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 got under way. He and his sister Mathilda, locked into second overall, both sat out...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 Rule 307.02, governing the run from the start to the first turn, dropped him to...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 with navigator Nico de Stoop and round wins at Benalmádena and Baiona. Buby Bertels We...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 the possibility to test more in France or in Spain. The French driver, who has...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 that sponsor’s backing fell through, the championship stalled mid-year with everything still to be settled....Read More
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