Hilmer Wiberg took pole position and won Heat 1 on Saturday night at the 2026 UIM F2 European Championship at Viverone. His sister Mathilda was second, with Norway’s Andrè Solvang third. The story of the heat was Edgaras Riabko. The Lithuanian crossed the water in second place, 9.860 seconds behind Wiberg. A two-position penalty under...Read More
Buby Bertels lines up for his first UIM F2 race weekend at Viverone, four years after winning a world title in the boats his own family builds. The son of Bernico Boats founder Nico Bertels, himself a multiple offshore world champion, Buby made his name in UIM Pleasure Navigation, taking the 2022 B300 world title...Read More
Romain Nedelec lines up at Viverone this weekend for his first UIM F2 European Championship start, in a boat with history of its own. Romain Nedelec It’s my first big experience in European championships, Formula Two. It’s a new experience for me. It’s important to prepare this race with more training, but I don’t have...Read More
The 2010 UIM F2 World Championship should never have come down to three rounds. It did, and it ended with Johan Coenradi defending his title on a lake in Piedmont that Italy had barely agreed to host with weeks to spare. The season had been built around a bigger calendar and a promised sponsor. When...Read More
Sixteen drivers, eleven nations, the 2026 UIM F2 European championship. The field at Viverone spans from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, with Sweden fielding three entries and Italy, Latvia and France two apiece.Read More
Sixteen names now confirmed for the UIM F2 European Championship at Viverone, August 7-9. The latest additions could hardly be more different: Duarte Benavente, F2 World Champion in 2020 and racing since 1989, against Buby Bertels, stepping into his first F2 championship event after a successful career in Pleasure Navigation.Read More
After securing a solid third place at his home Grand Prix in Klaipeda, Lithuanian Edgaras Riabko travelled to Brindisi, in the heel of Italy’s boot, with high ambitions for the second round of the 2026 UIM Circuit Formula 2 World Championship. His weekend could hardly have gone any better. Among the sixteen drivers who made...Read More
Edgaras Riabko put his boat on pole position for Sunday’s Gran Premio d’Italia, setting a 39.210-second lap in the Q3 shootout on the Adriatic harbour circuit in Brindisi to head a competitive qualifying session for the UIM F2 World Championship. The Lithuanian driver, running boat #41, told Powerboat News the lap came on a single...Read More
Peter Morin and his team are in Brindisi and ready to race. “Although the wind is blowing, it appears to be better than last year,” says Morin, who finished second here in 2025 behind Matt Palfreyman.Read More
