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The whole of this site is built from 9 documents. This page names each of them, says what it may be cited for, and prints the 27 things they do not say.
What a grade decides
A grade says what kind of document it is, and so what a page may claim from it.
- Sanctioning body (4)
- The federation writing its own competition rules. The strongest thing available here, and the only kind of document that can settle whether something is legal to race. Its earlier editions keep this grade, and settle only what the rules used to be.
- Manufacturer (1)
- The company writing about its own product. Authoritative on what the machine consumes and what voids its cover, and no authority at all on what a scrutineer will accept.
- Promoter (3)
- The company that runs the series and publishes its timing, writing about its own results. Authoritative on who won a class in a season, and nothing else: never on a rule, a class definition or a figure. It is not independent of the manufacturer, which is why it is not allowed more.
- Superseded (1)
- A rulebook from a body that no longer governs the sport. It may not be cited as evidence for anything, because a document that governed something once looks exactly like one that governs something now.
A statement on this site about the rules as they stand today points at one of these: the 2026 edition of the rulebook, or a document this site holds no later edition of. None is cited from a summary of itself.
| Document | Publisher | Published | Correction | Read on | Open gaps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 MotoSurf Rulebook sanctioning body | Union Internationale Motonautique | 2026-03-05 | Republished 2026-05-20. The correction is named on the rulebook's own cover: page 19, Article 302, Long Lap. | 2026-09-10 | 7 |
| The current rulebook. Defines eight classes at Art. 301, and the technical regimes at Art. 501 to 505. Two of its appendices are scanned pages with no text, so they were read from the page images instead. | |||||
| UIM MotoSurf Electric Rules 2025 sanctioning body | Union Internationale Motonautique | 2025 | none recorded | 2026-09-10 | 0 |
| A separate technical document for the electric class, carrying detail the main rulebook does not: cell configuration, charging cut offs and a manufacturer homologation fee. | |||||
| JetSurf owner manual User Manual POP3904, JetSurf Combustion SE manufacturer | MSR Engines s.r.o. | not stated in the document | Revision date 2026-07-20 printed in the document. Copyright line reads 2019 to 2025. | 2026-09-10 | 3 |
| Covers six models by name and type code. The only source on this site for what these machines consume, and the only one for fin part numbers. | |||||
Citable for what a rule used to say, for what an earlier cover printed, and for figures 2026 no longer prints, never for what is current.
| Document | Publisher | Published | Correction | Read on | Open gaps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 MotoSurf Rulebook earlier edition | Union Internationale Motonautique | 2024-12-20 | none recorded | 2026-09-10 | 2 |
| The preceding edition, held so that a change between seasons is visible as a change. Numbered as chapters 1 to 24 rather than in UIM article style, which is why a 2025 citation never looks like a 2026 one. | |||||
| 2024 UIM Motosurf Rulebook earlier edition | Union Internationale Motonautique | 2024-02-15 | none recorded | 2026-09-10 | 0 |
| Held for the same reason as the 2025 edition. Not yet read line by line, and nothing on this site cites it. | |||||
Citable for who won a class in a season; the checks before each update stop any other page citing them. Their own contradictions are listed below.
| Document | Publisher | Published | Correction | Read on | Open gaps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Promoter standings, 2022 to 2026 MotoSurf World Championship season standings, results centre results only | MotoSurf World Cup (motosurfworldcup.com) | not stated in the document Open on the publisher's site | none recorded | 2026-10-10 | 5 |
| The promoter's own season classification, one table per class per season, 36 tables read in full from the results centre at https://motosurfworldcup.com/results-2024/. The page draws each table after it loads, so each was fetched the way the page fetches it and held as text, one row per line. Each table is identified by the overallId the page itself uses. | |||||
| Promoter standings, 2021 MotoSurf 2021 final results, championship standings results only | MotoSurf World Cup (motosurfworldcup.com) | 2021-10 Open on the publisher's site | none recorded | 2026-10-10 | 2 |
| A six page PDF of the 2021 final standings by class, Women, Open, Stock, Rookies, Juniors and Electric Challenge, linked from the promoter's Overall Results page as Current-Standings-MotoSurf-2021.pdf. The only season before 2022 whose standings the site still publishes. | |||||
| Promoter season reports, 2016 to 2026 MotoSurf World Cup news, 170 articles results only | MotoSurf World Cup (motosurfworldcup.com) | 2016-02-26 to 2026-10-04 Open on the publisher's site | none recorded | 2026-10-10 | 8 |
| Every article on the promoter's site, read through its WordPress API on 2026-10-10. The archive path is an index of all 170 with date, headline and link, not the articles themselves: their prose is the promoter's, so this site holds facts read from them and links back. For the seasons from 2014 to 2020 they are the only record of who won. | |||||
Fenced off: no figure on this site rests on it, and the checks would stop one that tried. It is held so a changed limit shows as a change.
