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February 8, 2011: The IJSBA is pleased to announce that Austria and Belgium have made their announcement of their first IJSBA European Championship. More news to follow in this exciting development. Here is the announcement straight from Peter DeSmet: We are proud to announce you that we have a official IJSBA european championship. This is gonna be the best championship ever with more than 200 pilots from over 25 different countries; the championship will be held over 2 rounds and 2 different countries. The first race will be in Austria Weitenegg on 15-16-17 July 2011 the final round will be in Belgium on 12-13-14 August at Lac de Eau d'heure. Hope to see you all there. This championship will be organized by Alpen Adria Cup Federation and BJBF Belgian Jetsport Boating Federation. The new website will be available soon on www.ijsba.eu or contact Peter de Smet info@ijsba.eu or+32475747066.

One of the biggest freerides this side of the Mississippi. Come ride the surf with some of the biggest names in the sport. This is a great event with lots to do for the entire family. See you there’ Friday, March 11 at 12:00am – March 13 at 12:00am

The Alps - Adria Cup (AAC) is a federation of several countries from the region between Alps and the Adriatic Sea. The aim is to obtain 6 - 7 members in order to make the jetski-sport more popular. The federation also provides drivers with competitions to afford the possibility to compare with other nationalities. It is quite essential also to have a Beginners class to nurture the Rookies respectively the offspring. Initially, 6 countries will be part of the AAC (Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Hungary, Czech, Austria). Find more about Andrea Cup at http://www.aac-jetskiracing.com/

Fountain Valley, CA- February 3, 2011 Promoter DSM Events President, Jim Russell and Event Promotional Director Mike Follmer are excited to announce that our title sponsor HOT PRODUCTS USA in conjunction with the support of their manufacturers and vendors, has secured for the 2011 APBA Hot Products Mark Hahn Memorial Havasu 300 PWC Race a cash prize purse of $6,300. Scott Saito, President of HOT PRODUCTS USA said “this is an outstanding achievement and I am extremely excited to see all of the support from our manufacturers and vendors to support our sport and this great event. This is just one of our many goals in the process to rebuild our sport along with making this the premier endurance race in the Personal Watercraft industry. Mike Follmer added “once again, this is a tremendous step in the continuation of building the best endurance race in the world.” An anticipated field of over 70 national and international race teams will have a chance for bragging rights and for the second time in the history of this event, prize money will be awarded. The purse will be paid out to the top four overall finishers and top 3 overall stand up finishers. The seventh Annual “World’s Longest Continuous PWC Race” will be held on February 26, 2011 from Crazy Horse Campground in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Therefore, the price money for Overall is: 1st OVERALL: 2.000.00, 2nd OVERALL: $1000.00, 3RD OVERALL: $800.00 and 4th OVERALL: $500.00 and for Ski: 1ST PLACE STAND UP: $1000.00, 2nd Place STAND UP: $600.00 and 3rd STAND UP: $400.00 If anyone is interested to participate download the Entry Form from the related news further down on this page.

Off-Shore Endurance Champion and Factory Yamaha FZR rider Mike Follmer will debut R&D’s watercooled Supercharger on his Yamaha FZR on Mark Hahn 300 Endurance race that will be held in Havasu on the 26th of February. Last October we had tested Follmer’s FZR (read story on Race Tests section) and we were surprised by its phenomenal performance. R&D has already informed us about the performance of the watercooled Supercharger therefore we expect to see Mike Follmer being protagonist ones again.

The first day of the 2011 year was successful for Steven Dauliach. Actually, he won the first heat of the 2011 UAE championship, by winning the 2 motos of the week end, in front of Austrian Kevin Reiterer. Steven raced for Franxe within the Emirates jet ski racing Team of Omair Bin Thani, who prepared a Ski fort him. Steven, 2010 UAE champion, will do his best to win the 2011 UAE title. Next week end January 8th 2011 the second Round of the 2011 UAE championship was held in Dubaï. Once again, Steven took the holeshot of both motos. He gave some great battles with his competititors which the public found it very interesting. Finally, Steven won the 2 motos ones again which made him the winner of the week end. Steven is leading the UAE Championship after the completion of the first two Rounds. Next race is scheduled on February 12th for the 3rd. Steven Dauliach would like to thank his partners Shoei Helmets, Spy, Bin Thani Jetski Racing, XBJ Racing and Strawrubby.

There is no question about the fact that Jeff “The Jammer” Jacobs was the most talented and phenomenal rider in Pro Ski class. Among his many records, National Titles and wins his outstanding record of ten (10) IJSBA World Titles in Pro Ski class is an unrepeatable record. According to the results we have seen the last 10 years it appears difficult or even out of mind of a young rider to accomplice such a record. There are many young gun out there but also some very capable veterans that still appear very strong in this class. This year our camera captured the Legend of Pro Ski Class Jeff Jacobs (right) while he was chatting with Don Baynes of Kawasaki. He was probably the only top rider of the nineties that he had refused to participate in both Pro Ski and Pro Runabout although the manufacturers were putting lots of pressure to the riders.