On Saturday, he teamed with Otago mate Daniel Harvey and gun Marlborough teenager William Exton to defend their title at the New Zealand endurance championships in Nelson.
On Sunday, Black flew back to Dunedin to complete his home duties, lighting up his "other Briggs" to mow the lawns.
The Full Throttle combination made it two in a row with victory at the KartSport Nelson track in Redwood Valley.
The event attracted 16 three-driver teams for the four-hour race, competing in Briggs LO206 light and heavy classes.
Each driver had to complete a minimum 60 minutes driving, and each team had four mandatory stops of a minimum 2min 30sec duration.
The key to their success was a brave decision to make the late change to slicks after consistent rain throughout the morning.
"We had wets on like most teams, even though the weather started to improve," Black said.
"So we made the late decision to change to slicks.
"We weren’t the fastest and only qualified seventh and went back virtually to the rear of the field in the early laps. But as it started to dry, most of the field who were on wets had to come in and that was where we gained our advantage.’’
The winning karters do not race regularly in the burgeoning Briggs LO206 class, but the lure of the experience of a team endurance event and the support from High Rev Motorsport in Nelson with a kart and an engine from fellow competitor Riley Price got them to the start line.
"We only had the one hour of practice but we got a pit strategy well sorted, and William especially drove so well with the wet track and when he got to the front, we took advantage of the others stopping early.
"It was a lot of fun. We were not the fastest but we had a good mix and got our strategy around pit stops worked out and this class is the ideal one for this event."
It took over 40 laps to reach the lead and they maintained their advantage, completing 368 laps to win by four laps from local team GPM (Brendon Gridley, Alex Patrick, Matt McConway), with a further two laps to Wellington team Wilford Motorsport (Brent Melhop, Shaun Croskery, Thomas Batt), which won the heavy class.
