WANGANUI jetsprint drivers Pat Dillon and Ross Travers remain atop the leaderboard for their respective classes after the second round of the PSP New Zealand Jet Sprint Championship in front of thousands of spectators at ASB Baypark on Saturday.
With deeper channels and faster curves for the second year of competing in Mt Maunganui, Dillon and navigator Steve Edmonds maintained their consistency from their Suzuki Superboats Round 1 win at Shelterview in December, finishing third on the day.
After a broken crankshaft ruined his day in Wanganui, Christchurch's world champion Peter Caughey was back to his best, but this time had to contend with his old Australian rival Phonsy Mullan, who missed Shelterview but was at the Mount to race in both the nationals on Saturday and yesterday's one-off ENZED Stadium Jetsprints Cup.
Mullan and navigator Nicole Cooper got a little revenge on Caughey, who had beaten him at the world champs and the last season's national series, and won the Saturday round, which helped keep a little buffer for Dillon at the head of the series leaderboard.
In the Biolityx 400 series, Travers had no troubles making it back-to-back round wins with a 47.530 second drive in the Top 3 final, and now has a strong lead in the series as Hamilton's Ollie Silverton finished second, followed by the growing success story that is Wanganui's all-women team of Donna Thomson and Monica Couper in third.