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FROST PUTS THE CHILL ON SUPERBIKE RIVALS Words & photos: Andy McGechan/bikesportnz.com It was a tight battle at round one, but a totally dominant performance from 2016 national superbike champion Sloan Frost at the second of four rounds of the 2018 New Zealand Superbike Championships in Timaru in early January. T here had been three different winners in the premier Superbikes class at the opening round of the series at Mike Pero Motorsport Park in Christchurch a week earlier – Christchurch’s Alastair Hoogenboezem (BMW 1000RR), Glen Eden’s Daniel Mettam (Suzuki GSX-R1000A) and then Frost (Suzuki GSXR1000A) sharing the wins – but the weekend at Timaru belonged solely to Frost. Wellington man Frost qualified fastest at Timaru’s Levels Raceway, just after lunch on Saturday, and he then scored a hat-trick of wins in the racing proper later that afternoon and the following day. it’s certainly a huge boost to my confidence getting three wins this weekend