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A hot but successful start to the second round of the European Championship and the World Junior Championship in Mirandela – Portugal, with Mattia Fracasso benefiting with a technical failure to his main rival Franky Zapata in Runabout F1, and Jeremy Poret claiming a first place finish in Ski F1.With all the pilots loving the atmosphere in Mirandela the green light was given to the second round of the European Jet Ski Championship and also the Junior World Championship. In the main classes, especially Ski F1, Jeremy Poret came from a mediocre start to win the first moto on his FZ950, with the the home pilot Tiago Sousa coming in a strong second place. Mikael Poret, brother to the well prepared Jeremy, who incidentally was leading the race at the half way mark and fell, managed a third place finish with the Japanese pilot Hide Kurahachi right behind.In Runabout F1, and with Franky Zapata having technical issues and being forced to run a ‘stock’ Sea-Doo, Mattia Fracasso cleaned the field with a dominating performance on a very fast Sea-Doo RXT. In second place came the French pilot Jeremy Peree and in third the Italian Angelo Bertozzi. Quinten Bossche, the young Belgian who has dominated since a young age won the first moto of Ski Juniors F3 on his Yamaha Superjet and looks set to add to his other titles. Next on the agenda, night time freestyle show and slalom, which is always a crowd favourite, rounding up thousands of spectators to watch the ‘show’.

Skip Holmes founder of TeamMotoRacing has been giving us his best view and knowledge on the Kawasaki Runbouts for years. His dedicated work and passion on tuning, trying and testing new parts and sharing his knowledge with the personal watercraft community was part of his life. We met him a few years ago while testing R&D’s pulley kits in Havasu right after the World Finals. Last year we worked along with him testing his Ultralite Ultra and his Pro Open Kawasaki projects. We shared information and tuning secrets. Finding out that he is no longer with us makes it difficult to put down on written format all the things we did together. He has been a real friend with true passion and love for the sport. We send out deepest condolences to his family and the persons he mostly loved. He will be always on our heart and minds and we feel happy that we met him.

Kim Bushong of pwcoffshore.com Racing wins 2010 Hot Products Long Beach to Catalina & Back APBA PWC Offshore National Championships on July 18, 2010.

Yamaha FZR racers continued their winning campaign at rounds 5 & 6 of the APBA PWC racing tour held at Michigan’s Harbor Beach; stretching out their overall lead in the Pro Runabout Open, Pro-Am Runabout Stock, Expert Runabout Limited and Women’s Runabout Limited division standings. According to Dean’s Team owner Dean Charrier, the track conditions were fast and furious and the high speed course was demanding with the g-forces the Yamaha FZR had to handle. “The power of the FZR 1812cc motor in combination with the FZR’s NanoXcel hull responded perfectly with the precise handling needed for the racing conditions. In the stock class, the FZR was the fastest watercraft out there and dominated every moto from start to finish,” said Charrier. Yamaha FZR highlights from Harbor Beach included: Amy Green who swept first place at round 5 and 6 in the Women’s Runabout Limited and Expert Runabout Limited classes, winning all 8 motos. Dustin Charrier, son of Dean Charrier, won the Pro-Am Runabout Stock class at round 5. Current IJSBA World Champion Tim Neff won the Pro-Am Runabout Stock class at round 6. Next stop for the APBA racing tour is Belle River, Canada.

Trey Frame won the premier Pro Runabout Open class in Racine, WI. Hot Products sponsored rider Trey Frame won the Premier Pro Runabout Open Class at Round 3 IJSBA National Tour in Racine, WI on June 19/20. Hot Products USA congratulates him for this achievement.

This is how top privateers prepare their race boats especially when they have built something very special. This is Rius Racing turbo-charged SHO that Nicolas used on Mark Hahn’s 300 miles Endurance race. The whole set up shows the incredible amount of work that had been done and the great attention to detail that was taken.

This is the route and stages of the Akropolis Jet Raid. For more information contact the Jet Raid organisation.