KIWI RIDER 12 2018 VOL.1 | Page 14

by Andy McGechan/ bikesportnz.com Taupo’s Sco! Moir (Suzuki), on his way to winning the Suzuki Series last season BUMPER CROP OF STARS IN THIS BIKE HEAVEN he 2018 Suzuki Series competition is going to be another scorcher and it will start to heat up in no time at all. Suzuki Series road-race competition organiser Allan ‘Flea’ Willacy says he has been absolutely swamped with entries, many of them from overseas, plenty of them first-timers, and he will again have trouble fitting them all in. He said he may shortly have to close off some classes, although he is overjoyed with the huge interest being shown from overseas too, and he believes the 2018 14 KIWI RIDER edition of the series, set to kick off at Taupo’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park on December 9, could be the biggest yet. The popular three-round series – with Manfeild following as host venue a week after the Taupo round, and the action wrapping up on the public streets of Whanganui on Boxing Day – is New Zealand’s richest motorcycle competition. It has again attracted a huge overseas contingent, with top riders arriving from the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany and Australia.