The 007 Racing team and Club Italia Offshore Racing have signed an agreement to participate together in the Powerboat P1 World Championship this year; with the team's experienced pilot Piersimone Volpe competing in the boat belonging to the Club Italia Offshore Racing team in the Supersport class.

The team will this year run under the title of their official engine supplier, and the Emmedcidue FPT Iveco Motors mount in the Supersport class will be a 12.6 metre-long Apache powerboat with a Top System transmission and ZF 2 speed gearbox which will all combine to push the new boat combination to an approximate racing speed on the water of 80 mph.

The crew is to be made up of respected driver Piersimone Volpe - the runner up in the Powerboat P1 'Supersport' class in 2003; throttleman Franco Terenziani, an Inshore and Endurance racing veteran during the nineteen-eighties, the winner of the Pavia-Venezia in 1991 in the Offshore Class 3-2 litre, and last year in the Endurance Class B S2 along with his 20 year old son Federico, and also the Italian Champion of the Endurance Class B S2 long race - who will be this year be the navigator for the team. Meanwhile Federico Busetto will act as the team's reserve pilot. The team manager is to be Vinzenzo Tuccio, the owner of Top System, while FPT Iveco's technical staff will look after the boat's engines.
 

The new boat and engine combination will be tested for the first time early next month in Nettuno, the home base of the team, and the testing is scheduled to last for most of the month of April in order to allow the crew and boat to undertake maximum preparations in the run up to the first race of the 2006 Powerboat P1 World Championship season, the Grand Prix of Malta, which takes place on 13-14 May in Valletta, and is now just 45 days away.

The team's driver Piersimone Volpe is ready to go after recovering successfully from last year's injuries: "Finally I am back to racing, and I am going to do all my best, thanks to a good crew and staff; furthermore, being supported from such a supplier is already a warranty to the final result...as for myself, I am in good physical condition and I keep on training daily. I will also compete the Italian and European Offshore Class 3. The guys in the crew and I just have to look for the good feeling."

Both Franco and Federico Terenziani, the father and son racing pairing, are very happy and satisfied to be entering such a competitive championship this year: Franco says: "The main objective is to maintain constant results and possibly win as many races as possible...also Federico is very satisfied."