QATAR GRAND PRIX TITLES FOR LEMOINE, SOUSA, FLORJANCIC AND SUMER
Saturday, 16 November, DOHA (Qatar): An afternoon of drama and spectacular racing saw Frances Cyrille Lemoine and Italys Alberto Monti claim wins in the second heats of Runabout and Ski GP1, with Slovenias Rok Florjancic producing yet another sensational performance to take his second win of the weekend to win the Freestyle Grand Prix title and clinch the UIM-ABP World title for the first time.
Lemoines untroubled flag-to-finish win completed an impressive weekend for the rider from the South of France, his Doha win-double giving him the Grand Prix title and moving him into the lead in the title race, after his main rival in the fight for the Championship, Yousef Al Abdulrazzaq, was sensationally black-flagged on lap 3 for a driving infringement, compounding an already bad weekend for the Kuwaiti rider after failing to pick up points yesterday.
Italys Mattia Fracasso confirmed his return to form with another second place after a thrilling race-long fight to hold off Kuwaits Mohamad Al Baz, the pair finishing second and third overall.
Montis first win of the season was the perfect response by the Italian after yesterdays disappointment and keeps him very much in contention in the title race and is now just two points off the leader Tiago Sousa. But it was Portugals Sousa, who despite finishing third today behind Frenchman Mickael Poret, who took the Grand Prix title by one point from Poret, with Croatias Slaven Ivancic third overall.
Pija Sumer took the title with maximum points in the ladies category after finishing well ahead of her only rival Marta Sorrentino.
Runabouts new Championship leader grabbed control of the race from the start, leading from pole position and knowing that Abdulrazzaq would have to fight his way through the pack of riders from the back. But the Kuwaiti lasted just three laps after being shown the black flag.
By the mid-point of the 13-lap race the Frenchman was 14-seconds clear and in complete control and was able to go on to close out the win. Behind him a thrilling three-way fight developed between Mattia Fracasso, Qatars Mohamad Al Haidus and Kuwaits Mohmad Al Baz, the Qatari dropping out of contention after he was passed by Jeremy Perez.
Fracasso and Al Baz carried their fight all the way to the chequered flag, the Italian edging it by just two seconds, with Perez coming home a distant fourth.
Polands Andrzej Wisniewski enjoyed a race long fight with Francois Medori, getting the better of the defending Champion on the final lap to take fifth.
In Ski, Tiago Sousa took full advantage of starting from pole and led his World title rivals Mickael Poret and Alberto Monti, who had moved up into third spot after stating at the back of the pack, at the end of lap one.
The Portuguese rider dominated the early laps and was 10-seconds clear when his bike started to lose power. Behind him Monti kept the pressure on Poret, forcing the Frenchman into making an uncharacteristic mistake missing a turn-mark, which proved costly and he was passed by Monti on lap 7.
Monti immediately set his sights on the race leader, overhauling him a lap later to steal the win and get his title challenge back on course after yesterdays DNF. There was more trouble for Championship leader Sousa who was caught and passed by Poret on the final lap.
Slaven Ivancic and Pija Sumer repeated their heat 1 duel with Ivancic turning the tables on Sumer, passing her on the penultimate lap of nine to finish in fourth. Josef Bohuslav ran a solitary race in fifth to finish ahead of Szep Attila.
The Freestyle show again belonged to Rok Florjancic who left the spectators speechless as he rounded off another 93.5 point performance with a breath taking series of 20 consecutive backflips, his remarkable agility rewarded with his first UIM-ABP World title, and he remains unbeaten in eight Grand Prix.
Nac Florjancic finished second overall despite finishing third in heat 2 behind Qatars Sultan al Kuwari.
Runabout GP1 - heat 2 results:
1. C Lemoine (fra) 13 laps
2. M Fracasso (ita) + 4.41s
3. M Al Baz (kwt) + 7.95s
4. J Perez (fra) + 46.56s
5. A Wisniewski (pol) + 1m 19s
Qatar Grand Prix - overall results:
1. C Lemoine (fra) 50pts
2. M Fracasso (ita) 40pts
3. M Al Baz (kwt) 29pts
Championship points:
1. C Lemoine (fra) 110 2. Y Al Abdulrazzaq (kwt) 100 3. J Perez (fra) 97 4. F Medori (fra) 69 5. M Fracasso (ita) 48 6. J T Jimenez 47..
