New craft powers Travers to double

Wanganui jetsprint racer Ross Travers made it a double at Mount Maunganui on Sunday as he followed up Saturday's round 2 victory in the PSP New Zealand Jet Sprint Championship with victory in the one-off ENZED Stadium Jetsprints Cup.

Travers took Radioactive out for a blistering 46.992s lap in the Top 8 "dash for cash" final for the Biolityx 400 class at the Baypark Stadium, finishing three seconds ahead of Hamilton's Ollie Silverton and Te Awamutu's Patrick Haden.

He received a trophy, $1000 cash, and sponsors prizes of tool kits and jackets for his efforts.

"There was only one sort of slight change with the corners we had to do from the day before, then on the rotation the sequence was different," Travers said.

After two round wins and the non-series Cup victory, the new Radioactive craft is rapidly becoming the envy of teams in the pit area.

"We've got the whole package there, 80 per cent of it is in the hull. The engine's humming," Travers said.

In the headline Suzuki Superboats, Wanganui's Rob Coley snapped a long period of frustration and bad luck to make the podium, finishing second behind Australian Phonsy Mullan, while Hamilton's Glen Head was third, followed by Wanganui's Pat Dillon and expat Leighton Minnell.

Coley had considered not competing at the weekend due to the recent death of his mother-in-law.

"She told me ... I had to go and get her a checkered flag. Saturday we had a few problems ... a spark problem between the [Top] 12 and 8 [eliminators]."

Coley's Poison Ivy boat had a complete refit after a heavy crash in the United States during last year's world championships.

After a wrong turn cost him dearly at Round 1 in Shelterview, followed by Saturday's engine mishap when he was driving well, he was very happy to finally deliver in the shootout.

"First time [on podium] for a long time, the boat was performing. I don't want to make up the numbers and [rebuilding] certainly paid off."