{"id":199733,"date":"2025-12-24T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/199733\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:06:10","slug":"nz-jetsprint-championship-ready-for-round-2-action-in-whanganui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/199733\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ Jetsprint Championship ready for round 2 action in Whanganui"},"content":{"rendered":"

The same 43 boats will be competing in Whanganui.<\/p>\n

It was a surprise that Matt Hareb and Hayden George beat the New Zealand, Australian and world champions Ollie Silverton and Amanda Kittow in round one, Murray said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be really interesting to see what happens there between those two in the Group A Class,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

There will be a number of rookies at Shelter View Track, as well as the opportunity for the NextGen Class to have another training day.<\/p>\n

The NextGen Class is a new class for up-and-coming youth racers.<\/p>\n

They race in single-seated, jetski engine-powered boats with 230 horsepower for safety to build confidence towards being ready for the open classes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really neat to see them and the smiles on their faces when they came in \u2013 it was just priceless,\u201d Murray said.<\/p>\n

Whanganui racers Rob Coley<\/a> and Toby Edmonds got off to a promising start in round one, placing third in the Superboat class on 28 points.<\/p>\n

They sit just two points behind first-placed Sam Newdick and Shama Putaranui heading into this round.<\/p>\n

Coley said they were \u201ca little disappointed\u201d in round one because they were expecting to try out their new NA (naturally aspirated) motor package but it did not arrive in time.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, it is ready to go for Whanganui.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully we\u2019ll be a bit more competitive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t get enough of racing, it\u2019s a great sport with great people.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are certainly looking forward to being competitive this weekend with a full new package \u2013 it\u2019ll be exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murray said it was hard to tell how many spectators to anticipate in Whanganui, due to it being Christmastime.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope people keep supporting it because it takes a lot of work to put these events on,\u201d Murray said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the Whanganui people support it then it keeps it going.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NZ Jetsprint Championship takes place over six rounds in four different parts of the country \u2013 Featherston, Whanganui, W\u0101naka and Taranaki.<\/p>\n

Whanganui will host more action in round five on March 1.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the UIM World Jetsprints Championship in Whanganui can be bought on the New Zealand Jetsprint Championship website.<\/p>\n

Fin Ocheduszko Brown is a multimedia journalist based in Whanganui.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The same 43 boats will be competing in Whanganui. It was a surprise that Matt Hareb and Hayden…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[432,18239,2082,78,122843,3180,111,43,139,69,34592,18833,9434,1305,22974,9880,1883,1533,80],"class_list":["post-199733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-action","tag-championship","tag-for","tag-in","tag-jetsprint","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ready","tag-round","tag-shelter","tag-show","tag-track","tag-view","tag-whanganui","tag-will","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}