Buby Bertels almost didn’t make it to San Nazzaro. His boat suffered a barrel roll at Viverone and was sent to Molgaard’s factory in Denmark for a full rebuild. It arrived back in Belgium just 24 hours before the team had to leave for Italy. Twenty boats are entered for round three. Bertels’ is the...Read More
Twenty boats – Round 3 of the 2026 UIM F2 World Championship just matched the series’ biggest ever turnout at San Nazzaro. San Nazzaro UIM F2 entries by year: 2023 — 17 2024 — 20 2025 — 20 2026 — 20 One driver making it extra special this weekend: Buby Bertels, lining up for his...Read More
Nineteen boats make up the confirmed entry list for Round 3 of the UIM F2 World Championship at San Nazzaro, 28-30 August 2026. The list adds Tullio Abbate and Oleg Bocca to the grid that raced at Brindisi in June, alongside the return of Luca Fornasarig after seven years away from the championship. 2 time...Read More
UIM F2 racing goes live from San Nazzaro this weekend.Qualifying Saturday, race Sunday, both streamed in full on our YouTube channel.Subscribe now so you don’t miss a lap:https://www.youtube.com/@UIMF2WorldPowerboatChampRead More
Edgaras Riabko leads the 2026 UIM F2 World Championship by two points over Peter Morin heading into San Nazzaro, round three of the season, on 28-30 August. Both men race DAC hulls, and at this venue that could matter more than it does anywhere else on the calendar. DAC has taken pole position at every...Read More
Hilmer Wiberg Wins First F2 Title at Viverone. The Swede won Heat 1 on Saturday night and followed it with Heat 2 and Heat 3 on Sunday, and under the best-three-of-four scoring format that governs the weekend, three wins from three starts left the title beyond reach for anyone else before Heat 4 had even...Read More
Hilmer Wiberg took pole position and won Heat 1 on Saturday night at the 2026 UIM F2 European Championship at Viverone. His sister Mathilda was second, with Norway’s Andrè Solvang third. The story of the heat was Edgaras Riabko. The Lithuanian crossed the water in second place, 9.860 seconds behind Wiberg. A two-position penalty under...Read More
Buby Bertels lines up for his first UIM F2 race weekend at Viverone, four years after winning a world title in the boats his own family builds. The son of Bernico Boats founder Nico Bertels, himself a multiple offshore world champion, Buby made his name in UIM Pleasure Navigation, taking the 2022 B300 world title...Read More
Romain Nedelec lines up at Viverone this weekend for his first UIM F2 European Championship start, in a boat with history of its own. Romain Nedelec It’s my first big experience in European championships, Formula Two. It’s a new experience for me. It’s important to prepare this race with more training, but I don’t have...Read More
The 2010 UIM F2 World Championship should never have come down to three rounds. It did, and it ended with Johan Coenradi defending his title on a lake in Piedmont that Italy had barely agreed to host with weeks to spare. The season had been built around a bigger calendar and a promised sponsor. When...Read More
