Auckland’s John Morgan has won the final round of the 2015 ENZED Offroad Racing Championship, taking his Desert Dynamics Chev race car to victory as fancied and favoured contenders dropped by the wayside.
Though a half dozen of New Zealand’s fastest offroad racers scored a clean sweep of heats in the first day of racing at the final round of the national championship, Morgan was close behind unlimited class leader Tony McCall, and when McCall smashed a hub in the second day’s enduro he swept through to an emphatic lead, winning the enduro outright and amassing 136 points for the weekend.
Ben Thomasen, in his Polaris-backed RZR 1000 UTV, finished third in the enduro and was four points behind Morgan on 132 with Challenger VW racer Campbell Witheford third overall on 120.
Mike Small of Paeroa was second overall in the enduro, creating a UTV 2-3-4 finish when Dyson Delahunty pursued Thomasen over the line and was fifth.
Palmerston North’s William van der Wal was next, winning class 8 for unlimited trucks with 116 points. It was his first major title in the Demon energy drink sponsored truck.
Devlin Hill trailed van der Wal by two points but wrapped up class three for the weekend on 114. Glenn Turvey won class four for sport trucks with 112.
Dyson Delahunty was second in U class behind Thomasen on 109 and next, on 108 was Gregg Carrington-Hogg in the “Herbinator’, his class nine two seater Chev V8 race car.
Donald Preston crashed out of unlimited truck class in a spectacular end-over-end roll, while the woes continued for defending outright champion Owen Chang with a blown gearbox.
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