After starting a disappointing seventeenth, Brock Cohen from Perth, Western Australia, battled through the grid of twenty drivers to finish eighth place in last weekend’s F1H2O Grand Prix of France in Macon.
2023 is Cohen’s debut year in the F1 powerboat world championships with the most recent result his best to date. Him and his younger brother, Damon Cohen, head mechanic and engine builder, invested in a new boat and engine combination which paid dividends and assisted them to stamp their presence within the competition.
Brock had this to say post-race; “I am over the moon with this result. Me, my family, my sponsors and my entire team have worked really hard for this and we deserve it” and continued on with “I think I got up to fifth at one stage but just didn’t have the pace as the water conditions improved to stay there. I also lost power steering with about six or seven laps to go so I am just happy I was able to hold position and stay inside the points”.
After a thirteen-year stint of national racing on the east coast of Australia, Cohen joined forces with Italian ComparatoF1 team in January this year for the 2023 season. Cohen began racing in March 2009 in the Formula Future category and secured victories in numerous club, state and national championship races, going on to race in the Formula 3 class from 2013 to 2018, winning the title in 2016, the same year he represented Team Australia in the H2O Nations World Cup.
Now coming into the second half of the F1H2O season, the twenty-six-year-old Australian sits fourteenth in the drivers’ standings, only eight points behind a top ten spot and fourty points behind the current championship leader. You can follow all the action of the next race live and free on www.f1h2o.com which is set for 29th September to 1st October in Olbia for the Regione Sardegna Grand Prix of Italy.
2023 is Cohen’s debut year in the F1 powerboat world championships with the most recent result his best to date. Him and his younger brother, Damon Cohen, head mechanic and engine builder, invested in a new boat and engine combination which paid dividends and assisted them to stamp their presence within the competition.
Brock had this to say post-race; “I am over the moon with this result. Me, my family, my sponsors and my entire team have worked really hard for this and we deserve it” and continued on with “I think I got up to fifth at one stage but just didn’t have the pace as the water conditions improved to stay there. I also lost power steering with about six or seven laps to go so I am just happy I was able to hold position and stay inside the points”.
After a thirteen-year stint of national racing on the east coast of Australia, Cohen joined forces with Italian ComparatoF1 team in January this year for the 2023 season. Cohen began racing in March 2009 in the Formula Future category and secured victories in numerous club, state and national championship races, going on to race in the Formula 3 class from 2013 to 2018, winning the title in 2016, the same year he represented Team Australia in the H2O Nations World Cup.
Now coming into the second half of the F1H2O season, the twenty-six-year-old Australian sits fourteenth in the drivers’ standings, only eight points behind a top ten spot and fourty points behind the current championship leader. You can follow all the action of the next race live and free on www.f1h2o.com which is set for 29th September to 1st October in Olbia for the Regione Sardegna Grand Prix of Italy.
