Picture Tayler Burke Rowan Shepherd has won the 2021 Best Bars Toyota 86 Championship after a mesmerising final race at the Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park, Taupo. Shepherd needed to finish second behind race winner Simon Evans and did exactly that, despite Evans trying everything he could to force attacks from third placed Brock Gilchrist and fourth placed Ronan Murphy to try and push Shepherd back to where he wouldn’t have enough points to beat Evans to the title. Shepherd however, held on in style and took the title by just five points - his tally of 973 trumping Evans' 968 after 15 hugely competitive races.