Coming weekend its the second attempt to run the NZ Superstock Champs and Kev Smith is booked in for another go - he qualified well first time around but blew his engine. So due to the delay in organising the feature based on the original qualifiers, every one starts from scratch to qualify for the NZ1, 2 & 3

Last weekend Peter Rees picked up the Stockcar NZ1 title in a new tank and will be going for the pair! Qualifying will be Sat morning and finals on Sunday morning both UK time .

Good luck Kev

live coverage on Speedbox starts at Saturday 4.30am (first race 5am)
Sunday 3.30am (first race 4am)
About 70 drivers booked in so should be some great racing and the weather forcast looks good this time haha. Last i heard was its going to be close for Kev Smith to make it as of wed he still had not got his engine back

Rumour as it there may be another brit racing.

Who tim ?

Shame but Kev will not be racing - assume it's engine woes , Marcia did not say why on Macgors.

Yep Marcia posted on facebook that the engine is still not ready a great shame after his brilliant drives last month there

Cracking meeting tonight not so much mega crashes but great racing and the track was in superb condition
compared to the first try at the event a few weeks back. Roll on 4am tomoz should be a cracking finals night.
Great to see 491i Cambell McManaway make it as he has to travel miles to race in the north island the one way trip to
get to Kihikihi was around 940 miles.


qualifers are

591P Wayne Hemi
96R Scott Redfern
1NZ Malcolm Ngatai
22R Bryce Steiner
87R Pat Westbury
54P Bevan Humphrey
16R Mark Osborne
58P Peter Bengston
85H Jared Wade
3NZ Brendan Higgins
492I Campbell McManaway
32P Graeme Barr
18N Shane Harwood
10R Alan McRobbie
23H Lance Ashton
10P Peter Rees
95P Clive Elliot
96B Murray Long
52P Scott Joblin
7N Craig Boote
31P Andy McCabe
135R Scott Hewson
351A Paul Vazey
515R Stan Hickey
48N Brett Nicholls
7B Shane Mellsop

Palmerston north-8 cars
Rotorua-7 cars
Nelson-4 cars
Hawkes Bay-2 cars
Huntly-2 cars
Auckland-1 car
Christchurch-1 car
Invercargill-1 car

Cracking meeting tonight not so much mega crashes but great racing and the track was in superb condition
compared to the first try at the event a few weeks back. Roll on 4am tomoz should be a cracking finals night.
Great to see 491i Cambell McManaway make it as he has to travel miles to race in the north island the one way trip to
get to Kihikihi was around 940 miles lol that would be like going from john o groats to lands end


qualifers are

591P Wayne Hemi
96R Scott Redfern
1NZ Malcolm Ngatai
22R Bryce Steiner
87R Pat Westbury
54P Bevan Humphrey
16R Mark Osborne
58P Peter Bengston
85H Jared Wade
3NZ Brendan Higgins
492I Campbell McManaway
32P Graeme Barr
18N Shane Harwood
10R Alan McRobbie
23H Lance Ashton
10P Peter Rees
95P Clive Elliot
96B Murray Long
52P Scott Joblin
7N Craig Boote
31P Andy McCabe
135R Scott Hewson
351A Paul Vazey
515R Stan Hickey
48N Brett Nicholls
7B Shane Mellsop

Palmerston north-8 cars
Rotorua-7 cars
Nelson-4 cars
Hawkes Bay-2 cars
Huntly-2 cars
Auckland-1 car
Christchurch-1 car
Invercargill-1 car

WOW what a meeting cracking racing and a unbelivable ht3. heres how ht3 panned out going into ht3
the points were 1nz Ngati-49pts 3nz Higgins-44pts,7n Boote-43pts 10p Rees-42pts 58p Bengston-40pts 54p Humphreys-38pts lap 1 32p Greame Barr got rolled
then on lap 3 one of the joblins puts 3ns in the wall but as they bounce out joblin catches 10p Rees who then rolls.
Lap 6 31p puts 1nz up the wall and rolls coming back down then 31p spins out 7n. with 2 laps to go it looks like 58p is going to
be the new nz champ but it was not to be as 7n nailed 58p into the wall and both rolled.after the chequared droped
54p and 3nz were tied on points so needed a run off and Higgins won it.5 roll overs in 1 race superb stuff.
What a race best ive ever seen thanks speedbox for showing it live.

result
1st Brendan Higgins-1nz
2nd Bevan Humphreys-2nz
3rd Murray Long-3nz

Thanks for the update Trav, sounds like a classic and I made the wrong choice of Internet viewing last night/this morning.

I stayed up to watch the rain delayed Nationwide race from Las Vegas instead of getting up early to watch the NZ Champs
Compared to the last 2 weekends of Nascar, was a pretty dull race.

With all this internet viewing, you will need to think of updating your nickname - something like TravNet

It was a fantastic meeting on Sunday, that last race was unbelievable. 5 of the cars in the top 7 ended on their roofs/sides!!! One of the best Superstock meetings i have seen in a long while (excluding teams).