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Worx Racing Components are pleased to announce that the Freeride Australian Open will be on again next year on the Gold Coast, Australia. The event is expected to be held on the 20th and 21st of February 2010 and will be moved from the location it was in last year to a venue where big waves are expected. Yamaha Australia, Jetpilot Australia, Worx Racing Components and many other sponsors will again be getting together to produce an absolute sensational event like 2009. In 2009 Worx Racing Components, brought Pierre Maixent (France) and Ross Champion (USA) out to Australia to compete in the event. The local Australian riders really took it to the world’s best but Pierre managed to take home a brand new Yamaha Superjet as first prize and Ross came third and received a very favourable cash reward. Australia Nick Barton came second and he too was happy with his reward. In 2010 Worx will again be a sponsor of the event and is encouraging riders from all over the world to come and compete for some very substantial cash prizes. Anyone wishing to know what the event was like last year can ask Ross or Pierre their opinions or why not just come and see it for yourself in 2010. Worx again will bring Pierre and Ross across to defend their titles. For more information and registration details contact Jet Pilot Australia or Worx Racing Components. www.worx.com.au, www.jetpilot.com.au

Chris MacClugage and his Macc Racing Yamaha FZR WaveRunner won the APBA Pro-Am Stock National Championship today at Percy Priest Lake, TN, completing one of the most dominate performances in professional watercraft racing history. MacClugage, a multi-time World and National PWC Racing champion, won nearly every round of the Pro-Am Stock class on the APBA Watercross Tour this season, racking up an overwhelming points lead going into the final weekend of the 2009 National Tour. However, MacClugage, not one to coast his Yamaha FZR to a national title, took the fight to his competitors today just as he had all season long. In true MacClugage fashion, he not only won Moto 1 in the Pro-Am Stock class today to put him over the top for the national title, MacClugage also won Moto 1 of the Pro-Am Open Class aboard a new Bill-Chapin prepared Yamaha FZR. “This season we set out to prove that the Yamaha FZR can completely dominate the APBA Prostock class and we did,” said MacClugage. ““With the FZR being in its first year of production, it is truly amazing to see it outperform all of the competitive boats that have so many more races under their belt.” “From conception, the FZR was designed to be the ultimate high performance race watercraft out of the box,” said Bryan Seti, Yamaha’s national marketing manager. “The results of the FZR on the National Tour demonstrate the game changing nature of this hull and engine platform for the closed course. Chris MacClugage’s dominance of every race this year and his national championship win reinforces the FZR’s leadership position on the racing scene.”

According to out recent update from 2 times Pro Runabout World Champion Craig Warner, Kawasaki Factory Jet Ski Racing Team will have him under its tent for another year although the Jet Ski racing budget has been reduced a lot (AMA SX and Road racing has taken it all). Warner will bring both of his last year’s race craft, the tricky STX-R and the Ultra. At the moment we do not know what powerplant will have under the seat since last year there were rumors that Kawsaki was interested to a turbo kit. Though, if the budget is so tight as we know from another source most probably the team will have both crafts equipped with the usual Vortech recipe.

This race is an APBA Sanctioned event and as such, ALL riders MUST be APBA Racing Members and you will need to enter the class that your APBA card shows very important. If your card says PRO than you must run the Pro/Am class. If you are not now but want to become an APBA Racing Member, please call Patrick Mell at (586) 773-9700 or go online at http://www.apbaracing.com/ to sign up. The Mark Hahn Memorial Havasu 300 Team Race is a stand-alone event to honor our fallen friend Mark Hahn. It is not part of the annual points races and therefore there will be Six (7) classes only, as listed on the entry form. Get your team set and your entry in early to avoid the $25.00 late fee if your paid entry is not received by DSM one (1) week prior to the race. No entries will be accepted on race day. DSM will accept VISA, MASTERCARD or a check for the entry fee to make payment very easy. If anyone has a problem with this entry system or wants to make special arrangements, please contact Jim Russell at DSM immediately at (928) 764-2210, Extension 615 in an effort to limit the confusion on race day and insure that the race gets started exactly on time. All entrants MUST have eight inch (8”) black number(s) on a white background to be scored. Numbers will NOT be available at the race site on race day, nor may you enter on race day. Awards will be for First through Tenth in the Overall order and First through Third in each Class. The awards are really special for this event. The Awards will be at Aquatic Center doors will open at 6.30 same as last years event awards starting at 7.30 pm. No one will get in without a dinner band. ENTRORY INFORMATION: Log on http://www.pwcfun.com/markhahn300.asp

