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| CLASS 1 POWERBOATS - GIORGI TEAMS UP WITH ZABOROWSKI FOR REMAINING GRANDS PRIX
06 November 2009 (246 reads)
 With Kurt Olsen unavailable to race for the remainder of the season, Giorgioffshore throttleman, Nicola Giorgi, will swap one Norwegian driver for another and rekindle his partnership with Christian Zaborowski for the remaining two Grands Prix and four races of 2009.
Giorgi and Zaborowski teamed up for the first time in the BMW Norwegian Grand Prix in Arendal earlier this year, posting credible top-six times in practice and qualifying, but were forced to retire from the race on lap 5 whilst running in sixth place.
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| POWERBOAT P1 PLANS FOR 2010 SEASON RATIFIED BY UIM
06 November 2009 (297 reads)
 Proposed rule changes for the 2010 Powerboat P1 World Championship put forward at the recent UIM General Assembly have been approved.
Powerboat P1 Management presented its review of 2009 and proposed improvements for the new season to UIM council members in Riccione, Italy. Among the 25 submissions to the rule chances for 2010, key alterations include the SuperSport class speed limit and the addition of torque sensors. The SuperSport speed limit increases from 85mph to 90mph with the allowance for accelerating past the threshold restricted from ten to five seconds. Penalties will be incurred for breach of the speed limit, 30 seconds for the first offence and 60 seconds thereafter. Five offences will result in disqualification.
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| F1 POWERBOATS - WORLD CHAMPION READY TO RETURN TO DOHA!
03 November 2009 (348 reads)
 Defending World Champion Jay Price gets ready to return to his “adopted” home country of Qatar for the Qatar Team sitting fourth in the drivers championship with 70 points, coming off a second place finish at the 10th round of the U.I.M. F1 H2O World Championship for power boating in Shenzhen, China two week ago.
The thirty year racing veteran, wearing the number one plate on his Italian DAC racing boat after winning last years world title, has had an up and down season thus far with two victories (Finland and Russia) and four podiums being the high point of 2009. However, crashes, first, in qualifying at St. Petersburg, Russia and in the race in Liuzhou, China, being the low points of the campaign along with three mechanical failures have turned this season into a “wait and see” pattern for success.
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| CLASS 1 POWERBOATS - MARITIMO LOOK TO CONTINUE THEIR MARCH TO THE TOP STEP OF THE PODIUM
01 November 2009 (350 reads)
 After an impressive European campaign for Maritimo’s Tom Barry-Cotter and Pal Virik Nilsen, taking third overall behind Victory 1 and Fazza, the Australian-Norwegian pairing head to the Middle East for the final Grands Prix of the season in Abu Dhabi (19-21 November) and Dubai (10-12 December) looking to cap a stellar year by taking their second, but first ‘official’ win, and to defend their current third place in the World Championship standings.
Launching their two-boat assault on the World title in March with a new in-house Maritimo designed-hull and running Maritimo Performance V8s, it has been a roller coaster ride of a season for the Australian outfit.
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