Ski GP1 - heat 2 results:
1. A Monti (ita) 9 laps
2. M Poret (fra) + 4.98s
3. T Sousa (prt) + 7.97s
4. S Ivancic (cro) + 1m 22s
5. J Bohuslav (svk) + 1m 44s
Qatar Grand Prix - overall results:
1. T Sousa (prt) 41pts
2. M Poret (fra) 40pts
3. S Ivancic (cro) 29pts
Championship points:
1. T Sousa (prt) 107 2. A Monti (ita) 105 3. N Armillas (esp) 79 4. M Poret (fra) 78 5. S Ivancic (cro) 63 6. J Bohuslav (svk) 52
Ski GP1 Ladies - heat 2 results
1. P Sumer (svn) 9 laps
2. M Sorrentino (ita) + 1 lap
Qatar Grand Prix - overall results:
1. P Sumer (svn) 50 pts
2. M Sorrentino (ita) 40 pts
Championship points:
1. P Sumer (svn) 125 2. M Sorrentino (ita) 92 3. J Menard (fra) 45 4. Yue Nixin (chn) 36 5. Li Qian Qian (chn) 33
Freestyle - Qatar Grand Prix overall results:
1. R Florjancic (svn) 50 pts
2. N Florjancic (svn) 36 pts
3. S Al Kuwari (qat) 33 pts
Qatar Grand Prix - overall results:
1. R Florjancic (svn) 200 2. N Florjancic (svn) 149 3. A Petrovic (srb) 112 4. V Calderoni (ita) 68 5. A Kuramshin (rus) 23 6= R Mykhailov (ukr) 21 6= R Mariani (ita) 21
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RUNABOUT AND SKI TITLES TO BE DECIDED IN ABU DHABI
Wednesday, 27 November: The Runabout GP1 and Ski GP1 UIM-ABP Aquabike World titles will go down to the wire and be decided in the final Grand Prix of the year in the United Arab Emirate of Abu Dhabi on 1 December.
The Aquabike riders will join teams and competitors from the F1H2O, Class 1 and Nations Cup World Championships to take part in the Emirati capital citys International Water Sports Festival, running from the 28 November to the 6 December
What looked like being a straight run to a first UIM-ABP World title in Runabout for Yousef Al Abdulrazzaq dramatically turned on its head at the last event in Qatar when the Kuwaiti star, who until that point was unbeaten in 2013, stopped in heat one and then disqualified from heat two.
Frances multiple World Champion Cyrille Lemoine took full advantage of his rivals nightmare weekend in Doha, winning both heats to catapult to the top of the standings and will line up in Abu Dhabi holding the whip-hand with a 10 point advantage over the Kuwaiti.
Still very much in the title hunt is fellow-Frenchman Jeremy Perez whose consistency this season with six top-four finishes puts him just three points behind Abdulrazzaq and 13 off the leader. For defending Champion Francois Medori the title is still mathematically possible but he will need the three ahead of him to suffer some sort of mechanical-meltdown.
The Ski title decider looks to be a straight fight between the 2013 UIM-ABP European Champion Tiago Sousa and Alberto Monti, just two points separating the Portuguese and Italian riders.
Three riders have topped the points so far this season; Spains Nacho Armillas led after the season-opener in Italy, but was dislodged by Monti in Italy, with Sousa taking his second Grand Prix title in Qatar to take over top spot.
With Armillas side-lined through injury in Qatar and unlikely to start in Abu Dhabi, the outsider for the title is Mickael Poret, but he needs to make up a 28-point deficit.
Slovenia's Pija Sumer is odds on favourite to lift the Ski Ladies title and is currently 33 points clear of Italys Marta Sorrentino.
The only rider in the Aquabike Championship who can relax in Abu Dhabi is the newly crowned Freestyle World Champion Rok Florjancic from Slovenia, who stripped his younger brother Nac, the defending Champion, of the title in Doha after picking up his eighth consecutive heat win and fourth Grand Prix title of the year.
The first action for the riders is free practice on Saturday, 30 November at 10.00hrs [local] followed by official qualifying at 15.30hrs [local
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FRANCE OR KUWAIT WHO WILL WIN THE RUNABOUT WORLD TITLE
Saturday, 30 November, ABU DHABI (UAE): Frances Cyrille Lemoine and Kuwaits Yousef Al Abdulrazzaq will go head-to-head in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in a winner-takes-all World title decider.
Ten points separates the two class acts of the 2013 season and each has one hand on the cup, but it is Lemoine who holds the advantage heading into the final two heats tomorrow.
Abdulrazzaq dominated in Italy and in China winning all four heats and both GP titles, but hit big trouble in Qatar failing to pick up points.
After three runners-up slots and one DNF Lemoine hit back to win twice and take the Qatar Grand Prix title and move ahead in the title race.
