Nelson stocks dominated the South Island Ideal Electrical Supplies Super Stock championship at Greenstone Park on Saturday. The weather was an improvement on the rained out original date for this event in January.

Twenty two cars took the field on the first heat and only 17 finished including the only local entrant 99GM Cleve Kokshoorn. Car No 14 Dale Ewers (Nelson) took out first place with No 79 Brendon Higgens (Nelson) in second place and 86 Jared Gray (Nelson) third. Kokshoorn came in 13th. Only 14 cars finished the second heat and Kokshoorn was one of the casualties after hitting the wall. Ewers took out first place, 48 Brent Nicholls (Nelson) 2nd and Higgens third. The field was further depleted for the third heat with only 10 cars finishing. Ewers went into this heat with maximum points with only 4 points between the top 3 cars and won the title after taking out third place. A 4 lap run off was required for second place between Nicholls and Higgens that was a 'cat and mouse' race until the last lap when Nicholls spun Higgens and took out the honours.

Results South Island Ideal Electrical Supplies Super Stock Championship

Race 1
1 14 N Dale Ewers
2 19 N Brendon Higgens
3 86 N Jared Gray


Race 2
1 14 N Dale Ewers
2 48 N Brent Nicholls
3 79 N Brendon Higgens


Race 3
1 48 N Brent Nicholls
2 79 N Brendon Higgens
3 14 N Dale Ewers


Overall Placings

1 14 N Dale Ewers 64 points
2 48 N Brent Nicholls 62 points (after a run off)
3 79 N Brendon Higgens 62 points
4 117 N Ian Burson 55 points
5 89 C Andrew Good 51 points

Supporting fields also provided exciting racing for the large crowd.
The local field of drivers was increased by two cars from Christchurch and they took out the first and third places with close racing.

1 78 C Lindsay McQuillam 24 points
2 33 GM Ross Brown 21 points
3 81 C Jo Giles 18 points

Ministock drivers are always a crowd pleaser and this was the case on Saturday. Two Christchurch entrants and one from Nelson raced with 7 local drivers. The drivers put on an exciting display with several drivers out for fun. For several of these drivers this is their first year in the adult class after competing previously in the Youth Ministock class.

1 7 GM Jamie McLellan 26 points
2 65 GM Glen Redmond 23 points
3 77 N Mike Inwood 18 points

Youth Ministock driver Jayden Gerrard showed he could make it with the more experienced Nelson drivers and took out second place in the Youth Ministocks.

1 77 N Matt Inwood
2 10 GM Jayden Gerrard
3 41 N Ben Jacobs
4 11 GM Regan Stanton