| Document | Publisher | Published | Correction | Read on | Open gaps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FIDSM Racing Rules 2014 2014 Official Competition Rules and Regulations of the FIDSM not citable | Federation Internationale Du Surf Motorise | 2014 | none recorded | 2026-09-10 | 0 |
| The federation that governed this sport before the UIM recognised it in 2019. Its limits differ sharply from the current ones, which is the only reason it is held. Nothing current may be cited to it. | |||||
Things a reader might expect to find and cannot, recorded against the document. 6 of the 9 have at least one; the 3 with none listed are not claimed complete (one has not been read line by line).
2026 MotoSurf Rulebook, 7 open
- Appendix 2, pages 74 to 94, and Appendix 3, pages 95 to 113, are scanned images with no text layer, so the text copy of this rulebook that this site reads from does not contain them. They were read from the page images on 2026-09-10, and what they hold is set out on the homologation page. Their appendix titles name two boards, which is misleading: both are UIM homologation forms covering the engine, exhaust, jet pump and electronics, and neither states a single board dimension, board mass or fin figure.
- Appendix 1 Pictures 1, 2 and 3 are images with no text, and page 73 was read the same way. Picture 2, the main fin scheme, turns out to be a silhouette carrying two labels and nothing else: no scale, no datum, no fin box type, no plug spacing, no angle and no tolerance.
- The 2026 renumbering was not carried through to the document's own cross references. Every per class pointer in Art. 301 still cites 2025 chapter numbers that do not exist in this edition. Two of those pointers carry the only positive tuning permission in the document, at Art. 301.01 and 301.04, so even the open classes' right to tune is anchored to an article that does not exist.
- Art. 505.03 c) specifies the battery telemetry as Big Endian, where the separate UIM MotoSurf Electric Rules 2025 specifies Little Endian and different CAN identifiers. Two sanctioning body documents contradict each other on the same interface. Both are recorded and neither is stored as the specification.
- The text copy cannot show a strike through. The 2026-05-20 correction on page 19 prints two of the Long Lap lines in Art. 302 struck through: the passage time of 20% to 50% of the average Stock Men lap, and the Long Lap as compensation for a missed buoy. The text copy keeps both as if they still stood. Found on 2026-10-07 by rendering page 19 of the corrected PDF; no other page from 19 to 42 carries the correction marking. The race weekend page does not use the struck lines, and sets out the missed buoy rules that remain at Art. 302.04, 317.03, 317.04, 317.05 and 318.05 without choosing between them.
- Page 36, the tables dividing riders from two, three or four groups into the four heats, and pages 38 to 41, the example timetable under Art. 321, are pictures with no text layer, so the text copy holds only their headings. Read from the PDF pages on 2026-10-07. The timetable does not match the articles around it: it names Stock R and Women, calls the Long Laps jokers as the 2024 edition did, gives lap counts that differ from Art. 307, and lists no warm up session. The race weekend page takes its order from the articles and does not reproduce either set of tables.
- Art. 302.03 b), the paragraph headed Red, says in its second sentence that a correctly passed buoy marked with a yellow sleeve is passed from the right side. The paragraph's first sentence and its picture caption name the red buoy. The PDF prints the same words as the text copy (page 21, read 2026-10-07), so the slip is the rulebook's. The race weekend page quotes it as printed.
Closed since they were found (2)
- Closed 2026-09-11. Art. 900, E-Foil Masters, is live in this edition, with its own technical requirements at Art. 902 and its own head to head format at Art. 904, and at first this site covered none of it. The classes page now sets out its technical rules under Art. 902, without a class page of its own, because Art. 100 lists eight categories and E-Foil Masters is not one of them. The gap was found on 2026-09-10, while checking a claim from outside this site that the discipline had been dropped from the 2026 edition. The 2026 text shows that claim is wrong.
- Closed 2026-09-11. Art. 307 gives the lap chart for heats and finals, set out by groups of classes rather than class by class, and Art. 204 says the race entry fee is set in each event's Advance Programme. Both articles were read in full on 2026-09-10, so this was only ever a gap in what this site covered, never a gap in the rulebook. Both now appear on the race weekend page: the lap counts from the 2025 and 2026 editions, with the Race Direction's power under Art. 307 to change the number of Long Lap runs on the day, and the entry fees, which the 2025 edition printed at Art. 10.1 and the 2026 edition leaves to each event.
