Honda Formula 4-Stroke Association (F4SA) the World’s largest two class powerboat race series staged the fourth leg of their 2009 championship race season today (August 29th) in the line up for one of the Cowes-Poole-Cowes races; part of the Cowes Powerboat Festival which included the famous and legendary Cowes-Torquay-Cowes race.

All three races started concurrently at about 10:30am a little later than scheduled; with a fleet of 50 or so Honda and Offshore Racing Drivers Association (ORDA) craft plus over ten Sports boats and 20 Marathon class contenders. Once underway the entire fleet left the vicinity of the Red Solent Bank Buoy and headed West in one of the most spectacular race line ups in almost three decades.

The Honda Formula 4-Stroke (F4SA) the World’s largest two class offshore powerboat race series are set to perform this Saturday August 29th in the Cowes Classic Powerboat Race the Cowes-Poole-Cowes.

This race forms part of the Cowes Powerboat Festival which includes the famous and legendary Cowes-Torquay-Cowes race.

As part of the Honda F4SA’s tenth year anniversary celebrations, the series have enlisted the help of TVYachts, the first dedicated television channel to showcase the world’s finest sailing and motorised yachts to be the official broadcast partner for the fourth leg of the 2009 Honda race calendar.

Pilot Siegfried Greve is adamant his #66 Cranefields Wine team can learn from a difficult 2009 to emerge as a more competitive outfit in next year's Powerboat P1 World Championship.

The German outfit endured a tough Grand Prix of the Sea in Gothenburg last time out - failing to complete either race over the weekend - and currently lie in sixth spot in the Evolution-class standings with one round of the season remaining.

"In Sweden we were plagued by "10 per cent" parts - after we switched back to our 2008 hull we had all of these small problems which has been disappointing. In Saturday's Sprint race we realised we had an overheated engine, forcing us to stop to avoid serious damage.

Defending World Champions, Victory Team, will be confident that they can tighten their grip and extend their lead at the top of the Championship standings in this weekend’s Romanian Grand Prix (28-30 August) on Lake Siutghiol, Mamaia-Constanta, round 3 of the UIM WPPA Class 1 World Powerboat Championship.

The Dubai team has dominated the season so far, and after wins for both Victory’s Mohammad Al Mehairi and Jean-Marc Sanchez and Fazza’s Arif Al Zafeen and Nadir Bin Hendi, the in-house rivalry for bragging rights is building.  Victory 1 currently holds the advantage and the number one slot with a five- point margin over their team-mates, with Sanchez and Al Zafeen – now team rivals – who won together in Romania 2007, both aiming for the race win.

Powerboat P1 has landed another major coup by arranging a partnership with ticketing giants Seatwave for the final race of this year’s World Championship season, the Sicilian Grand Prix of the Sea in Siracusa.

Recently named as Europe's fastest growing digital media company by investment bank GP Bullhound and Online Business of the Year at the Fast Growth Business Awards, Seatwave will be exclusively responsible for selling Powerboat P1 Harbour Club hospitality packages.

Launched in February 2007 by Joe Cohen, Seatwave is Europe's leading online marketplace for buying and selling tickets for theatre, sports, music and other live events. The exchange has more than 700,000 tickets on sale at any one time.