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ellington’s Sloan Frost played
it icy cool to wrap up the
2018 New Zealand Superbike
Championships’ premier
title with a race to spare.
There was no real pressure
on the 36-year-old Frost (Suzuki
GSXR1000A) after he’d built a commanding
lead at the first three rounds of the series,
but he looked to be taking nothing for
granted at the fourth and final round at
the Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park, on
the outskirts of Taupo, on March 17-18.
Frost held a 47-point advantage over his
nearest rival, Whakatane’s Mitch Rees
(Honda CBR1000SP1), at the start of the
weekend, and his “safe and sensible”
approach to racing on Saturday and
Sunday – qualifying fastest and then
finishing fourth, sixth and third in his three
Superbike races – was enough to get the
job done, allowing Frost to add the 2018
crown to his first superbike title, which he
won in 2016.
Honda rider Rees was forced to accept
the runner-up spot for 2018, although a
modest Frost did suggest that he would be
one of several riders to keep an eye on in
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