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HSR-Benelli announces its special offer on Weber S-4 engines for the racing season 2009. The new pricing for the engine is now fixed as following: Retail price 1.990euros excluding VAT and transport costs.

The organization of the Jet Raid is at this time in Brazil attending a new stage of the local championship. The last update is as follows: “We have already checked that a important group of teams of this country, begin to follow the idea of participating in this adventure. Such they are the cases of the multiple champion of Havasu, Celio Vinicius that has confirmed their participation in the structure of the team Jet Pilot as well as of the several time champion, Deninho Casarini also on board it Sea Doo in their sport structure, one of the most important from Brazil. On the other hand the competitions of Closed Course in this country are classic although with little experience in the Off Shore, anyway in September the realization of the second Open Sea ,that last year Frankie Zapata won, will give them the chance to get ready. We are seeing the possibility to be able to invite some pilots from the Jet Raid to this competition. This event will prepare them for the World Cup in November.”

KTM’s factory Cyril Desrpes (pic. supplied by KTM images) will join forces with French Team of Kawasaki Pastorello with major plan to attend the Jet Raid 2009 Offshore race. The winner of Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally is well known for his great experience in the Off Road motorcycle scene having marked with successes in Paris-Dakar Rally and other International Rally events.

The Arab emirates sink to the group of countries that participate in the Jet Raid of Brazil. With the last inscriptions of the pilots that reside in Dubai, Gilles Chauve and Ahmed Al Fahim, a new country is integrated to the long list. They have the experience of the Dakar as regards of GPS navigation and a local championship that stands out for the high competition level. It is clear that the Jet Raid attracts those that with its participation in the African Dakar come to prove luck in this discipline. Equal is the case of Ciryll Despres, official pilot KTM and winner of the Dakar in motorcycle in more than an opportunity that this year will come inside the sport structure of the official team Kawasaki France of Pastorello. Year after year the Jet Raid puts on but competitive but without you forget that an unknown pilot and with a stock pwc it can be awarded the title of World Champion, a challenge that little is in a world where the money always sends. The organization of the event leaves to Brazil again this weekend for a new round of the Brazilian championship, where the local pilots prepare for the world appointment of November.

Kurihara, last year’s Japanese Pro Runabout champion won the class in the first round of the Japanese Jet Ski Championship. Kurihara is riding a powerful Sea Doo specially prepared by Marine Mechanic. He was racing with a broken right index finger and his race craft was finally run a supercharged while during wither his team had prepared a supercharged/turbocharged engine. Though the Japanese rules allow only the use of the OEM waterbox and the particular one could not withstand the pressure of the twin charger engine. Since reliability was in first priority Kurihara’s team selected the single charger option. Last year’s spec gave a top speed of 96mph.

Recently the organization of the Jet Raid was present in the first round of the Brazilian championship in the city of Penha. There the organisers confirmed once more time that the competition level that Brazil has as in closed courses is really high, but the question is if they will be at the level of the pilots of the Jet Raid. In the last edition Celio Vinicius in spite of being an excellent pilot experiment that when of Jet Raid it is spoken they change the parameters of how you compete. Anyway the promoters of Jet Raid believe that the “virus” of the World cup is already inside in the Brazilian teams and this country will have very strong competitive structures to be conquered. We (the organizers) know that once the competition arrives in a country like in Peru, it begins to generate an entire type different of races, where the circuit becomes secondary opening the way to the off shores. In the next notes we will go them giving the advances that leave this round. Brazil wants the Nations Cup but the pilots from the Jet Raid won´t make it easy.

It is the second year of the historically first distance race on personal watercraft in the Czech Republic. On Sunday 17.5.2009 will start official international championship of the Czech Republic in the category of Long Distance. Competitors will have to ride as quickly as possible, the distance of 20 km on the river Elbe. The route this year will be from Děčín to Dobkovice and back. The first category will start provisionally at 14.00 and the second about an hour later. Le Mans start will be aplied. We will have two rounds, Stand Ups and Runabouts. In the starting area Děčín Music Festival Labe will take a place so be ready for big crowd of people. Registration for riders ends 10.5.2009. For more information how to register into the race please visit the official website:www.JETSKIGRANDPRIX.cz