There's a new race boat in the P1 SuperStock fleet this season flying the flag for the P1 Marine Foundation. With the name 'Oceans First', it is competing at every race in both the UK and USA championships this summer.
A group of proactive business owners in Hull called 'onehullofaboat' hit the headlines this week when they unveiled the stunning design for their P1 Panther race boat which will compete in this year's P1 SuperStock UK Championship.
3000 visitors flocked to the Typhoo stand at Liverpool's Food & Drink Festival at Sefton Park on Merseyside at the weekend for a complimentary cuppa, using a staggering 100 pints of milk!
Multi championship-winning GT and sportscar team Brookspeed is making a dramatic switch this season from car racing to powerboats as it takes on running the Peters & May Racing P1 Panther 250 racer in the 2012 P1 SuperStock UK championship.
A burning desire to take up powerboat racing proved too hard to resist for newcomers James Norvill and John Collingbourne.
Black Magic crew Vince and Jade Berridge are planning a move into the P1 250 Class in 2013 after testing the Panther at a P1 Demo Day held near Poole in Dorset last week.
Peters & May Racing has added twin brothers Blake and Brock Gratton as their P1 SuperStock USA team for the 2012 season.
Nick Williams (Amersham, Buckinghamshire), son of former Formula One Powerboat Champion Tony, will make his debut in the P1 SuperStock Championship this year after becoming the first racer to sign-up for Britain’s biggest powerboat series in the headline P1 250 Class.
Contrary to an article published on the P1 SuperStock website, race organisers would like to advise that Eclipse duo Rose Lores (Stubbington, Hampshire) and hometown rookie Lucci Levi (Cowes) were not disqualified from the Cowes-Poole-Cowes race results but remain under investigation for a possible technical infringement which may impact on their second place finish at the weekend (27/28 August)
Husband and wife crew Stuart and Sara Cureton (Lindford, Hampshire) continued their obliteration of the P1 150 class in the P1 SuperStock Championship at Hull Marina over the weekend (30/31 July) with their fourth and fifth victories from the first six races of 2011.
With just a few days to go until the second round of the 2011 P1 SuperStock Championship, the Plymouth Grand Prix of the Sea, husband and wife team David and Kirsty Toozs-Hobson are delighted to announce the signing of a key sponsorship deal with the MacDonald Hotels and Resorts Group.