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Outlaw Out in Front

Chris Davies — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:38:27 +0000

Like the Unlimited Superboat category, the fight for top honours in the 400 Class at Round Four of the 2021 Penrite Australian V8 Superboats Championship was a big focal point.

This class features engines that are restricted in size to 412 cubic inches to ensure a reasonably fair playing field for all competitors and would see the Outlaw67 driver Justin Roylance continued his title battle with fellow Jetspeed driver Jody Ely. The pair sharing all three wins for the 2021 season with Roylance holding the upper hand up until the Penrite series returned to Cabarita last June, where Ely dished out a big hiding to his rival.

With that memory still fresh, Roylance and his team worked tirelessly to be ready for the weekend, and it showed. The points leader was just too good in the end, turning the tables on Ely to take a dominant win, almost two seconds clear at the top of the timesheets.

Third was the returning Tremayne Jukes, the experienced campaigner getting to within one, one thousandth of a second of Ely. He is in the process of working on developing the new PULSE hull alongside Daniel James. It’s showing a great deal of promise for team-owner Brendan Doyle who is expected to take the reins of the new machine for the 2022 season.

Sadly, for Doyle, he was an early victim after being blinded during his practice lap, a journey up the grass and into the tyres fortunately less dramatic than it looked. The Girlfriend was quickly back on the water and up to speed, although the weather setback didn’t allow him to challenge the leading trio. Instead, he became embroiled in a battle for position with veterans Mark Garlick and Greg Harriman over a place inside the top six.

Consistent as always, multiple champion Mark Garlick was shadowing the leaders and waiting for his chance to pounce. He conceded that unless one of them suffered a problem, he’d struggle to make the final three. In the end he was comfortably fourth and almost two seconds clear of Doyle, with Harriman rounding out the six.

Daniel Warburton on his return to the sport was seventh ahead of Danny Knappick, with Darren Kesper and Hugh Gilchrist rounding out the top ten. Former champion Brett Thornton was a no show after being trapped by rising floodwaters north of Brisbane.

400-Class (Group A) (after round four of six)

Justin Roylance (Outlaw67) – 141-points
Jody Ely (Rampage) – 135
Brendan Doyle (The Girlfriend) – 104
Greg Harriman (Apache) – 98
Hugh Gilchrist (Apache) – 84
Mark Garlick (Grumpy) – 82
Danny Knappick (Tuff N Up) – 64
Brett Thornton (Still Obsessed) – 58
Tremayne Jukes (PULSE) – 30
Ron O’Day (Agro-Vation) – 26

The Penrite Australian V8 Superboats Championships season continues at the Spitwater Arena in Keith, South Australia on Saturday 26 March and the organisers will certainly be hoping for better weather.

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Magnificent 7 for Penrite V8 Superboats

Chris Davies — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 12:30:41 +0000

Following the setbacks to the 2020 and 2021 seasons due to the global pandemic, the Australian Formula Jet Sprint Association have unveiled their 2022 calendar.

V8 Superboats spokesman and board-member Justin Roylance explained

Everyone understands that things are different now to what we faced in the past, but whilst there is still plenty of uncertainty ahead, we needed to establish our calendar to let venues, organisers and teams prepare for the coming year.

Having said that, we elected to make a departure from past seasons where we often competed during winter. Now we have decided to delay the start of the 2022 season until late July and run some more races during the warmer months and into early 2023.

Prior to the commencement of the 2022 season however, the 2021 Penrite Australian V8 Superboats Championship still needs to be completed with three rounds scheduled to start the new calendar year. Cabarita will host back-to-back rounds on February 26-27, before Keith hosts the season finale on 26 March. With all three Championships titles still up for grabs, there is still plenty left to play for as the season heads towards its conclusion.

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As they have in the past, the Tweed Valley venue at Cabarita, Temora and Griffith in central-western New South Wales, and Keith in regional South Australia will play host to the seven scheduled rounds, with the traditional mix of daytime and twilight events.

Roylance continued by saying

Instead of cancelling the season like many other championships decided, we felt we wanted to conclude our season as quickly this year as we could before embarking on our 2022 program.

Whilst many sports lamented the lengthy break since they last competed, for V8 Superboats the sport has flourished during the forced sabbatical. The addition of global television, which has pushed a huge presence on social media, has seen the biggest numbers the sport has ever seen, despite not racing since June 2021.

Roylance explained

We’ve always understood the value of media exposure, however the costs to establish that in the past have been prohibitive, but we worked very closely with our media team to establish what has proven to be invaluable support, not just in Australia – through Fox Sports – but around the world.

With the television distribution spanning almost every country in the world, with commentary translated into multiple languages (including German, French, Spanish, Mandarin and more), the online presence of the Penrite Series has grown to see as many as five million people per month following the sport on Facebook alone, delivering naming rights sponsor Penrite significant branding opportunities all over the world.

