Swedish Grand Prix - Team Abu Dhabi wins incident-filled race 1

9:39 PM Sat 7 Aug 2010 GMT

'Team Abu Dhabi - Swedish Grand Prix' UIM CLASS 1 WORLD POWERBOAT CHAMPIONSHIP

Class 1 Powerboat Swedish Grand Prix - Team Abu Dhabi's Giovanni Carpitella and Rashed Al Tayer celebrated their maiden Grand Prix win in a dramatic and incident-filled first race, which saw the race red-flagged twice, with pole-sitters Welmax crashing out on lap 1 and both Relekta and Fazza going-out on lap 1 of the re-start. A third start saw a reduced fleet take the green flag, with Team Abu Dhabi, winning the drag-race to the now infamous first turn buoy, ahead of Skydive Dubai and Primatist. Carpitella and Al Tayer, in their first race together, were able to control the ...

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