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Ovearall point on Stock class. Photo courtesy: Jetpulsion magazine

Team Pastorello was the overall winner at the end of the first day ahead of Russian Riasko Yuri, the team that appeared to be very strong in Mark Hahn 300 too. View the complete results as more information would be published soon.

Martinique Jet Race this weekend - April 15 through 17. Located on the tropical island of the French Caribbean, with friendly people, gourmet cuisine, museums and world famous rum distilleries, we cannot imagine a more ideal setting for a PWC Race. This endurance offshore race will last throughout 3 days, riding through warm waters (25c/ 77F) as well as beautiful scenery. But the great location still will have its challenges. Each day the racers need to complete the 124 miles (200km) for a total of 372 miles (600km) of endurance riding, with only 1 fuel stop per day. Friday, the racers embark from the Martinique Capital, Fort de France. Saturday the pilots ride to St. Anne in the South, and by the end of the race will arrive in historic Saint-Pierre, the location of Mount Pelee in the north, where the rough waters make for the most challenging part of the course. The results were sent to Jetskiworld.gr by Luis, the mechanic of the Portuguese team, who finished 4th in the first heat.

BJ Ang owner of Networx Jetsports in Philippines had the unique opportunity to participate in this International race and he tells all about it: “All International riders are in Pro AM Runabout stock but in reality those were Open boats. Aero Aswar and I were on Stock Ultra and RXP-X respectively. A Thailander rider got the first place as his mechanic setted up one ski for the Koreans and the Koreans told him to use it. So it was the fastest.Then the Korean rider who also joins the King’s Cup (K5) in his number got second with his fast Open boat too. Third was Aero and then I finished in fifth behind another rider. The race as it is for me is something. At least, they had a race rather than others who is all talk and planning. They were messed up a little but it was fine. We only learned what skis we will use an hour before our first Moto. And test them as well. So for short, we only got 15 minutes or so to test the skis and the course. By the way, the day before we were on Sparks to test the course. Then the start was like in China where the starts was done from floating docks. The water was flast but with racers on the water it got choppy.”

Whoever has seen the Corsican rider Jean-Babptiste Botti (pictured on the right) riding a stand-up knows very well what he is capable of. Our source from OHConcept Preparation informed us that Jean-Baprtiste Botti and Michael Poret will be riding the new ski that the Team prepares for this season. The ski will feature and new Yamaha three-cylinder set-up in a 1200cc spec and soon there will be a 1300cc to follow. Botti and Poret will race in the French championship. Belgian rider Antoine Goethals has been helping the Team with the winter testing program however he will race too in the French championship and in UIM series.

Multi National (USA) and World champion Chris MacClugage signed for Kommander Industries this year and he plans to compete on board the Kommander K1. Chris had tested many aftermarket hulls/race boats during winter such as Raceski.com SX-R and ProForce however a day before Mark Hahn 300 race he tested all Kommander Skis. K1 1200, K1 TR-1 and the S1. Since then talking and negotiating with Kommander Industries was on the move. The deal was clinched last week however, Kommander Industries wanted to presented today. Details will be revealed soon exclusively on Jetskiworld.gr