Roylance concluded by saying

Obviously, we are grateful for the ongoing support of Penrite Oil, an iconic Australian brand who have seen the benefit of what V8 Superboats brings to the table. To the many people behind the scenes who have made all this possible we thank you, it all lays the foundations for what promises to be another incredible season of action.

2021 Penrite Australian V8 Superboats Championship

Round 4 – Tweed Coast, NSW – 26 February 2022

Round 5 – Tweed Coast, NSW – 27 February 2022

Round 6 [FINAL] – Keith, SA – 26 March 2022

2022 Penrite Australian V8 Superboats Championship

Round 1 – Tweed Coast, NSW – 23-24 July 2022

Round 2 – Tweed Coast, NSW – 27-28 August 2022

Round 3 – Keith, SA – 8 October 2022

Round 4 – Temora, NSW – 5 November 2022 (Colin Parish Memorial)

Round 5 – Temora, NSW – 3 December 2022

Round 6 – Griffith, NSW – 11 February 2023

Round 7 [FINAL[ – Keith, SA – 25 March 2023

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Mullan unstoppable in Australian V8 Superboat Championship

Sean Henshelwood — Thu, 26 May 2016 15:45:42 +0000

Round 2 2016 Australian V8 Superboat Championship

Allcott Hire Park, Temora, NSW (21st May)

Phonsy Mullan continues to storm towards his fourth consecutive Australian Unlimited Superboat crown with a decisive win under lights at Lake Centenary in Temora, the RAMJET Racing pilot untouchable across the weekend, topping every session of the day to keep alive a winning streak that stretches back almost two years, the Victorian defeating Darek Sygidus and two-time champion Darryl Hutton in the final.

In 400-Class points leader Brett Thornton recorded his first win of the year and extended his points lead, the Queenslander battling Justin Roylance and David Moodie through the finals.

Ultimately the sport was the big winner with another strong Temora crowd attending Allcott Hire Park for the final event of the season ahead of the winter break, the Series now moving north to the Tweed Coast venue until a return to Temora again on October 1 for the penultimate round of the year.

QUALIFYING

As expected, Mullan was quick straight out of the box, setting the fastest time in the opening qualifier with reigning World#4 Jamie Welch slotting in right behind, just four tenths shy, but no sooner had the West Australian returned to the trailer, came news that the front-running Natwel Racing machine would be forced to retire with head gasket failure.

That opened the door for the ‘Excalibur’ team, with crowd favourites Mick Carroll and Tony Giustozzi leaping up the order to battle Mullan and former champion Darryl Hutton through the four qualifying sessions. Ultimately though no-one could stop the RAMJET pilot from setting the top spot, his jaw-dropping 38.886 in Q2 almost two seconds faster than his rivals.. Mullan first, daylight second..

Typically there was plenty of action in the qualifying sessions, Scott Krause’s leap out of the water in Q2 bringing the big local crowd to their feet as the Temora-based driver launched himself off the bank, but he ‘kept the boot in’ and righted the boat on landing to complete an exciting, although not very fast lap.

Scott Krause on the edge

In 400-Class, former 350 champion Brett Thornton made his intentions felt immediately, ultimately setting the fastest time in every qualifier to head into the finals with an advantage of almost one second, pushing his rivals to go looking for something a little extra, which forced more than one to find the limits of the circuit.

In the end it was fellow Queenslander Brooke Lucas who got closest, with former Temora winner Greg Harriman third as the finals approached.

Frustratingly for Spanet’s Kevin Laugesen the V8 Superboats veteran was unable to find the form which made him an early favourite last time around at Temora, although he did enjoy a close battle with round two winner Mitch Roylance and Queenslander David Moodie.

FINALS

As the elimination finals began the likely podium contenders started to emerge. Sadly for Brooke Lucas, he and ‘Trouble Maker’ – despite being amongst the pre-season favourites – found the bank in the first final and were out of the serious points.

Mullan meanwhile stepped up the pace again in the Unlimited class, to lead the timesheets after the first final by just under a second from Daryl Hutton who turned in his best run of the day, although sadly it would be his last real challenge on the leaderboard, a mechanical failure in the final ending his weekend on a sour note despite collecting the silverware for third.

As the night drew to a close, Mullan’s greatest challenger wound up being Darek Sygidus in ‘Frankenzstain’ the former 400-Class champion growing in confidence with every run to get to within a second and a half of Mullan before the three time champion put any chance of a challenge completely out of the question, posting a stunning 38.664 in the final – more than three seconds faster than Sygidus.

Brett Thornton was well placed to achieve his first win of the year

Whilst Mullan went on to claim his third straight victory of the season, in 400-Class, Brett Thornton was well placed to achieve his first win of the year, in the end the greatest threat to his complete domination of the timesheets in round three came from Justin Roylance in the Top 6 final, the Forbes local getting to within 17 one hundredths of the Queenslander in ‘Rampage’.

