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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.

It was a last minute deal for Yamaha USA to provide the new Yamaha WaveRunner FX HO to Yamaha sponsored racer Amy Green (R&D Powersports) for this particular race. Actually the particular pre-production unit was bought by female racer Amy Green who supported riders Kubatzki and Kelling who came all way from abroad to race in Havasu without having a race craft. Kubatzki and Kelling completed 26 laps with a total time of 4:24:31.415 that put them on the 15 place overall and listed them in first place of Four-Stroke Natural Aspirated Open class. It was a great debut for Yamaha’s brand new boat, which participated successfully in the first International event of the year. The craft was equipped with an R&D filter kit (similar to the R&D VXR kit) and a reprogrammed R&D ECU which was prepared by Bill Chapin (R&D’s guru) a day before the race. Aqsa Aswar, younger brother of Aero Aswar (last year’s winner of Runabout NA class and Iron Man) was also competing on a Yamaha WaveRunner VXR which was specifically prepared by R&D with a Stage 1 kit and a new reprogrammed ECU (read the test of this craft under Race Tests section). Aqsa finished three places behind Kubatzki/Kelling, i.e. in the 18th place in the Overall Standings which placed him in 2nd place in Four-Stroke Natural Aspirated Open class. Read the complete race report under the Features section.

Mike Follmer, ex-pwc racer and National Endurance and Off-Shore Champion was the heart and soul of another perfect organized Mark Hahn 300 Memorial race. He took care not only of the sponsoring of great event but also the selection of the unique, one of kind trophies. The trophies were presented at the Awards Ceremony by Mike Follmer and Jim Russell.