Honda Powerboats to Wow London Crowds

This was a brief article highlighting the Honda Formula 4-Stroke Powerboat display at the London City Airport Fun Day.  Lings would not actually be participating, so the brief was to make it appear as if they were involved without drawing attention to their non-availability.

The Honda Formula 4-Stroke Powerboat Association (F4SA) will this weekend be showing off this years contenders at their display at the annual London City Airport Fun Day, in aid of the Richard House Children’s Hospice.

Both classes of Honda F4SA Powerboat will be taking part in the event, from the 150 horsepower class – which Lings Racing Team won in only their first full series of competition last year – and the Premier 225 horsepower class, in which Lings Racing are competing this season, will be the only water based display at the fun day.  The F4SA has been exclusively invited to showcase six of it’s racing teams, and the Lings Racing Team are pleased that the F4SA have got the chance to show the capital what they’ve got.

Lings Racing Team Navigator & Lings Managing Director Chris Jary said, “It’s a great opportunity for the Powerboat series, and shows just how much it has grown over the last few years.”

The 2008 Honda Powerboat Series is already well underway, with two of five races already run, and the Lings Racing Team will be glad for any chance to get out on the water ahead of their home leg of the series, the Lowestoft Grand Prix.  Taking place as part of the annual Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival, this spectacular, four-day festival takes in everything from fantastic air displays, including the famous RAF Red Arrows, the death-defying Bolddog motorcycle display team, and, for the second year running, the adrenaline-pumping spectacle of the Honda Formula 4-Stroke Powerboat Series.  Last years event drew crowds of over 500,000 across the four days and this year promises to be just as big a hit.  Six power boating teams spread across the classes will be let out on the water of the Royal Docks of London, usually closed due to Air Traffic restrictions, but to be opened especially for the F4SA to strut its stuff in front of the assembled crowds this weekend.

Eight times Class One World Champion and F4SA series director Steve Curtis said, “We are offered to race all over the UK every year but to be invited by the City of London to take part in this event really does prove that the F4SA are putting power boating on the map. We will be holding our championships at the Isle of Man in September this year, so I am sure we will be making use of the flights out of London City to get there.”