A young Whakatāne motorsport record-breaker is getting ready to hit the world stage.
Whakatane's Damon Rees heads, 24, will head to the British Superstock 1000 championships in late February and be based in East Midlands, England.
But this was not before his top performance over the weekend as he scored a hat-trick of wins at the New Zealand Superbike Championships over the weekend Levels International Raceway near Timaru.
He broke the Superbike lap record in his first race on Saturday and set a time of one minute 2.529 seconds.
"It wasn't a perfect weekend, actually ... I didn't get the fastest time in qualifying," he said.