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Pictured: Rob Wylie takes the chequered flag.<br />
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Daredevil businessman Rob Wylie is celebrating becoming the world's first Flite Enduro Champion after winning the first race of its kind off the UK coast.<br />
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Rob, 53, beat stiff competition to complete the 15-mile route in the English Channel in 43 minutes and 10 seconds on a Fliteboard, an electric-powered hydrofoil board.<br />
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Six competitors took part in the world-first endurance race from the iconic Needles landmark on the Isle of Wight to Sandbanks in Poole, Dorset on Saturday morning.<br />
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The challenge is a combination of skill and strategy - racers have to make sure they do not fall off and find the perfect speed, not going too fast that they deplete the battery before the finish.