News - May - October 2006

29th September - Geyserland Club Day

The Geyserland Club will be hosting a Club Day on Sunday 5th November at Lake Maraetai, Mangakino
 Entry Form - MS WORD Click to Download

28th September - Annihilator Race Engines

Grant Rivers has a lot of work on at the Moment not the least of which is the Annihilator Race Team's 6 Engines. Pictured above is David Alexander's Engine which suffered Oil Leaks at the EC Griffith Cup this Engine has been rebuilt.
The biggest Headache for Grant is that a lot of the bits and pieces are now mismatched after the rushed job to get an Engine built for Ken's Annihilator 3 in the Pit area of the EC Griffith Cup. The Team had to use bits from 3 Engines to get Ken running so its now a case of Grant finding and putting everything back on the Right Engine

Pictured below is the New Engine Block for Ken there will be a few long hours put into building this Engine.


Have a look at Grant Rivers Website at
www.riversspeed.co.nz

25th September - Grand Prix World Championship

The North Americans decided that due to a Lack of Grand Prix Hydroplane Boats that compete in the Northern Zone it would not be worth while to try and run the World Championship.
The New Zealand Grand Prix Hydroplane Drivers Club after much debate decided to Host this event for a second straight Year. This also would be a big ask on the financial side of things but with Luck and good planning things should go as well as last year.

In 2008 The GP World Championship should be Hosted by Australia the only issue there being which venue. The Kiwis will certainly be keen to help support that event, hopefully it would run within a reasonable time frame with another major GP regatta to make traveling to Australia all the more worth while.

25th September - Circuit Boat Racing Calendar

Another Update to the Calendar with the notable exclusion of the Wairarapa Club Day and Kilo on the 14th - 15th October.
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20th September - 2007 World Championships

The New Zealand Grand Prix Hydroplane Drivers Club will be hosting the 2007 UIM Grand Prix Hydroplane World Championships.
The Club are looking forward to the challenge of hosting this World Championship Event and hope that it will be better and bigger than Last Years Championship which was won by Waverley's Warwick Lupton in "Annihilator GP007"

At the moment the plan is to run the event on a similar basis to last year

2nd August - NZPBA Delegates

NZ EXECUTIVE
Patron - Bernie Walsh.
President - Jamie Knight.
Vice President - Malcolm Wotton.
Treasurer - Shirley Wotton.
Secretary - Raewyn Palmer.
Northern Zone Delegates - Alan Denis, Dennis Dustin.
Central Zone Delegates - Tony Latimer, Ken Marshall.
Southern Zone Delegates - John Ryan, Ben Ryan.

31st July - NZPBA AGM
At the Recent NZPBA AGM there were a couple of important Changes at the top Table.

30th July - Sky TV & EC Griffith Cup


EC Griffiths Cup will screen on Sky TV next month at approximately the following times:
02/08/2006 - 10.30pm - SKY Sport 1
04/08/2006 - 12.30am - SKY Sport 1
05/08/2006 - 8.00pm - SKY Sport 2
07/08/2006 - 2.30am - SKY Sport 2

25th July - Denise Moughan
Denise is currently back in Hospital at the moment and may not respond immediately to emails etc. Rest assured she will catch up on all your emails ASAP.

25th July - Classic GP Online Movie Clips

Hydroplane Quebec Website has a large number of images and Movie files up. There are many from the past starting to appear now on a regular basis which ar very entertaining to watch. The Site is also a good place to catch up on the latest happenings in Hydroplane Racing.
Click the Image above to go to the Oldies Page.

17th July - Series 3000 AGM

Series 3000 Drivers Club AGM is to be held on
Saturday 26th August, 2006
at the Suncourt Motor Hotel at 2.30pm in the Lemuels Conference room (Same venue as last year)
Any apologies to Secretary:
Andrea Robinson
30 Franklyn Road
Tawa 5028
Ph 04 232 4585
027 269 1223
email Andrea Robinson

14th July - EC Griffith Cup on TV

On Sunday July 16th on TV3 Sports Arena Programme you will get the chance to view the 2006 EC Griffith Cup on TV for the first time, and you will be able to decide for yourself some of the important issues that made the Running of the Cup a bit of a disaster.
Did Warwick Lupton Jump the Start?
If The Fly was in front of Warwick why wasn't he DQ as well?
How Come only 7 Boats started the final when Warwick could have started?
Just who was to blame for the incident between the two Paul's GP55 & Warlord?
How many Boats kept going under the Red Flag?

But the Big Question is Who Won? or should the Cup Race be declared a Non Event?

The Race is scheduled to run at 4pm, but I would tune in at 3pm to TV3 and double check the Times just in case.

6th July - Hilton Patrick Hurley

The New Zealand Grand Prix Hydroplane Drivers Club wishes to express there Condolences to the Hurley Family over the passing of Shorty.
Shorty was a strong supporter of the Big Boats and often was seen helping out at events and ran the Bar at the NZGP events at Lake Karapiro.


Shorty shares a joke with Daniel


Shorty watches as Greg and Andy install the Engine in Annihilator

5th July - Marine Paramedics

Marine Paramedical Services has been created to service the growing need of having Professional Medics at a sporting venue, in particular motorised water sports. The required demand for prompt, decisive and EFFECTIVE medical support has been driven by Sporting Organizations realising their responsibility as a HOST, not only to competitors but also for spectators alike. Therefore the level of medical support required NOW must be of the highest standard.

