History of Peter Fenton with Super bike racing and the Triple R SBR Team.

In 2002, Peter Fenton formed the Triple R Superbike Racing Team, consisting of Peter and two established riders Brendan Marshall and Vaughn Paterson. In its first year the team performed very well, with Brendan Marshall finishing in the top 10 of every race he participated in.

Peter's vision is to create great racing for New Zealand competitors as well as spectators. Peter has travelled internationally to research the sport and wants to see Superbike racing attract the media attention and crowd attendances it receives in countries such as Italy, Australia, Great Britain and America.

Peter is committed to promoting the sport of Superbike Racing in New Zealand and is the organiser of the inaugural John Britten Memorial Superbike Race Meeting which will be held at Ruapuna Park Raceway on the weekend of 12-14 March 2004. The event will follow a similar format to World Superbike competitions. Prize money available to competitors will be the largest offered in New Zealand. Click the image below for more information...

My first real taste of road bikes was in early 1999, I went riding with friends on a borrowed bike and just loved it. That set the seed for what was to come.

Got my license and bought my first bike; a Suzuki TLR ( V-Twin super bike ) and started to road ride every day. Practiced up through the Port Hills here behind Christchurch, with weekends spent riding to Akaroa and Kaikoura, getting tips of a friend who has been riding and racing for most of his 40 years.

Had my first track day at Ruapuna raceway in September 1999, and found something that totally buzzed me. Found it more exciting than cars, the adrenalin rush was amazing. Over the next 6 months I spent any spare time that the track was available for the local club and any National meetings riding. I was hooked.

In 2000 I started up a company, that company does futures trading, as well as dyno work on cars and motorbikes. Also we designed a dyno adaptor for a Dynopack 2000, that lets certain motorbikes run on the dyno.

Then we progressed to building engines, to show how well they could run, I decided in 2002, to start a Super bike team that is owned and run through the company. I have a rider (Brendon Marshall) riding 2 bikes, with myself on another and Vaughn Paterson as a satellite rider of the team on another. (Vaughn is now a full team member and his Company and shop; “Gymez” which is a supplement and sport clothing shop is now a sponsor of Triple R Super bike team, supplying clothing and supplements).

We have started slowly and now are in full swing. The season went well for us, considering that everything was new to us. Brendon was on a new 2002 SuzukiGSXR 1000, which was basically still a road bike with race fairings on. This was our first year, so we didn’t want to get too carried away with trying different expensive set ups and mods, and learn to run the team and set the bikes up properly.

Brendon rode very well, considering the bike we had compared to every other competitor. He was always in the top 10 finishes (fields were generally 21 competitors), as well as a best place of 6th. He had a bad crash down in Tereatonga, which cost us valuable points. At the end of the New Zealand Super bike Series for 2002/3; Brendon finished 10th, a couple of points away from 8th. He also achieved a 7th place finish in the New Zealand Grand Prix.
I raced in the Super bike series as well. I race a 1998 Suzuki TLR which has been quite heavily modified. If Brendon was able to ride this bike, he would have been a major threat to the top riders. But I was on the bike, and my 115 kg protected by race leather frame is not the best for this style of racing.

This was my first year in this class and I was on 3 new tracks, so I feel things went quite well for me considering and my best place finish was a 10th a Levels.