Motorcycles: Whanganui's Tarbon Walker finishes Superstock second in runnerup

Tarbon Walker.

Whanganui's Tarbon Walker again had to settle for second place in the Superstock 600cc races during the fifth and final round of the NZ Superbike Championships at Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park.

The weekend's racing saw the second of the three 600cc races abandoned on Sunday morning.

In the Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon races, Walker followed home Wellington's Dillon Telford, a international Superbike competitor, with Gary Morgan finishing third.

The Superstocks are a subgroup with their own points standings as they compete in the same races as the Supersport 600cc class.

Walker finished just 0.268s behind Telford in the first race, his best lap in the ten lap race being the second, which he completed in 1m 32.205s.

The gap was wider in the 18-lap Race 3, as Telford beat Walker by a 7.36s margin.

Whanganui's Richie Dibben raced in the full Supersport 600cc class and came fourth in both races, with Upper Hutt's Rogan Chandler winning the first race and Te Awamutu's David Hall claiming the third.

Rangiora's Avalon Biddle had two DNF's, having crashed in Race 1, but it did not matter as her rival for the season title in Manukau's Toby Summers also went off on the first turn.

Then as a result of the second race being declared a non-scoring outing because of two red flags, Summers could not make up the points gap to Biddle despite finishing second in the final race.

The 26-year-old Cantabrian made history as the first woman to win the New Zealand's Supersport 600cc title.

Other title winners after the weekend's final round of the series at Taupo were Palmerston North's Jacob Stroud (Supersport 300 class); Papamoa's Leon Jacobs (250 Production class); Jacob Stroud (Superlites); Whangamata's Ben Rosendaal (650 Pro Twins); Australia's Yanni Shaw (125 GP); Hamilton's Jesse Stroud (Gixxer Cup) and Taupo's Andy Scrivener and Tina McKeown (sidecars).