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Fortitudo Property Poole Bay 100 – Update

By John Moore on 21st March 2018

2017Moto, the organisers of the Fortitudo Property Poole Bay 100 Offshore Powerboat Race, will be releasing the Event’s Advance Programme next week.

The race, scheduled to start at 14:00 on Saturday the 9th June, will welcome the start of the 2018 British Offshore racing season.

Class 3 boats will be competing for Round 1 of their 2018 British Offshore Championship while the Marathon craft will race over an 81 NM course for the first round of the 2018 World Offshore Championship and The Harmsworth Trophy.

The UIM Safety Award was presented to Rob Irvine Chairman of the Osprey Powerboat Rescue Team last weekend in Monaco Photo: Chris Davies

Officer of the Day Simon Wood Power has this week welcomed Rob Irvine, (Chairman of the Osprey Powerboat Rescue Team) to take on the duties of Safety Officer, Dr Brett Rocos as Medical Officer and Julie Kirkup as Race Secretary.

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John Moore

John Moore first competed in a powerboat race back in 1982 which was held in Poole Bay. He went on to win races in offshore Class 3 and took a UIM World Speed Record on Lake Windermere in 2002. Moore acted as Race Director for the prestigious Cowes Torquay Cowes race for 4 years including the event’s 50th anniversary in 2010- He has used that organising experience to run a number of UKOPRA races up until 2023. In 2016 he founded Powerboat Racing World, a website dedicated to covering circuit and offshore events across the globe. After serving as its editor until 2021 he sold the brand to The Race Factory who are based in Norway. Moore has also commentated for television on many UIM F2 World Championship races from Lithuania, Norway and Portugal and in Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore for the Asia Powerboat Series.

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