RUSTY WYATT is a Canadian racer who signed to drive for the new Sharjah Team for the 2024 UIM F1H2O World Championship under the management of Scott Gillman.
He enjoyed a stunning rookie season, winning a thrilling first race on Lake Toba in Indonesia and then narrowly missing out on the title to Jonas Andersson after finishing fourth in Vietnam, first in Sardinia and Shanghai and third in Sharjah after a costly retirement in Zhengzhou. He has taken three GP wins from six starts and two pole positions.
Hailing from Innisfil in Ontario, Wyatt has been competing in the American Powerboat Championship with the Crystal Clear/Rusty Wyatt Racing boat and won the 2022 Lake Havusu Classic. An elevator technician by trade, he was the Canadian Boating Federation’s Rookie of the Year in the T-850 category in 2012 and was High Point champion in 2013 and 2015.
Top rookie in the Superleague Tour in 2016, he graduated to Formula 2 racing before breaking into the top echelon of powerboating Stateside. In 2023, he finished fourth in the American Powerboat Championship behind Terry Rinker, Dylan Anderson and Chris Rinker, winning the Loto Powerfest on the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri in the process.