Thornton ‘stepped it up’ again in the final for his fastest run of the night, taking ‘2Obsessed’ to victory over Justin Roylance by 0.54 seconds.

David Moodie too was a big mover across the finals, running just a quarter of a second shy of Roylance into the final three, but contact with the bank, which resulted in a spin, hampered his progress forcing the ‘jackhammer’ pilot to settle for third.

Missing from the final were former Temora winner Greg Harriman and round two rookie winner Mitch Roylance. Both showed good pace early, Harriman second fastest in the final qualifier, whilst Mitch Roylance failed to rediscover the pace which saw him stand on the top step at Temora just four weeks prior.

Now the focus shifts north, with the next round of the 2016 Australian V8 Superboats Championship scheduled for the Tweed Coast Jetsprint Club, with rounds four and five held at the popular Cabarita Beach circuit, with the first event on 6-7 August, the second 3-4 September.

Rnd#2 – Colin Parish Memorial Trophy
It was perhaps fitting that Phonsy Mullan also took out the inaugural Colin Parish Memorial Trophy, the Unlimited Superboat champion winning both rounds two and three, but more importantly across the two events, he was the most consistent driver on times, although in the end, the margin was relatively tight to 400-Class winner Brett Thornton.
Thornton’s three laps were separated by just 0.711 seconds, to Mullan’s 0.895, but taking into consideration the times from the opening round, Mullan emerged as the most consistent across all six finals.
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Rnd#3 2016 Australian V8 Superboats Championships
Lake Centenary, Temora, NSW
21 May, 2016
FINAL
Unlimited Superboat
1. Phonsy Mullan (RAMJET) – 38.664
2. Darek Sygidus (Frankenzatain) – 41.770
3. Daryl Hutton (American Automotive) – DNF
400 Class (Group A)
1. Brett Thornton (2Obsessed) – 43.592
2. Justin Roylance (Rampage) – 44.132
3. David Moody (Jackhammer) – 58.727
TOP 6 FINAL
Unlimited Superboat
1. Phonsy Mullan (RAMJET) – 39.559
2. Darek Sygidus (Frankenzatain) – 41.137
3. Daryl Hutton (American Automotive) – 42.401
4. Mick Carroll (Excalibur) – 44.065
5. Ted Sygidus (Frankenzatain) – 44.126
6. Tony Giustozzi (Excalibur) – 45.418
400 Class (Group A)
1. Brett Thornton (2Obsessed) – 44.097
2. Justin Roylance (Rampage) – 44.265
3. David Moodie (Jackhammer) – 44.521
4. Greg Harriman (Pangaea Floors) – 44.631
5. Mitch Roylance (Black Jack) – 44.810
6. Jody Ely (Rampage) – 45.719
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2016 Australian V8 Superboat Championships – Series points
Unlimited Superboat (after round three of seven)
1. Phonsy Mullan (RAMJET) – 108 points, 2. Daryl Hutton (American Automotive) – 86, 3. Jamie Welch (Natwel Racing) – 62, 4. Darek Sygidus (Frankenstein) – 81, 5. Ted Sygidus (Frankenstein) – 66, 6. Paul Burgess (Daly Transport) – 64, 7. Cheryl Welch (Natwel Racing) – 62, 8. Scott Krause (Soak’n Fused) – 60, 9. Tony Giustozzi (Excalibur) – 54, 10. Mick Carroll (Excalibur) – 48, 11. Slade Stanley (Hazardous) – 26, 12. Daniel deVoigt (Q-BEARS) – 20
400-Class (Group A) (after round three of seven)
1. Brett Thornton (2Obsessed) – 99-points, 2. Brooke Lucas (Trouble Maker) – 83, 3. Justin Roylance (Rampage) – 81, 4. David Moodie (Jackhammer) – 78, 5. Kevin Laugesen (Spanet) – 72, 6. Jody Ely (Rampage) – 72, 7. Mitch Roylance (Black Jack) – 62, 8. Brad Marsden (Allcott Transformer) – 54, 9. Greg Harriman (Pangaea Floors) – 54
Sportsman (after round three of seven)
1. Ben Hathaway (Weapon) – 108
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2016 Australian Superboat Championships
Rnd#1 – 26 March, Griffith (NSW)
Rnd#2 – 23 April, Temora (NSW) – ANZAC Day Tribute
Rnd#3 – 21 May, Temora (NSW)
Rnd#4 – 6-7 August, Tweed Coast (NSW)
Rnd#5 – 3-4 September, Tweed Coast (NSW)
Rnd#6 – 1 October, Temora (NSW)
Rnd#7 – 29 October, Temora (NSW) [FINAL]

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