1 Championship has
elected to support the Foundation.”
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VICTORY TAKE THE
TRIPLE CROWN
JOTUN UPHOLD
EUROPEAN PRIDE
2008 provided some tough challenges for the Class 1 World Powerboat Championship,
but the sport responded and faced them in a highly professional manner and showed
great resilience, highlighted by an eleven-boat line-up at the end of the year in Dubai.
It was a year in which the sport set new standards, achieved extraordinary levels of
technical excellence and enjoyed great excitement and wonderful entertainment - both
on and off the water.
The year also saw the Championship continue to reach an ever increasing media
audience and grow both commercially, thanks to the valued support of its partners Edox,
Nor-Tech, Marinepool, Marinetek and Moving, as well as geographically, with two new
venues – Budva and Moscow – demonstrating the thriving interest from new venues
and countries looking to host a round of this prestigious international series.
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And on the water, it was Dubai’s Victory Team, who, without question, was
the team of the year; Victory 1’s Mohammed Al Marri and Nadir Bin Hendi
led them to a 64th Grand Prix win, their eighth World Championship,
a third Middle East title and their sixth Pole Position Championship in
sixteen years.
But whilst the statistics give Victory the deserved accolades, 2008 saw
Jotun emerge as the leading European challenger who took on and beat
the might of the Middle East and lift the European Championship, the
V8 break the V12 engine dominance, powering Jotun and Qatar 95 to
race wins, three new pilots enter the Championship and two new boat
designs, by Nicolini Offshore and Maritimo, take their first tentative
racing steps into arguably the most competitive international powerboat
series in the world.
But the season belongs to Victory 1; Al Marri stepped in to replace the
injured Arif Al Zafeen after a winning start to their title defence in Qatar,
and alongside Bin Hendi produced an imperious season-long display
to take a further four wins in Montenegro, Russia, Egypt and Dubai to
complete the title treble and end the year as World, Middle East and Edox
Pole Position Champions – a second World title for Al Marri and a first for
the tenacious Bin Hendi.
Victory’s strength in depth was highlighted by the performance of teammates, Abdullah Al Mehairbi and outgoing Champion, Jean-Marc Sanchez
in Victory 7, who guided his ‘rookie’ driver to the runners-up slot in both
the World and Middle East Championships, taking an impressive seven
podium finishes from eight starts.
Qatar’s season hit trouble on day one of competitive action, with Sheikh
Hassan and Steve Curtis destroying their number 1 raceboat in qualifying.
Despite jumping into their spare boat to finish second in the season
opener, they would ultimately be on the back foot all season and record
just three podium finishes. Reliability, or rather lack of, proved their
Achilles heel and the Qatar 96 crew saw race-winning positions and
podium performances end ignominiously on more than one occasion.
But Qatari pride was restored in the last race of the season with a
sensational win by Abdullah Al-Sulaiti and Matteo Nicolini over their
Dubai rivals, and with three previous podiums, Qatar 95 ended the
season third overall and put one over their team-mates to finish as the
number one boat in the Qatar camp.
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With Cirilli unable to make the final three races of the season, for the
first outing in the team’s new Class 1 Mercury V8-powered Tencara in
Egypt, Carrasco was joined by the flamboyant and experienced Italian
throttleman, Giovanni Carpitella, to see out the season, achieving the
team’s best result of the year, finishing fourth in the last race.
A disrupted season is the best way to describe 2008 for Chris Parsonage
Racing. What looked like being a great season opener – running comfortably
in third and with a podium finish in their sights – went wrong with just three
laps to go, when Bard Eker and Chris Parsonage crashed out.
Parsonage elected to sit out the European rounds, but returned to race
in Egypt and Dubai. With Eker, the 2005 World Champion, unavailable,
Parsonage switched to take the wheel and brought in American throttle
ace, Billy Moore to take the sticks. The Anglo-American pairing gelled
immediately to mark an impressive return for Parsonage and Class 1
debut for Moore, finishing third, but they were unable to repeat this
performance in Dubai, failing to start the penultimate race and finishing
sixth in the final race.
By the mid-season point, the Championship needed a team to remind Victory that
there were other boats out there, and it was the marauding Norwegians in the
scarlet, Class 1 Mercury V8-powered Jotun who delivered. Inge Brigt Aarbakke
and Jorn Tandberg, after just one outing together in Moscow, produced a simply
stellar performance on their home waters of Arendal in the BMW Norwegian
Grand Prix to pass both Victory outfits and take a sensational win. A race later
in Romania, they seized on Victory 1’s misfortune to romp home and take a
second win and lift the European Championship by one point, ending the year
as the top European challenger in fifth place overall and third in the Edox Pole
Position Championship.
