ERIK STARK returned to the UIM F1H2O World Championship with the Victory Team at the start of the 2023 season after being absent from the series since the first race of 2021. He has taken four career race wins and 11 podiums and kick-started his 2023 challenge with a third-place finish in Indonesia.

Stark raced for the Maverick F1 Team for the start of the 2019 season, the team he raced with for the opening two rounds of 2018, giving them their first GP win in London before joining Team Abu Dhabi and finishing the year as world number two before joining the Victory Team for the first time.

The 35-year-old Swede is a four-time F2 World Champion and made the transition into F1H2O with seamless ease, making his debut in 2012 before entering full-time from 2014 and claiming his first podium in China. Two more podiums followed in 2015 but his season was interrupted by a crash and a subsequent hand injury. But Erik returned to round out his year by taking his first pole position in Sharjah, finishing fourth and sixth overall in the standings, his best championship finish.