Liam Foster’s incredible turn of speed continued into the hot Taupo afternoon as he claimed victory in race 12 of the Hi-Q Components NZ Formula First Championship. An early gap was charged down by young Billy Frazer and saw the duo cross the line just 0.089s apart!
Foster and Brody McConkey quickly broke away and put a sizeable gap on the rest of the field until McConkey fell back and joined in on a bunched up battle for second. This then saw an eight-car train form with McConkey, Chris Symon, Callum Crawley, Amy Smith, Kaleb Ngatoa, Conrad Clark, Reece Hendl-Cox and Billy Frazer.
Starting from pole position, Frazer was shuffled down the order in the early laps but he soon emerged as the fastest car on the track and made up spots before slotting into second and beginning a charge towards Foster. Foster would fall just short at the line, taking his first podium in an impressive fashion.
McConkey and Clark broke out into their own little battle for third, Clark seemed to have the upper hand for most of it but McConkey was able to put his #23 ahead at the flag.
Chris Symon finished ahead of series leading Ngatoa for fifth while Hendl-Cox came home seventh ahead of Smith and Crawley.
Taylor Hurst rounded out the top ten ahead of Blake Evans, David Scammell, Louis Redshaw, Bob Dillow, Shaun Logan, Alex Hawley and Andrew Tierney.
The clean sweep moves Foster into just nine points of Ngatoa and the Championship lead while Crawley drops to third and 51 points off.