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Frenchman Jean-Bruno Pastorello and his team mate Sylvain Ente from Belgium won the most demanding one day long endurance race, Mark Hahn 300, which was held in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Consistency was the key word for the French Kawasaki Team. British rider Russell Marmon (second overall) won the Iron Man Award in Runabout class and Peter Yuri won the Iron Man Award in the stand up class for second year in a row. The perfect weather conditions made life easier for riders and race organizers. Indonesian Aqsa Aswar was the youngest rider who participated in the race and did the Iron Man on a Runabout. Read the full report on the race under the Features section.

Frenchman Jean-Bruno Pastorello is going to defend his number one plate in Havasu this weekend by competing at Mark Hahn 300 Memorial race with his team mate Sylvain Ente from Belgium. Last year he won the race on his brand new 300X, giving the first International win to Kawasaki’s brand new craft. Jean-Bruno and his team prepared his race craft at TechOneRacing shop in Havasu. He is pictured along with Christophe Girello (left) of TechOneRacing. Pastrorello’s 300X feature a new set up this year and a tricky ECU prepared by Kawasaki specifically for this race.

World’s toughest one day endurance race for personal water crafts is bound to begin on Saterday and the most famous riders (Craig Warner, Aero Sutan Aswar, Russell Marmmon and many more) around the world will meet again in order to give a unique fight for the number one plate. On the other hand, no one forgets the real scope, the point of this race which is a memorial race for rider and racer Mark Hahn. Worth mentioning that this year it is the first time that this event is an IJSBA sactioned race. Jetskiworld.gr will be one the race to provide an exclusive coverage, test riders and top secret photos. Stay tuned...

Jean Christophe Prayas will compete at KaruJet and Farthing Racing will prepare his race craft. According to Farthing Racing Prayas will be on board of a Kawasaki Ultra 300X. However Dustin Farthing has not announced et whether he will compete at Mark Hahn 300.

Japanese Pro Runabout champion Hajime Isahai will be riding a Yamaha this year. He has already started working on his new race craft and among other things he plans to install an HKS supercharger to the 1800cc Yamaha power plant.

“The second round of the UAE championship in Abu Dhabi on January 27th 2012. Steven, who got injured on the knee, gets first of the week end in front of Ludo Caumont and Omar Abdulla Al Rashid, his protégée rider. He won the first moto and got second at the 2nd one. Omar Abdulla Al Rashid, who won the 2 motos in limited class, get disqualified for missing buoy. Ryan stopped riding the Kawasaki SX-R to race with a new S4 which lets him to be much more competitive in his category. After 2 nice motos, he finally get 4th overall after having stop gas just before the holeshot he was about to take because of other riders who were about to be too much close to him. The 3nd round is on February, 25th. Thanks to all your support and thank you to XBJ Racing and all our partners!” as Steven Dauliach reports from UAE Championship.

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