Categoria: Sport
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Maritimo from Australia wins the 2019 XCAT World Championship
Tom Barry Cotter and Ross Willaton perform a superb race, finish first, and clinch the World Title at their first full season in XCAT. Team Maritimo of Australia, with the Aussies Tom Barry Cotter and Ross Willaton, on a Maritimo boat built in Australia, win the 2019 UIM XCAT World Championship. That should be enough…
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XCAT World Championship Shanghai GP ends with an impressive one-two from Abu Dhabi team
The two boats from Abu Dhabi Team lead race two in the sixth race of the XCAT World Championship season. #4 wins followed by #5, while third is HPI Italia. Sunday’s race, the sixth leg of the 2018 UIM XCAT World Championship, has been much clearer than Saturday’s one. On the same race course on…
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XCAT World Championship: (Team Australia) Abu Dhabi 5 wins a cluttered race in Shanghai
UPDATE – Sunday 14, 11:01 am After re-examining all the images and the timing logs, and taking into consideration protests and appeals, the UIM and the XCAT World Championship Race Officers have issued the amended race results. Here below the official final results of Race 1, while the arrival order (with boats’ numbers is the…
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New in 2019: Volvo Penta Water Sport Control is perfect for wakesurfing and water sports
It can control the boat optimizing her setup for watersports. More, Volvo Penta Water Sport Control Glass shows the activity astern filmed by the retro-camera. As wakesurfing and other water sports are becoming more and more popular, electronics suppliers are finding a way to follow the trend and offer customers some useful tools. It’s the…
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Abu Dhabi 4 rule race 1 in XCAT World Championship in Hangzhou and reach the top of the ranking
With a great start the duo of the Emirati boat take the lead of the XCAT World Championship race and smash the opponents. Second is 222 Offshore, third The Blue Roo of Team Australia. It’s the day of Abu Dhabi 4 in Hangzhou, China, stage 4 of the 2018 UIM XCAT World Championship. On Saturday…
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XCAT World Championship: Abu Dhabi 4 finally makes it, as with Hangzhou win they lead the championship
In a rainy Hangzhou, Abu Dhabi scores a one-two with Torrente and Al Mansoori first and now at the top of the oeverall ranking of the 2018 XCAT World Championship. Second is their buddies of Abu Dhabi 5, third a disappointed Dubai Police. Abu Dhabi team should be really happy about China races so far.…
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Even the spectacular Volvo Ocean Race needs to rely on combustion engines. Can you guess the brand?
We take you into one of the toughest and most demanding sailing competitions in the world, Volvo Ocean Race, which requires the boats to be connected with a network of sophisticated digital devices. Volvo Penta’s D2-75 engine provides power for all of them. The yachts competing in the Volvo Ocean Race are among the world’s…
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2017XCAT World Championship: same old script, but at least there’s a championship
Considering that the whole powerboating is suffering a deep crisis, it is a big achievement to have 11 boats (14 are registered) racing the 2017 XCAT World Championship. Also because it remains, for its formula and for the show it offers, one of the most spectacular series in powerboating today. Let us then report the…
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2017 XCAT World Championship, stage 3 in Xiamen: an incredible come back from Al Wasl takes them back on top.
The Blue Roo behind them consolidate their leadership in the ranking, especially after cancellation of race 6 It had to happen: after four races and just one podium, the 2016 XCAT World Champions Arif al Zaffein and Nadir bin Hendi win their first race of the 2017 season. Their amazing comeback from P8 at the…
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The second stage of the XCAT World Championship in Weihai is a totally different matter: Australia Team wins both races and now leads the overall ranking
History repeats itself, but not all the times. With the championship started just one week ago in Zhengzhou, China, and two wins by Victory team in both the races held there, everybody thought it would have been the same old matter also this year. But this week the two races in Weihai tell a completely…