Twenty three drivers have now all arrived to contest the forty-fourth running of a powerboat ‘Gran Premio’ in Campione D’Italia and twenty-two of them will be working out how to catch the UIM F2 World Championship leader Rashed Al Qemzi. The Team Abu Dhabi driver spent Thursday morning testing a new selection of race propellers...Read More
‘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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
When powerboat race fans look back in the history books to see which one of their heroes’s won the 2017 UIM F2 Belgian Grand Prix, they will see that twenty six drivers won that day. It’s fair to say that this weekend has been littered with organisational mistakes and that the finger pointing has only...Read More
According to legend for a long time the city of Antwerp was plagued by a giant called Druon Antigoon. He would stop all boats from making their way along the River Scheldt only allowing them to continue if they paid a toll. If anyone refused to pay Antigoon, he would cut off their hand and...Read More
As part of the build up to the second round of the UIM Formula 2 World Championship we had a look back at the last time Antwerp, in Belgium held an international powerboat race, which, believe it or not was seventeen years ago. Back then it was the turn of the Formula One drivers to...Read More
With just ten days to go till qualifying gets under way for the Belgium Grand Prix, Antwerp is getting ready to host one of the largest entries ever seen in the UIM F2 Powerboat World Championship. One man, who is looking forward to welcoming teams from fourteen different nations, will the President of the Fédération...Read More
