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The World Championships on Lake Alfred, Florida were a great success for the European drivers that made the trip, although LOBMBC driver Paul Jillings had a disappointing weekend. He was forced to retire from the final two heats of the World 0-250 run on Sunday with a damaged hull, He took tenth place overall from a sixth and a ninth place secured on Saturday with a waterlogged hull. Although overnight repairs were made, he still had problems on Sunday.
One of the favourites to take World titles, Luigi Colombi (Italy) had a bad crash on Wednesday whilst testing on another lake in the vicinity and was hospitalised. This prevented him from achieving a third World title in 0-125 in successive years with this GSC hull. He was also entered in 0-250 where he is the current European Formula 250 champion.
The Chinese although entered failed to appear, but 19 drivers took part in the 0-125 qualifying. Each driver individually made a beach start and completed three quarters of a lap to determine the qualifying time, the clock starting on the dropping of the green flag. Billy R.Allen from Massachusetts USA qualified fastest with his kneeler at 47.40 seconds. European Formula 250 champion Francesco Marsala (Italy) 47.44 secs with Giuseppe Rossi 48.83 secs. ahead of Attila Hencz (Slovakia) 49.58 secs in the Bazinsky hull that won Formula OSY 400 this year. Salvatore Chiuri (Italy) and Rene Behncke (Germany).
In 250 qualifying Alessandro Cremona (Italy) 40.22 secs with the GRM was beaten on the very last run by VRP powered Rene Behncke (Germany) to pole position with a time of 39.95 secs. Salvatore Chiuri headed Max Cremona and Demmler racer Ilkka Rytkonen (Finland) . J.P.Jedwabny was the best of the Americans, then the two Andick boats of Olle Dickfors (Sweden) and Paul Jillings (GB) 41.96 secs. Chris Hellsten (USA) in the ex Cremona Mostes boat was ninth ahead of Anja Friedrich (Germany) and Marian Jung (SVK).
175 had thirteen entries with World OSY 400 champion, Diego Bacchiega (Italy) taking pole with the VRP powered Baba boat 46.64 seconds . Buddy Tennell (USA) the defending World 0-175 champion was second 47.06 secs ahead of Billy Allen and Giuseppe Rossi.
In the capsule 1100 hydro class Tiziano Trombetta (Italy) took part in the training session then found the transom of his boat was damaged and withdrew the VRP from the competition. Yvonne Konig (Germany) looked to be without a drive after a hiccup with the promised hull, but the Thirlby family stepped in and loaned her the Konig powered boat of Ed Thirlby. She soon took to the new venture and circulated very rapidly, although she said she got battered about more than in her usual catamaran. Doug Hall from Kansas USA had a straight through exhaust Rossi that really made your ears ring. And others ran with open pipes which sounded fantastic. The APBA classes run to different rules !!!
The World APBA 500 Runabout class had 9 runners all Americans with Konig and Konny motors and just one VRP. The K-PRO junior hydro class (an equivalent to our J-250 set up) attracted nine young competitors .
Francesco Marsala took the first heat of 0-125 from Giuseppe Rossi with Viktor Vo (Hungary) and Diego Bacchiega with the VRPs third and fourth. Billy Allen the pole sitter never recovered from a poor start finishing a lowly 11th. Best American was Bill Tetro in fifth spot ahead of Ivan Copelli with the Falc motor.
It was a repeat result in heat two again by a 2 second margin between first and second, with Vo again third.Bob Wartinger the World record holder for the class was again last , still setting up his new Trombetta boat. In the third heat Marsala faltered on the penultimate lap but picked the motor up again to come home third behind Rossi who took the win from Vo. Although Rossi could still equal the points score with Marsala, he was content with a Rossi motor winning the championship in the hands of Marsala, thus all three sat out the final race, which was a victory for Diego Bacchiega from Billy Allen and Attila Hencz.
WORLD 0-125 CHAMPIONSHIP
1st 17 Francesco Marsala (Italy) 1025 pts
2nd 66 Giuseppe Rossi (Italy) 1000 pts
3rd 19 Viktor Vo (Hungary) 750 pts
4th 90 Diego Bacchiega (Italy) 569 pts
5th 53 Attila Hencz (Slovakia) 479 pts
6th F45 William Tetro (USA) 391 pts
7th B2 Billy Allen (USA) 322 pts
8th 45 Ivan Copelli (Italy) 264 pts
9th F22 Ralph Donald (USA) 239 pts
10th 88 Rene Behncke (Germany) 172 pts
11th 24 Bob Wartinger (USA) 158 pts
12th Z22 Kirsti Ellison (USA) 117 pts
13th F40 Buddy Tennell (USA) 106 pts
14th E51 J David Augustine Snr (USA) 79 pts
15th 32 David Jones (USA) 57 pts
16th 72 Salvatore Chiuri (Italy) 53 pts
17th F14 Amy Eldredge (USA) 47 pts
18th S300 Bill Giles (USA) 000
The World Championships on Lake Alfred, Florida were a great success for the European drivers that made the trip, although LOBMBC driver Paul Jillings had a disappointing weekend. He was forced to retire from the final two heats of the World 0-250 run on Sunday with a damaged hull, He took tenth place overall from a sixth and a ninth place secured on Saturday with a waterlogged hull. Although overnight repairs were made, he still had problems on Sunday.
