{"id":663460,"date":"2026-05-11T08:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/663460\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:18:16","slug":"todd-kelly-falls-two-points-shore-of-winning-the-australian-offshore-superboat-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/663460\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Kelly falls two points shore of winning the Australian Offshore Superboat Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BATHURST 1000-winner Todd Kelly has fallen agonisingly short of claiming the Australian Offshore Superboat Championship off Adelaide over the weekend, missing the outright title by only two points after four rounds.<\/p>\n<p>For Kelly, some early-season propeller-related failures were costly in his first full season in the sport, while for the title decider, he combined with his son, Mason.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the result, Kelly Snr still enjoys working on his new form of racing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s actually a good therapy, just to put the laptop and the mobile phone down for an hour or two here and there, and do a bit of work on the boat, on the engines, and have a spanner in the hand,\u201d Kelly said on the coverage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI certainly enjoy it still.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/v8-sleuth-magazine-issue-3?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/v8sleuth-mag-issue3_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first two of three races, Todd on the throttle partnered up with regular co-driver Stuart Eustice, however, for the final race, he enlisted son Mason aboard the MOJO outfit.<\/p>\n<p>Coming into the weekend, MOJO essentially required a clean sweep of the race wins, and they went mightily close.<\/p>\n<p>In Saturday\u2019s opening 12-lap race, MOJO beat home the combination and Mick and Jason Kelly aboard Hornet Racing by only 5 seconds after 30 minutes of racing.<\/p>\n<p>With 70 points still on the table heading into Sunday\u2019s final pair of races, MOJO trailed Hornet Racing by 37.<\/p>\n<p>The second race on Sunday morning saw Kelly and Eustice hold on by only 4-seconds over Hornet Racing, setting up a thrilling decider.<\/p>\n<p>However, when Hornet Racing suffered a technical issue pre-race, the MOJO squad were upstaged by first-time winner Venturi Offshore, with its crew of Antony De Fina and Matt Kelly sealing the win by 4 seconds, relegating MOJO to second in points.<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut \u2013 Fuelling the feuds in Supercars!<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut returns in a massive week of sport, with Aaron Noonan once again joined by Jack Perkins, breaking down the inaugural New Zealand double header!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BATHURST 1000-winner Todd Kelly has fallen agonisingly short of claiming the Australian Offshore Superboat Championship off Adelaide over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-663460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}