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CLASS 1 ACE STEVE CURTIS ADDS ANOTHER WORLD TITLE IN THE US
Fonte: Class 1 World Powerboat Champion
Monday, 10 November: Qatar 96 throttleman and Class 1’s eight times World Champion and most prolific race winner, Steve Curtis, added another ‘world’ title to his impressive CV on Sunday, after winning the third and final race of the 28th Annual American SBIP-APBA Offshore World Championship in Key West, Florida.
The US-1 Reliable Carriers crew of Curtis and American Tom Abrams were tied in first place with Talk-N-Trash after finishing third in the first race and winning the second, earlier in the week and took the title in the Superboat 750 class with a win in yesterday’s decider. “It was huge, a big win for us,” said Curtis. “Tom and I have been coming here for years and have always had a monkey on our back, so it was great to finally get the championship.
“It was a really good race with Talk-N-Trash. They were chasing hard, but everything went perfectly for us and they weren't going to catch us.”
Curtis now turns his attentions to the final two races of the Class 1 World Powerboat Championship in Dubai on the 6 and 13 December.
In their first full season together, Montavoci and Norwegian driver, Kolbjorn Selmer, have finished fifth four times, sixth once and took their best result of the year, fourth place, in the last race in Porto Marina, Egypt. “I raced with Kolbjorn for the first time in Egypt last year and I am really impressed with how he has developed as a driver. I have raced with many different drivers, but he simply gets better and better each time we go out. Not many are able to do that.”
The Italian-Norwegian pairing are currently lying sixth in the World Championship standings, 14 points behind Jotun, and fourth equal in the Middle East Championship with Negotiator, but aim to end the season as the best placed European outfit.