2nd July - Auckland Boat Show Images

Just a few small images from the Boat show held in early June.
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18th June - New Boat Magazine

H2O Full Throttle is a New Power Boating Magazine which will soon be published with strong New Zealand Links.
At the Moment there Website has an Active Forum set up on it and it looks like a promising Magazine and we certainly wish them the best in their upcoming Launch.
Click the above Image to visit their Website.

15th June - News

The Eaton UIM World Grand Prix Hydroplane Championships will screen on Sky TV in June below are the Dates that the Screenings will be on.

15th June 7.30 pm Sky Sport 1
15th June 11.30 pm Sky Sport 2
16th June 6.30pm Sky Sport 2
17thJune 10.30am Sky Sport 2
19th June 5pm Sky Sport 2
23rd June 6.30pm Sky Sport 2

Have yet to hear when they will screen it in Australia.

15th June - Grant Rivers

Grant Rivers recently competed in the Targa Rotorua you can read all about it on his new Website at
www.riversspeed.co.nz

14th June - Denise Moughan

Hi Everybody I would like to pass on a Message on behalf of Denise.

Some of you will of course know that Denise has been unwell lately and prior to the Boat show had spent a few Days in Middlemore Hospital with an Illness. After the Boat Show She was readmitted to Hospital and after many Tests was found to have a rather complicated infection of her Heart Valves this is a pretty serious thing and has a rather large and complicated name to go with it as well.

During the last two weeks Denise has been unable to respond to her Emails and of course is unable to Post out the DVD's to those of you who have Ordered them. Denise would like you to all know that she is on the recovery and is ever so hopeful that she will be freed from the Hotel Middlemore by the end of the week.
Once home she will be taking it easy and not venturing out side in the cold to do Boat Shows and the like but will be able to Reply to all your Mails and start work on getting those DVD's out to You.

The New Zealand Grand Prix Hydroplane Drivers Club Deeply Appreciates the Hard Work that Denise does on behalf of the Club and Hopes that she does take it easy over these next few weeks and makes a full recovery.

2nd June - Boat Show

David Alexander has decided to put his boat "Annihilator GP 008" on display at the Boat show rather and then bring it back to waverley at the same time as the other Annihilators.
Warwick Lupton plans to start his Rae Engine up a couple of times to help pull the crowds

There are 21 Boats on display at the Showgrounds on the stand missing are the Marathon Jet Boats who apparently have a race on the Patea River this weekend(first I heard of it too).

Show Dates and Times The Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show 2006 is on at the ASB Showgrounds, Greenlane, Auckland, Queens Birthday weekend, June 1-5
The show is open from 10-8pm on Thursday and Friday and from 10-6pm on Saturday, Sunday and Monday
Adults $16
Under-14s $6
Under-5s Free

1st June - Boat Show

The New Zealand Grand Prix Hydroplane Drivers Club will once more take part in the Auckland Boat Show this coming Weekend. Warwick Lupton's "Annihilator GP 007" and Ken Lupton's "Annihilator GP009" will be on display at the Show

The Site is that the Big boats will be at is part of a Large Display featuring all the Associated Power Boat Federations of New Zealand from Circuit Racing to Off Shore to Jet Sprints and Thundercats. There will be lots of help on hand to answer questions related to all the classes of Boats and a warm place to sit and have a cuppa

Show Dates and Times The Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show 2006 is on at the ASB Showgrounds, Greenlane, Auckland, Queens Birthday weekend, June 1-5
The show is open from 10-8pm on Thursday and Friday and from 10-6pm on Saturday, Sunday and Monday
Adults $16
Under-14s $6
Under-5s Free

28th May - Kilo News Unofficial Times

It was a just a tad bit Foggy this morning and even after a long wait for the Fog to lift you can see above on "Renegade's" first run it was still pretty hard see.

18 Boats were on hand to set times with Malcolm Wotton "Renegade" and Steve Mathieson"Midnight" going for Australasian records so they had the honor of being first up. Sadly there times were not fast enough to break the records and despite making many changes to there Boats and engines they just didn't quite make the speed needed to break the records.


Scott Coker "Fair Warning" set a record for Grand National Hydroplanes at 138.04mph breaking the old record held by Selwyn Coker of 135.572mph


There were a few Northern Zone Records Broken including "Anti Cyclone" setting a Mod VP speed of 87.108mph


Perhaps the luckiest competitor was Brody Mathieson in "Meridian" who on his first run up the river didn't have the Water Hose connected to the rudder for well over the second half of the kilo as can be seen in the above image. Brody stopped after the first pass to check after the gauges indicated something was amiss and refitted the Hose and continued the second part of the run to set a time of 104.787mph. Brody later returned to do a 102.52 time as well

Times listed below
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Boat	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4
Renegade	123.827mph	125.28mph	105.778mph	123mph
Midnight	109.707	119.75	110.82
Fair Warning	138.04
California Girls	121.01	122.52
Total	117.919	122.437
Anti Cyclone	87.108
Vigilante	42.45
Misty Blue	DNF
Meridian	104.787	102.52
Sinista	DNF	DNF
Black Thunder	62.094	65.316
Instigator	DNS
Holiday Outboards	DNF
Red Stealth	82.285
Yellow 1750	80.858
Undertaker	93.27
Little Cracker	123.67
Jailbait	DNS

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