Success comes in many forms and for one race team in the 2009 U.I.M. F1 H2O World Championship for power boating has proven to be a win-win format from day one.

Swedish driver Jonas Andersson, a legendary driver from Scandinavia who has worked hard to bring himself up to the top level of all powerboat racing, has joined forces with the exotic and oil rich country of Azerbaijan to combine a strong presence in F1 this season with Andersson currently third in the drivers championship with 99 points on the strength of victories in St. Petersburg, Russia and Liuzhou, China.

Friday 27 November 2009 - It took only 167 career races but nine-time World Champion Guido Cappellini of Como, Italy won his 60th career victory in the late afternoon sunshine of Doha Bay on the edge of the Arabian Gulf an moved himself up into third place in the 2009 U.I.M. F1 H2O World Championship drivers table at the same time.

“It was an incredible day for us and now more importantly we have moved two places forward in the championship with 100 more points to chase before the last race in Sharjah,” stated Guido. “Now we need to continue to push but in a good way if we are going to win this 10th championship that I have been chasing for the last four years.”

The posturing of the 2009 U.I.M. F1 H2O World Championship for power boating is about over and now its “put up or shut up” time for both the Qatar Team and Team Abu Dhabi  organizations with two of their four drivers squarely in the mix for the world title.

For the home standing Qatar effort, the team based just ten minutes away from this weekend's race site along the Arabian Gulf in the headquarters of the Qatar Marine Sports Federation (QMSF) offices, there is a much unwanted pressure put on the organization with the delay of their race boats and elaborate race tent facilities for this weekend's 6th Grand Prix of Qatar along the cornice in downtown Doha for this Friday's and Saturday's Grand Prix events.

Shelley Jory, one part of Powerboat P1's only all-female team, has officially become Mrs Jory-Leigh after she married marine engineer, Trevor, at Wimborne Minster last week.

The congregation of family and friends included world powerboat champions Steve Curtis, Peter Phillipson and Neil Holmes along with a number of familiar faces from the Powerboat P1 circuit.

The wedding party all enjoyed several special moments during the service, including a traditional reading by managing director of Honda (UK), Ken Keir, a solo rendition of the song "People" by David Curtis, "Pie Jesu," sung by the Choir of the Wimborne Minster, and a poignant "nautical" reading, written and read by Shelley's BBC Radio H2O co-presenter, Tracey Clarke.

His Highness Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifah Al Nahyan, has hinted at the possibility of entering a team in the UIM WPPA Class 1 Powerboat World Championship in the near future.

During the successful hosting of the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix last weekend, which saw Abu Dhabi F1 Powerboat pilot, Ahmed Al Hameli, finish on the podium in race 1 on his Class 1 debut in Sea Dubai-C.A.M. alongside Italian Giovanni Carpitella