2016 F1 Powerboat World Championship

2016 F1 Powerboat World Championship
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Philippe Chiappe (right, pictured in 2009) enters the 2016 World Championship as defending double champion.

The 2016 UIM F1 H2O World Championship is the 33rd season of Formula 1 Powerboat racing. The season is scheduled to consist of ten races, beginning in Dubai, UAE on 4 March 2016, and ending in Sharjah, UAE on 16 December 2016.^[1]^[2]

Philippe Chiappe, driving for the CTIC China Team, enters the season as defending double world champion after he won his second title in as many years in 2015.^[3]

Teams and drivers

Team	Hull	Engine	No.	Race drivers	Rounds	Reserve driver
CTIC F1 China Team	Moore	Mercury 2.5 V6	1	Philippe Chiappe	1	Peter Morin
CTIC F1 China Team	Moore	Mercury 2.5 V6	2	Xiong Ziwei	1	Peter Morin
Victory Team	Victory	Mercury 2.5 V6	3	Nadir Bin Hendi^[4]	1
Victory Team	Victory	Mercury 2.5 V6	4	Shaun Torrente^[4]	1
Team Abu Dhabi	DAC	Mercury 2.5 V6	5	Thani Al Qamzi	1
Team Abu Dhabi	DAC	Mercury 2.5 V6	6	Alex Carella	1
F1 Atlantic Team	DAC	Mercury 2.5 V6	9	Christophe Larigot	1
F1 Atlantic Team	Moore	Mercury 2.5 V6	10	Duarte Benavente	1
BaBa Racing	BaBa	Mercury 2.5 V6	11	Sami Seliö^[5]	1	Wynand de Jager
BaBa Racing	BaBa	Mercury 2.5 V6	12	Filip Roms^[5]	1	Wynand de Jager
Team Sweden	Molgaard	Mercury 2.5 V6	14	Jonas Andersson	1
Team Sweden	Molgaard	Mercury 2.5 V6	15	Jesper Forss	1
Blaze Performance Team	DAC	Mercury 2.5 V6	23	Bartek Marszalek	1	Dietmar Kaiser^[6]
Blaze Performance Team	Blaze	Mercury 2.5 V6	24	Francesco Cantando	1	Dietmar Kaiser^[6]
Emirates Racing Team	BaBa	Mercury 2.5 V6	27	Ahmed Al Hameli		Scott Gillman
	DAC		28	Erik Stark	1
	BaBa		29	Ivan Brigada^[7]	1
EMIC Racing Team	BaBa	Mercury 2.5 V6	50	Marit Strømøy	1
EMIC Racing Team	DAC Dragon	Mercury 2.5 V6	51	Mike Szymura^[6]^[8]	1
Source: ^[9]

Season calendar

A ten-race calendar for the 2016 championship was revealed in a press release on the sport's official website in January.^[1] Amongst regular fixtures Abu Dhabi and Sharjah were two new races, with the championship scheduled to make its first appearances in Dubai and Croatia.^[10] Races in France and Portugal returned after their re-introduction in 2015, although the Portuguese race switched venues from Porto back to its traditional location Portimão.^[11] China returned to having two races on the calendar, an arrangement last seen in 2010 when three races from the country featured. An additional two rounds, expected to be in Asia, were left vacant by the announcement to be confirmed at a later date. Speculation linked one of these vacant slots to a proposed race in Phuket, Thailand,^[12] which had provisionally held a slot on the 2015 calendar before the round was cancelled mid-way through the year. A race in Macau is also under negotiation to fill the other calendar slot.^[13]

Round	Race Title	Date	Circuit Location	Race Winner	Hull/Engine
1	1st Grand Prix of Dubai	4 March	Dubai	Philippe Chiappe	Moore/Mercury
2	1st Grand Prix of Croatia	5 June	TBA
3	20th Grand Prix of France	17 July	Évian-les-Bains
4	15th Grand Prix of Portugal	31 July	Portimão^[11]
5	20th Grand Prix of China	4 September	Harbin
6	21st Grand Prix of China	3 October	Liuzhou
7	TBA	16 October	TBA
8	TBA	6 November	TBA
9	24th Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi	9 December	Abu Dhabi
10	17th Grand Prix of Sharjah	16 December	Sharjah

Results and standings

Points will be awarded to the top 10 classified finishers. A maximum of two boats per team are eligible for points in the teams' championship.

