Well the team has arrived back safely in Norway, and Paul has been in contact with me today from Brazil, so he’s safely home as well.

I am awaiting loads more photos & video from the Class-1 media team, and many of our sponsors, team members and supporters who came to Italy, have/are sending me …

Relekta 91 was placed 5th

I can say that speaking to Jan after the race, he was very pleased indeed with how the weekend went.

“We had very few problems and the boat performed perfectly….. especially when one considers the colossal job we had after the incident at the Swedish Grand Prix“. He …

First practice starts at 10.30am, then it’s the main race at 2.30pm – but chatting to Jan last night, he asked me to pass on his humble thanks to everyone for their help and support both here in Italy, and home in Norway:

Zabo Racing vil takke alle sponsorer og frivillige i forbindelse med uhellet …

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Race 1 has been completed.

So how did we do? Well it didn’t go as well as we hoped if truth be told, but talking to our driver, Paul Gaiser, after the race, it was evident he was very frustrated with himself.

“I made some silly mistakes” he said, “I approached a couple of …

Well….. things got thrown into a bit of chaos this morning due to the weather. Visibility was extremely poor due to a heavy mist and rain, so practice was delayed for an hour and that squeezed out the 9.30am run and threw the teams straight into the Edox pole position.

Nonetheless, Christian and Paul where …

So the rain came down as soon as the practice started….. but it most certainly did not dampen the enthusiasm.
The team is brimming with confidence, and the first practice merely reinforced that it is well founded.

Chatting with both Stig, (Zabo’s Chief Mechanic), and Christian after the practice, both where extremely happy with how …

Well…… internet sorted and we’re ready to race!

This is just a quick update, and I’ll have plenty more photos later today, hopefully some video as well, and a more detailed report on how the ‘Official Practice’ went starting at 2pm today.

For the meantime:

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Relekta 91 left for Italy this morning, Sunday 26th, enroute for Stresa in Italy for next weekends Italian GP.

It has been an amazing accomplishment, considering the incident at the Swedish Grand Prix in Uddevalla.

The rest of the team leave on wednesday to meet the boat in Stresa, and confidence is very high indeed. …