We didn’t enter the first time this event was going to be on as this happened to be the same weekend as the N.Z. Superstock Champ’s, generally there is no other meeting on the same weekend as this, the rain put the 1st running of the event off allowing us to enter the 2nd time and take the now retired 1nz’s position in the field. The format allowed for 20 bike’s having 4 race’s each then the top 8 going to the semi’s then a 1 race final with the top 4 bike’s. Our first heat of the day up against 2nz 4k and 49a a big heat we managed a 2nd behind 2nz I was struggling to see and if it was a 5 lap race wouldn’t have finished. We won our next 3 heat’s to put us 2nd on point’s to have 1st pick of the draw for our semi , 2nz had 1st pick for their’s. In the 1st semi 9g Dean and Honk got the win over 2nz Les and Kervin then 21a and 66a. In our semi we got out of the gate’s last but coming out of the 1st corner we were 2nd behind 49a, a couple of lap’s later we passed them to win our heat and have 1st pick for the final. So to the final we picked grid 1 because 9g had been gating good all day he had the next pick and went of 2, 2nz had next pick and took 3 leaving 49a Russell and Andrew on grid 4. 3 Hawkes Bay based bike’s in the final all with a different track letter beside their number go figure. Anyway 9g get’s the gate us in 2nd but the race only lasted a 150 metre’s or so 49a and 2nz had a coming together with Kervin breaking his wrist. To the restart 9g get’s away 1st again us in 2nd followed by 49a, so during the next 3 lap’s we had to take some evasive action with the 9g bike near spinning out at least twice in front of us, coming into the final corner we had managed to get up enough momentum to get pass the 9g bike to take our “4TH” North Island Title in a row and 5th in 6 season’s yeha. One meeting left to go back at Rosebank for the Auckland Champ’s in 2 week’s time.

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