Formula One stock car driver Frankie Wainman Jnr has won the New Zealand Invitation World 240 cubic inch Champion-ship for the second time.

Wainman, from Silsden, who is the UK National Points champion and a past world champion, is now acknowledged by Kiwi fans as "the best stock car driver in the world".

John Lund from Clitheroe, the six-times world champion, and Murray Harrison from Kettering, the reigning BriSCA world champion, came third and fourth.

Kevin Grey won some pride for the home competitors by clinching second place and an opportunity to race at the 2000 BriSCA World Championship final at Coventry on Saturday, September 2.

All drivers accumulated points from three heats, where grid positions were established by a draw.

Going into the final race, leading point-scorer Wainman drew grid seven, ahead of New Zealand driver Craig Boote.

Boote successfully baulked Wainman and in the early laps of the race the Silsden ace was going nowhere.

But fellow Brit Jason Holden (Oxford) came to the rescue, taking Boote out so that Wainman was able to start his race, albeit from last place.

Racing from the back of the grid to the front is something Wainman is familiar with on the UK Ovals, and his undoubted talent as leading race winner here in 1999 stood him in good stead for the New Zealand title which he won by a single point over Gray.

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