Victory Team set for trans-Atlantic presence
Defending world champions to race at Key West World Championships
The Class One boats of Victory Team are bracing up for a trans-Atlantic challenge as they prepare for the Super Boat International (SBI) to be held in Key West, Florida in USA at the end of the year.
SBI is the leading North American professional powerboat organisation for Class One powerboats founded by John Carbonell with teams from all around the world competing from May through October in the National Series Points races. The concluding round is the famous Key West World Championships that are scheduled to be held from November 4-11 this year.
With some of the best powerboat racers assembling for the national championships and the World finale, Victory Team took the call of a transAtlantic trip to “see where we stand in the world of Class One powerboating”.
“This is a huge challenge for us as a team and as defending Class One world champions of the UIM,” Huraiz Bin Huraiz, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Victory Team, told Gulf News after Tuesday’s meeting of the board of directors at the
The concluding round is the Key West World Championships that are scheduled to be held from Nov 4-11 this year.
Victory Team headquarters in Jebel Ali. “Victory Team is synonymous with all kinds of powerboat racing, and since we are the defending world champions in Class One to a championship that is basically run in Asia and Europe, we thought it would be wise to fly the Victory Team and Dubai banner across the Atlantic Ocean,” he added.
Stiff competition
The Dubai-based team in blue will compete in the final round of the national championships to be held in Clearwater, Florida from September 28-30 followed by the season finale in the island city of Key West, Florida from November 4-11.
Two Victory Team boats (Boat No. 3 and 7) will be shipped to Florida later during the summer and they will up against a stiff competition comprising former Class One champions like Steve Curtis, James Sheppard and Gary Ballough — all who have competed in the UIM Class One World Championships in the past.