Powerboat Racing World

14/10/2025

John Moore has digged deep. Here is two side of the story of the dispute of Shaun Torrente, Victory Team and Ben Jelf, Jelf Racing Team

Shaun Torrente and Ben Jelf's heated confrontation at F1H2O Zhengzhou erupts into public dispute. Both drivers give conflicting accounts of practice incident that led to blue cards and pit altercation.

14/10/2025

Congrats to Dustin Terry for winning the F1 Powerboat Racing championship 2025

Formula One Top 10 after final round of the 2025 F1 Powerboat Racing Season.

13/10/2025

Finally we have some traction between the drivers ! This sport needs characters like Shaun Torrente and Ben Jelf banging heads in my opinion..

It’s so much better than, “Oh, we are best friends, and this driver is soo good” I hope we will see more of this in the future, and maybe we will have some more followers to our sport !

Do u agree !

12/10/2025

UIM has made airbags mandatory on F4 boats. Tim Seebold, Fransesco Cantando and Guido Cappellini had already systems for sale. Christen Molgaard has also developed one.

Molgaard have to get his system approved by the UIM. The new guidelines states that you have to produce and prove 5 systems, and a 4 test dry test in presence of a UIM official. This means that the previous test performed is no longer required, and the Molgaard system will be tested before the end of the year.

“We have the systems, and we will talk to UIM so we can agree upon who and where we can test them” said Christen Molgaard to PRW.

“We have great experience with the airbag systems, we know what it takes in terms of the size of the ballon, so we don’t need to perform a wet test on a boat anymore” said Bob Wartinger to PRW after the GA.

The question is yet to be answered, is it only new build boats that will have to install the system from 2026 ?

We will post the answer shortly.

12/10/2025

UIM GA has just woted for crashbox for new build F4 boats from 01.01 - 2026. The excisting boats needs to install crashbox for 2027 season as we understand it - read the proposals here :

UIM Council has adopted a trio of safety upgrades for F4, confirming mandatory crash boxes, rear-mounted balloon airbags, and a minimum weight increase.

12/10/2025

«We don’t need luck, we prepare» said Torrente

Shaun Torrente “Oh man, what a day. That was amazing. I had an amazing start. The first five laps I was quicker than him (Alec) but he had the position. I could manage Rusty (Wyatt). I have been around a while. This isn’t about me winning the World Championship. It’s about the team. Two boats at the front.

We are not the quickest but we are the most consistent.

Show up in Sharjah with the chance of winning the world championship, is the goal. It’s happened six times and I have won three of them.”

12/10/2025

From hero to 4th.. Did Jonas just loose the 2025 F1 World title ?

Defending three-time World Champion Jonas Andersson never recovered from his opening lap disaster and withdrew from seventh place with engine issues on lap 24.

That crucial retirement has pushed the Team Sweden star down to fourth in the Drivers’ Championship and, with team-mate Grant Trask also failing to finish, it was an expensive weekend for Team Sweden after the perfect sprint and qualifying session.

It’s clear that Jonas has the best pace, but has he lost his consistency? Or was it due to his 1st lap drama?

Time will tell

12/10/2025

Team Abu Dhabi’s Erik Stark had worked on the balance of the boat when he topped the times with a lap of 45.000sec in the morning’s warm-up session and he lined up in ninth place. He finished a strong 4th, but his former team, Victory Team made 1 & 2 and leads the championship.

Did he do the wrong move by leaving the Dubai based team ?

12/10/2025

It was a strong weekend for the Red Devil-SMC F1 Team duo of Sami Seliö and Ferdinand Zandbergen: they finished seventh and eighth in the new Sharjah-designed boats.

12/10/2025

Victory Team leads the F1H2O World Championship over Sharjah Team

Overall standings

🥇Alec Weckstrøm
🥈Shaun Torrente
🥉Rusty Wyatt

12/10/2025

Sensational win for Alec Weckstrøm in China as Jonas Andersson spins out in first lap.

Victory Team locks front with Shaun Torrente in 2nd and Sharjah Rusty in 3rd.

🥇Alec Weckstrøm
🥈Shaun Torrente
🥉Rusty Wyatt

06/10/2025

Kyle went viral after his F1 debut, and we just got this pictures from his manager, Mike Nass..

PRW ; Mike, are you ready for round two?

Mike ; Kyle’s a very aggressive driver, we learned so much this past weekend… really hope to finish this time!!! lol…just got back from pits, we are all set up… crew has some minor repairs to do on the boat, but Kyle’s ready..

PRW; And, what about you Kyle? Any thoughts?

Kyle ; Yeah, I’m ready. Bit sore but no worries. I learned watch out for the holes! Haha.. but seriously, all these guys are badass drivers.. take any inch you get given.. and don’t expect anyone to leave you a lane when trying to make a pass..

That’s it folks, he learned a lesson - and he is ready for a new adventure 🤩