Kayne Lamont took
out the Senior
Feature Race
I wasn’t even thinking
about the significance
of winning this race …
Woodville Grand Prix title, but it was also
significant in that it meant a Kiwi had won the
main trophy after a three-year drought for the
New Zealanders – Cooper won it in 2014, but it
was Queensland’s Kirk Gibbs who took it in 2015
and fellow Australian Dean Ferris who had won the
crown back-to-back, in 2016 and again last year.
“I wasn’t even thinking about the significance of
winning this race … I was simply concentrating on
not making mistakes,” said the 24-year-old Lamont
Lamont had qualified fastest – indicating he’d
be a serious contender this year – and he was
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