P1 Zeebrugge (Belgium)

[ForTwo]

http://www.powerboatp1.com/public/read_news.asp?lid=1&id=377

[Ben Mazur]

Gino, you're a star!

Have a good race.

[ForTwo]

Gino, you're a star!

Have a good race.

A little local star when we can finish the race ! We need to let go Mike & Jackie anyway and I hope they win in Zeebrugge.... just would love to be on that podium with them. Thx 4 your support Ben.

[Dragon Lady]

A little local star when we can finish the race ! We need to let go Mike & Jackie anyway and I hope they win in Zeebrugge.... just would love to be on that podium with them. Thx 4 your support Ben.

Thank you:)

Really looking forward to seeing you guys there and doing well on your home ground. I think local knowledge will mean a lot so go get em!

Catch up with you on Friday!

[ForTwo]

Live reports of Zeebrugge racing P1 weekend on FOR website

From Thursday evening, 6 Sept. we will continiously feed the latest news and competition information on this website ( Racing Zeebrugge - Live) On our website we will especially concentrate on reporting all relevant issues of Powerboat P1. We plan extensive slideshows and videofeeds to document the live athmosphere and news facts.

Alternatively and additionally there will be also reports on the website of BMC-Brugge Marine Center. BMC supports Powerboat P1 organizer teams providing an extensive fleet of more than 20 offshore Ribs for medical/rescue assistance, racing security, etc.

BMC-website will especially concentrate on detailed information not only Powerboat P1, but also 3rd Belgian Offshore Challenge. Please check

http://www.flandersoffshoreracing.com

[Ben Mazur]

Nicely done ForTwo. I'm looking forward to the updates over the weekend.

Curious about boats Q8 and 10. Are they wild card boats, safety/official boats and what are they? Q8 looks like a Larry Smith Scarab - 10, I have no idea.

[Rupert Munro]

Good luck for the weekend Gino and Mike & Jackie, hopefully we will see you both do well. Have a great race.

[ForTwo]

Good luck for the weekend Gino and Mike & Jackie, hopefully we will see you both do well. Have a great race.


thx Ben & Rupert,
Q8 will be the startboat 4 supersportclass. A fountain will be the evolution startboat. We had official testing today..... nice chop 3-4 blowing N.E, but damn there will be some nice competition, looks like all boats can handle the Nortsea pretty good. I expect to have a nice blasting race 2morrow. Shame some evolutionboats not starting concerning protest ... Wettpunkt - Fainplast - Kiton.
god bless ya anyway !!!

[Ben Mazur]

. Shame some evolutionboats not starting concerning protest ... Wettpunkt - Fainplast - Kiton.


Protest? Anything to do with Cowes or are the oil burners just unhappy that the petrol/gasoline boats are showing them the way home?

[Ben Mazur]

Evolution - 1st King of Shaves, 2nd OSG Donzi.

Lucas Oil apparently ran out of fuel at the beginning of the last lap while a long way in the lead.

Supersport - 1st Extremeboat.com, 2nd Roscioli Hotels

[ForTwo]

3 Hustler - 4 Sunseeker - 5th uh uh us :-) broke a trim pump but finished anyway... better luck 2 morrow.

Protest indead because of the speedlimits and guess they just dont like US teams dominating P1 2007..... we do :rolleyes:

[Ben Mazur]

Belgian Grand Prix of the SeaProvisional Race One Results - Super Sport

Pos. No. Boat Name Nationality Points
1. - 01 - Extremeboat - British - 100
2. - 44 Roscioli Hotels Roma - Italian - 80
3. - 07 VoomVoom.com - British - 60
4. - 11 Team Sunseeker - British - 50
5. - 33 ForONE - Belgian - 40 (Wild Card)
6. - 0 Naue Racing - German - 30 (Wild Card)
7. - 46 Chaudron 2 - Maltese - 20
8. - 47 Buzzi Bullet - British - 10

08 - Sun Lik Beer - Chinese - DNF


Belgian Grand Prix of the Sea - Provisional Race One Results - Evolution

Pos. No. Boat Name Nationality Points
1. - 99 - King of Shaves - British - 100
2. - 88 - OSG - Italian - 80
3. - 59 - Way to Happiness - Italian - 60

57 - Limmi - Belgian - DNF
75 - SIF - Italian - DNF (Wild Card)
76 - Searex - German - DNF
97 - Lucas Oil Outerlimits - American - DNF

[Ben Mazur]

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[Ben Mazur]

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[Ben Mazur]

Thanks P1 for the info and the pics.

[Dragon]

Very interesting racing ....

Not really rough, but very mixed and lots of big holes :eek:

Lots of damage to boats too ...


Outlerlimits broke a trim tab
OSG had a huge delamination on their second step ... didn't look good :(
Roscioli hotels ran aground when showboating by the pier after the race and damaged their skegs and props
Sunseeker broke an engine mounting
Sun Lik Beer broke a gear box
Buzzi Bullet had a fire after their flares went off


Should be rougher today :D

[Ben Mazur]

Dam'n Mike, you're up early. Sounds like it was a very eventful day.

