"After finishing ahead of Horst in that first race I was able to back off a little in race two, making sure I took the series. I just did what I had to," Frost said.
The 34-year-old's bike overheated winding down in race two, prompting Frost to miss the stand-alone Robert Holden Memorial race later in the programme. This was taken out by Rees, who won the same event last year. It was Rees' sixth win in the race where the field is decided by the quickest riders in all classes throughout the day.
It was apt that a Suzuki won the series F1 title, given the name of the annual three-meeting event, and the day was sealed for the sponsors when Auckland's Daniel Mettam rode his Team RCM Suzuki GSX-R600 to overcome a nine-point deficit and end the day as F2 champion.
Saiger (Red Devil Racing Kawasaki ZXR-10R) had a relatively ordinary day at the office, although a crash in race one may have impacted on his form for the rest of the day. The red flag came out and the race was restarted allowing Saiger to continue racing.
In fact, it was not a good day for several series leaders going into the final round. Saiger missed out finishing the series in third. F2 points leader, Wainuiomata's Shane Richardson (Wainui Joinery Kawasaki ZX6) crashed and did not finish the opening F2 race, wrecking all chance of winning the series in that class. Mettam finished first and third to take the F2 title from dark horse Damon Rees (Honda CBR600RR).
Mettam, 19, deserved his F2 win after narrowly missing the title last season.
Whanganui's Richie Dibben did not let his disappointment show after his 18-point lead in the Supermoto class virtually disappeared after he finished 22nd of the 31 riders in race one.
"I had an electrical fault. Basically it was a coil wire. I was able to get going, but finished 22nd. I won the second race, but Duncan (Hart) pipped me by half a point to retain the title he won last year. If I had even finished 20th or better it may have gone my way. Yeah, it's disappointing, but there's nothing I can do about it," Dibben said.
Hart ended the day with a first and a third.
Dibben also missed setting a new lap record by the barest of margins in race two, however, visiting UK sidecar race Tim Reeves set a new target for this class.
The world champion sidecar racer and his stand-in swinger Robbie Shorter whipped around in 52.585 seconds. Tauranga's Shorter was filling in for Reeves' usual passenger Mark Wilkes, who is recovering from a non-race motorcycle injury. The trio will share the Suzuki Series sidecar title, though.
Other class winners for the series were Auckland Gavin Veltmeyer (F3 sports bike); Te Awanga's Eddie Kattenberg (post classics seniors, pre-89); Hamilton's Shayne Lawrey (post classics juniors, pre-89); Raglan's Robert Whittall (Bears, juniors, non-Japanese bikes); Feilding's John Oliver (Bears, seniors); Britain's Tim Reeves, Tauranga's Robbie Shorter and Britain's Mark Wilkes (sidecars).
