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Tonsberg 2017
07
Aug
2017

Toughest Tønsberg Test for Lundin

‘The toughest ever race in Tønsberg’ is how Pierre Lundin described it when he won the EDH F2 Grand Prix, the third round of the 2017 UIM F2 Powerboat World Championship. Sixteen drivers had lined up on the grid with Tobias Munthe-Kaas in pole position; he would be the only Norwegian driver to make it...
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06
Aug
2017

Tobias Tames Tonsberg

If you are going to start from your first ever, UIM F2 World Championship, pole position then what better place to do it than in your home Grand Prix. That’s precisely what Tobias Munthe-Kaas has done and now lines up on the grid later today with that huge advantage over the remaining fifteen drivers. My...
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05
Aug
2017

Norwegian PM gets Batrace Underway

Free Practice for the F2 class competing at the Tønsberg Batrace got underway today when the Norwegian Prime Minister, Erna Solberg flagged away the Norwegian contingent of the twenty five drivers competing at the third round of the UIM F2 World Championships. She was escorted to the start pontoon by the UIM President Dr. Raffaele...
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04
Aug
2017

Battle for the Batrace Begins

I’m going all out for tonight’s speed run here in Tonsberg said Mette B. Bjerknæs speaking at the Tonsberg Batrace drivers press conference, held this morning on the roof garden of the Quality Hotel. She, along with three of her fellow countrymen all agreed how important it was for UIM F2 World Championship to hold...
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03
Aug
2017

Tony’s the Talk of Tønsberg

As you move around the municipality of Tønsberg, in the Vestfold county of Norway, it would be extremely hard not to notice that the third round of the UIM F2 World Championship is about to take place in its locality. Of course this just doesn’t happen by chance said Frode Sundsdal, the Project Manager of...
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