However, should either or both of the two front-runners slip up, Frenchman Jeremy Perez could jump them both to steal the title, and sits just 13 points off the leader Lemoine and three behind Abdulrazzaq
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ABDULRAZZAQ QUICKEST IN QUALIFYING BUT HAUNTED BY ENGINE PROBLEMS
· Mickael Poret outshines title contenders Sousa and Monti in Ski
Saturday, 30 November, ABU DHABI (UAE): Today it was the turn of the UIM-ABP Aquabike World Championship to take centre stage in the Abu Dhabi International Water Sports Festival.
Forty-eight riders from 13 countries took to the waters in front of Abu Dhabis spectacular corniche for the opening salvos in the final Grand Prix of the year, with the world titles in Runabout GP1 and Ski GP1 coming down to the wire, to be decided in tomorrows final two races of the season.
In the blue riband Runabout it is France versus Kuwait and a three way fight between the championship leader Cyrille Lemoine, Yousef Al Abdulrazzaq and Jeremy Perez, the trio separated by just 13 points.
In qualifying there were few surprises in the first 20 minute session with all the top riders easing into Q2, the notable absentees who failed to make the top ten cut were Italians Mattia Fracasso and Lorenzo Benaglia in eleventh and twelfth.
A close second session saw the top three riders split by less than 5/10 tenths but it is the Kuwaiti Al Abdulrazzaq who goes into tomorrows double-header with the advantage, his time of 1:24.05s set on his only flying lap putting him in pole position for race 1.
But it may have come at a cost after he was forced to pull out with an engine problem and there were concerned faces in the Kuwaiti camp as they started to work on his bike.
Championship leader Cyrille Lemoine will have to make up ground and starts from third place after his time of 1:24.51s was bettered in the closing stages by UAE rider Khalifa Belselah by 4/100ths, with Jeremy Perez facing an uphill task to keep his title hopes alive, starting from fifth.
It was a good session for the Middle East riders with five posting top ten times, Kuwaits Mohamed Burbaye claiming fourth spot and the Qatari duo, Waleed Al Sharshani and Abdullah Fadel in seventh and tenth.
With 25 the maximum of riders eligible to take to the water in qualifying and in tomorrows race, a pre-qualifying session took place earlier in the day with 11 riders fighting for the available nine places.
Mohamed Burbaye and the Khalifa Belselah dominated the session, Burbaye topping the time sheets with 1:27.18seconds, just over a tenth quicker than Belselah, Qatars Waleed Al Sharshani going third quickest.
With Frances Sebastien Touyeras failing to start just one would be eliminated, the unfortunate Mohammed Moshen the rider failing to make the cut.
Portugals Tiago Sousa has the upper hand in Ski but leads by just two points from Italys Alberto Monti, and both were overshadowed in qualifying by Frances Mickael Poret who claimed his third pole position of the year, going quickest in 1:20.61s, with Sousa second.
Monti finds himself up against it and starts from fourth behind Abu Dhabi resident Ludo Caumont making his one and only appearance in the Championship.
Slovenias Pija Summer is the odds on favourite in the Ladies division and was again impressive, just failing to make it out of Q1 but again showing a handful of her male peers the way round, posting the sixth fastest time, her only rival Marta Sorretino starting from ninth place.
With the Freestyle World title already in the hands of Slovenias Rok Florjancic tomorrow is all about filling the podium places, the fight between Nac Florjancic and Serbias Aleksandar Petrovic, and to see if any of the six Middle East entries can cause an upset.
Qualifying results:
Runabout GP1
1. 12 Y Al Abdulrazzaq (kwt) - 1:24.05s
2. 3 K Belselah (uae) - 1:24.47s
3. 9 C Lemoine (fra) - 1:24.51s
4. 20 M Burbaye (kwt) - 1:25.30s
5. 86 J Perez (fra) - 1:27.30s
6. 7 W Al Sharshani (qat) - 1:27.48s
Ski GP1
1. 77 M Poret (fra) - 1:20.61s
2. 82 T Sousa (prt) - 1:22.16s
3. 6 L Caumont (fra) 1:22.91s
4. A Monti (ita) - 1:25.75s
5. 4 S Ivancic (cro) - dns
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ABDULRAZZAQ AND SOUSA EDGE CLOSER TO RUNABOUT AND SKI WORLD TITLES
Sunday, 1 December, ABU DHABI (UAE): Yousef Al Abdulrazzaq has put himself into a commanding position in the chase for the Runabout World title after winning race 1 in Abu Dhabi with his main rival Cyrille Lemoine stopping on lap 10 of 16.
The Kuwaitis comprehensive start-to-finish victory moves him to the top of the standings, 15 points clear of Lemoine, now tied in second spot with fellow Frenchman Jeremy Perez who finished fourth behind Khalifa Belselah and Mohamad Burbaye.
