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Global jet-ski star Russell Marmon (Christchurch, Dorset), winner of the 4-stroke stock class of the recent Mark Hahn Memorial Havasu 300 ‘Iron Man’ event in America, has confirmed he will return to the P1 AquaX Championship this year to defend the Elite 300 title won so emphatically in 2011. As the dominant force in AquaX during its inaugural season last year, the Kawasaki Ultra 300 rider made the top-tier of the championship his own but for the 2012 season an even greater level of competition is anticipated with series organisers expecting a surge of entries in the coming weeks. Marmon, one of the world’s most highly respected jet-ski racers, is delighted to return to AquaX and is relishing the promise of bigger grids, the same fantastic championship organisation and the chance to try and retain his Elite 300 crown. “I had such a good time last year in AquaX, the championship is so well organised and it’s linked in with P1 SuperStock powerboats so the events are all very well run and really enjoyable”, said Marmon, “I had a blast last year, it’s low stress, low cost and great racing so I’m delighted to return to defend the title. “We’re going to have more competition, more riders and the championship as a whole is going to be even bigger and better so it’ll be great to be back and see what we can do. The Kawasaki I’ll be riding is identical in every way to the one from last year, it’s just the 2012 version, so I’m looking forward to trying to retain the title on it.”

Frenchman Teddy Pons last year’s winner of KaruJet which will be held later this month in Guadelupe plans to defend his Number One plate on the new Yamaha FX SHO. He has already started preparing his race craft and he has modified the seat unit as well as the steering system. Jetskiworld.gr wishes him “best of luck”.

The Australian National series introduced another nice poster for its racing activities. A unique design to promote the race and the top riders who have been supported by the main importers.

Qatar Grand Prix - Doha - 1/3 March 2012: Qatar Grand Prix Titles for Lemoine, Poret, Balzer and Florjancic. French duo Cyrille Lemoine and Jeremy Poret, Italy’s Stefania Balzer and Slovenia’s Rok Florjancic took overall category honours in the Qatar Grand Prix, Lemoine finishing third in today’s heat in Runabout F1, Poret completing the Doha win-double in Ski, with Stefania Balzer taking her second career heat win. In Freestyle the accolades belonged to Rok Florjancic who produced a stunning performance to also complete the win-double in Doha, to take a second Grand Prix title in as many events, with his brother Nac in second place and Frenchman Romain Stampers third overall.

UIM-APB Aquabike World Championship Qatar Grand Prix, Doha, 1-3 March 2012 - Round 1, Heat 1: Wins for Lemoine, Poret, Bulteau and Rok Florjancic. Friday, 2 March, DOHA (Qatar): Cyrille Lemoine added his name to the list of French riders enjoying success in Doha, winning heat 1 of a spectacular and incident-filled race in Runabout, which saw the pole-sitter Francois Medori drop from second to 20th place after he momentarily parted company with his bike, and Franky Zapata climb from the back of the grid to second place before a technical problem cruelly ended his hopes of a race win, three laps from the chequered flag. In Ski Division and Ski Ladies, pole-sitters Jeremy Poret and Julie Bulteau came through to win their heats but both had to come from behind to do so, with the Slovenian brothers Rok and Nac Florjancic stealing the show in Freestyle, finishing first and second. Read the full story on this link, http://img.mp23.ch/visu-026B1B45-10EF-463D-8D1B-3A4CDECB9053-40116670-127596-02032012.html

Three different racers attended Mark Hahn 300 Memorial race with Turbocharged set ups and all three had major issues that forced them out from chasing the win for the race. Craig Warner of Team Kawasaki USA was running a turbocharged Ultra 300X however a blown up exhaust gasket slowed him down at the end of the race and he finished fourth overall. Chris MacClugage made a descent start and he was following the leaders until he started experiencing a few problems with his turbocharged Sea-Doo. Nicolas Rius was also racing a Turbocharged Kawasaki and he smoked the field on lap one however he did not manage to finish the race. Therefore, is the Turbocharged set up the right way to prepare your boat for pwc Endurance racing?

Kawasaki did not only win the first place overall at Mark Hahn 300 with French Team Pastorello, Jean-Bruno Pastorello and Sylvain Ente, but also manage to win the Iron Man award with British rider Russell Marmon. Russell rode consistently his perfectly prepared Kawasaki Ultra 300X and climbed all to second place overall. A great achievement for him and Kawasaki. Therefore, it is the second year in a row that Kawasaki wins this particular event, the toughest pwc Endurance race in the world with Ultra 300X.