Six points down from the lead and the new tyres have finally arrived so it's all on.

Practise indicates that this should be a hot race with Nick, Jimmy, Karl Morgan and John Ross all close with their practise times. Between practise sessions we suspect the phantom fiddler who has been mysteriously fiddling with bikes had a go at Nicks as the rebound had been completely unwound. There was a bit of this going on in the pits and the phantom idiot does not realise the risk to peoples lives he is playing with.At this stage it put us completely on the back foot as we did not have a race bike set up and there was fustration and anger in the camp. In fact we didn't have it right by the time practise was finished. The only opportunity we had left to verify we had it right was the 3 lap scrub in session. Would you believe it we got it bang on. A special Thanks to Dukic Performance for his expert attention.   

 Race One and the battle is on. The lights change from red to green and up goes the Kawasaki like a bucking horse. Fifth into the first corner and then second into the next corner and along the back straight sees Jimmy, Nick and John all vying for position. Each lap it changes and the crowd

After a night at Aromowana where the usual spooky stories and high jinxs we head off to Invercargill. We did notice that on the community board we saw some wag had added the name of David Grey to the attendance list. But we are not superstitious. Invercargill was cold and so it was a quick practise on practise days and five laps of qualifying which saw Nick set a time of 59.9 and the lap record is 59.8.

Race day dawns and it starts with good humour all around the pits as when we drove in here was the Honda 4 wheeler up on 4 rubbish bins. I guess they won't loan Brain B their machinery again.

On Saturday we left Hamilton to head to the South Island to compete in the NZ Superbike rounds. After  a pretty uneventful trip we arrived at Christchurch for practise on the tuesday which saw Nick putting in some hot laps. This looks alright but then come friday for  the first of the NZ Superbike rounds and the weather had turned to shite it was  cold and the tyres were just shredding. All the three different suspension guys were having trouble and some pretty hot phone calls to tyre suppliers were going on around the pits. Things were not looking good.

After some discussions at the end of the day our suspension guru Dukie from Dukic performance came up with a idea which ended up being the mother of all solutions.

Thanks to this our top secret plan worked!!!! This saw Nick on pole for the day.

Wow, Wow and wow!

A BIG THANK YOU to Kawasaki NZ for such a brilliant bike.

Thank you to all our sponsors. The Dunlop tyres were awesome, Brett Roberts dyno work was excellent, SBS brake pads worked brilliant. Suspension work - Dukic performance, well there is only one way to put it. "Professor Dukie" you're the man. It was a awesome day and there are so many people to thank for having faith in Nick. He rode brilliantly

Here are the results