China Tianrong team won the champion in UIM F1H2O World Championship 2015

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China Tianrong team won the champion in UIM F1H2O World Championship 2015

ABU DHABI - Frenchman Philippe Chiappe became the seventh driver in the 32-year-history of the UIM F1H2O World Championship to become a multiple-time title holder winning both the Porto, Portugal and Liuzhou, China Grand Prix back-to-back midway through the season and leaving the competition gasping for air at the end of 2015.

His pair of wins gave him a much needed bit of breathing room and opened the door for the 13 year veteran to claim his back-to-back titles for the CTIC China Team in the world's most difficult racing series on water.

The 2015 campaign was a ten-month odyssey that began in March in Doha, Qatar. It carried on all the way to the Grand Prix of Sharjah just two weeks before the end of 2015 in the lovely Khalid Lagoon, by which time, the driver from Rouen had already earned his second title in two years.

It wasn't easy for the defending champion. Coming into Doha on a two race winning streak at the last pair of events in 2014, he qualified and finished second on a rough afternoon on Doha Bay. He then put himself in a giant hole, at his home Grand Prix in Evian in France, when he earned pole position and to the disappointment of the tens-of-thousands of fans, he dropped out while in front at near the halfway mark picking up no points and now dropping farther back in the drivers' championship.

Philippe dug deep in probably his best drive of the year in Porto, Portugal, hounding race leader Sami Selio of the Mad Croc Baba Team and passed the two-time World Champion near mid-race and cruising home to a critical victory, putting him just one point off the championship lead halfway through the season.

The next race in Liuzhou, China, saw Philippe at his best and, despite all sorts of pressure put on the team at their home race, the French driver snared pole and would go on to win his only perfect weekend of the season for his fifth career victory and his fourth in his last six starts

The upcoming campaign looks to be only brighter, with new venues and new drivers joining the already jammed starting grids for the Grand Prix's. It all happens on the world's most difficult and exciting racing stage on water, the UIM F1H2O World Championship for powerboating.

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