December 19, 2014
"VIVE LA FRANCE" CHIAPPE WINS FIRST TITLE IN SHARJAH!
SHARJAH, U.A.E. - December 19, 2014 - Veteran pilot Philippe Chiappe became the first ever French F1 World Champion in the 31 year history of the UIM F1 H2O World Championship tour by besting ...
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December 18, 2014
CHIAPPE ON POLE WITH DOMINATING PERFORMANCE!
SHARJAH, U.A.E. - December 18, 2014 - French driver Philippe Chiappe moved a giant step forward in his dream of winning his first world title as he crushed the competition with a 44.33 second lap for ...
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December 18, 2014
AL KUWARI CLINCHES FIRST F-4S WIN IN SHARJAH
SHARJAH, UAE - December 18 - Qatar's F-4S duo enjoyed mixed fortunes in the first of two races on the Khaled Lagoon. Khalid Al Kuwari celebrated his first F-4S victory of the season while team ...
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December 17, 2014
SELIO AND TEAM ABU DHABI LOOK TO BE "SPOILERS" IN SHARJAH!
SHARJAH, U.A.E. - Wednesday December 17 - As the world focuses in on the impending monumental three way struggle for the 2014 UIM F1 H2O World Championship trophy, other drivers, who have had major ...
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December 9, 2014
EPIC THREE WAY - ALL OR NOTHING BATTLE FOR F1 TITLE!
ABU DHABI - (Tuesday, 9 December) - In what is fast becoming the "new normal," for the sixth time in the past nine season's, going into the final round of the UIM F1 H2O World Championship at the ...
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November 21, 2014
"VIVE CHIAPPE" - WINS IN ABU DHABI - LEADS CHAMPIONSHIP!
ABU DHABI - (Friday, 21 November) - French driver Philippe Chiappe led from start to finish capturing his first win of the season and the second of his career on the UIM F1 H2O World Championship ...
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November 21, 2014
BRINEY WINS AGAIN AND REIGNS ON F-4S IN ABU DHABI
Friday, 21 November, ABU DHABI (UAE): For the second time in two days Australia's Briney Rigby thumped the opposition, leaving the chasing pack of nine in her wake to take her second win and overall ...
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November 20, 2014
CHIAPPE GIVES CTIC CHINA TEAM THEIR FIRST POLE!
ABU DHABI - November 20 - It took 12 years and 91 race events but French pilot Philippe Chiappe earned his first pole position of his career laying down a blinding 45.33 second time and a 166.78 kph ...
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November 20, 2014
BRILLIANT BRINEY WINS F-4S RACE 1
Thursday, 20 November, ABU DHABI (UAE): Sixteen-year-old Briney Rigby produced a faultless performance to take her first win in her debut season in the F-4S Trophy, cruising home to take the ...
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November 19, 2014
WILL TEAM ABU DHABI'S "VOODOO" CONTINUE?
ABU DHABI - November 19, 2014 - It's hard to believe, but Team Abu Dhabi has gone almost a decade on it's home race circuit around the lovely corniche near downtown city center since it last ...
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November 15, 2014
TORRENTE SETS DOHA ALIGHT WITH HIS 2ND CAREER VICTORY!
DOHA - American Shaun Torrente as the Qatar Team survived not only a challenge by drivers from 10 different nations but a pair of boat fires and three yellow flag restarts taking the field by storm ...
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November 15, 2014
F-4S SZYMURA CRUISES TO OVERALL VICTORY IN QATAR
Saturday, 15 November: Germany's Mike Szymura took overall honours in round 3 of the F4S Trophy in Qatar with a comfortable start-to-finish win in race 2 to complete the win-double on Doha Bay.
The ...
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November 14, 2014
TORRENTE OUTDUELS CHIAPPE AND CARELLA FOR POLE!
DOHA - November 14, 2014 - The Qatar Team got what it was hoping for when American driver Shaun Torrente came out last in the six boat "Shootout" Q3 qualifying session and blistered the 5-pin 2.0 ...
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November 14, 2014
SZYMURA EXTENDS F-4S TROPHY LEAD WITH THIRD WIN OF THE YEAR
Friday, 14 November, DOHA (Qatar): Team F1 GC Atlantic's Mike Szymura extended his overall lead in the F-4S Trophy after taking his third win of the season in race 1 in Doha.
The 21-year-old from ...
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November 13, 2014
SCANDINAVIAN "STARS" RUNNING OUT OF TIME IN DOHA!
DOHA - 13 November, 2014 - The rich tradition of success by the Scandinavian "brotherhood" of drivers in qualifying, maybe coming to an end, as the Grand Prix of the Middle East settles along the ...
