F1 H2O Jeddah
Powerboats on the Red Sea
The powerboat world championship on the Jeddah corniche — 220 km/h on water.
Contact UsSports Highlights
- Verified grandstand and, where offered, pontoon tickets to the UIM F1 H2O Grand Prix, secured before you pay.
- Single-seater tunnel-hull catamarans at 220 km/h, cornering on water in spray you feel from the bank.
- Pontoon access where the boats are craned in and the drivers suit up an arm’s length away.
- The Jeddah corniche as your grandstand — the Red Sea on one side, the King Fahd Fountain behind.
- A morning in Al-Balad, Jeddah’s UNESCO old town of coral-stone houses and carved wooden balconies.
- A Red Sea leg — a boat afternoon or a reef snorkel most travellers never associate with Saudi Arabia.
- A host who knows the paddock rhythm — when the boats run, where the spray lands, when the light is best.
Jeddah Corniche, Saudi
Fast, Salt-Sprayed, Rare
3 Nights / 4 Days
Priced to Your Brief
Red Sea City Hotels
Powerboat Racing & Sea
Experience Overview
Everyone knows Formula 1 on tarmac; almost no one has stood beside Formula 1 on water. The UIM F1 H2O World Championship brings single-seater tunnel-hull catamarans — five metres, over 200 km/h — to the Jeddah corniche on the Red Sea. This is a long weekend built around the rarest motorsport most fans have never seen live.
The racing runs across the weekend — free practice and the pole shootout on Saturday, the grand prix on Sunday, roughly forty-five minutes of flat-out laps around a buoyed course. Around it, Jeddah opens up: Al-Balad’s coral-stone old town, the corniche and its record-breaking fountain, and a Red Sea afternoon on the water.
F1 H2O is a spray-in-the-face spectacle. The boats sit almost flat, lift a hull through the corners and throw a rooster-tail you feel on the bank. Late November in Jeddah is warm, around 28°C, and the light off the Red Sea at day’s end is why photographers come. Saudi Arabia is newer to tourism — this is a front-row seat to it.
Some moments are built for lingering: the pack launching off the start pontoon in a wall of white water; a boat craned in beside you, the driver folding into a cockpit the size of a bathtub; the corniche going gold as the last heat finishes; mint tea in an Al-Balad courtyard with the engines still ringing in your ears.
For motorsport fans who have done the tarmac circuits and want something almost no one back home has witnessed — small groups, couples, the genuinely curious. It is not for anyone needing the scale and grandstand comfort of a Formula 1 Grand Prix; F1 H2O is rawer, closer and gloriously niche.
Everything you
need to know
Are tickets confirmed before I pay, and what access do we get?
Yes — grandstand and, where offered, pontoon or hospitality tickets are secured and confirmed before departure, never resale. F1 H2O crowds are smaller and closer than Formula 1, so pontoon access can put you beside the boats as they are craned in and the drivers suit up; your curator confirms exactly which access your ticket carries.
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