Friday, 5 September, IBIZA: Two contrasting but tightly contested qualifying sessions saw Frances Jeremy Perez and Americas Chris MacClugage grab the advantage over their rivals and will start heat 1 of the Mediterranean Grand Prix from Pole Position.
Runabouts Championship leader Perez carried the form that gave him the win-double and GP title in Italy into the first 15 minute session, topping the time sheets in practice and easing through Q1 in third place behind Teddy Pons and Cyrille Lemoine to set himself up to go for the Pole in Q2.
The 27-year-old from Lambesc then immediately seized the advantage with a time of 1:14.72s on his first flying lap around the 22-pin, 1.7km circuit off Playa Den Bossa to grab his first Pole of the season.
Pons, who sits in second place in the points table just three behind Perez, topped the time sheets in Q1 but was unable to find the pace to steal past his countryman, missing out by just three-tenths of a second. Italys Mattia Fracasso improved his performance in the final session to go third quickest, but was three seconds adrift of the top two.
World Champion Yousef Al Abdulrazzaq, back on the tour after missing the last race through injury, first had to get through pre-qualifying to reduce the overall number of riders to 25, which he did comfortably, but was missing the pace of his number one race bike managing fourth in both Q1 and Q2.
Ski qualifying produced yet another intriguing duel between MacClugage and Jeremy Poret, the two rivals trading times and swapping places throughout, the American getting the upper hand in the first session ahead of Portugals Tiago Sousa, with Poret in third.
In the final ten minute session, the two went head-to-head from the green flag; Poret led MacClugage round for the first flying lap but it was the American who grabbed the provisional pole with a time of 1:22.08s. Poret then hit back to go quicker posting his best, 1:20.99 which looked to be enough, but the determined MacClugage then stole the Pole on his last run as the clock counted down, with a 1:20.18.
Nacho Armillas was by far the strongest of the Spanish riders, matching his best qualifying off the year going third fastest ahead of an impressive outing by Morgan Poret with Sousa in fifth.
Estelle Poret was the best of the Ladies finishing in 15th spot out of a starting line-up of 24, ahead of Championship leader Jennifer Menard, with Marta Sorrerntino in 21st spot ahead of Spains Sandra Fernandez.
Qualifying Runabout:
1. J Perez (fra) - 1:14.72s
2. T Pons (fra) - 1:15.05s
3. M Fracasso (ita) - 1.18.15
4. Y Al Abdulrazzaq - 1:18.27s
5. C Lemoine (fra) - 1.18.28s
Qualifying Ski:
1. C MacClugage (usa) - 1:20.18s
2. J Poret (fra) - 1:20.99s
3. N Armillas (esp) - 1:23.94s
4. M Poret (fra) - 1:24.48s
5. T Sousa (por) - 1: 25.17s
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Heat 1
Runabout GP1
RANK BIKE NO RIDER LICENSE LAPS GAP
POINTS
1 14 Teddy Pons
FRA 19 0.00
25
2 86 Jeremy Perez
FRA 19 1.14
20
3 1 Yousef Al Abdulrazzaq
KUW 19 6.97
16
4 30 Lars Aakerblom
SWE 19 9.10
13
5 4 Francois Medori
FRA 19 1m 10
11
6 31 Alejandro Molina Miranda
ESP 19 1m 15
10
7 20 Thamer Al Darwish
QAT 18 L1
9
8 216 Roberto Alexander Del Pino
ESP 18 L1
8
9 25 Andrzej Wisniewski
POL 18 L1
7
10 44 Lorenzo Benaglia
ITA 18 L1
6
11 84 Johan Johansson
SWE 18 L1
5
12 21 Patrice Pellier
FRA 18 L1
4
13 16 Herve Partouche
FRA 17 L2
3
14 41 David Chassier
FRA 17 L2
2
15 23 Jean Marc Douki
FRA 17 L2
1
16 6 Sébastien Touyeras
FRA 16 L3
0
17 99 Jordi Tomas Jimenez
ESP 13 RET
0
18 3 Mohammed Al Heidus
QAT 6 RET
0
19 8 Mattia Fracasso
ITA 2 RET
0
20 50 Gianluca Santi Amantini
ITA 2 RET
0
21 42 Ismael Rojas Garcia
ESP
DSQ
0
22 22 Didier Chabert
FRA
DSQ
0
23 9 Cyrille Lemoine
FRA
DNS
0
24 11 Emmanuel Cantamessa
FRA
DNS
0
25 19 Sebastien Biondi
FRA
DNS
0
Freestyle
RANK BIKE NO RIDER LICENSE VARIETY QUANTITY STYLE TOTAL POINTS
1 1 Rok Florjancic
CRO 30 32 26 88 25
2 2 Nac Florjancic
CRO 32 21 22 75 20
3 70 Roberto Mariani
ITA 28 19 16 63 16
Ski Division GP1
RANK BIKE NO RIDER LICENSE LAPS GAP
POINTS
1 3 Chris MacClugage
USA 11 0.00
25
2 72 Jeremy Poret
FRA 11 23.23
20
3 82 Tiago Sousa