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November 7, 2014
THE "DRAGON" OF DOHA BAY NEXT HURTLE FOR F1 DRIVERS!
ABU DHABI - 7 November, 2014 - The race on Doha Bay has been going on for almost ten years.
Its beginnings date back to 2005. The local race organizers have moved the site to three different ...
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October 30, 2014
QATAR TEAM FINISHES SUCCESSFUL SECRET TESTS IN FLORIDA!
ABU DHABI - 30 October, 2014 - The current defending UIM F1 H2O World Championship winning Qatar Team was testing early this week for multiple days getting ready for the upcoming Grand Prix of ...
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October 27, 2014
UIM F1 H2O'S LUIS RIBEIRO ELECTED AS COUNCIL MEMBER!
IBIZA, Spain - Monday October 27 - One of the hardest working individuals in all of powerboat racing, Luis Miguel Ribeiro Martins, was elected to the very selective and influential UIM Council at the ...
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October 14, 2014
QATAR TEAM HEADS TO FLORIDA FOR MORE F1 TESTING!
ABU DHABI - 14 October, 2014 - Defending World Champions, the Qatar Team, based in Doha, head next week to Lakeland, Florida in the USA hoping to put a "slam dunk" on the rest of the field of drivers ...
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October 6, 2014
CARELLA STORMS TO THIRD STRAIGHT WIN IN CHINA!
LIUZHOU, China - 6 October, 2014 - Three-time World Champion Alex Carella proved once again why he is currently the world's best driver by leading from start to finish winning by 31.66 seconds to ...
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October 5, 2014
F-4S TWO WINS OUT OF TWO FOR SZYMURA
Monday, 6 October, LIUZHOU (China): Germany's Mike Szymura was once again the standout driver of a field of eight and rounded out the perfect weekend with his second race win in two days to take ...
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October 5, 2014
CARELLA EARNS THIRD STRAIGHT POLE IN LIUZHOU!
LIUZHOU, China - The calender may change but the results for pole position seem suspended in space and time as Italian triple World Champion Alex Carella of the Qatar Team captured pole position for ...
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October 5, 2014
F-4S SZYMURA CRUISES TO VICTORY IN RACE 1
*Impressive debut by 16-year-old Briney Rigby
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October 4, 2014
IS THE FORMULA TO SUCCESS A NEW RACEBOAT IN CHINA?
LIUZHOU, China - 4 October, 2014 - As the hours before the 20th Anniversary year of racing in China get closer at hand questions swirling around the UIM F1 H2O World Championship paddock this weekend ...
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October 3, 2014
YOUNG DRIVERS READY TO IMPRESS IN CHINA!
LIUZHOU, China - 4 October, 2014 - The newer generation of drivers who make up the future of the UIM F1 H2O World Championship have arrived here in force along the Liu River here in Southern China ...
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September 15, 2014
1995 "KICK STARTED" HISTORIC F1 SUCCESS IN CHINA!
ABU DHABI - A bit of a history lesson to put everything into perspective as to F1's emergence in China.
The dreams of opening up the world of the UIM F1 H2O World Championship to the ancient and ...
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August 25, 2014
CAUDWELL MARINE RETURNS WITH NEW PROMISE FOR CHINA!
ABU DHABI - (Monday, August 25) - In what many people in the sport of powerboat racing saw as a "noble experiment" at the final race of the 2011 campaign in the United Arab Emirates, the Caudwell ...
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August 20, 2014
F1 H2O TO CELEBRATE 20 YEARS IN CHINA WITH GP AT LIUZHOU!
ABU DHABI - (Wednesday, August 20) - As the UIM F1 H2O World Championship powerboat series kicks off its hectic late season 2014 campaign beginning on October 4-6 at the Grand Prix of China, its hard ...
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July 22, 2014
QATAR TO HOST GRAND PRIX OF THE MIDDLE EAST
Abu Dhabi, UAE - Tuesday, 22 July: H2O Racing has confirmed that the Grand Prix of the Middle East, round 3 of the 2014 UIM F1H2O World Championship, will take place in Doha, Qatar on 14-15 ...
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June 25, 2014
INTENSIVE TESTING HEATS UP IN BOTH EUROPE AND THE U.S.A. IN F1!
ABU DHABI - 25th of June, 2014 - Battling for the "upper hand" in the ultra competitive world of the UIM F1 H2O World Championship for power boating is getting more intense by the week as teams based ...
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June 8, 2014
FRANCESCO CANTANDO ON THE "FAST TRACK" TO SUCCESS IN 2014!
