Racing season 2021-2025


In 2021, the great constructor pilot Tullio Abbate also passed away, leaving an unfillable void in motorboating, not only nationally. We remember him for the many World Speed ​​Records achieved with his powerful inboard racing and unlimited sports and the important victories in classic cross-country races such as the Centomiglia del Lario in particular.

After 10 years, the motorboat associations of Pavia and Venice are returning to organize the classic Raid Pavia-Venice with the 69th edition of 2021.
In this Raid, among the various classes admitted, you can see again in the race, with great pleasure and a pinch of nostalgia, also some historic racers, all with 2000 cc displacement.
In the final ranking of the 2021 Raid we find, in the first 6 positions, two racers: those of the Pavia drivers Paolo Romagnoli second overall behind the winner Gianluca Carli (racing with an outboard F2 boat) and Mauro Balzarini, sixth overall, on boats of the Lucini shipyard and Lucini and Frigerio-Alfa Romeo 2000 cc.

In the 70th edition of 2023 we find in the very first positions of the final ranking again two Pavia drivers: Alberto Huober third overall and Paolo Romagnoli fifth, the first on a Lucini and Frigerio boat and the second on Lucini both powered by Alfa Romeo 2000 cc.

In 2024 the 71st Raid Pavia-Venice sees only one racer in the final ranking, that of Alberto Huober finishing in the top positions. For him the fourth place overall. Huober also this year brings his three-point Lucini and Frigerio-Alfa Romeo 2000 cc to the finish line. An edition, this one of the Raid 2024, which has seen an ever-increasing participation of historic racer boats.
2024 is also unfortunately remembered for the passing of two other multi-titled champions: the constructor pilots Eugenio and Renato Molinari. Both have contributed (like Buzzi and Abbate) to giving prestige and lustre to Italian motorboating in the world thanks to their important victories, as well as for the development of racing shipbuilding.

In 2025, the 2000cc class racers competed only in the 72nd Pavia-Venice Raid. Angelo Cocozza, with his 4-point Lucini Alfa Romeo powered by an Alfa Romeo Twin Spark, after a race completed with considerable difficulty, took first place in his class and 29th overall. It's a shame, because the could have achieved a much higher ranking, given his potential.
This edition of the Raid saw Guido Cappellini, aboard his F1 DAC Mercury outboard boat, not only triumph for the third consecutive time, but also set a new race record with a speed of 207.26 km/h and a time of 1 hour 41 minutes and 54 seconds. Cappellini beats the previous record of 203.34 km/h set by Dino Zantelli in 2005.


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