Smith nails 2019 Woodhill 100 win

Ten laps of fast and free-flowing racing on rocky forest roads where the cars touched 200 km/h, two laps of ‘hard yakka’ as the slower sandy tracks under the forest canopy turned choppy, and the chequered flag at this year’s North Harbour Woodhill 100 indeed fell on Hamilton racer Paul Smith’s Jimco class one car.

Smith had to work – long and hard – for it too, improving from a start position of 60 and overtaking 59 other cars to do so.

It began in silence. Almost 80 cars lined up along a skid road among cut-over pine blocks, drivers with their heads bowed or looking straight ahead. Race commentator Paul “Dink” Madden called a minute’s silence in memory of the late Alan