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points	20	15	12	9	7	5	4	3	2	1

Drivers standings

Pos	Driver	DUB	Points
1	Philippe Chiappe	1	20
2	Alex Carella	2	15
3	Shaun Torrente	3	12
4	Jonas Andersson	4	9
5	Xiong Ziwei	5	7
6	Duarte Benavente	6	5
7	Ivan Brigada	7	4
8	Francesco Cantando	8	3
9	Filip Roms	9	2
10	Bartek Marszalek	10	1
11	Nadir Bin Hendi	11	0
12	Christophe Larigot	12	0
13	Mike Szymura	13	0
	Erik Stark	Ret	0
	Jesper Forss	Ret	0
	Thani Al Qamzi	Ret	0
	Marit Strømøy	Ret	0
	Sami Seliö	DNS	–
	Ahmed Al Hameli

Key
Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Did not finish (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
White	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not practice (DNP)
	Excluded (EX)
	Did not arrive (DNA)
	Withdrawn (WD)

Bold – Pole position
Italics – Fastest lap

Teams standings

Pos	Team	Boat No.	DUB	Points
1	CTIC F1 China Team	1	1	27
1	CTIC F1 China Team	2	5	27
2	Team Abu Dhabi	5	Ret	15
2	Team Abu Dhabi	6	2	15
3	Victory Team	3	11	12
3	Victory Team	4	3	12
4	Team Sweden	14	4	9
4	Team Sweden	15	Ret	9
5	F1 Atlantic Team	9	12	5
5	F1 Atlantic Team	10	6	5
6	Emirates Racing Team	27		4
		28	Ret
		29	7
7	Blaze Performance Team	23	10	4
7	Blaze Performance Team	24	8	4
8	BaBa Racing	11	DNS	2
8	BaBa Racing	12	9	2
9	EMIC Racing Team	50	Ret	0
9	EMIC Racing Team	51	13	0

Key
Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Did not finish (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
White	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not practice (DNP)
	Excluded (EX)
	Did not arrive (DNA)
	Withdrawn (WD)

Bold – Pole position
Italics – Fastest lap

References

1 2 "DUBAI TO OPEN 2016 SEASON". F1H2O. 25 January 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
↑ David Sewell (25 January 2016). "Dubai to host F1h20 season opener". Raceboat International. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
↑ "CHIAPPE’S MID-SEASON HOT STREAK EARNS HIM 2ND STRAIGHT TITLE!". F1H2O. 22 December 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
1 2 "VICTORY TEAM BEGINS AN HISTORIC ‘NEW ERA’ IN DUBAI!". F1H2O. 19 February 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
1 2 "SELIO READY AND SET TO FIGHT FOR TITLE". F1H2O. 17 February 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
1 2 David Sewell (10 February 2016). "Germans join UIM World F1h2o fleet". Raceboat International. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
↑ David Sewell (2 March 2016). "UIM F1 H20 replaces Class 1 in Dubai". Raceboat International. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
↑ "F4-S TROPHY CHAMPION MIKE SZYMURA STEPS UP INTO F1H2O TO JOIN TEAM EMIC". F1H2O. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
↑ "EXCITING 18 STRONG DRIVER LINE UP FOR GRAND PRIX OF DUBAI". F1H2O. 12 February 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
↑ Danni Matijaca (27 January 2016). "Attractive Water Formula 1 World Championship Coming to Croatia in June". Total Croatia News. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
1 2 "F1H2O WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RETURNS TO PORTIMAO". F1H2O. 11 April 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
↑ David Sewell (27 February 2016). "UIM F1H2o heading to Phuket in Thailand this November?". Raceboat International. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
↑ Sergio Fonseca (25 February 2016). "F1 dos barcos quer vir a Macau e negociações já começaram". Hoje Macau. Retrieved 3 March 2016.

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