A new name will be engraved on the Mobil Delvac 1 Trophy after the latest round of the NAPA Auto Parts NZ Super Truck Championship at Teretonga Park in Invercargill this weekend. Dave West of Pukekohe won the trophy which is up for grabs each year the championship visits the circuit. 

The championship was brought south by King House Removals and featured three good races with a different winner in each. Alex Little of Lower Hutt was aiming for his sixth straight trophy win but had a tough weekend finishing second to teammate Brent ‘Bones’ Collins of Pareora in the first race on Saturday and then fourth in Sunday morning’s race after getting oil from Collins’ truck on his windscreen and then losing low boost. Little then took no part in the third race after his Freightliner Century failed to leave the dummy grid. Collin’s challenge also evaporated after he had replaced a head gasket after Saturday’s win only for it to let go again on his way to second on Sunday morning.

Through it all came West in his Freightliner Argosy. He finished third on Saturday and then won Sunday morning’s race before finishing fourth in the third race behind Shane Gray of Lower Hutt and Ron Salter of Auckland and Marc King of Eketahuna.to take the top step of the podium from Gray (Kenworth) and Collins (Freightliner Century).

In the Flying Farewell Gray headed home Ricky West and Garry Price of Cromwell.

Drivers faced difficult conditions throughout the weekend with wet conditions on Saturday and early Sunday and then drier conditions for the rest of the event.