Foresti & Suardi ended the year with the team’s highest points tally in Class 1,
with Montavoci and Selmer proving to be one of the most consistent teams in
the Championship, always in the points and never finishing outside the top six,
producing their best result of the season, fourth, in rough seas in the Egyptian
Grand Prix in Porto Marina to end their year as top European outfit in the Middle
East Championship and sixth in the overall Championship standings.
There was also a cameo role this year for the much talked-about new
Class 1 raceboat, built by Italian boat builder, Nicolini Offshore - the NO
C1CAT. The first new design in Class 1 for five years was unveiled at
the Russian Grand Prix in the colours of the Qatar Team and given the
immediate ‘thumbs-up’ by the man behind the project, Matteo Nicolini.
And two race outings with Mohammed Al Nassr and Luca Nicolini in
the cockpit – Russia and Norway – gave a clear indication of the boat’s
potential and pace, with consistent top-six times in practice and in
qualifying.
For Giorgioffshore, 2008 produced a landmark moment for the team. In a
season of development, running a new Michael Peters-designed, Victory-built
raceboat and trying various engine packages along the way, it all came together
for Nicola Giorgi and Giorgio Manuzzi in the Mina Seyahi Grand Prix, taking the
team’s first Class 1 podium with a well-deserved third place.
For Duemme Offshore Team boss, Domenico Cirilli, 2008 was a season to focus
on team development and to introduce new Spanish pilots into Class 1. He
started the year in Montenegro alongside debutant, Sergio Mora Carrasco,
taking points in their next three outings before a planned switch for the allSpanish pairing to a new raceboat later in the season.
The second new design of the season appeared in Dubai. Given ‘wild
card’ entry status by officials for the races in Norway and Dubai, Class 1’s
youngest partnership, Tom Barry-Cotter and Pal Virik Nilsen returned to
Class 1 action as the 2007/8 Australian Offshore Superboat Champions.
In Norway, the Australian-Norwegian pairing jumped back into their ‘old’
Class 1 Mercury V8-powered Tencara to finish sixth, and in Dubai unveiled
their new Class 1 specification raceboat, designed and built by Australia’s
premiere manufacturer of long-range luxury motoryachts, Maritimo.
In Egypt it was the turn for a second Spanish newcomer to make his debut.
Mohammed Abdelkader Ahmed survived a baptism of fire to beat the rough seas
alongside Ahmed Al Suwaidi to bring the boat home in seventh place, and in the
final race of the year was joined by another Class 1 debutant, Christian Rivolta,
and added to his tally of points.
Despite the obvious ‘teething troubles’ of testing and developing a
new raceboat under race conditions and getting acclimatised to its
handling characteristics, the Maritimo crew produced a very creditable
performance to take fifth place in the Mina Seyahi Grand Prix, but lost
out in the last Grand Prix of the year after a big impact spin-out ended
their race on lap 14 of 20.
But it was Victory 1 who deservedly took all the plaudits and ended the
year as the World, Middle East and Edox Pole Position Champions, and
who remain the team to beat in 2009.
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11 MARITIMO
1 VICTORY
Team:
Boat:
Team Owner:
Managing Director:
Team Manager:
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Overall Length:
Beam:
12.67m
3.75m
Team:
Boat:
Team Owner:
Team Manager:
VICTORY TEAM (DUBAI, UAE)
#1 Victory
Government of Dubai
Khalfan Harib
Gianfranco Venturelli
THROTTLEMAN
Arif Saif Al Zafeen (UAE)
Date of Birth:
1 September, 1974
Place of Birth:
Dubai, U.A.E.
Lives:
Dubai
Nadir Bin Hendi (UAE)
Date of Birth:
15 December, 1969
Place of Birth:
Dubai, U.A.E.
