UIM GT15 European Championship 2025: Östhammar Race Preview
The GT15 European Championship returns to Sweden’s historic Östhammar circuit this weekend, bringing together 16 drivers from across seven nations for what promises to be a tightly contested battle.
The venue, located 140 kilometres north of Stockholm, has deep roots in powerboat racing dating back to the 1950s and previously hosted the GT15 World Championship in 2020 which was won by Hilmer Wiberg.
Nordic Dominance Expected
The entry list reveals a clear Nordic bias with eight drivers from Finland and Estonia and three three local hopefuls from Sweden.
Representing Great Britain are Poppy Stewart and Zach Jelf, son of UIM F2 racer and Sandbanks resident Owen, while single entries from Latvia and Bulgaria round out the international field.
Course
The 1030-meter Östhammar circuit has five turn marks and 400-meter main straight between buoys three and four.
| UIM GT15 European Championship 2025 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Session | Local time (CEST, UTC+2) | Your time |
| Free Training & Time Trials | Saturday 12:00 | Saturday 12:00 |
| Heat 1 | Saturday 16:45 | Saturday 16:45 |
| Heat 2 | Sunday 09:30 | Sunday 09:30 |
| Heat 3 | Sunday 11:00 | Sunday 11:00 |
| Heat 4 (Championship Final) | Sunday 13:00 | Sunday 13:00 |
| Prize Giving Ceremony | Sunday 16:00 | Sunday 16:00 |
The “your time” column automatically converts to your device’s time-zone.
| 2015 UIM GT15 European Championship | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Driver | Country | Heat 1 | Heat 2 | Heat 3 | Heat 4 | Points |
| 1 | Paul Richard Laur | 🇪🇪 EST | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Karl Joonas Kukk | 🇪🇪 EST | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Adrian Åkerblom | 🇸🇪 SWE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Alvin Lindahl | 🇸🇪 SWE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Hermanni Pöntinen | 🇫🇮 FIN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | Joni Inkinen | 🇫🇮 FIN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 49 | Valter Laine | 🇫🇮 FIN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 54 | Toni Kade | 🇫🇮 FIN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 54 | Tuukka Kotokorpi | 🇫🇮 FIN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 65 | Jaroslav Bassov | 🇪🇪 EST | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 69 | Isak Tolshagen | 🇸🇪 SWE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 71 | Zach Jelf | 🇬🇧 GBR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 85 | Reinis Sturis | 🇱🇻 LAT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 | Poppy Stewart | 🇬🇧 GBR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 94 | Adele Servin | 🇫🇮 FIN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | Petar Stoyanov | 🇧🇬 BGR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
John Moore has a longstanding involvement in event organisation and powerboat racing journalism. He organised the historic Cowes–Torquay–Cowes races between 2010 and 2013 and was actively involved with British offshore racing from 2017 until 2025.
In 2017, Moore founded Powerboat Racing World, a digital platform providing global powerboat racing news, insights, and event coverage.
He is now Editor of Powerboat.News, continuing to contribute to the sport’s media landscape with in-depth reporting and analysis.
