“Sam Smith and Nick Cole are taking no prisoners – and the war hasn’t even started ”. These are the words that were printed in the NZ Herald after Nick and Sam raced at Manfeild in July.  The war did start definitely between riders at the latest round on July 19th.

Sam and Nick were entered on their 600’s in both Superbike and Supersport classes. The weather was cold and pouring down but that didn’t slow down these two classes. First up was Superbikes, this saw Nick battling it out with Johnny Burkhart with Johnny taking first place  followed by Nick, Sloan Frost, then Sam all on 600’s Carey Briar was next on a 1000. Further back in the field saw  Jamie Galway in 12th position and Adam Chambers in 13th.

Race two was Supersport and once again Johnny and Nick were at it again but it ended up with Sloan, Sam and Jamie Galway fighting it out behind Nick and Johnny dropping back to 23rd position and Adam coming in 7th.Back in the pits I spotted Adam and Nick discussing cornering and braking which must have worked because in the next superbike race Adam moved from 13th to 8th.