Frost had arrived at Timaru with a slender one-
point advantage over his chief rivals, Mettam and
Whakatane’s Mitch Rees (Honda CBR1000SP1),
but the unbeaten performance at Timaru blew his
leading margin out to 24 points over Rees, with
Mettam slipping slightly to third overall, 15 points
further back.
Frost’s Suzuki team-mate, Taupo man Scotty Moir,
was also impressive at Timaru – the fastest rider on
the track in two of the three Superbike class races –
although he does not have the points to reflect that.
The winner of the pre-nationals Suzuki Series,
which wrapped up with him also winning the Robert
Holden Memorial feature race in Whanganui
on Boxing Day, Moir had another “weekend
from Hell”. He crashed out of two more races at
Timaru, adding to the two no-points results that
had earlier savaged his campaign at round one.
With four non-finished out of the six Superbike
class races thus far, Moir’s hopes for a national
title this season are in tatters. “I’ll still be there
for the rest of the season, though, even if just to
wave the Suzuki flag,” said a philosophical Moir.
The conclusion of racing at Timaru marked the
halfway stage to the 2018 New Zealand Superbike
Championships and an end to the South Island
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