Event organiser, International Sea Racing Limited, has announced that the remaining rounds of the 2011 UIM Ocean Grand Prix Powerboat World Endurance Championship will be cancelled.
Aaron Ciantar, the two-times world powerboat champion, took time out from his preparation for November’s Superboat International World Championship in Key West, Florida to attend the UIM Ocean Grand Prix of Siracusa with his father, Charlie. The Maltese boat builders were in town to see the championship in action with one eye on a possible entry in 2012.
The UIM Milazzo Ocean Grand Prix, due to be contested this weekend (16th-18th September), has been postponed. The decision was taken once it became evident that some specific permissions to race had yet to be granted. It is hoped that these will be in place within days and the GP rearranged for late September or early October.
Only a sharp pair of eyes would have noticed the Cheshire Cat from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll basking in the sunshine of Siracusa, Sicily when the Ocean Grand Prix rolled into town.
Michael Silfverberg, a native of Stockholm, Sweden, is a relative newcomer to world powerboat racing, yet his impact has been immediate.
The disappointment of yesterday’s engine problems were short lived for the Belgian 2B1 Racing Team as Furnibo, the Mercury-powered Fountain returned to form, taking the third and final race and the UIM Siracusa Ocean Grand Prix Evo title ahead of Lucas Oil.
After a gripping fifth round of the UIM Ocean Grand Prix World Powerboat Championship, find out what the pilots had to say about today’s Endurance race.
Yesterday’s Evo result in the UIM Siracusa Ocean Grand Prix has changed following a protest against the winning boat which was upheld. The result is disqualification of Lucas Oil Scandinavian Offshore Challenge.
Round five of the 2011 UIM OGP World Endurance Championship is the longer endurance race starting at 3:30pm local time comprising 16 laps, 74.49 nautical miles in total.
At first it appeared that the RG87 Racing Team had a fourth pilot in the boat, then on second glance it was clearly a large frog!