I know you are probably more than a little busy just now but when you have a moment perhaps you could shed some light on the boycott/protest of the Evolution diesel teams?


Have a good one today and make it two for two.

[Ben Mazur]

Interesting racing again today in rough conditions.

Searex led in Evolution for a while, King of Shaves apparently had problems, Voom Voom looked likely to win SuperSport but went around a mark on the wrong side and had to turn around and re-take it snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!

SuperSport: 1st - Extremboat.Com, 2nd - Voom Voom.Com, 3rd - Roscioli Hotels Roma, 4th - Sun-Lik Beer, 5th - Team Sunseeker

Evolution: 1st - Lucas Oil, 2nd - Searex, 3rd - OSG Donzi, 4th - SIF (wild card), 5th - King of Shaves

[Dragon]

Interesting racing again today in rough conditions.

Searex led in Evolution for a while, King of Shaves apparently had problems, Voom Voom looked likely to win SuperSport but went around a mark on the wrong side and had to turn around and re-take it snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!

SuperSport: 1st - Extremboat.Com, 2nd - Voom Voom.Com, 3rd - Roscioli Hotels Roma, 4th - Sun-Lik Beer, 5th - Team Sunseeker

Evolution: 1st - Lucas Oil, 2nd - Searex, 3rd - OSG Donzi, 4th - SIF (wild card), 5th - King of Shaves

Not strictly true ... they hooked right in front of us trying to take one of the turns too tight ... we would have got them before the line having swapped positions several times :D

Some of the best racing we have had ... three way fight with Buzzi Bullet, Hustler and us until Drew broke a throttle cable ... then a two way fight until the last but one turn ... Brilliant racing!!

[Dragon]

Dam'n Mike, you're up early. Sounds like it was a very eventful day.

I know you are probably more than a little busy just now but when you have a moment perhaps you could shed some light on the boycott/protest of the Evolution diesel teams?


Have a good one today and make it two for two.

Mostly to do with allowing the American (effectively) canopy boats to race (without their hatches), when the Diesel boats had built "open" canopied boats (per the P1 rules)

... bottom line ... Diesel boats too heavy to compete with the Petrol boats

[ForTwo]

Good job Mike and Jackie, you wanted some Air ? well you had it in Zeebrugge, never doubted it :) Good luck in Portimao !!

[Ben Mazur]

GRAND PRIX OF BELGIUM RESULTS

Evolution Class- Race One
Pos. No. Boat Name Nat. Pts.
1 99 King of Shaves British 100
2 88 OSG Italian 80
3 59 The Way To Happiness Italian 60

SuperSport Class- Race One
Pos. No. Boat Name Nat. Pts.
1 1 Extremeboat British 100
2 44 Roscioli Hotels Roma Italian 80
3 7 VoomVoom.com British 60
4 11 Sunseeker Challenger British 50
5 33 ForONE * Belgian 40
6 10 Naue Racing * German 30
7 46 Chaudron 2 Maltese 20
8 47 Buzzi Bullet III British 10

Evolution Class- Race Two
Pos. No. Boat Name Nat. Pts.
1 97 Lucas Oil - Outerlimits USA 100
2 76 Searex German 80
3 75 SIF * Italian 60
4 88 OSG Italian 50
5 99 King of Shaves British 40

SuperSport Class- Race Two
Pos. No. Boat Name Nat. Pts.
1 1 Extremeboat British 100
2 7 VoomVoom.com British 80
3 44 Roscioli Hotels Roma Italian 60
4 8 Sun Lik Beer Chinese 50
5 47 Buzzi Bullet III British 40
6 11 Sunseeker Challenger British 30

* denotes wildcard entry

[Dragon Lady]

Good job Mike and Jackie, you wanted some Air ? well you had it in Zeebrugge, never doubted it :) Good luck in Portimao !!

Thanks! I did doubt it when we nearly turned over on one of the corners :eek: the sea came up very very close! Very good hard, competitive racing on both days. We are both very sore but very happy :D

How are you today....and the boat?

[Ben Mazur]

Not strictly true ... they hooked right in front of us trying to take one of the turns too tight ... we would have got them before the line having swapped positions several times :D

Some of the best racing we have had ... three way fight with Buzzi Bullet, Hustler and us until Drew broke a throttle cable ... then a two way fight until the last but one turn ... Brilliant racing!!

Ah, I see. P1 radio gave the impression that there had been a navigation problem.

Nice job in Belgium. Two more races to go and another world championship!

[Ben Mazur]

Looks a bit rougher than the Saturday race

[Ben Mazur]

Thanks P1 for the photography

[Ben Mazur]

Lucas Oil-Outerlimits didn't run out of fuel this time.

[ForTwo]

Thanks! I did doubt it when we nearly turned over on one of the corners :eek: the sea came up very very close! Very good hard, competitive racing on both days. We are both very sore but very happy :D

How are you today....and the boat?

