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2025 UIM F1H2O WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
COULD 2025 DETERMINE THE FUTURE PATH OF AHMAD AL-FAHIM’S RACING CAREER?
Thursday, April 17: Emirati racer Ahmad Al-Fahim is a relative newcomer to the UIM F1H2O World Championship compared to some of his more illustrious rivals, but the mainstay of the Victory Team for the last two seasons has already shown that he has an impressive turn of speed and can match the world’s best on his day.
He cut his motorsport teeth in car racing on events in the Emirates Desert Rally Championship and the gruelling Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge that runs over a five-day course through the towering sand dunes of the UAE’s remote Rub Al-Khali. That introduction to the roar of engines and the adrenalin rush of high-speed competition was a far cry from his move into the UAE Jet-Ski Championship that eventually led to his switch to power boat racing.
Al-Fahim made his F1H2O debut at the inaugural Kopiko Grand Prix of Indonesia on Lake Toba in 2023 and an impressive start netted a championship point for 10th place. A pre-race accident put him out of contention in Zhengzhou that year but he collected two further points for finishing ninth in France and was then out of the points in Sardinia. He blotted his copybook with a much-publicised collision with Shaun Torrente before the Road to Sharjah-Grand Prix of Sharjah and was awarded a yellow card, meaning that he missed the opening round of the 2024 campaign in Indonesia through suspension.
After finishing 18th in the Drivers’ Championship the previous season, he needed to put that incident behind him quickly. He picked up a couple of points in Vietnam, impressed with a polished run to seventh in Olbia and overcame the disappointment of a non-finish in Shanghai to score valuable points in the two Sprint races in Zhengzhou and Sharjah, despite retirements from both Grand Prix. As a result, he finished last season in 15th place.
That seventh position at the Regione Sardegna Grand Prix of Italy remains his best result to date from eight race starts. But the 45-year-old Emirati knows that he will need to up his game this season with three-time World Champion Shaun Torrente rejoining the Dubai-based team and the talented young Finn Alec Weckström also rejoining the fray after a short absence from the sport.
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