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WGP#1 World Grand Prix and World Series

A Thai-anchored international series whose About page dates its first event to 1996 and carries the name King's Cup, acknowledged by IJSBA in 2008 and made a joint World Series with IJSBA and IJSBA Europe by a partnership announced on 12 January 2026. Its 2025 legs ran at Nishikinohama in Japan, Eau d'Heure in Belgium and Jomtien Beach at Pattaya.

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Kind

Series

Organiser

WGP#1 Waterjet World Grand Prix

Venue

Legs in Japan, Belgium and Thailand in 2025, the final round at Pattaya, Thailand; the series' About page names no home round

Years

first event 1996 per the series' About page, which carries the name King's Cup without saying the 1996 event bore it; a World Series with IJSBA from 2026

Editions, as the documents give them

None of the 2 WGP#1 World Grand Prix and World Series editions above has had its entries counted, which is why the Count column holds no numbers; the events index explains what a count waits on. This is not a calendar either: the dates of any future WGP#1 World Grand Prix and World Series are WGP#1's to publish.

What is not known (4)

• The King's Cup years before the series took the WGP#1 name are not dated by any document held; the About page gives 1996 for the first event and carries the name King's Cup without tying the two; the keyword bank calls it one of the largest events on earth without a source for the size.
• No results for any leg have been read.
• The 2026 dates moved after the January post: the series' events page prints 8 to 11 October 2026 for Lake Havasu and 13 to 17 January 2027 for Pattaya; IJSBA prints 3 to 11 October 2026 for the World Finals.
• Corrected 2026-09-30: the venue field called Pattaya the home round and yearsActive said the 1996 event ran as the King's Cup; neither is on the About page cited, and both are softened to what it prints. The 2025 row first cited the series' three event pages as checked on 2026-09-22; on 2026-09-30 only the round 1 page could be read, and the Thailand leg now rests on two press items linked below.

Written WGP#1 with the number; World Grand Prix alone is not the name. The expansion Waterjet World Grand Prix is from the series' own About page.

People on record (10)

Each has a page on Key Figures, named for a public role a document records.

• Chaowalit Kuajaroon, racer
• Chokuthit Molee, racer
• Emma-Nellie Ortendahl, racer
• Gyorgy Kasza, racer
• Jeremy Poret, racer
• Kylie Ellmers, racer
• Lee Stone, racer and hull builder
• Rashid Al Mulla, racer
• Taiji Yamamoto, racer
• Yuki Kurahashi, racer

Documents

• ijsba.com: https://ijsba.com/ijsba-ijsba-europe-and-wgp1-announce-strategic-partnership-and-2026-world-series/
• wgp1.com: https://wgp1.com/about-us-2/
• wgp1.com: https://www.wgp1.com/round-1-world-series-2025/
• kawasaki.eu: https://www.kawasaki.eu/en/news/2025/december/waterjet-world-series-rd-3-thailand.html
• watercraftjournal.com: https://watercraftjournal.com/the-2025-wgp1-world-cup-roars-into-pattaya-in-just-days/

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“WGP#1 World Grand Prix and World Series”, BaddJet archive, https://baddjetarchive.com/racing/events/wgp1-world-series/

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