Lives:
Dubai
4800kgs
Victory V12
Builder: Boat Construction:
Victory
Composites
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Overall Length:
Beam:
12.90m
3.49m
DRIVER
THROTTLEMAN
Tom Barry-Cotter (Australia)
Date of Birth:
27 March, 1988
Place of Birth:
Sidney, Australia
Lives:
Gold Coast
Pal Virik Nilsen (Norway)
Date of Birth:
20 December, 1974
Place of Birth:
Tonsberg, Norway
Lives:
Sandefjord
Racing Weight:
Engines:
4100kgs
Mercury 790 V8
Builder: Boat Construction:
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Overall Length:
Beam:
12.67m
3.75m
Team:
Boat:
Team Owner:
Team Manager:
VICTORY TEAM (DUBAI, UAE)
#7 Victory
Government of Dubai
Khalfan Harib
Gianfranco Venturelli
THROTTLEMAN
TBC
TBC
Racing Weight:
Engines:
4800kgs
Victory V12
MARITIMO OFFSHORE RACING (AUSTRALIA)
#12 Maritimo
Bill Barry-Cotter
Ann-Marie Cook
Builder: Boat Construction:
Victory
Composites
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Overall Length:
Beam:
12.90m
3.49m
DRIVER
THROTTLEMAN
Giorgio Manuzzi (Italy)
Date of Birth:
20 May, 1964
Place of Birth:
Cesena, Italy
Lives:
Cesena
Peter “Muddy” McGrath
(New Zeland)
Date of Birth:
5 January, 1956
Place of Birth:
Auckland, New Zeland
Lives:
Gold Coast, Australia
Racing Weight:
Engines:
4100kgs
Mercury 790 V8
Builder: Boat Construction:
Team:
GIORGIOFFSHORE (ITALY)
Boat:
#18 Giorgioffshore
Team Owner / Manager: Gianni Giorgi
TBC
#8 Foresti & Suardi
SCAM Per Jørgensen
giorgioffshore.com
scam-srl.it
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Overall Length:
Beam:
13.02m
3.60m
DRIVER
THROTTLEMAN
DRIVER
THROTTLEMAN
Kolbjorn Selmer (Norway)
Date of Birth:
4 December, 1976
Place of Birth:
Trondheim, Norway
Lives:
Trondheim
Giampaolo Montavoci (Italy)
Date of Birth:
10 December, 1959
Place of Birth:
Venice, Italy
Lives:
Venice
TBC
Nicola Giorgi (Italy)
Date of Birth:
18 August, 1973
Place of Birth:
Florence, Italy
Lives:
Montecatini Terme
Racing Weight:
4800kgs
Builder: Engines: Lamborghini-SCAM 8.2litre, V12 Boat Construction:
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Maritimo
Composites
18 GIORGIOFFSHORE
8 FORESTI & SUARDI
Team:
Boat:
Team Owner:
Team Manager:
maritimo.com
victoryteam.ae
DRIVER
Maritimo
Composites
12 MARITIMO
7 VICTORY
Team:
Boat:
Team Owner:
Managing Director:
Team Manager:
maritimo.com
victoryteam.ae
DRIVER
Racing Weight:
Engines:
MARITIMO OFFSHORE RACING (AUSTRALIA)
#11 Maritimo
Bill Barry-Cotter
Ann-Marie Cook
Victory
Carbon Kevlar
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Overall Length:
Beam:
14.44m
3.69m
Racing Weight:
Engines: page 15
4800kgs
Giorgi V12
Builder: Boat Construction:
Victory
Carbon Kevlar -
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50 NEGOTIATOR
Team:
Boat:
Team Owner:
Team Manager:
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Overall Length: Beam:
13.44m
3.69m
CHRIS PARSONAGE RACING (ENGLAND)
#50 Negotiator
Chris Parsonage
Jim Poole
Team:
Boat:
Team Owner:
Team Manager:
chrisparsonageracing.com
UGLAND OFFSHORE RACING (NORWAY)
#90 Jotun
Andreas O Ugland, Jorn Tandberg
Jorn Tandberg
uglandoffshoreracing.com
DRIVER
THROTTLEMAN
Chris Parsonage (England)
Date of Birth:
5 May, 1958
Place of Birth:
Chester, England
Lives:
Liskeard
William Moore (USA)
Date of Birth:
5 December, 1974
Place of Birth:
Hollywood, Florida, USA
Lives:
Oriental, North Carolina
Racing Weight:
4800kgs
Engines: STERLING V8 supercharged
90 JOTUN
Builder: Victory
Boat Construction: Carbon Fibre Composites
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Overall Length:
Beam:
12.25m
3.47m
DRIVER
THROTTLEMAN
Inge Brigt Aarbakke (Norway)
Date of Birth:
5 july, 1959
Place of Birth:
Bryne, Norway
Lives:
Naerbo
Jorn Tandberg (Norway)
Date of Birth:
15 March, 1964
Place of Birth:
Larvik, Norway
Lives:
Larvik
Racing Weight:
4800kgs
Engines: Mercury Class 1, 9.1litre V8
Builder: Marine Technology Inc
Boat Construction:
Composites
95 QATAR
60 ROSCIOLI HOTELS ROMA
Team:
Boat:
Team Owner:
Team Manager:
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Overall Length:
Beam:
13.02m
3.60m
DUEMME OFFSHORE (SPAIN)
#60 Roscioli Hotels Roma
Domenico Cirilli
Pippo Cascone
duemme-offshore.com
DRIVER
THROTTLEMAN
TBC
Date of Birth:
TBC
Place of Birth:
TBC
Lives:
TBC
TBC
Date of Birth:
TBC
Place of Birth:
TBC
Lives:
TBC
Racing Weight:
4800kgs
Engines: Lamborghini-SCAM 8.2litre, V12
Team:
Boat:
Team Owner:
Team Principal:
Team Manager:
Builder: Victory
Boat Construction: Carbon Kevlar Composites
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Overall Length:
Beam:
12.67m
3.75m
TEAM QATAR (QATAR)
#95 Qatar
Qatar Marine Sports Federation (QMSF)
HE Sheikh Hassan bin Jabor Al-Thani
Matteo Nicolini
qmsf.org
DRIVER
THROTTLEMAN
Abdullah Al-Sulaiti (Qatar)
Date of Birth:
20 August, 1975
Place of Birth:
Doha, Qatar
Lives:
Doha
Matteo Nicolini (Italy)
Date of Birth:
8 July, 1964
Place of Birth:
Fermo, Italy
Lives:
Dubai, U.A.E.
