Can Hawke's Bay Super Saloon driver Steve Flynn repeat Craig Todd and Shane Penn's feats of back-to-back national titles at Meeanee?
This question was being asked shortly after Flynn, 41, won his second national title in Wellington on Saturday night. Meeanee will host his next nationals next summer and this is where Hawke's Bay TQ driver Todd went back-to-back in 2012 and now retired superstock driver Penn went back-to-back last year.
"It will be good to try and retain it at home, but in the meantime we will make the most of having the title again," Flynn, who first won it in Nelson in 2012, said after returning to the Bay with the silverware last night.
A speedway racer for 21 seasons, Flynn, won Saturday night's title by three points from Canterbury's Mark Grocott and Nelson's 2NZ from last summer, Ian Burson, was a further point back. The second-placed qualifier from his group on Friday night, Flynn, finished fifth from grid nine in his first championship race, fourth from grid 19 in his second and second from grid four in his last race. "I knew I didn't have to pass the leader in that last race and I didn't want to do anything stupid," Flynn said.
Flynn collected some damage during the first race pile up, which forced three drivers to withdraw but was able to continue racing.