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In the first 6-hour endurance race in Belgium - the longest jet ski endurance race in the world - Rainer Cohnen (Luxembourg), Jerry Jorissen (Belgium) and Seth Wilkinson (England) with their Yamaha FZR 1800 (300hp), take another victory for the Luxembourg based Race Team. His Yamaha FZR is prepared by him and features a re-programmed ECU among other tricky parts. Rainer participated in the 6h Endurance race that was held in Belgium recently and won it after completing succesfully 158 laps. Read his full race report tht is published in the Feature section.

The IJSBA is excited to announce a very special way we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the World Finals: the winner of the Pro Ski Open category will have a chance to win $30,000. The Pro Ski Open title is earned by combined scores from finish positions in each of the three heats. The winner of each heat will receive a $1,000 bonus to his/her prize purse*. If the Pro Ski Open World Champion wins all three heats, as well as the qualifying moto, then that person will receive a $30,000 total prize purse*. Complete details will be available shortly. In the meantime, we hope that the racing community will find this a fitting tribute to thirty years of Ski style PWC Racing. The 2011 quakysense World Finals hopes to be one of the most magnificent celebrations of PWC history and culture since the inception of the sport. For more information on this prize offering, please contact the IJSBA by emailing info@ijsba.com or by calling +1-714-751-8695. *Subject to taxes, structured payout, and restrictions on earned finished positions. A list of complete eligibility requirements will be posted within 90 days prior to the event. This year World Finals will be in no doupt the most important race event in personal watercraft scene. The phot was downloaded from IJSBA’s official web site.

Racine, Wisconsin, 18-19 June: Things got off to a fast start in the Runabout Open class with Monster Energy Kawasaki rider Dustin Farthing taking the holeshot and getting into clean water for a wire to wire win. Erminio "The Boss of Watercross"" Iantosca bolted from the gate in the second spot on his Riva Racing and although he was unable to close the gap on ""El Diablo"" he said he was ""ecstatic"" about his second place finish. Behind our two front runners the battle raged for third and fourth with the Dean's Team Yamaha of Dustin Charrier holding off the hard charging National Guard number 21 of Trey Frame."

Belle River, Ontario-Things racers will need: passport or enhanced drivers license, big trailers should take the Detroit bridge, if you don't have a little or ownership for your watercraft or rhino, atv, etc no problem, stop at customs on the Canadian side ask for a E99 have the serial number handy to make things quicker if you have a little not to worry. If you don't have a passport or enhanced license, move quickly to get it taken care of. Expedite your passport or licence - you only have one month left.

This is a jetski and FMX show in France and you will read all the information about it at the links listed below: http://vimeo.com/user6775439/jetski-show-peyrieu-le-26-juin-2011. Also, more information at: http://www.peyrieujetski.byethost4.com/index.html and http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134512849958546 and also in the Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Team.Peyrieu.Jetski

Personal watercraft racer Mike Follmer was born in 1955 iin Arcadia, California and now he resides in Newport Beach Ca. He own and operates successfully a Specialty Promotional Marketing Company for over twenty years that specializes in advertising promotional items designed specifically for the motor racing community. He has served the pwc racing scene for over 15years and has won numerous regional and National Endurance titles. After all those years of success he decided to retire from the pwc scene though most probably he will keep his R&D Yamaha Team Follmer racing Team. Recently has announced his retirement through the following speech that has been published in the Features Section.

Grand Prix of France - Ghisonaccia, Corsica, 3-5 June 2011. Sunday, 5 June, GHISONACCIA (Corsica): Francois Medori produced a champion’s drive in front of his home crowd in Ghisonaccia to take his second win of the weekend in Runabout F1 to win the French Grand Prix title. Second place in today’s heat in Ski Division F1 gave Jeremy Poret his third Grand Prix title of the year. The race win going to Porto-Vecchio’s Jean-Baptiste Botti. But the weekend belonged to local hero Francois Medori, leading another French rout in all four classes, and brilliantly holding his nerve after a titanic race-long fight with defending World Champion, Cyrille Lemoine. Medori led from the flag and was hounded for 10 of the 16 laps by his fellow-countryman. Lemoine piled on the pressure lap-after-lap, by lap ten cutting Medori’s lead to just two seconds. But Medori responded in the latter stages, moving out to a nine second lead to take the pressure off, and going on to take his third heat win and second Grand Prix title of the year. Italy’s Mattia Fracasso played a somewhat solitary cameo role behind the race leaders, finishing 13-seconds behind Lemoine, but third place put him into second in the Grand Prix standings, ahead of Lemoine. Didier Chabert just held off Lorenzo Benaglia who had scythed his way through the field from tenth to take fifth spot, with Yann Barros completing the top six. Jean-Baptiste Botti led home a trio of French riders in Ski Division F1, controlling the race from the start, with heat 1 winner Jeremy Poret passing Vincent Villat on lap seven to go second and secure the title - Botti taking the runners-up spot.