Milan, Italy - Sunday, June 8, 2014 - It all started for a young driver from Milan, Italy in the paddock in Wuxi, China in the late summer of 1996 and now over 150 Grand Prix's later Francesco ...
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May 3, 2014
HOMETOWN HERO PHILIPPE CHIAPPE TAKES 24 HOURS OF ROUEN!
ABU DHABI - 3 May, 2014 - French pilot Philippe Chiappe traded in his usual CTIC China Team overalls for Nollet Racing colors and came home the winner for another year at the famed 24 ...
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April 23, 2014
GENTLEMAN RACER FRANCO LEIDI WILL BE MISSED!
ABU DHABI - 23rd of April, 2014 - The UIM F1 H2O World Championship series has lost one of their true "gentleman" racers as 65 year-old Franco Leidi passed away a few days ago in his native ...
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April 22, 2014
CARELLA JOINS F1 DRIVERS PAST AND PRESENT TO ROUEN 24 HOURS!
ABU DHABI - 22 April, 2014 - Three-time defending UIM F1 H2O World Champion Alex Carella of Italy leads a large list of past and current drivers of the series as they travel to northern France for ...
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March 15, 2014
CARELLA WINS FOR FIRST TIME ON HOME WATERS IN DOHA!
DOHA, Qatar - Saturday, 15 March, 2014 - Italian three-time defending World Champion Alex Carella of the Qatar Team vindicated last seasons disappointment by winning the opening round of the UIM F1 ...
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March 15, 2014
F-4S - WEATHER DISRUPTS AGAIN - RACE 2 OF F-4S TROPHY CANCELLED
Saturday, 15 March, DOHA (Qatar): For the second time in a week unpredictable weather conditions and gusting winds over Doha Bay have disrupted the racing programme, forcing race officials to cancel ...
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March 14, 2014
ANDERSSON TAKES SECOND CAREER POLE IN DOHA!
DOHA, Qatar - (Friday, 14 March, 2014) - Swedish driver Jonas Andersson captured his second career pole and his second on Doha Bay and will lead the field of drivers from 11 different nations for ...
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March 14, 2014
F-4S - FORSS WINS RACE 1 OF F-4S SEASON-OPENER
Friday, 14 March, DOHA (Qatar): Sweden's Jesper Forss marked his return to the F-4S Trophy leading from start-to-finish and overcoming tricky conditions to win race 1, with defending Champion Mike ...
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March 12, 2014
CANTANDO TO LEAD MOTORGLASS F1 TEAM IN 2014!
DOHA, Qatar - 13 March, 2014 - New drivers, new sponsors and a new outlook for the Milan, Italy based organization headed by 19 year racing veteran Francesco Cantando as he braces for the opening ...
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March 7, 2014
CTIC CHINA TEAM HUNGRY TO FINALLY WIN A WORLD TITLE!
DOHA, Qatar - (Friday, March 7, 2014) - It's time. Time for one of the premiere teams to step up to take the top rung and capture the World Championship ring for the first time as the CTIC CHINA Team ...
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March 4, 2014
TRIPPLE WORLD CHAMPION COLLECTS AWARD AT UIM PRIZE GIVING GALA
Tuesday, 4 March: Team Qatar's triple World Champion Alex Carella headed up a cast of Champions at the fifth annual UIM Prize Giving Gala at the prestigious Salle des Etoiles in Monaco on the ...
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February 27, 2014
TEAM ABU DHABI "RE-ENERGIZED" FOR 2014 OPENER IN DOHA!
ABU DHABI - (Thursday, February 27, 2014) - Coming off a less than memorable season in 2013, one of the premiere racing teams in all of the UIM F1 H2O World Championship series, Team Abu Dhabi, ...
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February 12, 2014
MARIT STROMOY TO LEAD STRONG NEW TEAM NAUTICA LINE-UP!
ABU DHABI - (Wednesday, February 11, 2014) - Talented and the always entertaining driver Marit Stromoy of Norway is off to Abu Dhabi for a second time as she prepares for more pre-season testing ...
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February 7, 2014
SAMI SELIO - MORE DETERMINED THAN EVER FOR 2014!
ABU DHABI - (Friday, February 7, 2014) - Two-time world champion Sami Selio is coming out with guns a blazin' as he dedicates the UIM F1 H2O World Championship season to his goal of winning his third ...
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January 28, 2014
QATAR TEAM "GOING ALL OUT" IN PREPERATION FOR 2014!
ABU DHABI - Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - The double winning Team and Driver Championship organization Qatar Team has summoned "all hands on deck" as the multi-national group of highly skilled ...
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