POR 11 27.06
16
4 36 Nacho Armillas
ESP 11 31.59
13
5 30 Alberto Monti
ITA 11 1m 08
11
6 7 Morgan Poret
FRA 11 1m 15
10
7 17 Tomaz Kete
CRO 11 1m 24
9
8 10 Steven Loiodice
FRA 11 1m 26
8
9 33 Alex Barret
FRA 11 1m 30
7
10 39 Lukas Binar
HUN 10 L1
6
11 4 Slaven Ivancic
CRO 10 L1
5
12 18 Nicola Piscaglia
ITA 10 L1
4
13 21 Kevin Moreno Rojo
ESP 10 L1
3
14 96 Carlos Vela Sanandres
ESP 9 L2
2
15 23 Jozef Bohuslav
HUN 9 L2
1
16 55 Fede Fuster Lopez
SPA 9 L2
0
17 20 Marco Lobina
ITA 9 L2
0
18 97 Lourenco Gallego
POR 8 L3
0
19 55 Attila Szep
HUN 8 L3
0
20 44 Attila Futo
HUN 7 L4
0
21 69 Rui Sousa
POR 7 RET
0
22 5 Vincent Villat
FRA
DNS
0
23 11 Lucas Oliver Bulto
ESP
DNS
0
24 25 Steven Lopes
BEL
DNS
0
Ski Ladies GP1
RANK BIKE NO RIDER LICENSE LAPS GAP
POINTS
1 2 Sandra Fernandez Rodriguez
ESP 9 0.00
25
2 1 Estelle Poret
FRA 8 L1
20
3 4 Marta Sorrentino
ITA 8 L1
16
4 89 Jennifer Menard
FRA 7 L7
0
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PONS AND MACCLUGAGE COMPLETE WIN-DOUBLE
Sunday, 7 September, IBIZA: Teddy Pons and Chris MacClugage completed the perfect weekend to win Mediterranean Grand Prix titles in their respective categories after taking their second heat wins, with the Ladies title going to Spains Sandra Fernandez and the Freestyle to Rok Florjancic.
It was a second impressive performance by Pons who first had to fend off an early challenge from Swedens Lars Sebastian Akerblom and then from lap 8 of 17 his main Championship rival, Jeremy Perez.
Despite the constant pressure from Perez, Pons held on to win by five seconds, todays result moving him seven points clear in the Championship standings, with Akerblom unable to match and stay with the pace of the front two but coming home for his best result on the UIM-ABP tour in third and take third overall.
Yousef Al Abdulrazzaq and Francois Medori enjoyed their own personal tussle, Medori getting ahead on lap five, Abdulrazzaq getting fourth place back on lap 16, Alejandro Molina the first Spanish rider to take the chequered flag completing the top six.
In Ski it was another brilliant start and dominant performance by the American MacClugage whose second win of the weekend over arch-rival Jeremy Poret has moved him into second place and closed the gap in the Championship standings to 16 points.
MacClugage was able to control the race from the front, running out the winner by 11 seconds with Poret unable to respond and more focussed on having to fend off the attentions of Spains Nacho Armillas.
Frances Steven Loiodice was another to produce one of his best showings with a steady run in fourth finishing ahead of a spirited showing by Alberto Monti, moving up from 13th to fifth, Croatias Tomaz Kete completing the top six.
In Ski Ladies, Championship leader Jennifer Menard took the heat win over Fernandez and Sorrentino, but it was Fernandez who claimed the title thanks to her win in heat 1, with Rok Florjancic maintaining his perfect record and unbeaten in 11 Grand Prix, brother Nac taking second over Roberto Mariani.
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TITLE SHOWDOWN IN LIUZHOU
Thursday, 18 September: World titles in all four categories in the UIM-ABP Class Pro Aquabike World Championship will be decided at the Grand Prix of China, 3-4 October, on the River Liu in Liuzhou, the final event of what has been an enthralling and entertaining season.
Whatever the result in Runabout a new Champion will emerge with defending Champion Yousef Al Abdulrazzaq raising the white flag and missing the last event after a somewhat disastrous title defence. He failed to score points in Qatar missed round 2 in Italy through injury but salvaged some pride with a third and a fourth in Ibiza.
The race for the title is a two way fight between Teddy Pons and Jeremy Perez, Pons holding a slender seven point advantage over his countryman. Both have won heats and both have won GP titles this year and now go head to head in a winner takes all decider.
On paper and mathematically Qatars Mohammed Al Heidus can still win, but it will need Pons and Perez to suffer some sort of complete meltdown and fail to post points and Al Heidus to win both heats.
