Jetsprint boats look set to thrill summer holiday crowds at Baypark next year in a pioneering first for the sport and the stadium.
Management of the ASB Stadium was in the final stages of a feasibility study that could see a shallow jetsprint course dug out of the speedway track's grassed infield.
The Jetsprint Association was so confident that its website already showed Baypark as the venue for January's second round of the New Zealand Jetsprint Championship.
Ervin McSweeney of Bay Leisure and Events, the council-owned company that operates Baypark, was not quite as definitive, saying they were well down the track of a feasibility study, with an announcement expected this month.
"It is pretty exciting. We are working very hard to see if we can make it work. There are a few things to finalise."