One of the favourites to take World titles, Luigi Colombi (Italy) had a bad crash on Wednesday whilst testing on another lake in the vicinity and was hospitalised. This prevented him from achieving a third World title in 0-125 in successive years with this GSC hull. He was also entered in 0-250 where he is the current European Formula 250 champion.
The Chinese although entered failed to appear, but 19 drivers took part in the 0-125 qualifying. Each driver individually made a beach start and completed three quarters of a lap to determine the qualifying time, the clock starting on the dropping of the green flag. Billy R.Allen from Massachusetts USA qualified fastest with his kneeler at 47.40 seconds. European Formula 250 champion Francesco Marsala (Italy) 47.44 secs with Giuseppe Rossi 48.83 secs. ahead of Attila Hencz (Slovakia) 49.58 secs in the Bazinsky hull that won Formula OSY 400 this year. Salvatore Chiuri (Italy) and Rene Behncke (Germany).
In 250 qualifying Alessandro Cremona (Italy) 40.22 secs with the GRM was beaten on the very last run by VRP powered Rene Behncke (Germany) to pole position with a time of 39.95 secs. Salvatore Chiuri headed Max Cremona and Demmler racer Ilkka Rytkonen (Finland) . J.P.Jedwabny was the best of the Americans, then the two Andick boats of Olle Dickfors (Sweden) and Paul Jillings (GB) 41.96 secs. Chris Hellsten (USA) in the ex Cremona Mostes boat was ninth ahead of Anja Friedrich (Germany) and Marian Jung (SVK).
175 had thirteen entries with World OSY 400 champion, Diego Bacchiega (Italy) taking pole with the VRP powered Baba boat 46.64 seconds . Buddy Tennell (USA) the defending World 0-175 champion was second 47.06 secs ahead of Billy Allen and Giuseppe Rossi.
In the capsule 1100 hydro class Tiziano Trombetta (Italy) took part in the training session then found the transom of his boat was damaged and withdrew the VRP from the competition. Yvonne Konig (Germany) looked to be without a drive after a hiccup with the promised hull, but the Thirlby family stepped in and loaned her the Konig powered boat of Ed Thirlby. She soon took to the new venture and circulated very rapidly, although she said she got battered about more than in her usual catamaran. Doug Hall from Kansas USA had a straight through exhaust Rossi that really made your ears ring. And others ran with open pipes which sounded fantastic. The APBA classes run to different rules !!!
The World APBA 500 Runabout class had 9 runners all Americans with Konig and Konny motors and just one VRP. The K-PRO junior hydro class (an equivalent to our J-250 set up) attracted nine young competitors .
Francesco Marsala took the first heat of 0-125 from Giuseppe Rossi with Viktor Vo (Hungary) and Diego Bacchiega with the VRPs third and fourth. Billy Allen the pole sitter never recovered from a poor start finishing a lowly 11th. Best American was Bill Tetro in fifth spot ahead of Ivan Copelli with the Falc motor.
It was a repeat result in heat two again by a 2 second margin between first and second, with Vo again third.Bob Wartinger the World record holder for the class was again last , still setting up his new Trombetta boat. In the third heat Marsala faltered on the penultimate lap but picked the motor up again to come home third behind Rossi who took the win from Vo. Although Rossi could still equal the points score with Marsala, he was content with a Rossi motor winning the championship in the hands of Marsala, thus all three sat out the final race, which was a victory for Diego Bacchiega from Billy Allen and Attila Hencz.
WORLD 0-125 CHAMPIONSHIP
1st 17 Francesco Marsala (Italy) 1025 pts
2nd 66 Giuseppe Rossi (Italy) 1000 pts
3rd 19 Viktor Vo (Hungary) 750 pts
4th 90 Diego Bacchiega (Italy) 569 pts
5th 53 Attila Hencz (Slovakia) 479 pts
6th F45 William Tetro (USA) 391 pts
7th B2 Billy Allen (USA) 322 pts
8th 45 Ivan Copelli (Italy) 264 pts
9th F22 Ralph Donald (USA) 239 pts
10th 88 Rene Behncke (Germany) 172 pts
11th 24 Bob Wartinger (USA) 158 pts
12th Z22 Kirsti Ellison (USA) 117 pts
13th F40 Buddy Tennell (USA) 106 pts
14th E51 J David Augustine Snr (USA) 79 pts
15th 32 David Jones (USA) 57 pts
16th 72 Salvatore Chiuri (Italy) 53 pts
17th F14 Amy Eldredge (USA) 47 pts
18th S300 Bill Giles (USA) 000
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