Last Saturday saw the Hilton Helsinki Hotel host the Finnish Sailing and Boating Association's season-ending celebration together with RaceWKND and the Finnish JetSport Association.
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Here is the full list of Xcat videos from the UIM XCat Worldchampionship in Fujairah.
Enjoy the pictures from Xcat racing in Dubai. All photo credits to UIM XCAT World Championship.
The first part of this fascinating title battle for the 2021 UIM XCAT World Championship concluded off the Fujairah International Marine Club today and as the teams now pack up and head to Dubai the advantage is with Arif Al Zaffain and Nadir Bin Hendi in their Dubai Police XCat.
Following an engine failure that halted Team Abu Dhabi’s Shaun Torrente and Faleh Al Mansoori just twenty-four hours earlier, the 2018 World Champions finally got their UIM XCAT World Championship title bid back on track with victory in Race Two at the Fujairah Grand Prix. ‘Yesterday one of the engines had a head gasket failure after just five laps’ said Torrente. ‘In a way I was glad it broke completely in the opening race otherwise we would have continued with a motor that’s down on power the whole time.’ Torrente was quick to heap praise on his Team Abu Dhabi mechanics. ‘Felix and Antonio along with their crew did an amazing job changing over the powerhead’ he said. ‘I went down to the pits last night to take them some food and hang out with them. It’s just so great…
222 wins the first round. Abu Dhabi #5 finish 2nd, and Dubai Police , in boat #3 - finished 3rd.
The Italian/Australian partnership of Giovanni Carpitella and Darren Nicholson secured pole position in 222 Offshore
With the weather condition a lot calmer than Friday’s running of the Grand Prix of Figueira Da Foz, fifteen drivers lined up for the final forty lap race of the 2021 season, the UIM F1H2O Grand Prix of Portugal.