Leitch dominates

In brief

Motor Racing: Invercargill’s Brendon Leitch has taken a dominant win in yesterday’s Toyota Racing Series race at Taupo with a fine drive from third place on the grid. After the frustrations of the last two weekends, Leitch revelled in the victory. ‘‘Last weekend was bad and we nearly won here last year,’’he said. ‘‘So this is great. The car was a missile thanks to the team.’’ The championship has really come alive, with Melbourne’s Thomas Randle taking fourth place and closing to within four points of Dutch teenager Richard Verschoor who could only manage eighth. World Cup final at Old Trafford. Sheens, a four-time premiership-winning coach who oversaw more than 600 games in the NRL, quit as Australia’s national coach in October 2015 to become director of rugby at Salford and was tempted back into a tracksuit role by Hull KR towards the end of last season. He agreed a three-year contract with chairman Neil Hudgell before the Robins were relegated from Super League and stuck to his word after their fate was sealed by defeat to Salford in the Million-Pound Game. ‘‘I told Neil that if he wanted to back away from it because of what happened, he could, but he was keen and I said I was as well,’’ Sheens said. ‘‘I don’t look down at any level of the game. Coaching is coaching and I’m at a professional club with players who are professional.’’