How Al Qemzi fought for F2 World Title

Team Abu Dhabis Rashed Al Qemzi is set up for another relentless tussle in Norway at the weekend as he offers to remain on course for a second world powerboat dashing title this season.

Al Qemzi, intending to recover the UIM F2 World Championship crown which he won in 2017, drives the 2019 series following his dramatic opening round victory in Lithuania a month ago.

Since then the Emirati driver has celebrated success as a member of the four-man Team Abu Dhabi crew who clinched the World Endurance Championships in Poland, and he is determined to expand the winning streak.

Among his team-mates on that occasion, Rashed Al Tayer joins Al Qemzi in the beginning line-up for Sundays Grand Prix of Norway, the first of three F2 championship rounds in the space of six weeks.

With races to follow in Italy and Portugal preceding to Decembers final round in Abu Dhabi, both are resolved to make their mark in the ancient Viking town of Tnsberg, Norways oldest, at the weekend.

After dominating F2 qualifying in Lithuania, Al Qemzi was awarded his second win in three years in Kaunas when Norwegian Tobias Munthe-Kaas collected a one lap penalty for a race buoy infringement after finishing ahead of the Emirati.

That setback left the Norwegian down in ninth place in the championship, and he will be excitedly looking for revenge in Tnsberg.

Team Abu Dhabis Al Tayer additionally needs to put the memory of the Kaunas race behind him after recovering from a crash in qualifying to start the Grand Prix, but going out when his boat was rammed at a turn.