Ten teams of young Scania technicians are headed to Bangkok to take on others from our corner of the world.
Teams from the Oceania region, including one from Whangarei, will compete in the Oceanian and Asian regional final of Scania Top Team in Bangkok from 26 – 28 April, the first of five regional finals on the road to determining a world champion.
A youthful Team Whangarei comprises Scott Cann (Captain), Michael Adams, Gavin Brindle, Shane Parker and John Burhenne.
CablePrice (Scania NZ distributors) marketing manager Steve Young tells DIESELtalk: “What’s exceptional is that when you look at the make-up of Scott’s team, Michael has only been with CablePrice for 2 years, and Shane has just finished his apprenticeship while Gavin was, until recently, an automotive technician.”
Young says that “Such a youthful team getting into the finals of New Zealand Scania Top Team is an enormous achievement in anyone’s books, let alone taking out first place [in the nationals] and going on to represent New Zealand on the world stage”.
Scania Top Team aims to develop service personnel through competition showcasing world class diesel technical skills.
The first and second placed teams at the Oceanian and Asian regional final will qualify for the world finals, held in Sweden this November.
Among competing nations will be Australia, winners of the 2011 overall competition. Others in the regional final hail from Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Korea and Thailand.
Scania Top Team was developed in Sweden, and in the early years, competitions were restricted to Swedish workshop teams only.
