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After a 12-month sabbatical to negotiate the challenges of the global pandemic, the Penrite Australian V8 Superboats returned to action for 2021 with the opening event of the seven-round season underway at Keith on the edge of the South Australian outback..

Widely regarded as the benchmark venue for the sport, Keith was at it’s pristine best, attracting some of the top V8 Superboat drivers in the country.

Born out of necessity in New Zealand in the 1950s as a way to negotiate the many shallow and rocky waterways scattered around the country, competition soon followed with the kiwis leading early development before Australia and the USA discovered the sport years later.

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V8 Superboats 2021 Round 5 | 45 min

Eight months after the 2021 season had come to a sudden stop thanks to the global pandemic, the Tweed Coast played host to what was scheduled to be a double-header event at the popular Cabarita venue. Two rounds were set across the weekend, but whilst Covid had made an indelible mark on the season, Mother Nature threw her hat into the ring, with torrential rain in southern Queensland ultimately threatening to shorten the event with heavy flooding just an hour north of the circuit.

Despite the threat, the venue saw little rain so the round began under cloudy skies on Saturday morning, but very quickly things changed. Not surprisingly, after such a long layoff, there were a string of navigational errors through practice and into the qualifiers..

V8 Superboats 2021 Round 4 | 45 min

V8 Superboats 2021 Round 3 | 45 min

V8 Superboats 2021 Round 2 | 45 min

V8 Superboats 2021 Round 1 | 45 min