28th March 2020
Circuit and Offshore Powerboat Racing News
Tom Williams-Hawkes hit the pinnacle of his powerboat racing career in 2014 when he won the UIM Class 3A World Championship with John Guille.
Since then Williams-Hawkes from Devon in England has featured regularly as a tenacious ThunderCat racer when he isn't cooking in The Salutation Inn of where he is the co-owner.
The ExCel Centre, which was the host of the 2018 UIM F1H2o Grand Prix of London, is being turned into an emergency hospital with 4,000 beds.
President Raffaele Chiulli, has today posted a message on the UIM website with regard to the organisation's day to day operations.
H2o Racing promoter, Nicolò di San Germano, has today published an open letter with regard to the status of the 2020 UIM F1H2o World Championship.
The Jornal Observador have reported that the Município de Portimão will be diverting the €350,000.00 they had originally allotted to support the UIM F1H2o Grand Prix of Portugal into helping combat the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Federação Portuguesa De Motonautica (FPM) have today announced that the UIM F1H2o race in Portimão, which was scheduled for May 8-10, has been postponed, FPM also included two UIM Aquabike meetings in the postponement notice.
With borders being closed and sporting events being called off, the news comes as no real surprise to anyone who is following global events.
The opening round of the 2020 Penrite Australian V8 Superboats season in front of a big, passionate, Temora crowd saw fantastic racing across all three classes with some standout rookie performances, but under lights no-one could stop local star Slade Stanley from amassing his seventh consecutive Unlimited finals victory, whilst in 400-Class, Justin Roylance weathered an all-out assault from current NZ#2 Sean Rice to claim his second ever outright victory.
The Rouen Yacht Club (RYC) have announced today that they are pressing on with the organisation of the 57th 24 Heures motonautiques de Rouen.
The event is due to run over the weekend of May 1-3, with testing slated for the Friday and two racing sessions over Saturday and Sunday.
