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The Lymington Challenge

By John Moore on 3rd February 2023

The preliminary 2023 UKOPRA Offshore Championship calendar was announced on Christmas Day at the end of last year.

Today, the governing body for offshore racing in the UK has given details of a new venue and a date change to the 6-race series.

The third round will be held in Lymington on Saturday, 8th July.

The event, The Lymington Challenge, will be based at and supported by the Berthon Boat Company.

Additional partner Onyx Events will be hosting an after-race prize giving and party, the company is run by Glenn Julius and his son Bligh, a multi championship winning ThunderCat racer.

Bligh and Glenn Julius

UKOPRA are expected to issue news on their season finale to be based in Southampton in due course.

2023 UKOPRA Calendar

Berthon Boat Company

Onyx Events 

 

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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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