Boat is ok, Kris is still in the hospital with 1st & 2nd degree burnwounds, but he's ok. He can leave the hospital on wednesday.

[Ben Mazur]

Boat is ok, Kris is still in the hospital with 1st & 2nd degree burnwounds, but he's ok. He can leave the hospital on wednesday.


:eek: What happened?

[ForTwo]

:eek: What happened?


sended you a pm ben

[Dragon Lady]

Boat is ok, Kris is still in the hospital with 1st & 2nd degree burnwounds, but he's ok. He can leave the hospital on wednesday.

Thats terrible, when you'd said you'd had a fire you did'nt say it was that bad! :eek:

I really hope he will be well soon, please send our best wishes to him from all of us at Extremeboat.

[Luc@s]

idd, let's hope he didn't had to much pain....

best wishes from the rescue team as well.


pfff ...just finished processing my pictures.

http://www.powerboat-rescue.com/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=42

regards
Luc

[Luc@s]

teaser

http://www.powerboat-rescue.com/coppermine/albums/P1/07_zeebrugge/IMG_0655_1024x613.jpg

[Ben Mazur]

Welcome to Proprider Luc@s and thanks very much for the link and the fabulous KOS pic.

[ForTwo]

ForOne race report Zeebrugge Powerboat grand-prix.

Flanders Offshore Racing finished 5th. on the Saturday endurance P1 at Zeebrugge.
With a smooth N.O wind force 2-3 we where ready for 10 laps with a total distance of
79.5 Nautical Miles.

The startprocedure was a straight line towards the F marker where all competitors has choosen
a posistion behind the Q-8 startboat. Halfway we had the green flag and the battle could begin to take
the first turn at the F marker. After 1 lap we already left the
Malteze (Chaudron) - Naue Racing (Germany) and the Chinese (Ocean Dragon) behind us.
After the second lap Buzzi Bullet had a minor fire onboard due the flairbox ignited. For 3 rounds
the Chinese entry Ocean dragon and us played a cat and mice game where we could
cut their corners time after time. Eventualy the gearbox of Ocean dragon blew up so we would try
and hold the 5th posistion with Malta (Chaudron) on our tail. As the weatherconditions where rather
easy we had to let go former worldchampions "EXTREMEBOAT" with Jacky and Mike , also VOOMVOOM - SUNSEEKER and the fast new
41 ft Chaudron from the italian team "Roscioli Hotels Roma" The paradelap before the startlap wad kinda fast
with an average 59 speed, this was not what we expected and used more fuel then we tought. At the end of the race this resulted that we ran out just 150 ft before the finishline... hartbeated we saw buzzi bullet and chaudron approaching, Kris pumped all the left overs we had to starboard engine and Gino could start and afterall finish without losing 5th position.

Ranking
os. - No. - Boat Name - Nationality - Points
1. - 01 - Extremeboat - British - 100

2. - 44 - Roscioli Hotels Roma - Italian - 80

3. - 07 - VoomVoom.com - British - 60

4. - 11 - Team Sunseeker - British - 50

5. - 33 - ForONE - Belgian - 40 (Wild Card)

6. - 0 - Naue Racing - German - 30 (Wild Card)

7. - 46 - Chaudron 2 - Maltese - 20

8. - 47 - Buzzi Bullet - British - 10



08 - Sun Lik Beer - Chinese - DNF

The Sundayrace we had to retire after a broken trimpump already after the paradelap, a sad moment as we wanted to give our Belgian spectators a nice race,
we had the perfect ribconditions for our now retired ForTWO rib. Still I want to end this report with a positive note...
our new Osprey "Condor" rib is on it's way to our race stables and hope we can have a good virgin race with her in Portugal end this month.

We also wanted to thank each supporter who watched the race on Saterday & Sunday and all our co-worker who made a nice event P1
on our home seas and Belgian soil. Special thanks go out to: All our Rib chartering pilots - rescue - buoyboats - yachtowners - Limousine and driver - coordinators - Mechanic - logistic - teammanager - Cameracrew - Helipilot - fotographers en last but not least our sponsors.

[Rupert Munro]

Thats terrible, when you'd said you'd had a fire you did'nt say it was that bad! :eek:

I really hope he will be well soon, please send our best wishes to him from all of us at Extremeboat.

All the best, hope he recovers quickly.

[Rupert Munro]

:) Well done on the win dragons

[Dragon]

:) Well done on the win dragons

Thanks Rupert!

And thanks for sending me that aritcle ... top man!

Is the house move all sorted now?

[Rupert Munro]

Thanks Rupert!

And thanks for sending me that aritcle ... top man!

Is the house move all sorted now?

No probs, hope it was interesting. Yes moving all sorted now - got amanda moved into her new place and all my stuff back and sorted at my place, now a year of peace before a probable trans-atlantic uni move, that'll be fun....!

[ForTwo]

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