H2O Racing
Union Internationale Motonautique

Shaun Torrente - 1

TEAM: Abu Dhabi Team
HULL: DAC
COUNTRY: United States
COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE: Miami, Florida USA
DATE OF BIRTH: 13/08/1978
PLACE OF BIRTH: Homestead, USA
HEIGHT: 178 CM
WEIGHT: 65 KG
RACING SUPER LICENSE:
MECHANICS - CREW:

1 - GIANMARIA CAPPELLINI
2 - GIACOMINO CURTI
3 – GABRIELE CAGLIARI
4 - ALESSANDRO CREMONA (RADIOMAN)
5 – MAURO MARCHI
6 - ATTILIO DONZELLI
7 – ROBERTO FAGGI
8- LUIGI CESAREO

DEBUT: 2007
GRAND PRIX ENTERED: 67
RACE STARTS: 65
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: 3
BEST OVERALL CHAMPIONSHIP FINISH: 1
BEST RACE FINISH: 1
BEST QUALIFYING POSITION: 1
CAREER PODIUMS: 30
WIN: 11
2ND: 8
3RD: 11
CAREER POINTS: 609
POLE POSITION: 11
LAST WIN: San Nazzaro 2022
LAST PODIUM: 2 - Zhengzhou 2023
LAST POLE: Macon 2023
PROFILE

SHAUN TORRENTE is one of the most dynamic and committed drivers on the tour and in 2018 fulfilled his lifelong ambition to win the world title, retaining it the following year. He finished runner-up in the title race in 2013 and 2016 and was third overall twice. After three terms with the Qatar Team from 2011 to 2014 he joined the Victory Team at the Grand Prix of France in 2015, moving to Team Abu Dhabi at the end of 2017. From 63 starts with the Qatar Team, he won nine times with 29 podium finishes, qualifying in pole position 10 times.

But Shaun’s real success has come with Team Abu Dhabi and the Miami racer has now claimed three world titles, adding a third success in 2022 after finishing third for the third time in 2021.

His racing career began in the USA when he was 15, going on to be a SST-120 (F2) world champion twice in 2002 and 2003, then moving up and winning the North American F1 Championship three times.

CAREER INFOS

2023 - 7th F1H2O World Championship
2022 - F1H2O World Champion
2021 - 3rd F1H2O World Championship
2019 - F1H2O World Champion
2018 - F1H2O World Champion
2017 - 8th F1H2O World Championship
2016 - 2nd F1H2O World Championship
2015 - 3rd F1H2O World Championship
2014 - 3rd F1H2O World Championship
2013 - 2nd F1H2O World Championship
2012 - 11th F1H2O World Championship
2011 - 11th F1H2O World Championship
2007 - 29th F1H2O World Championship
2006 - Rookie of the Year US Champ Boat Series
2005 - SST-120 Champ Boat Series Champion
2005 - SST-120 Cincinnati Champion
2003 - SST-120 World Champion
2002 - SST-120 World Champion
2001 - SST-120 National Champion
1996 - SST-45 National Champion
1994 - Started SST-45
1992 - Started racing Mini GT at14 years old

2023 DRIVER GALLERY
2023 DRIVER NEWS
December 9, 2023
TEAM ABU DHABI PLAYS THE WAITING GAME AFTER TORRENTE’S ACCIDENT IN SHARJAH
Saturday, December 9:  Team Abu Dhabi will decide overnight whether Shaun Torrente can start tomorrow afternoon’s Road to Sharjah-Grand Prix of Sharjah after the triple UIM F1H2O world ...
F1H2O
December 9, 2023
JONAS ANDERSSON TAKES POLE POSITION FOR ROAD TO SHARJAH-GRAND PRIX OF SHARJAH
Saturday, December 9:  Team Sweden’s Jonas Andersson snatched pole position for the Road to Sharjah-Grand Prix of Sharjah, the final round of the 2023 UIM F1H2O World Championship, on ...
F1H2O
November 2, 2023
CAN TORRENTE PREVENT ANDERSSON FROM WINNING THE POLE POSITION TROPHY IN SHARJAH?
  Thursday, November 2:  Only Team Abu Dhabi’s Shaun Torrente can now stop the recently-crowned UIM F1H2O World Champion Jonas Andersson from securing the UIM F1H2O Pole Position ...
F1H2O
October 13, 2023
TEAM ABU DHABI CONFIRM BOTH TORRENTE AND AL-QEMZI WILL LINE UP WITH AL-QAMZI IN SHARJAH
  Friday, October 13:  Team Abu Dhabi has confirmed that both Shaun Torrente and Rashed Al-Qemzi will race alongside Thani Al-Qamzi in a three-boat team at the Grand Prix of Sharjah on ...
F1H2O
September 6, 2023
TEAM ABU DHABI CONFIRMS IN-FORM RASHED AL-QEMZI WILL RACE SECOND BOAT IN SARDINIA
  Wednesday, September 6: Rashed Al-Qemzi is a man in form and the young Emirati racer could well be the tonic that Team Abu Dhabi needs when he lines up in the team’s second boat ...
F1H2O
August 22, 2023
CAN TEAM ABU DHABI TURN IT AROUND THIS SEASON?
    Tuesday, August 22: This year’s UIM F1H2O World Championship has not gone at all to plan for Team Abu Dhabi, which has been the dominant force in the top echelon of world power ...
F1H2O
July 1, 2023
TORRENTE SNATCHES LAST-GASP POLE FROM ANDERSSON FOR GRAND PRIX OF FRANCE IN MÂCON
 Saturday, July 1: Team Abu Dhabi’s Shaun Torrente claimed a dramatic last gasp pole position after a pulsating BRM Qualifying session for the Grand Prix of France on the River Saône ...
F1H2O
July 1, 2023
TORRENTE AND DILLARD TOP THEIR RESPECTIVE GROUP FREE PRACTICE SESSIONS IN MÂCON
Saturday, July 1: Team Abu Dhabi’s Shaun Torrente and the CTIC China Team’s Brent Dillard claimed the early bragging rights with the fastest laps in the morning’s two 75-minute free ...
F1H2O
April 30, 2023
TEAM SWEDEN’S JONAS ANDERSSON CRUISES TO START-TO-FINISH WIN AT GRAND PRIX OF ZHENGZHOU, CHINA
Sunday, April 30: Team Sweden’s former World Champion Jonas Andersson clinched an emphatic start-to-finish victory in Sunday’s Grand Prix of Zhengzhou, China on the Yellow River. The ...
F1H2O
February 26, 2023
POLAND’S BARTEK MARSZALEK WINS HIS FIRST EVER RACE FROM POLE POSITION IN INDONESIA
Sunday, February 26:  The Strømøy Racing F1H2O Team’s Bartek Marszalek followed up his first ever pole position by securing victory in his first ever race, when he led Kopiko ...
F1H2O