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News December 2008 Copies of Current
and past New Zealand Hydroplane Drivers Club Newsletters can be found
at the bottom of this page. The Major News from Each News Letter will
be Posted here as well as any relevant News Story you care to Submit to
Denise Moughan or
Webmaster
for posting on the Site. 30th December - Anne Lupton It is with regret they we announce the passing of Anne Lupton, Mother of Warwick & Lee Lupton and Grandmother to Ken Lupton, Jamiee Lupton, Brittany Lupton and Jack Lupton. The New Zealand Grand Prix Hydroplane Drivers Club wish to express their Condolences to the Lupton Family at this sad time. Friend's are Invited to Anne's funeral which will be this Saturday, 3rd January at 10.30am at the Church of Good Shepherd, Main Rd, Waverley. Followed by a private Cremation In Lieu of Flowers Donations can be made to the Riding for the Disabled 29th December - News  Denise has had her car sign written to Promote the 2009 Masport UIM World Grand Prix Hydroplane Championships here it is parked outside the gates to Western Springs Outlaws Sprintcar Meeting. Today is also Warwick Lupton's Birthday. 27th December - Wanganui Jet Sprints  The Hydroplanes of Ken Lupton and David Alexander were on display at the Jetsprints today, they had a top notch poster advertising the dates its a very strong Poster and can survive a Helicopter parking next to it. This Event is Held the day after the boxing Day Bike Races in Wanganui and this year the Feature was having a large number of Australians who are here for the UIM World Championships in early January compete at Wanganui. A fairly Large Crowd turned out to Watch throughout the Day. There were a couple of Major Incidents in the jet Sprints but everyone involved walked away smiling.  Richard Murray and Kesty Manning had a big moment in round 1, Water in the engine and damage to the boat saw them unable to return although they did try there best to get going again.  Simon Campbell eliminated himself from the Top 4 Group A Shootout in spectacular fashion, Check out the Gallery later tonight to see the series of these two Prangs.  Richard Burt and Roger Maunder took out the Superboat Title.  Group A was won by Peter Briant and Robyn Briant.  The Lites Class was won by Sam Newdick and Aaron Kelly.  Scary Mary kept the Crowd entertained at the lunch Break with some spectacular Jumps. Click the Gallery Page Link below to go to my Gallery where i will start uploading Pics Tonight 
The Website wouldn't let me log in until 9.40pm so apologies to those waiting for the last couple of hours. Don't ya hate Technology! Full Results will be published shortly on the Shelter View Jet Sprint Site click on the link below to get there.  Wanganui Jet Sprint Track 23rd December - Xmas Wishes  On behalf of the NZGP Hydroplane Club we would like to wish you all a great Xmas and happy and safe holidays. It has been a great season with a successful year of racing in New Zealand and of course for the Kiwi Annihilator Teams in Aussie bringing home the Griffith's Cup. I would like to thank Phillip for the fantastic job that he does with our website and all our Sponsors, Officials and Supporters who come along and give their time to help out at our events just want you to know that you are all very much appreciated . Thank you also to the boat racers and their teams who support me in this job it certainly has become a challenging one as we go into the new season but I'm up for the challenge! We are looking forward to the 2009 Race season with the UIM World Grand Prix Championship kicking off in Tauranga and the three round Nationals Series beginning at Lake Rotoiti, Rotorua also in January. The Finals of the World GP at Lake Karapiro, Cambridge will be a great weekend as we wait and see who will be the 2009 World GP Champion. We wish a safe trip for the Warlord Team & J. Michael Kelly and his partner to New Zealand Merry Xmas and a very happy New Year to you all roll on the race season ! All the best Denise. 15th December - Tauranga & Karapiro Entry Information The New Zealand Grand Prix Drivers Club have the Entry Form and Event Information for the Tauranga & Karapiro Regattas. Tauranga is open to all classes of racing and we hope that as many of you as possible will come along and support this new race site. Perfect opportunity to show case our sport right in Town at Tauranga. PDF Karapiro & Tauranga Combined Entry Form & Regatta Information Regards Denise Moughan P O Box 1076 Cambridge 3450 Denise Moughan Ph & Fax (07) 823 7444 Mobile 0272 503 504 Email: Denise Moughan 14th December - Birthday Wishes Today is Harvey Prouise's 70th Birthday. The NZGP Drivers Club passes on its Best whishes to Harvey. 10th December - Mangakino Photos & Videos  Scott Coker in Fair Warning. Jeremy Ward as posted his Images from Mangakino to his Website check them out on the link below. 
