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Russians won the water race «Formula 1» in Qatar

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The international championshipF1H2O Nations Cup was held in Doha, Qatar, from 8 to 11 March. The winner of this year's competition was the Russian crew, reports the press service of the New Star Racing Team. Second place went to representatives of Belarus. In third place went to the German team.

Two boats and two pilots compete from each participating country. Russia was represented by Andrey Panyushkin and Konstantin Ustinov; Republic of Belarus was represented by Roman Vandyshev and Dmitry Malkin.

Competitors raced 455 kg boats 2.1 m long with Mercury Optimax 200XS SS motors.

Such boats accelerate to 100 km/h in less than 5 seconds and the maximum speed of the vessel is 200 km/h.

The racing is governed by the following rules. Competitors first do practice laps, the best lap time is used to determine the order of teams for the match race. The first day's races are held in a match race format. This race is «one on one», when the strongest remains, and the weakest respectively eliminated.

On the second day there are two races on the 4-boost distance. In the team offset the results of the match race and points for the first and second races are summed up.

In total, athletes from seven countries took part in the competition: Russia, Belarus, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Italy and Germany.

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