The second round of the 2019 UIM F2 World Championship will be held at Tønsberg, Norway this weekend.
Team Abu Dhabi’s Rashed Al Qemzi goes into the event as championship leader due to his win in Kaunus, Lithuania last month.
Due to some surprising results in the first round, Sweden’s Daniel Segenmark is second with the Sharjah Team’s Ferdinand Zandbergen in third.
This will be the seventh consecutive year that F2 racing has taken place in Tønsberg, organisers Frode Sundsdal and Joyce Christine Andersen set the race up in 2013 as a UIM International Ordinary race and since 2014 it has enjoyed World Championship status.
In those years, it has become a firm favourite with racers and spectators alike, the Tonsberg start run has now become an iconic showcase of the sport.
Tønsberg, is the oldest town in Norway and has been featured in the incredibly popular Marvel Cinematic Universe movies.
Tønsberg feutured in Marvel’s Captain America
The town has been used in Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger and in the highest grossing film of all time, Avengers Infinity War, where the town is revealed to be where the Norse God’s, the Asgardians, have made their new home and renamed Tønsberg to New Asgard.
The action will get under way on Friday evening with the crowd pleasing Match Racing and Speed Runs.
Friday 2nd August
15:30 – 16:00 Match race warm up
18:00 Opening ceremony / Speed Run F2 – Top 16 in UIM F2 World Championship. Match Race F2
Saturday 3rd August
13.30 – 14.15 Free Practice F2 (45 min) Group A
14.30 – 15.15 Free Practice F2 (45 min) Group B
17.00 Baume & Mercier Pole Position
Q-1 group A F2 (20 min)
Q-1 group B F2 (20 min)
Q-1 group C F2 (20 min)
7 minute break
Q-2 15 boats (15 min)
7 minute break
Q-3 Shoot-Out for Pole position (10 boats, Single run)
19.15 Price ceremony Match Race and Speed run F2 – Top 3 drivers
Sunday 5th August
12.20 20 min Warm-up F2 – B final drivers
12.40 20 min Warm-up F2 – Pre-Qualified group
13.30 – 14.00 Repechage (20 laps) Top 3 go through to the final
16.00 UIM F2 World Championship Parade lap
16.30 Grand Prix Of Norway (30 min) 18 boats
2019 UIM F2 Grand Prix of Norway
| Country | Number | Driver | Team | Hull | Engine |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE | 2 | Johan Österberg | Team AJO | Molgaard | Mercury 200 XS |
| GBR | 3 | Owen Jelf | Owen Jelf Racing | BaBa | Mercury 200 XS |
| UAE | 4 | Ahmad Al Fahim | Victory Team | Victory | Mercury 200 XS |
| AUT | 5 | Rupp Temper | Temper Racing | DAC | Mercury 200 XS |
| SWE | 6 | Ola Pettersson | Skåne Racing Team | Molgaard | Mercury 200 XS |
| NOR | 7 | Frode Sundsdal | Sundsdal Racing | DAC | Mercury 200 XS |
| USA | 8 | Brent Dillard | Dillard Sports | DAC | Mercury 200 XS |
| NOR | 9 | Mette Brandt Bjerknæs | MBR | Moore | Mercury 200 XS |
| SWE | 10 | Oskar Samuelsson | OS Racing | Molgaard | Mercury 200 XS |
| SWE | 11 | Bimba Sjöholm | Team Sjöholm | Molgaard | Mercury 200 XS |
| NED | 17 | Ferdinand Zandbergen | Sharjah Team | BaBa | Mercury 200 XS |
| GER | 19 | Stefan Hagin | Rowe Powerboat | Molgaard | Mercury 200 XS |
| RUS | 20 | Konstantin Ustinov | New Star | DAC | Mercury 200 XS |
| UAE | 27 | Manoor Al Mansoori | Victory Team | Victory | Mercury 200 XS |
| UAE | 35 | Rashed Al Qemzi | Team Abu Dhabi | DAC | Mercury 200 XS |
| UAE | 36 | Rashed Al Tayer | Team Abu Dhabi | DAC | Mercury 200 XS |
| ESP | 37 | Hector Sanz | Icar Nautica Racing | DAC | Mercury 200 XS |
| LTU | 41 | Edgaras Riabko | F2 Lithuania | DAC | Mercury 200 XS |
| FRA | 44 | Philippe Tourre | Atlantic Team | Moore | Mercury 200 XS |
| POR | 45 | Duarte Benavente | Atlantic Team | Moore | Mercury 200 XS |
| SWE | 54 | Daniel Segenmark | SF2R | DAC | Mercury 200 XS |
| NOR | 77 | Tobias Munthe-Kaas | Stromoy Racing | BaBa | Mercury 200 XS |
| FIN | 95 | Kalle Viippo | Kalle Viippo Racing | Molgaard | Mercury 200 XS |
| GER | 96 | Nick Bisterfeld | Bisterfeld Racing | DAC | Mercury 200 XS |
