"Yeah, it was a slightly better meeting for me at Taupo after all the carnage early on in the season," Dibben said.
The season began badly with no racing in round one of five in the 2019 New Zealand Superbike Championships at Mike Pero Motorsport Park (Ruapuna) in Christchurch.
Racing was halted after a serious crash in race one of the Supersport class on Saturday and then on Sunday a major oil spill during a sidecar race immediately before Supersport was set to restart, again halted proceedings, this time for good as the meeting was canned.
The 29-year-old was taken out in race one of the second round of the national series by another rider who was later reprimanded for his behaviour at the Levels track in Timaru at the weekend.
Then Dibben was missing from round three when he and his partner's daughter Millie decided to arrive eight weeks premature. She is back home from hospital this week and becoming great mates with her elder sister, two-year-old Pippa.
"I did okay at Manfeild and again in this final round at Taupo, so I'm getting on top of things," Dibben said.
His Barracks Bar/Total Span crew that also includes former national superbike champion Brian Bernard as mentor have done an exceptional job setting up both his GSXR600 machines.
"The bikes are going real well, it's just a matter of me coming to grips with them. I'm confident the bikes are quick enough, it's up to me know. We have a winter series coming up and we'll just see how things pan out. I may get to a few meetings, but I am certainly going to contest the Suzuki Series at the end of the year. I will also race my super moto in that series," Dibben said.