Racing Weight:
4800kgs
Engines: STERLING V8 supercharged
Builder: Boat Construction:
96 QATAR
88 SPIRIT OF SPAIN
Team:
Boat:
Team Owner:
Team Manager:
DUEMME OFFSHORE (SPAIN)
#88 Spirit of Spain
Domenico Cirilli
Pippo Cascone
Team:
Boat:
Team Owner:
Team Principal:
Team Manager:
duemme-offshore.com
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Overall Length:
Beam:
13.33m
3.57m
TEAM QATAR (QATAR)
#96 Qatar
Qatar Marine Sports Federation (QMSF)
HE Sheikh Hassan bin Jabor Al-Thani
Matteo Nicolini
qmsf.org
DRIVER
THROTTLEMAN
DRIVER
THROTTLEMAN
TBC
Domenico cirilli (Spain)
Date of Birth:
8 January, 1960
Place of Birth:
Rome, Italy
Lives:
Alicante, Spain
HE Sheikh Hassan bin
Jabor Al-Thani (Qatar)
Date of Birth:
20 July, 1968
Place of Birth:
Doha, Qatar
Lives:
Doha
Steve Curtis (England)
Date of Birth:
9 June, 1964
Place of Birth:
Wimbledon, England
Lives:
Hythe
Racing Weight:
4800kgs
Engines: Mercury-Class 1, 9.1litre V8
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Victory
Composites
Builder: Boat Construction:
Tencara
Composites
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Overall Length:
Beam:
12.67m
3.75m
Racing Weight:
Engines:
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4800kgs
Skema V12
Builder: Boat Construction:
Victory
Composites
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TIMING
ADVERTORIAL
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QATAR / Doha
25 April
EGYPT / Porto Sokhna
16 May
SPAIN / Alicante
7 June
RUSSIA / Moscow
5 July
NORWAY / Arendal
19 July
ROMANIA / Constanta
30 August
UKRAINE / tba
6 September
ITALY / Stresa
4 October
U.A.E. / tba
20 November
U.A.E. / tba
12 December
UNION INTERNATIONALE MOTONAUTIQUE - UIM
The Union Internationale Motonautique (U.I.M.), was formed in 1922 and is the world governing body for marine motorsport and is recognised as such by
both the General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
President: Raffaele Chiulli
General Secretary: Régine Vandekerckhove
WORLD PROFESSIONAL POWERBOATING ASSOCIATION - WPPA
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The WPPA was founded on 2 December 2006, based on an agreement between Saeed Hareb and the International Offshore Team Association (IOTA) and
is located in Dubai.
The WPPA has reached an agreement with the UIM, under the terms of which the Association has the exclusive right to manage Class 1 powerboat racing.
The WPPA is responsible for the development of this Class, for setting the Rules and for providing the Race Officials.
General Secretary: Sid Bensalah
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INTERNATIONAL OFFSHORE TEAM ASSOCIATION - IOTA
Founded in 1987, the International Offshore Team Association (IOTA) is the organiser and the officially-sanctioned promoter and worldwide television
and commercial rights holder of the Class 1 World Powerboat Championship. It represents the collective interests of all teams competing in the
championship.
President: HE Sheikh Hassan bin Jabor Al-Thani
General Secretary: Marco Sala
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nigel Quilter tel:+44(0)1252 713223 / mob:+44(0)7785 325346
q@class-1.com / q@q4media.com / class-1.com
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