Driver Tyler Walker, who has been in top form all season, including placing second in the New Zealand Stockcar Championship in Greymouth recently, beat home 30 other competitors to win the Taranaki Stockcar Champs at Stratford Speedway on Saturday night.
This is the third time in the last four seasons that Walker has now won the Taranaki champs, more than any other competitor in the 19-year history of the class in Stratford, since they split from what is now known as Superstocks.
Over the course of the three races for the class, Walker recorded a third, fourth and first to win the champs by eight points from Kylee Symes.
Along the way he was poked into the wall twice by Steve Michielsen before placing a perfectly timed hit in retaliation and smashing him up the back straight wall and out of contention with rear end damage.
Bevan Phillips and Mark Duthie were tied on points for third place and used a four-lap run-off for third, which Duthie won after he rolled Phillips in turn two.