Click the You Tube Clip Below to see G-Force Testing on the Weekend To see more New Zealand Power Boat Video Clips Check out Jason Buttimore's You Tube Page at the Link Below. Sign up as a subscriber as new videos are added often and include such gems as the famous Len Southward Boat "Redhead" 
7th December - Mangakino
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December - Mangakino
4th December - Wanganui Chronicle Articles Click Articles below for larger versions.
1st December - BOB WARTINGER SEMINARS The NZ Powerboat Federation in association with the UIM has arranged for Bob Wartinger to visit New Zealand in the New Year to present seminars on powerboat racing safety and medical issues. For those of you who don’t know who Bob is. He is the President of the UIM Safety and Medical Commission since 1990 and Chairman of the American Powerboat Association Safety Committee since 1996. He constantly studies safety as related to powerboat racing. He takes a systematic approach and examines the variables involved from the time a person decides to race through to an incident and rescue. He explores the possibilities of preventing potential incidents by making changes further up the safety chain. In addition to the safety considerations that will be discussed, there will be a number of ideas on how to improve a race team’s performance because many of the safety related ideas are directly related to improved driver performance on the race course. Bob is a contributing member of the International Congress of Motorsport's Science. Members include Formula 1, Nascar and most motorsport's associations. He is arguably the most qualified person in the World on safety and medical issues relating to powerboat racing. He has been interviewed by the BBC, Discovery Channel, CNN, History Channel, National Geographic Channel, NBC affiliates, NY Times, Aviation Week and a number of other periodicals. Apart from all that, Bob is a current extremely active powerboat racer himself. He has won three World Championships, 24 US National Championships and set 122 World Speed records including the current Outboard World Speed Record of 284 kph (176.5 mph). We have organised two seminars. first will be at the: Auckland Coastguard Mechanics Bay Monday 2nd February at 5.30pm and the second at: Cambridge on 6th February at 9.30 am At the Riverside of Cambridge Motor Lodge and Conference Centre 7 Williamson St Cambridge. Each seminar will run for 3 ½ hours. Entry will be by ticket sale and the cost per person will be $20 to cover the cost of the rooms, equipment hire and refreshments that will be provided. Numbers will be limited to 120 people. It is strongly recommended that all race drivers, crew, race boat builders, rescue personnel and anyone else who has an interest in the sport attend. Further information can be found on Bob at: http://www.americanchallengewsr.com/bob_wartinger.htm To obtain a tick please visit the following page link at 
5.00pm Yarrawonga Gold Cup was won by Warlord after a great battle over two laps with Ken Lupton that was ended too soon when Kens Prop let go a blade and caused major damage to the rear of the Boat.  The point at which the damage occured  The boats are on the ship home in 10 days so Tom Heffernan will be a busy man.
