SPECIAL MAJOR TROPHIES PRESENTED AT NATIONALS FINAL

Good things come to those who are but event organiser Allan ‘ Flea ’ Willacy was prepared to wait , or so the saying goes , and okay with that and thinks it is more appropriate Whakatane ’ s Mitch Rees and Upper Hutt ’ s Rogan anyway to have their trophies properly Chandler would probably be the first to agree . These two men are first at a lot of things , most typically in activities that involve the racing of high-powered motorcycles around the nation ’ s many famous racetracks , one of them in particular evoking images of derringdo that would make even the most hardened racer quake in trepidation – when riders chase glory at Whanganui ’ s world-famous Cemetery Circuit on Boxing Day each year . With further commitments to meet immediately after their winning day in Whanganui , the two men were unable to wait around for their respective prize-giving ceremonies at the post-Christmas spectacular , engraved before handing them across . Willacy showed up with the engraved silverware at the final round of the New Zealand Superbike Championships at Taupo , on the weekend of March 11-12 , to finally hand them over to the Boxing Day champions . “ Every year we bring our trophies to the final round of the nationals to hand them out there ,” Willacy explained . “ We firstly have the special Robert Holden Memorial Trophy for the big bike class winner and , secondly , we have the second Robert Holden trophy , which has been going for about the past four years , which is actually a trophy that Robert himself was given when he won the