The Adelaide Speedboat Club is looking for your support in obtaining funding for an event in Loxton, SA. The SA Government is offering funding for events that receive the most support, so head over to yoursay.sa.gov.au/ideas/powerboat-racing-event and give them your support!
Remember – vote early, vote often!
Round 2 of the 2014 Offshore Superboats in Bowen is showing on SBS this Sunday 27 July 201 at 2 pm – 4 pm. Tune in or set your DVR to record so you don’t miss the high-speed ocean action!
South Queensland Power Boat Club will be holding its next club race day at Yeronga on 31 August 2014. This is a great opportunity to enjoy a day of low-pressure power boat racing and, if nothing else, a great opportunity to do some test and tune work on your boat. It’s also the last race day of the current licence year, so a chance to get a bit more value from your licence 😉
All classes will be catered for – call Mary McMillan on 0408-756631 or Grant Jones on 0408-278 792 for further information or to advise the club that you’ll be competing.
Venue is Brisbane Corso, Yeronga:
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Well, almost 😉 Near enough that it’s time to make sure you have your bags packed and are ready to head off for a weekend of fun and excitement!
The Queensland APBA wishes all competitors, officials and fans a safe and successful weekend in Laidley.
Some great footage here by Brian Armstrong of a range of races from the recent event at Dargle, taken using a drone-mounted camera just off the bottom end of the course. Interesting to see the different lines of the various boat types.
Only two weeks to go until the start of the 2014 Lockyer PowerFest at Lake Dyer, Laidley!
If you haven’t already, get that entry in, get your accommodation organised and get that boat polished up and ready to go!
Congratulations to Troy Marland for winning the 2014 UIM Unlimited Displacement World Championship (driving ‘Madness’) and the 2014 UIM 6.0 Litre Displacement World Championship (driving ‘Sick Puppy’), held at Taree, NSW this past weekend. Congratulations also to Rhys Coles for his win in the 2014 SST120 Global Challenge.
Let’s not forget to congratulate Qld Driver Alf Ebborn (driving ‘Airborne’) for a well-deserved 2nd placing in the 2014 UIM Unlimited Displacement World Championship!
Only around six weeks to go now – time to get your entries in if you haven’t already!
Whether you’re going or not, share the poster below around and promote Queensland’s biggest boat racing event to your friends!
Results as follows after only two races as the wind blew up and racing was cancelled for the day. Thanks to the Cole boys from Childers for coming down and a big welcome to another new inboard racer- Brad Poole.
Special thanks to those in rescue boats on the river in the wind- Jules and Neil Murray, Megan and Mark, and Andrew Leeson and those on top of the caravan in the wind trying to wave flags-Don and Riley. Glenn and Bec Fryer also kept the small crowd up to date with a commentary.
Inboards
1st. ‘Can’t Memba’ driven by Steve Martin
2nd. ‘Hot N Spicy’ driven by David Arthy
John Lintell’s ‘Hydrotherapy’ unfortunately had starting issues.
105mph class
1st ‘DejaVu’ driven by John Cole
2nd ‘Lil Maniac’ driven by Ian Cole
3rd ‘Isurava’ driven by Matt MacDonald
4th ‘Lil Injun’ driven by Brad Poole.
Outboards
1st ‘Express Design’ driven by David Ainley
2nd ‘Catalyst’ driven by Les Kirby.
Juniors
Only had one race and one junior who unfortunately DNF – Stephanie Cooper driving ‘Major Blink’.
This is your last chance to come on board as a sponsor of Lockyer Powerfest 2014. We are now in the final stages of our planning of our souvenir booklet, programs, media and radio advertising. If you know anyone or you yourself are interested in supporting your club’s event, then please let us now asap – either ring Craig Lewis on 0408 748 142 or email us at craig.lewis6@bigpond.com Sponsorship has a number of benefits, including corporate tickets, promotion of your business/organisation/team by our commentators over the weekend, advertising of your business logo on the big LED TV screen (at the venue) and additional print and social media promotion.
In addition, the club is offering a corporate facility on both days, which is professionally catered (food and alcohol) and will also include guided pit tours. Tickets can be purchased for as little as $70 per head and we can accommodate as many numbers as you would like. Please notify us if you have any intention of purchasing tickets in the corporate area. Payment will need to be received 1 week prior to the event, for catering purposes.