Talk:Class 1 World Powerboat Championship

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This reads like marketing material written by the marketing company that runs these races.

It would be good to have actual Wikipedia editors with expertise in this area work on this article so that it doesn't read like the press release that it essentially is right now. 35.146.235.1 (talk) 19:04, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]