First edition – F2 silly season

Frode Sundsdal — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:18:28 +0000

It would be a first if the calendar posted in Desember would stick, but the UIM has posted an F2 calendar for 2023. its silly season, and here are the dates.

TBC means To Be Confirmed. The Italian President, Vincenzo Iacconianni confirmed to PRW that he was working on F2 events in Italy, but could not say anything before January 2023.

The European championship is also TBC in Lithaunia.

The 2022 season is not yet concluded. We have a Worldchampion, but the rest is unclear. We are still waiting for the ICA hearing of the protested results. We have reason to belive that they will be carried out in January.

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I am aiming for pole position tomorrow

Frode Sundsdal — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 18:43:50 +0000

With a perfect lap I am sure I can do it says Stefan Hagin.

Team Abu Dhabi always have good pace, and they will be up there but I have more experience than Mansoori, and Rashed Al Qemzi is really not my focus tomorrow.

I am ready for it, and the new props seem to be even faster than in Lithuania.

I feel good!

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17 UIM F2 boats in Portugal this weekend

Tony Blom-Pettersen — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 18:35:53 +0000

Round 3 of the 2022 UIM F2 World Championship will take place in Ribadouro, Portugal this weekend with 17 competitors officially entered.

Team Abu Dhabi’s Mansoor Al Mansoori goes in to the event with a tree point lead over Germany’s Stefan Hagin.

Sami Seliö is third in the championship with 22 points, ten behind Hagin.

from F2Worldchamp FB :

So Seliö So Close.

Currently sitting in third place in the UIM F2 World Championships is the Sharjah Team racer Sami Seliö, now heading into the penultimate round of this year’s championship he is looking to move closer to that top spot.

“To be honest we hadn’t planned to race in Portugal” Seliö said. “Then we looked at the points table following the round in Lithuania and saw that I was third overall. So, I said OK, let’s go because it’s good for Sharjah International Marine Sports Club and it’s good for team moral. These two rounds will probably be my last in F2 because next year we will introduce a local Sharjah racer and he will race in this championship.”

With a ten-point breathing space separating Seliö and the Norwegian racer Tobias Munthe-Kaas back in fourth, he now feels comfortable enough to chase down Stefan Hagin who is just ahead of him and someone that he beat at the last round held in Kupiškis, Lithuania.

‘Hagin is a very experienced driver who has one of the new fast DAC hulls, so for sure it’s not going to be easy. We both had engine issues in Kupiškis so anything can happen but that’s racing.”

During that Lithuanian Grand Prix Seliö had struggled to get off the start line and immediately knew he had a problem. Fortunately for him there was a rolling restart following an incident involving Johan Österberg and Bimba Sjöholm, which meant he could quickly reclaim the positions he had dropped. Back in their workshop they discovered that some of the fuel injectors were not working properly.

“Big time surprise that I managed to finish on the podium with an engine that wasn’t working one hundred per cent” commented Seliö.

“F2 is on the limit right now, it’s so tight but for sure the podium is our target.”

The Sharjah Team have one more test session to complete before they make their way to the penultimate round of this year’s championship which takes place on September 10-11 in Ribadouro Baião on the Douro River about seventy kilometres east of the city of Porto.

Seliö had the pleasure of meeting up with Brock Cohen and his Australian team who have based themselves in Portugal before Cohen will make his UIM F2 World Championship debut this weekend.

“They have been super busy since they arrived in Portugal. They are well prepared and the boat looks good. It’s really great to see them as now we have drivers from the US and Australia which will raise the profile on a true world-wide scale.”

Technical Scrutineering gets under way for the team on Friday 9 September before the seventeen drivers get the opportunity of Free Practice the following morning.

Driver	Boat #	Team	Country	Poland	Lithuania	Total
Mansoor Al Mansoori	36	Team Abu Dhabi	UAE	15	20	35
Stefan Hagin	19	Rowe/RPM Powerboat	GER	20	12	32
Sami Selio	17	Sharjah Team	UAE	7	15	22
Tobias Munthe-Kaas	77	Stromoy Racing F2	NOR	12	0	12
Edgaras Riabko	41	F2 Hegelmann LT	LTU	4	7	11
Giacomo Sacchi	74	Giacomo Sacchi	MON	9	DSQ	9
Rashed Al Qemzi	1	Team Abu Dhabi	UAE	DSQ	9	9
Nikita lijcs	71		LTU	1	5	6
Marszalek Bartlomiej	23	Strømøy Racing	POL	2	4	6
Duarte Benavente	45	F1 Atlantic Team	POR	5		5
Brent Dillard	8	JRM Racing	USA	3		3
Colin Jelf	4	Jelf Racing	GBR	DNS	3	3
Owen Jelf	3	Owen Jelf Racing	GBR		2	2
Mette Bjerknes	9	JRM Racing	GBR		1	1
Johan Österberg	2	Team AJO	SWE
Uvis Slakteris	51	Riga Team	LTU
Sam Whittle	30	Team Powertech	GBR
Fabrice Boulier	33	Tovax Golf Racing	FRA
Bimba Sjöholm	11	Bimba Racing	SWE
Peter Morin	8	China Team	FRA		DNF
Frode Sundsdal	7	TheRaceFactory	NOR	DNS

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Lijcs to miss Portugal?

Frode Sundsdal — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 15:48:22 +0000

Nikita Lijcs has picked up 6 points in the 2022 UIM F2 World Championship, but they could be his last.

The Latvian racer told sportacentrs.com:

At the moment it looks like we won’t start in Portugal because it requires a lot of expenses.

We are currently evaluating our options and will dedicate the remaining two stages to start preparing for the new F2 season.

Of course, if the opportunity arises and a new supporter comes, then we will go to Portugal, but for now it looks like we will be forced to miss the closing stages of the season.

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