According to Master Chief Kommander Steve Webster his team at Surf Slam will be as follows: “Tyrone Motzouris is racing his Open Ski at both SurfSlam and World Finals. It is the same ski he raced in 2007 but has been updated engine to our current spec with billet crank and billet Power Valve cylinder. Dustin will be racing my personal SXR which is an Open ski with a similar engine package as you rode in Stevens ski at the World Finals. Dustin will also compete in Freeride on a new built Super Jet with a Kommander Built 760cc freeride motor courtesy of John Dady at Blowsion Kolors. Josh Lustic will compete in Freeride on a Super jet and will Ride my 800SXR Limited in the Pro Ski class for the Surf Slam. We are building him a new Trinity Matrix Hull with a Yamaha Billet PV motor for Freestyle at the Finals.”

The world's greatest Watercraft Freeriders and racers will descend on Pacific City Oregon for a the year's top PWC surf event which combines the second round of the IFWA Freeride World Championship Tour with the IJSBA Freeride World Cup and Motosurf Western Championship. The event will be held at Tierra Del Mar Beach located just north of Pacific City and is free to the public on this wide expanse of beach. The Blowsion Surf Slam will bring over 30 riders from around the world competing for a cash purse and points towards the IFWA World title and competing for the first ever IJSBA Freeride World Cup. Joining them will be some of the best PWC racers in the world who will display high speed turns through a grueling buoy course all while challenging the unpredictable waves. Freeriders will compete in a head to head double elimination format. A panel of professional judges will score them 50% for their wave surfing and 50% for their aerial maneuvers. The 2009 IFWA World Tour has 3 international rounds: France, the US and Brazil. The IJSBA, in its support for the IFWA, will award the winner of this round with the IJSBA World Cup. The infamous Pacific Coast surf will boost riders over 20feet in the air while performing tricks like backflips, barrel rolls and no handed landings. Spectators will also witness exciting personal watercraft racing with the IJSBA MotoSurf Invitational. The top 20 Pro, Pro Am and Amatuer wave racers in the country will battle it out in the challenging Pacific City Surf. Racers will compete in a multi-moto format of several laps through a buoy course requiring a balance of maintaining high speeds while making split second strategic maneuvers around buoys that are constantly being moved about by the pounding surf. This event will be a weekend of non-stop surf action. The Freeride Qualifying will begin on Friday September 11th. Motosurf racing will take place on Saturday and Sunday Sept 12th and 13th. The main events will take place Saturday and Sunday from 8am-4pm. More info at http://blowsionsurfslam.com/competitors/

After the good performance in the Open Sea, the Britos Bros on one hand and general´s winners Turbo and aspired Rodriguez and Kairalla the mark of the pitches incorporates in the fight this edition of the Jet Raid. Both couples dis it very well in the Open Sea and they bet to the reliability and hardness of the sea that it grants them the pattern SHO. It will be present in the event also the Spanish official team of the brand with the Ferrer bros and Vivanco as example. We even wait the incorporation of pilots of countries that habitually visit our Internet site like it is Canada, Indonesian, Puerto Rico, China or Germany that not yet finish deciding to be part of the biggest event of Offshore of the world, here of advance the ranking of visits of up-to-date countries of today of www.Jetraid.net.