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The 4th race of the National UAE championship went this Friday 12 in Abu Dhabi. It was a single moto that the race preceded with a running start, characteristic of the race of Abu Dhabi. In Pro Ski class, Ludo Caumont got the lead from the Start, followed by Chris Wilkinson, Omar Al Rachid and Almur Bin Huraiz. Steven Dauliach is 6th, and work is way to the 2nd place after a great battle with Kevin Reiterer who gets passed in the last few meter of the race. Steven Dauliach finished second, Kevin Reiterer 3rd, Ludo Caumon is the winner of the race. In ski Limited, Steven’s teamate, Almur Bin Huraiz won in front of Omar Al Rachid and Rachid Alowais. Steven is leading the Championship, the next race will be in Dubai on April 16/17. The Team Dubai Jet Ski Racing thanks their sponsors and all their supporters.

We contact famous endurance and offshore racer Mike Follmer to find out more about his R&D prepared Yamaha FZR boats that were specifically tuned for Mark Hahn 300 race. Therefore according to Follmer this was the basic set up: Stock Yamaha hull, with a stock pump equipped with a Skat Trak re piched – by Bill Chapin- impeller. The engine was equipped with an R&D R4 intercooler with a pop off valve, an R&D air filter, an R&D C1 Supercharger wheel, R&D Powershot, R&D enhanced cooling kit, and an R&D reprogrammed ECU. The hull set up featured R&D’s intake grate, plate, sponsons (deep blades) and steering nozzle, a Lee Manvell rear seat unit while the main seat was modified by Hydro-Turf. The boat featured a quick fill fuel set up on stock gas tank and the engine was fed with 100 octane leaded Race Gas. All year long the Mike Follmer’s FZR boats were taken care by R&D’s Bill Chapin. His effort is supported by: YAMAHA Motor Corporation U.S.A., R&D Products, MOTUL Oils, Hydro Turf, Monster Engery, Skat-Trak, NGK, Oakley, Simpson helmets, Jet Pilot, Riva, F&L Racing Fuels.

Christophe Girello of TechOneRacing reports: “It was a amazing race, the weather was not too bad, little beat rough but nothing compare to last year. With my team mate Jeremy Perez from France we used a Sea-Doo RXT IS 255 from Sea-Doo USA ( Steve Lawler ), to participate in 4stroke stock class. The boat was running at 71 miles/hour on full tank. We got help from Lynn Vick Products and R&D who made a special intake grate for this boat. We had a good start and we were at the 2nd place in our category until 7 laps before the end of the race when the Sea-Doo pump broke. We had to continue racing at a 56 miles/hour speed instead of 71mph we were reaching until then. We finish 3rd in 4stroke stock class and 7th overall with 28 laps total. TechOneRacing would like to thank the supporters of its team: Sea-Doo USA , Tech One Racing , R&D Racing , Lynn Vick Products, Jeremy Perez family, Patrick & Cedric, for the refuelling and all our supporters.

The boat Craig and Victor raced was an Ultra 250 hull (same as the Ultra 260). It had an Ultra 260X engine with 9.5:1 JE Pistons and a pink Subaru injectors (like the closed course boat injectors). It was equipped with stock fuel pump, stock air box but the Green Team used a programmable Mitsubishi ECU to increase timing advance, but anyone could simply use the stock ECU with a 4 degree timing advancer. The use of MS109 fuel (VP) was unavoidable since somehow the fuel burning had to cool down. The boat is mostly the same as what Botti raced at World Finals in 2008. The waterbox has the baffles removed and it had an 07 exhaust outlet (bigger than 08). The boat had a Macc Racing carbon fiber rear seat and the front seat was recovered by Hydro-Turf. The pump was stock but oil filled it to increase reliability. The impeller was a 260X impeller with an additional 1 degree of pitch on the trailing edge and we used an 80mm nozzle. The steering nozzle was also stock. The Team used a Riva billet steering system (made by UMI) with Riva bars. Finally, the Team used a quick fill system that used dry breaks made by IMS and Riva sponsons. Additionally, we know that Team Kawasaki altered the stock cooling in order to provide a better engine/intercooler temperature that enhances overall engine performance.

On behallf of all vensors who sponsored "Purse" for winners award, Hot Products accept Sponsor Appriciation Award at Award ceremony of 2010 Mark Hahn Havasu 300 Endurance Race on March 27, 2010. All sponsors were introduced by Mike Follmer, the producer of this race at the award ceremony. All banners of sponsors were displayed at award ceremony.

GOLD COAST, QLD; The annual Yamaha/Monster Energy Freeride Australian Open went down on Saturday the 20th February at Phillip Park, Main Beach on the Gold Coast and once again it was the Frenchmen Pierre Maixent who showed why he is regarded as the worlds top freerider. In the tricky 2 metre conditions Pierre put on a devastating performance in the final to take home bragging rights and a brand new Yamaha Superjet.

We thought that Victor set up his retirement a few years ago at the World Finals though the pioneer jet skier came back stronger, teamed up with Team Kawasaki Craig Warner and brought back home the win at Mark Hahn 300. Sheldon is a unique rider both in Runabout and Ski and it was nice to see him back in action. Mike Follmer and Tony Beck finished second on their Yamaha while Pat Roque και Lee Pham (Sea Doo) completed the podium in Runabout class. We will publish more news and photos soon. Keep in touch.