2025 MotoSurf Rulebook, 2 open
- Art. 3.1.6.2, the Juniors Girls article, describes boys in its own words. The 2026 edition states each gender correctly.
- Junior age bands contradict each other inside this edition: Art. 3.1.6.1 and 3.1.6.2 say 8 to 14, Art. 4.3.2.2 says 8 to 15.
JetSurf owner manual, 3 open
- The maintenance interval table lost its columns when the manual was copied to text: every cell sits on a line of its own with no column markers, so which interval column a mark belongs to cannot be recovered. Only intervals the manual states in prose are used on this site.
- The manual states in its own words that it does not include detailed maintenance or repair instructions, and directs the reader to a maintenance manual it does not supply. That document is not held and is not published.
- Only the manual's text is held. Its pictures are not, so the board drawings cite them by the IMG number printed in each picture and its chapter 4 section; the same IMG number appears for more than one model, which is why the section is given too.
Promoter standings, 2022 to 2026, 5 open
- No table on the results centre is dated. The page carries no publication or correction date for any standing, so a table read later may differ from the one held here without anything on the page saying it changed.
- From 2021 to 2023 girls and boys share one Juniors table, so a junior girls' title cannot be read off position 1. The champions page takes the top girl's place from the table and the title from the season report, and says which position it used.
- Class names change every season with no table saying what continues what: Open becomes Elite in 2024 and Elite Men in 2026, Stock R becomes Stock R, Merlin Plus, and the 2025 Masters table becomes Masters Men in 2026. The champions page prints each season's own name rather than a joined up series.
- The 2026 tables were read with four of six rounds run, two Chinese rounds still empty. They are leaders, not champions, and no 2026 title row is held.
- The tables print one rider's given name with a grave accent, Tibor Ábrahàm, the same accent the 2025 rulebook cover prints on Kristýna Hrbková's surname. Hungarian uses no grave either. The same tables print Hrbková with an acute in 2023 and 2024.
Promoter standings, 2021, 2 open
- Extracted with pdftotext -raw, not -layout as the rulebooks were. The layout copy scrambled this document: it moved names and racing numbers between rows and printed season totals that do not add up from the round scores. The raw copy keeps each row whole, and its totals add up. Each class heading prints after its own table in the raw copy, not before it.
- Rider names are printed without accents, Zahorsky Lukas for Lukáš Záhorský, so a name on the champions page cannot be checked against this document letter for letter, only by its plain spelling.
Promoter season reports, 2016 to 2026, 8 open
- No standings table survives on the site for any season from 2014 to 2020. Titles in those years rest on the reports alone, and the champions page marks them so.
- The 2023 Stock report says Minseong Kim defended his title. The 2022 Stock champion was Down Kim, in the 2022 standings, the 2022 report and the 2023 Asian Championship report, so Minseong Kim's 2023 title was his first.
- Flavien Neyertz, 2014 champion, is listed under France in the post of 2016-04-25 and called a rider from Monaco in the post of 2016-07-01. Nothing else on the site settles it, and the champions page gives no country for him.
- Two reports date the sport from 2012, and one from 2018 says the series itself started in 2014. Both can be true, the sport against the series, and no report says so.
- The 2022 Stock R report says both title contenders stood on the top podium step as champions, and also that a technical discrepancy found on Matyáš Novotný's board moved the title to Alex Lukscheider. The standings have Lukscheider first.
- No 2020 champion is named anywhere. The 2020 posts record the Chinese rounds and Abu Dhabi postponed, Brno and Wyboston cancelled and Kazan moved to 2021, none of them reported as run, and the 2021 report calls Lukáš Záhorský's 2021 title his fourth, which only adds up with no title in 2020.
- Rider profile pages carry a season table whose final column gives first place to more than one rider in the same class and season, so it is not the season standing and nothing on this site rests on it.
- The 2026-09-09 Marbella preview calls Lukáš Záhorský a six-time world champion. The 2024 Croatia report counts his 2024 Electric title as his seventh. Six matches his Men and Open titles alone, so the champions page keeps all seven rows and the count is the promoter's to settle.
How the text was got out of the PDFs
Accents were kept on purpose: a first copy without the right character set broke 8 of the 13 rider names and was thrown away, not patched. A layout copy flattens tables, so every figure from a table is checked against the PDF page, and one that cannot be checked is not published.
What this register cannot do for you
- This site links no copy of the rulebooks or the manual; only the promoter's 3 documents are online, linked above.
- The superseded book stays uncitable for good.
- Ski racing is a separate rulebook, read in the archive at which rulebook binds your ski; no article number crosses between them.
Every document a page cites is checked against this register before each update.