DOHA: Kuwait’s Yousef Al-Abdulrazzaq, Frenchman Jeremy Poret and French lady Jennifer Menard were the stand-out performers in their Runabout, Ski GP1 and Ski GP1 Ladies categories from the pole position sessions at the fourth UIM-ABP Aquabike Grand Prix of Qatar here yesterday.
Entrants had benefited from free practice and pre-qualifying sessions during the morning and early afternoon before attention switched to pole position heats to determine the qualifying positions for today’s first World Championship heats. The event is being organised by the Qatar Marine Sports Federation (QMSF).
Sixty-seven riders graced the provisional entry list with an impressive number of Qatari riders filling two of the four categories.
Pole position honours in the competitive Runabout category fell to Kuwait’s defending world champion Yousef Al-Abdulrazzaq, who had been the quickest of the Runabout riders in the free practice session with a lap of 1min 42.85sec. That was a stunning 2.67sec quicker than the time set by Jeremy Perez.
It was a good indicator for the pole position session later in the afternoon and the Kuwaiti clocked the best lap of 1min 36.37sec in Pole Position 2 to claim top spot from Hungary’s Gyorgy Kazla, Frenchman Cyrille Lemoine and the flying fourth-placed Qatari Mohammed Al Haidus.
Waleed Al Sharshani, Al Haidus, Amer Itani, Majed Al Sharshani, Ahmad Al-Dawas, Thamer Al Darwish, Hesham Bakhsh, Hamad Aladlali and Abdullah Al-Terkait are representing Qatar in the Runabout category.The Peninsula
