Tag: UIM
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The UIM E1 Electric Powerboat Series is set to start with RaceBird boats engineered by Victory Marine
E1 and SeaBird Technologies have announced they are joining forces with Victory Marine of Brunello Acampora to develop, manufacture and assemble the electric RaceBird powerboat that will feature in the UIM E1 Electric Powerboat Series. Cars go electric, and boats go electric. Motorsport goes electric, and powerboating goes electric. And so, after some years of…
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The 2021 UIM Environmental Award goes to…Sunreef Yachts!
Sunreef Yachts has won the UIM Environmental Award, bestowed by Union Internationale Motonautique. The shipyard’s in-house engineered solar power system has been voted as the most innovative green motoryacht technology. Who says motorsport is not about environment? Beside the “green” championships with electric cars / motorbikes / boats, a good part of the R&D money…
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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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New energy sources meet in Yacht Club de Monaco: time to build the motorboats of tomorrow
Reinventing motorboating, to meet energy and environmental imperatives was the concept of this 5th Solar & Energy Boat Challenge organized by the Yacht Club de Monaco: 200 competitors divided into 30 teams and three categories. The event took place in the Principality from July 12 to 14, with meeting at the YCCM. Among the sponsors…
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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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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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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…
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XCAT Dubai: no surprises in the end, as the title goes to same old Victory Team
Victory Team wins the 2017 UIM XCAT World Championship, while spectacular Race 2 goes to Victory 33. The XCAT Dubai Grand Prix and the season end here, looking forward to 2018. The hopes of Australia break at lap 5. The race is like a knockout battle and only seven teams make it to the end,…