Portugals Tiago Sousa edged closer to the Ski title after finishing in third ahead of his closest challenger Italys Alberto Monti, the duo now separated by five points.
Race1 honours went to Abu Dhabi resident Ludo Caumont with Mickael Poret finishing second.
With the final race of the season just hours away it is a winner-takes-all scenario in both Runabout and Ski with the two biggest prizes in World Aquabike racing up for grabs - in Runabout it is Kuwait versus France and in Ski Portugal versus Italy.
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ABDULRAZZAQ WINS RUNABOUT WORLD TITLE PORET WINS SKI TITLE
· Sousa and Monti disqualified
· Rok Florjancic maintains perfect win record
· Sumer lifts Ladies crown
Sunday, 1 December, ABU Dhabi (UAE): Kuwaitss Yousef Al Abdulrazzaq and Frances Mickael Poret were crowned UIM-ABP Aquabike World Champions in their respective categories, Runabout GP 1 and Ski GP1, after a dramatic and nail biting final day in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, with the title races going down to the final race of the season.
The Runabout title race turned on its head in race 1 when Championship leader Cyrille Lemoine stopped on lap 10 of 16, his main rival Abdulrazzaq taking the win to turn the tables to take a 15 point lead going into the final race.
The UAEs Khalifa Belselah finished second ahead of Kuwaits Mohamed Burbaye, with Jeremy Perez taking fourth and moving in to second spot alongside Lemoine in the points table, but his title hopes ended in race 2, retiring on lap 3.
The Kuwaiti hit the front in race 2 on lap 6 after the early race leader Belselah retired, but was overhauled by a hard charging Lemoine on the penultimate lap of 16, after a brilliant drive by the Frenchman from the back of the grid. But second place was enough to secure the World title for the Kuwaiti by ten points.
Qatars Waleed Al Sharshani grabbed his best result to finish in third ahead of Polands Andrezj Wisniewski.
But the real drama of the afternoon focussed on the outcome of the Ski Championship.
The young Portuguese rider Tiago Sousa took the chequered flag in both races in third place ahead of his immediate rival Alberto Monti and looked to have won the title.
But both riders were later sensationally disqualified from the event after their bikes failed post-race scrutineering handing the World title to a somewhat stunned Mickael Poret, who finished second in both races to fellow Frenchman and Abu Dhabi resident Ludo Caumont, with Croatias Slaven Ivancic elevated to third overall.
Pija Sumer lifted the Ladies Grand Prix title and Championship crown, taking maximum points in all races in 2013 except one, a DNF in Italy.
After clinching the Freestyle World Championship in Qatar, Slovenias Rok Florjancic rounded of his season by adding the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix title to maintain his record of maximum points at each Grand Prix in 2013.
Nac Florjancic finished runner-up in the Championship ahead of Aleksandar Petrovic, but had to settle for third overall today finishing behind Qatars Sultan Al Kuwari, by far the best of the six-strong Middle East Freestyle entry.
Runabout GP1
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - overall results:
1. Y Al Abdulrazzaq (kwt) 45pts
2. C Lemoine (fra) 25pts
3. W Al Sharshani (qat) 24pts
World Championship points:
1. Y Al Abdulrazzaq (kwt) 145 2. C Lemoine (fra) 135 3. J Perez (fra) 110 4. F Medori (fra) 89 5. A Wisniewski (pol) 67 6. J T Jimenez 58..
Ski GP1
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - overall results:
1. L Caumont (fra) 50pts
2. M Poret (fra) 40pts
3. S Ivancic (cro) 32pts
World Championship points:
1. M Poret (fra) 118 2. T Sousa (prt) 107 3. A Monti (ita) 105 4. S Ivancic (cro) 95 5. N Armillas (esp) 79 6. J Bohuslav (svk) 76
Ski GP1 Ladies
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - overall results:
1. P Sumer (svn) 50 pts
2. M Sorrentino (ita) 20 pts
World Championship points:
1. P Sumer (svn) 175 2. M Sorrentino (ita) 112 3. J Menard (fra) 45 4. Yue Nixin (chn) 36 5. Li Qian Qian (chn) 33
Freestyle
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix overall results:
1. R Florjancic (svn) 50 pts
2. S Al Kuwari (qat) 36 pts
3. N Florjancic (svn) 36 pts
World Championship points:
1. R Florjancic (svn) 250 2. N Florjancic (svn) 189 3. A Petrovic (srb) 138 4. S Al Kuwari (qat) 69 5. V Calderoni (ita) 68 6. M Al Buainan (qat) 41
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