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Peter Caughey wins 10th NZ Jetsprint title in nail-biting final – wins season by one point

Apr 26, 2016

Four points separated the top four racers heading into the tightest SuperBoat season finale ever held in New Zealand, and three of those racers are current or former world champions. The best in the world are never known for holding back, and Featherston’s tight and technical track was expected to make for a nail-biting finish.…

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Four points separate the leaders for SuperBoats’ Amazing Race

Apr 20, 2016

Peter Caughey is braced for a nail-biting final of the 2016 Suzuki SuperBoats season, with four points separating the top four – and four points to gain if he’s to claim his 10th New Zealand title. “There have been some crazy results,” Caughey says. “We’ve won three events – more than anyone so far this season – yet we’re sitting in third, and…

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Twelve-dollar switch upsets SuperBoat champs

Apr 11, 2016

One round to go – and four points separate the front-runners A win by a back-marker and a $12 switch threw all predictions out the window at the penultimate round of the Suzuki SuperBoat championship at Whanganui at the weekend. Fourteenth-placed heading into the round, Richard Burt took the chequered flag while series leader Glen Head holed a piston…

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Wanganui braced for Battle of the Giants

Apr 6, 2016

Wanganui’s Shelterview jetsprint track is braced for a battle of the giants come Saturday, April 9, when the methanol-snorting SuperBoats come out to play. For the penultimate event of the 2016 championship season sees multiple-world SuperBoat champion Peter Caughey just two points behind Glen Head, relatively new to the class but determined to stay ahead. And with another two class acts –…

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Tight at the top as SuperBoat champs heat up

Mar 13, 2016

Peter Caughey took a hard-earned win at the Hastings round of the Suzuki SuperBoat championships, to haul in current points leader Glen Head. Head had mechanical problems in the top-five final – the motor shut down, and he ran aground, and Graeme Hill met a similar fate, the pair finishing fourth and fifth. With Richard…

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SuperBoat champs wide open heading into Hastings Round

Mar 9, 2016

It’s tight at the top in the Suzuki SuperBoat championship this year, with Peter Caughey and Leighton Minnell just six points from the leader, and Richard Murray and Rob Coley trailing by the same amount. “At this point in the championship, that means anyone could take the season,” Caughey says, “And the ENZED team is heading to Hastings and the fourth round…

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Caughey tops Taranaki SuperBoat podium – blows championship wide open

Feb 29, 2016

After a nightmare first round of the Suzuki SuperBoat Championship series, Canterbury superboat ace Peter Caughey is back on form – topping the podium for the second time this season, and this time at the most technical track of the year. Points leader Glen Head had thrown down the gauntlet, with the two racers battling…

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Rocket-fuelled Round for Taranaki

Feb 26, 2016

The Taranaki won’t know what’s hit it this weekend when the SuperBoats hit town. For there’s a new track, named for a new sponsor – Methanex – the supplier of the methanol that fuels these monster motors to insane speeds. Seven-time New Zealand SuperBoat champion Peter Caughey says it’s a fantastic association. “It’s a huge…

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Caughey second in World SuperBoat championship

Jan 30, 2016

Defending World SuperBoat champion Peter Caughey is philosophical about handing the title trophy over to rival Glen Head. After all, at least a Kiwi won – and in a Sprintec boat Caughey built. “From where we started and where we were last night, with engine gremlins with the fuel pump and the boat not really dialled into the track, to where…

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Caughey calling airlines in hunt for world title

Jan 27, 2016

Defending world SuperBoat champion Peter Caughey is calling airlines and calling in favours in a bid to get a vital part to New Zealand before the flag drops on the final round of this year’s ENZED UIM World Jetsprint Championship at Baypark. A malfunctioning fuel pump sucked power from his boat at Meremere’s round last…

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Team Results

Seven times World Champion
1990*, 1992*, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2014

12 times New Zealand Champion
1990*, 1991*, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018

ENZED Bay Park Stadium Cup
2018

*Open B Class
SuperBoat Class

 

The close knit team, based in North Canterbury, has competed very successfully both in National and International events and is proud to be associated with the following sponsors.

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The Sport

Jetsprinting was first developed in Canterbury, New Zealand during the early 1980’s.  From humble beginnings competing on courses excavated in gravel river beds the sport has quickly developed into purpose built stadium type venues.  A jetsprint course consists of a series of channels about 5 metres wide with water barely ½ metre deep.

The boats make approx. 30 directional changes taking anything from about 50 seconds to 60 seconds to complete the course and have a two person crew, driver and navigator running individually against the clock.  Spectators love the action, they also love the spectacular crashes when boats hit the bank at high speed and get tossed,  sometimes spinning in the air before crashing back on the islands built between the channels of the course.

The PCR team compete in Superboat class, there are two other classes in which competitors can race. For information about the classes visit www.jetsprint.co.nz.