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Viverone 2026
09
Aug
2026

Hilmer Wiberg Wins First F2 Title at Viverone

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...
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08
Aug
2026

Hilmer Wiberg Wins Pole and Heat 1

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...
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07
Aug
2026

Buby Bertels: From the Family Boatyard to His First F2 Race Weekend

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...
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07
Aug
2026

Romain Nedelec Making His European Championship Debut

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...
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25
Jul
2026

In 2010, this championship nearly didn’t happen

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...
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25
Jul
2026

Sixteen drivers, eleven nations

Sixteen drivers, eleven nations, the 2026 UIM F2 European championship. The field at Viverone spans from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, with Sweden fielding three entries and Italy, Latvia and France two apiece.
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25
Jul
2026

Sixteen names now confirmed for the UIM F2 European Championship

Sixteen names now confirmed for the UIM F2 European Championship at Viverone, August 7-9. The latest additions could hardly be more different: Duarte Benavente, F2 World Champion in 2020 and racing since 1989, against Buby Bertels, stepping into his first F2 championship event after a successful career in Pleasure Navigation.
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