BY ANDY MCGECHAN
RANGIORA’S AVALON BIDDLE
(KAWASAKI ZX-6R), COMFORTABLE WINNER
OF THE SUPERSPORT 600 CLASS IN THIS
SEASON’S NZ SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIPS
AVALON BIDDLE CREATES NZ
HISTORY WITH TITLE WIN
Canterbury’s Avalon Biddle created history
when she wrapped up the New Zealand
Supersport 600 title in Taupo on Sunday
April 7, the first female to win this coveted
Kiwi motorcycling crown.
The 26-year-old racer from Rangiora has
previously won major trophies in New
Zealand and abroad too, but this perhaps
ranks as among her most cherished.
It was a landmark win when she snatched
victory in the New Zealand TT Championship
Trophy race at the third round of five in this
season’s New Zealand Superbike Champs
at Hampton Downs last month and her
momentum continued with her claiming
the national Supersport 600 title at the
final round of the series at Taupo’s Bruce
Mclaren Motorsport Park on Saturday and
Sunday.
Biddle (MTF Finance Kawasaki ZX-6R)
had started the weekend at Taupo a
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commanding 29 points ahead of her main
rival for the title, Manukau’s Toby Summers
(Carl Cox Motorsport Kawasaki ZX-6R) – the
dynamic duo totally dominant in the class –
and there was a heart-stopping moment for
Biddle when she crashed out of the first of
her three Supersport 600 races on Saturday
afternoon.
Fortunately for her – and unfortunately for
Summers – he also crashed in an unrelated
incident in the same corner. With neither of
them scoring points in that outing it meant
the margin between them remained intact
and so Sunday’s two 600cc races would
decide the outcome.
Further misfortune for Summers occurred
in race two with another non-finish – that
race being red-flagged twice and eventually
declared a non-scoring race – and so Biddle
was crowned champion with a race to spare.