Qatar's Al Neama teams up with Curtis for Australian Superboats



10:29 PM Wed 10 Nov 2010 GMT
'Race Director Russell Embleton (left) with Sheikh Hassan bin Jabor Al-Thani and Steve Curtis (right).' Bob Wonders
Qatar's Ali Al Neama and British throttleman Steve Curtis will tackle the final two rounds of the Australian Class 1 Superboat Championship in Victoria, Australia. Sheikh Hassan Bin Jabor Al-Thani has not travelled to Australia for the two races in Geelong on November 13-14 and Melbourne on November 20-21 and has handed Al-Neama a golden opportunity to race with Curtis, with whom Sheikh Hassan won the 'Thunder on the Gulf' in Alabama and clinched the American Offshore Supercat title recently. Al-Neama and Curtis will race in a Class 1 boat supplied by Team Maritimo Offshore in Australia and running in ...


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