Five-time world champion Aaron Ciantar, along with French throttleman Dominique Martini, will try to become the fastest team ever to circumnavigate Malta on a powerboat tomorrow.
Scheduled to start at 8am, Team Chaudron, powered by Enemed, will depart from the Grand Hotel Excelsior Marina, in Valletta, at 7.45am driving counter clockwise around the Malta 47-mile coast, on their mono-hull Chaudron 41 closed canopy powerboat to take on the Enemed V1 Powerboat Malta Circumnavigating World Record Breaking Attempt.
The start and finish line will be set up in front of the Diplomat Hotel in Sliema.
To break the record, the team needs to maintain an average speed of 95mph.
The first ever record was achieved back in 2004 by Adriano Panatta (Team Thuraya) whose record time was that of 42 minutes and 50 seconds.
This record was then broken by Mario Invernizzi (Team Kerakoll) in 2006 who notched up a new world record at just over 34 minutes and 2.84 seconds.
Team Chaudron’s attempt was originally scheduled to take place back in June 2018 but had to be postponed due to an engine blowup during trials.
Tomorrow, the two world champions hope to have clear blue skies and calm waters, as they gear up to partake in this time-sensitive challenge.
“After winning five world championship titles, our current goal is to establish a new Round-Malta world record,” Ciantar said.
“Should we manage to do so, the Round-Malta world record will be for the first time held by a Maltese national both as a driver and as a boat constructor.”
Team Chaudron Enemed crew members Ciantar and Martini, are widely experienced and are multiple world champion title holders of the UIM’s Evolution class/ V1 series and now hope to add this speed record for circumnavigating around Malta to their long list of accomplishments.
On his part, Enemed Executive chairman Kevin Chircop said: “We are thrilled to be the main sponsor and official fuel supplier for this challenge.
“This will surely be another seal of approval for our fuels and their quality. Epower petrol was specifically developed by Enemed for high performance, and what better opportunity is there than breaking a world record,” he concluded.
This event is being organized under the watchful eye of the Union Internationale Motonautique (UIM), the international governing body of powerboating founded in 1922 in Belgium and based in the Principality of Monaco.