Waikato Powerboat Racing

Taupo — Taupo was scheduled to have a full two days of boat racing this weekend, and while the white capped waves on Lake Taupo were too much for some, they were not enough to stop the might of the New Zealand Offshore Powerboats as they roared into their 2012 season in an exciting and action packed race.

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Taupo — After a disappointing cancellation of the race at Tauranga due to debris washed into the harbour from the shipwrecked 'Rena', Taupo will host the first race in the NZ Offshore Powerboat 2012 season.

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Waikato — Even persistent rain couldn't dampen the hot times set in all three of the competition classes for today's opening round of the 2012 Jetpro Jetsprint championship held at Meremere (4 December), where fractions of a second separated the winning positions.

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Waikato — The first of six rounds for the 2012 Jetpro Jetsprint championship title kicks off this weekend on Sunday 4 December at the Meremere Sprint Bowl (behind the drag racing track).

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Waikato — Sunday 27 February’s third round of the 2011 Jetpro Jetsprint championship held at Meremere provided more upsets to the points table with two teams from Wanganui and one from Hamilton taking the day’s prize offerings.

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Waikato — Palmerston North’s Richard Burt and navigator Roger Maunder swept all before them in today’s third round of the 2010 Jetpro Jetsprint championship round held at Meremere.

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Waikato — Sunday’s third round of the 2010 Jetpro Jetsprint series brings an intense battle of Goliath supremacy between Wanganui’s Leighton Minnell, Queenstown’s Chris Munro and Palmerston North’s Richard Burt as three of the teams competing at the Meremere water course sprint bowl (21 February).

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Taupo — The well-known, championship-winning superboat formerly called ‘Sleepyhead’ and now called ‘Doosan’ by its new Auckland-based drivers Sam Fillmore and Cary Gleeson has scored the first 100-mile race win in the 2010 Rayglass NZ Offshore Powerboat Championship in Taupo.

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Taupo — On Sunday 31 January, the spectacular sights and sounds of a big field of offshore powerboats at full speed will delight the thousands of people visiting Lake Taupo during Auckland anniversary weekend.

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Taupo — The Rayglass New Zealand Offshore Powerboat Championship fired up for the first time this summer in hot, calm conditions on Lake Taupo.

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Taupo — When the first round of the 2009 Rayglass New Zealand Offshore Powerboat Racing Championship takes place on Taupo’s Great Lake on Saturday 24 January, the water-based motorsport spectacle will add another exciting dimension to the international motorsport action of the A1GP event at Taupo Motorsport Park.

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Waikato — At the 25th running of the Rollos Marine Yamaha Bridge to Bridge Classic at the weekend, Whangarei businessman and four time world champion powerboat pilot Mark Cromie blew away all previous records in a timed sprint up the mighty Waikato River.

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