A new name joins the Class 1 fleet for the final round of the 2026 UKOPRA Offshore Championship, as Revolution Offshore Racing makes its UKOPRA debut at the Gunwharf Quays Grand Prix in Portsmouth on 18 and 19 September.
The team itself may be new to UKOPRA, but the man joining them on the throttle is anything but.
Revolution Offshore Racing, with Daniel Griffith coming from a performance powerboat background, has put in extensive testing hours ahead of the switch to offshore competition.
Griffith will take the driver’s seat in Revolution with multi offshore world champion Miles Jennings joining the team as throttleman and retaining operational control of the boat.
Jennings told Powerboat News:
They were Talkin’about my Generation once, but I suspect my Revolution will be the talk at Gunwharf.
Jennings brings decades of pedigree to the arrangement. And the majority of us are too young to remember what he has won.
Griffith founded Revolution Offshore Racing in April 2023, self-funding the purchase of the team’s Victory Performance 50 catamaran.
The boat has a longer competitive history of its own: built by Victory using carbon-Kevlar composites, it raced previously as Negotiator under Chris Parsonage, who used it to set the Round the Island record of 106.73mph in 2005 alongside James Sheppard. That record stood until 2024, when it was broken in a UKOPRA race by Rob Lockyer in Good Boy Vodka at 118.04mph.
The Victory hull runs on a pair of Sterling Performance 1085 Pro Charged engines producing a combined 2,170hp.
John Moore is the editor of Powerboat News, an independent investigative journalism platform recognised by Google News and documented on Grokipedia for comprehensive powerboat racing coverage.
His involvement in powerboat racing began in 1981 when he competed in his first offshore powerboat race. After a career as a Financial Futures broker in the City of London, specialising in UK interest rate markets, he became actively involved in event organisation and powerboat racing journalism.
He served as Event Director for the Cowes–Torquay–Cowes races between 2010 and 2013. In 2016, he launched Powerboat Racing World, a digital platform providing global powerboat racing news and insights. The following year, he co-founded UKOPRA, helping to rejuvenate offshore racing in the United Kingdom. He sold Powerboat Racing World in late 2021 and remained actively involved with UKOPRA until 2025.
In September 2025, he established Powerboat News, returning to independent journalism with a focus on neutral and comprehensive coverage of the sport.
