Thursday, 20 November, ABU DHABI (UAE): Sixteen-year-old Briney Rigby produced a faultless performance to take her first win in her debut season in the F-4S Trophy, cruising home to take the chequered flag in race 1 in Abu Dhabi.

The young Australian showed her male peers how to do it the moment the lights went out, and starting from p2 led from the pontoon and systematically extending her lead to complete the 20 laps and bring home her Molgaard to cross the line 20.84 seconds clear to win for Team Sweden.

Championship leader Mike Szymura lacked the pace he showed in Qatar qualifying down in fifth spot and despite moving up into second by the end of lap 1 the F1 GC Atlantic driver had no answer to the race leader's blistering pace, trailing in to take second and secure 15 valuable points and keep his title challenge on track.

Team CTIC China's Wu Bingchen produced easily his best showing of the year to take third, holding off a sustained challenge from Motor Glass F1's Jan Andre Landsnes who at one point had closed the gap to under two seconds.

Mohammed Al-Obaidly won the in-house bragging rights in Team Qatar finishing in fifth ahead of teammate and pole sitter Khalid Al-Kuwari who had another shocker at the start, this time all but failing to leave the pontoon as opposed to the last race in Qatar when he was penalised for a jump start, his race ending on lap 5 after hooking the boat and then being DSQ'd for retaking a buoy.

Mac Croc Racing's Ronny Mathy's finished in sixth ahead of Team Nautica's Sigitas Mickus and the UAE's Mohamed Al Mehairbi, his teammate Rashed Al Remeithi retiring after just one lap.

Heading into tomorrow's race Szymura leads the F-4S Trophy standings on 110 points with Rigby second on 74 and Landsnes in third on 57.