In Ski it is between the current leader Jeremy Poret and the man snapping at his heels Chris MacClugage. It is a fascinating scenario; Poret lifted the GP title in Qatar and has a 16 point cushion, but MacClugage is the man inform and in the ascendancy winning the last tree heats and two GPs, but Poret knows that he just has to finish second to his American rival in both heats to clinch his third World title.
With Tiago Sousa another absentee in China the door is open for veteran racer Alberto Monti to close out third place.
Points leader Jennifer Menard looks to be on course to win in Ski Ladies but still has to be wary of young Estelle Poret, but the winner in Spain Sandra Fernandez Rodriguez may well hold the key if she takes points away from either or both of the front runners.
If Rok Florjancic maintains his perfect record and wins heat 1 he is the Champion again, his only rival is brother Nac. What everyone would like to see from the Rok is the perfect score of 100. He has come close posting 98.5 and the reality of doing it is well within his grasp.
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RACE 1 WIN SEALS WORLD TITLE FOR TEDDY PONS
Saturday, 4 October, LIUZHOU (China): Frances Teddy Pons swept to the UIM-ABP Runabout GP1 World title taking his third win of the year in race 1 of the Grand Prix of China, which saw his title rival and fellow Frenchman Jeremy Perez stop on lap 4.
Starting from pole it was Perez who made the better start to take lead with Pons in second place, but on lap 4 having opened up a five second lead his race and title hopes ended. Pons hit the front and was able to control the race and hold off the challenge of Qatars Mohammed Al Heidus, the two racing line astern to the chequered flag with Pons winning by the narrowest of margins.
Swedens Lars Akerblom equalled his best result of the year, moving up from fifth passing Qatars Thamer Al Darwish on lap 3 to finish third ahead of Polands Andrzej Wisniewski, with Mattia Fracasso cutting his way through the pack from ninth to finish fifth.
But following a post-race protest by Akerblom which was upheld by race officials, Qatars Al Heidus was disqualified for missing a turn buoy, moving the Swede up to second and giving Wisniewski his first top three finish on the UIM-ABP tour.
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JEREMY PORET GRABS LAST GASP WIN IN RACE 1
*Jennifer Menard wins to move to within a point of world title
Saturday, 4 October, LIUZHOU (China): Jeremy Poret is just four points away from winning a third Ski GP1 World title after a breath taking last corner win over arch rival Chris MacClugage in race 1 of the Grand Prix of China.
The result extends Porets Championship lead to 21 with just 25 available going into this afternoons final race of the season.
Poret conceded to pole sitter MacClugage from the start and trailed him for 10 laps, when a mistake by the American allowed him too close to within a couple of seconds, then snatching the win on the final corner of the last lap with MacClugage taking the penalty buoy.
Third place went to Spaniard Nacho Armillas.
In the race for the Ladies title Jennifer Menards fifth win of the season moves her to within a point of the World Championship after beating rival Estelle Poret, with Sandra Rodriguez Fernandez third.
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FRANCE CELEBRATES WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TREBLE AS THE ROK RETAINS HIS CROWN
Saturday, 4 October, LIUZHOU (China): Teddy Pons, Jeremy Poret and Jennifer Menard capped a near perfect weekend in Liuzhou for France, celebrating a famous World Championship hat-trick in Runabout, Ski and Ski Ladies at the Grand Prix of China.
Five years after winning his first World title in Liuzhou in 2009, Teddy Pons regained it in the same city after winning race 1 this morning, but unlike his Wold title winning compatriots was not able to celebrate the overall Grand Prix win, breaking down on lap 13 of race 2.
Race 2 honours went to Swedens Lars Akerblom, his first win on the UIM-ABP tour also giving him his first Grand Prix title finishing ahead of Francois Medori who took third overall, with Polands Andrzej Wisniewski taking his first overall podium finish in second place after finishing third in both races.
The newly crowned Ski World Champion Jeremy Poret signed off his season in the most emphatic manner, completing the race win double over his American rival Chris MacClugage to win his second Grand Prix of the year and reclaim the World title he last held in 2012.
Poret led from start-to-finish but was unable to shake off the persistent challenge from MacClugage, but held on to take the chequered flag, his fifth win of the year. Spains Nacho Armillas grabbed his second podium of the year finishing in third place in both races.
In Ski Ladies Jennifer Menard celebrated her first full season on the UIM-ABP tour rounding out her year with a sixth race win and third GP title to become World Champion for the first time, finishing ahead of Spains Sandra Fernandez Rodriguez and title rival and World runner-up Estelle Poret.
Going into the final heat of Freestyle just one question remained unanswered, could the World Champion Rok Florjancic produce the perfect routine and get the perfect score?
After watching both Roberto Mariani and then brother Nac produce two outstanding performances, scoring 84 and 95 points respectively, the 29-year-old from Maribor in Slovenia produced a near-perfect set of tricks, sealing his second consecutive World title with a score off 99 out of a 100.