IMPSE OF THE FUTURE
and finished 13th overall, which I was happy
with. It is a lot more competitive over there
and I was battling in good company.”
Tony Rees was sidelined this season with injury and
unable to defend his national crown, but it seems
he had a replacement (or two) standing by anyway.
Mitch Rees obviously improved upon his remarkable
sixth overall achievement on debut in the superbike
ranks last season and his 23-year-old brother, 2017
New Zealand Supersport 600 champion Damon
Rees, is also expected to return from his current stint
of racing in Australia this season to possibly make
it a father-and-two-sons three-pronged Honda
superbike assault in New Zealand next summer.
The “old guard”, which of course includes
the 50-year-old Tony Rees, will need to be
watching over their shoulders for the Rees
siblings or, perhaps more likely, they should be
looking straight on as the Honda pair charge
towards the chequered flag ahead of them.
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