Western Australia’s biggest event of the year took place on February 3rd overlooking the beautiful Swan River in the heart of Perth city, under clear blue 38 degree skies. This unique circuit-racing format includes 3 x 10 lap qualifying heats followed by a 35-minute plus one lap main event.

This years Yamaha Jetpower King of the River had attracted World Champion Guy Greenland and Australian Champion James Masterton from the east coast, the big guns were in town and they were here to win.

Yamaha Jetpower King of the River has been dominated in recent years by Yamaha Waverunner craft and Moto 1 qualifier saw home town hero Jetpowers own Ashley Stojiljkovic onboard his Turbo’d Waverunner SHO dominate from start to finish in a fantastic exhibition, throwing the gauntlet down to the would-be suiters for the crown, Yamaha were here to win.

But Moto 2 and 3 of the qualifiers were a different story and any Jet Lag from the flights across the country were immediately deleted from the SeaDoo Rotax racing ECUs with Worx Watson Racing’s Guy Greenland and Sydney SeaDoo’s James Masterton onboard their SeaDoo RXP-Xs each taking a win with Watson Racings Guy Greenland taking top honour qualifying points .

The Main event King of the River was a 30 minute + 1 lap race of Endurance testing both man and machine and was dominated from start to finish by James Masterton onboard the Sydney Sea-Doo Performance RXP-X 300. More than 30 laps were completed by the top 5 performers who lapped most of the field twice.

James Masterton– “My main goal this weekend was to win this event using our slightly modified customer based performance kit, the RXP 300. I wanted to show that this kit is race-worthy straight off our dealership floor.”

“Burswood on Swan is a world class facility for watercraft racing, overlooking the WACA in the heart of Perth, we seriously can’t wait to get back next year and defend the title”.

In a double header for the Masterton family younger brother Sydney SeaDoo’s Mitch Masterton piloted the HSR Benelli S4 to the coveted Duke of the Swan Stand-up ski Title against 17 other West Australian Ski riders in a 15 minute + 1 lap race.

Justin Belczowski Jet Sport West President — ” We’d sincerely like to thank Gary Watson from Watson Racing , Guy Greenland and especially the Masterton family for taking away our biggest perpetual trophies”.

“We really hope you guys return next year to give us a chance to race them back off you guys”.

“Next year should be bigger and better with a 2 day event planned and we’d like to once again thank Yamaha & Jetpower for their continual event support, these are the guys that actually made this event possible for us all.”

Thanks to Darren Williams for the report.