5.15pm Apologies for the delay had to attend the prize giving Warwick Lupton won a very dramatic and exciting Final beating home Ken Lupton and Dean Gleeson in Kryptonite next came Aussie Connection and Warlord and Image . Grant Harrison had a DNF while just ahead of Warwick on Lap 2. David Alexander broke his Canard Wing and that damaged the Rudder and did not finish. Ken Lupton had issues when his Trap door broke open and that made him slow down on the Last Lap. Warwick Lupton's hole repair only just managed to hold with the plate pealing off the back of the repair. The team is now packing up and will be
at the official prize giving at the Ski Club in the Early evening. EC
Griffith Cup Final Grid
Edited results 10.15pm Warlord just pipped Aussie Connection on the Line 4.30pm Warwick Lupton Wins the 2008 EC Griffith Cup
3.45pm
3.25pm Very soon after the last Boat from this heat is placed on the trailer the Main race will be started. The teams have a 45minute Period and Warwick Lupton's team is working hard to place a plate over a very large Hole just in the mid section to the right of the Prop shaft Got some times which i have placed Heat
3
Warwick's boat dose have a hole in the bottom which will need a patch. Still no times sorry Heat
2
Heat
1
2.30pm First Heats are only two races away now so wont be much longer to wait. The Ken Lupton crew have had to put the football away and prep the boat. David's boat has been hooked up to the Crane for the last half hour waiting 12.30pm  The three kiwi boats, Warlord and Aussie Connection took to the water in a race prior to lunch. None of the boats were pushing very hard and just used the race to practice the start and warm up the engines Grant Harrison is doing some adjustments on the Turn Fin 11.00pm update  There has been
a change to the Heats with John Cross not racing in Rival due to mechanical
issues, which is a shame. As a result they have moved Red Bellies Bruce
Sanders into the 3rd Heat. I will leave the new Heat information up in grid form and fill in the times when the heats start later this afternoon
29th November - EC Griffith News 8.30am aussie time  The Teams are hard at work on setting up the spare engines for the morning Practice. The Course is being set up as very short and tight should be quite a challenge for the big GP hydro's to handle. wont be to much picture updates today but will endeavor to post times and results ASAP. 29th November - EC Griffith News 5.30am aussie time Its 5.30 in the morning the birds are singing always a good sign of good weather bit to dark to see what the clouds are might be like but no rain and wind yet. We will be heading to the Pits at 7am when they open and getting stuck into preparing the Boats. heats will be starting sometime after 2.30pm so there's a fair bit of inactive for the GP boats plenty of other racing on and a couple of races the GP boats can enter if they want to. Its possible some may choose to do this simply to see how the boats handle race conditions and keep the big engines warm. The GP engines have over 8 litre's of Oil in them which is why you see them warm them up on the shore before going out on the water. 28th November - EC Griffith News  Grant, Link and Warwick discuss the Props available for Annihilator GP007 Tonight at the Mulwala Ski Club the draw was made for tomorrows 3 Heats to decide the Top 8 boats into the Final.
The fastest 8 Race Times from the 3 Heats will progress into the Final Race The Griffith Cup is due to start at around 4.pm. The Start time is 45 minutes after the last boat from Heat 3 has been placed on the Trailer, so depending on race holdups depends on the race start There is a half hour warm up to begin at 9.30 28th November - EC Griffith Cup News  David in GP008 during Practice  Warwick in GP007 took the turn closer to the bridge  Ken in GP009 was happy with his boats runs. 28th November - EC Griffith Cup News 5.50pm Aussie time (updated 6.45pm)  All 3 Annihilator Boats ran in Practice a number of times. The only issue the Team had was when Warwick changed to his second engine to give it a test they have had to change the Mag on the Engine. Weather started out hot and fine right up to the scheduled Practice start time of 1pm when a good steady Drizzle set in for the duration of Practice.  Elizabeth Wolfe from America here to run in a 1.6lt Hydro had a chat with Warwick and David from the Annihilator Team   Grant Harrison took GP1 out for just a few laps. The Team is still trying to set the Boat up and grant is hopeful of a top 3 finish.   Brett Niddrie showed he has the Boat to beat in Warlord which took the turns very cleanly and Ron Burton was looking on with interest during the Boats two runs  Dean Gleeson? in Kryptonite had a short warm up in the Rain Aussie Connection will be driven by Mark Healey they and Tom heffernan in Dragula had just one run each. A lot of Boats in the support classes will of course still be traveling and the Parade which I see has only just finished with the Boats just passing the motel. I am hoping to be live online during the day tomorrow but there is a chance this may not eventuate. If you haven't` seen an update by lunch time then you will have to wait until after 5pm Aussie time for news of the Racing  Ken and the Supporters on Annihilator 3 in the Parade  Honda Marine held up the Tunnel boat flag in the Parade Click to get our Archive News Page Almost all the News Stories and Pictures are to be found somewhere in the Archives Just try and remember when the event occurred and pick the page that matches those Dates |
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