New Zealand has it’s very own World Champion. Dexter Dunn took out the title of 2015 World Driving Champion on Sunday after competing in 20 heats against nine of the best harness racing drivers from all over the world.
After having an unassailable lead heading into the final race, Dunn finished off the Championships in style when he won the heat and added to his already impressive statistics.
From the 20 heats held in New South Wales over the last week, Dunn won five, had six seconds and three thirds.
He won with a record 200 points, an amount that has never been reached in a World Driving Championship before.
Dunn, who is 25, follows fellow Kiwi horseman; Kevin Holmes, Robert Cameron, Maurice McKendry, Tony Herlihy and Mark Jones as a winner of the series since it was first competed for in 1970.
“It is only just sinking in because this is the sort of thing you don’t expect to happen so early in your career,” Dunn said.
Dunn returned home last night (Monday) and will now settle back into the swing of things here in New Zealand as he looks to wind up what will be his eighth consecutive national drivers’ premiership.
With 125 New Zealand wins next to his name, Dunn has a 60 win buffer on his nearest rival, Blair Orange.
The full results of the 2015 World Driving Championships are as follows:
1. Dexter Dunn (NZL) 200
2. Tony Le Beller (FRA) 146
3. Tim Tetrick (USA) 142
4. Mika Forss (FIN) 139
5. Jody Jamieson (CAN) 132
6. Knud Mönster (DEN) 122
7. Chris Alford (AUS) 119
8. Pierre Vercruysse (FRA) 119
9. Guillermo Adrover (ESP) 101
10. Vidar Hop (NOR) 100