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UIM F2 World Championship
The F2 World Championship is an international powerboat racing competition organised by the Union Internationale Motonautique. The Boats The carbon fibre catamaran hulls are powered by Mercury Racing OptiMax 2.5XS outboards. Qualifying Qualifying periods (Q1, Q2 & a shoot out) decide the formation of the grid. Races Each race lasts approximately 45 minutes following a circuit marked out in a selected stretch of water, usually a lake, river, dock, or sheltered bay. 2020 UIM F2 World Championship Portugal's Duarte Benavente won the 2020 UIM F2 World Championship with Edgaras Riabko Edgaras Riabko (born 10 April 1984) is a Lithuanian powerboat racer and a double UIM F2 European Champion. He currently races in the UIM F2 World Championship The F2 World Championship is an international powerboat racing competition organised by ... from Lithuania second and Britain's Owen Jelf third. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a shortened season was held over three rounds in two cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catamaran
A Formula 16 beachable catamaran Powered catamaran passenger ferry at Salem, Massachusetts, United States A catamaran () (informally, a "cat") is a multi-hulled watercraft featuring two parallel hulls of equal size. It is a geometry-stabilized craft, deriving its stability from its wide beam, rather than from a ballasted keel as with a monohull boat. Catamarans typically have less hull volume, smaller displacement, and shallower draft (draught) than monohulls of comparable length. The two hulls combined also often have a smaller hydrodynamic resistance than comparable monohulls, requiring less propulsive power from either sails or motors. The catamaran's wider stance on the water can reduce both heeling and wave-induced motion, as compared with a monohull, and can give reduced wakes. Catamarans were invented by the Austronesian peoples which enabled their expansion to the islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Catamarans range in size from small sailing or rowing ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercury Racing
Mercury Marine is a marine engine division of Brunswick Corporation headquartered in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The main product line is outboard motors. It also produces the MerCruiser line of sterndrives and inboard motors. Some manufacturing is in Fond du Lac, while 40-60 HP motors are made in China. Smaller motors are Tohatsus that have been Rebranding, rebadged. History Founding The Kiekhaefer Mercury company began in 1939 when engineer Carl Kiekhaefer purchased a small outboard motor company in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, Cedarburg, Wisconsin. Kiekhaefer's original intention for the Kiekhaefer Corporation was to make magnetic separators for the dairy industry. The purchase included 300 defective outboard Engine, motors. Kiekhaefer and a small staff of employees rebuilt the motors and sold them to Montgomery Ward, a mail-order company. The motors were much improved, so the buyer purchased more. Kiekhaefer designed motors that withstood the elements better than his competition and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Internationale Motonautique
The Union Internationale Motonautique (UIM) is the international governing body of powerboating, based in the Principality of Monaco. It was founded in 1922, in Belgium, as the Union Internationale du Yachting Automobile. History Member nations from 12 in 1927 to 60 in 2017. Presidents PRESIDENTS OF THE U.I.M. 1922-1944 Alfred Pierrard Belgium 1946-1972 Freddy Buysse Belgium 1972-1975 Vittore Catella Italy 1975-1978 Claude Bouilloux Lafont France 1978-1985 Francesco Cosentino Italy 1985-1987 Paul Lamberts Belgium 1987-2006 Ralf Frohling Germany 2007 Charles D.Strang U.S.A. Since 2007 Raffaele Chiulli Italy Secretaries General SECRETARIES GENERAL OF THE U.I.M. 1922-1925 John Ward Ireland 1925-1965 Maurice Pauwaert Belgium 1965-1972 Henri Thomas Belgium 1973-1992 José Mawet Belgium 1992-2011 Régine Vandekerckhove Belgium 2011-2014 Andrea Dini Italy Since 2014 Thomas Kurth Switzerland World Championships conducted under UI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duarte Benavente
Duarte Benavente (born 4 March 1971 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a Portuguese powerboat racer and the 2020 UIM F2 World Champion. Benavente races for F1 Team Atlantic and competes in both the F1 Powerboat World Championship (F1H2O) and the UIM F2 World Championship The F2 World Championship is an international powerboat racing competition organised by the Union Internationale Motonautique. The Boats The carbon fibre catamaran hulls are powered by Mercury Racing OptiMax 2.5XS outboards. Qualifying Qua .... References 1971 births Living people Formula 1 Powerboat drivers Portuguese motorsport people People from Lisbon {{Motorsport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgaras Riabko
Edgaras Riabko (born 10 April 1984) is a Lithuanian powerboat racer and a double UIM F2 European Champion. He currently races in the UIM F2 World Championship The F2 World Championship is an international powerboat racing competition organised by the Union Internationale Motonautique. The Boats The carbon fibre catamaran hulls are powered by Mercury Racing OptiMax 2.5XS outboards. Qualifying Qua ... and finished runner-up in the 2020 series. Lithuanian Motorboat Federation Riabko is the president of the Lithuanian Motorboat Federation ( Lietuvos Motorlaivių Federacija ) and has organized international powerboat races in Kaunas, Kupiskis and Zarasai. Motorboat Academy He set-up a motorboat academy (Lietuvoje motorlaivių akademija) in 2020 which will be used to train young children the basics of powerboat racing with safe and responsible behaviour References Living people 1984 births {{water-sports-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Stark
Erik Stark (born 13 November 1987) is a Swedish powerboat racing driver who races in the F1H2O World Championship and in thXCAT World Championshipfor the United Arab Emirates-owned Victory Team. On the first round of 2021 UIM-F1H2O World Championship, Grand Prix of Europe, Stark raced with Gillman Racing Team. He has won the title in the UIM F2 World Championship on four occasions and won world championships in offshore Class 3C and P750 (ThunderCat). Stark has also won a hat-trick of F2 European Championships was F2 Nordic Champion four times. As of December 2021, he held the record for winning four UIM F2 World Championship in a row. Stark started in F1H2O in 2014 with Team Nautica and achieved his first win in 2017 with Team Sweden. In 2017 he finished 3rd in the World Championship and in 2018 he finished 2nd with the Abu Dhabi Team, only 4 points behind the winner. In 2018, he won the F1H2O Pole Position Trophy. During the summer of 2019, he joined the Dubai based Victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
