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Mohamed Nass - Dubai - Team Abu Dhabi’s Shaun Torrente and Faleh Al Mansoori will blank out off-race matters in the 2019 UIM XCAT World Championship and focus on securing a double race victory at this weekend’s decisive Dubai Grand Prix.
The defending XCAT world champions, who opened the season with back-to-back race wins in Italy, hope that a repeat performance will be enough to see them retain the title they secured with a victory in China’s Hangzhou Grand Prix last year.
"Our focus is purely on getting maximum points this weekend, and the entire team will have nothing else on their minds," team manager, Talib Al-Sayed said.
After a third-place finish in race three during last month’s Shanghai Grand Prix, Torrente and Al Mansoori thought they would arrive in this weekend’s final round of the championship in Dubai holding a five-point lead over the Dubai Police crew of Arif Al Zaffain and Nadir Bin Hendi.
But XCAT Racing later reversed their decision to penalise Al Zaffain and Bin Hendi for hitting a boy, removing a 30-second time penalty. They also imposed two 30-second time penalties on Torrente and Al Mansoori in Abu Dhabi 4 for buoy infringements at the start.
Team Abu Dhabi appealed against the penalties, but as no decision has yet been reached, Al Zaffain and Bin Hendi currently lead the championship by six points from Australians, Tom Barry-Cotter and Ross Willaton, in Maritimo, with Torrente and Al Mansoori another point behind in third place.
Rashed Al Tayer and Majed Al Mansoori return to action in Dubai looking to build on an impressive run of performances in China where they claimed a hat-trick of podium finishes in Abu Dhabi 5.
The XCAT boats take to the water at the Dubai International Marine Club for two official practice sessions on Thursday starting at 11:00 and 15.30.
The pole position qualifier gets underway at 9:00 on Friday, with race one roaring to life at 15:00 and race two following at the same time on Saturday.
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