Team Abu Dhabi dominate World Powerboat Championship in Saler**
 

Team Abu Dhabi dominate World Powerboat Championship in Saler**
http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/t...=f&x=311&y=106by Sport360 staff Saturday 11 July 2015 Team Abu Dhabi continued their superb start to the new UIM Class 1 World Powerboat Championship season with first and fourth positions in the second of the two Saler** races, held in conjunction with the seventh leg of the Venice-Monte Carlo endurance race. The finish means that the team that runs out of the Abu Dhabi International Marine Sports Club (ADIMSC) leads the prestigious offshore ****** after the first round. The triumphant race pairing of Gary Ballough and throttleman John Tomlinson had won the opening race on Wednesday after**on in their American-built MTi catamaran and claimed pole position for the second race. They were **t to be denied in race two either and passed the chequered flag in first place to cap a perfect weekend for the UAE team. The Emirati pairing of Majid Al-Mansoori and Rashid Al-Tayer had finished second in the first 13- lap encounter and qualified third for the second of the Italian races behind Italian driver Giovanni Carpitella and England’s Miles Jennings in Fendi Racing ’s T-Bone Station. Al-Mansoori and Al-Tayer reached the finish in fourth in the second Team Abu Dhabi boat.