He’s done it again … Taupo’s Brad Groombridge has made it back-to-back Acerbis Four-Hour Cross-country race wins after charging through the field to win again near Taupo today and doing it again as a soloist.

The 24-year-old won the MX1 class at the big annual MX Fest motocross extravaganza at Taupo last weekend and showed his versatility to take his Suzuki RM-X450 model bike and switch over to cross-country mode to win the Epic Events-run marathon off-road race on forestry land just north of Wairakei today.

What’s more, while many of the other riders were entered as two-rider teams, Groombridge again won the race riding as an individual, competing as an ironman.

Runners-up were recent Suzuki Six-Hour race winners Chris Power and Adam Reeves (sharing the riding duties and each riding their own Yamaha YZ450F bikes), while Taupo pair Greg De Lautour (Yamaha YZ250) and Cameron Dillon (Honda CRF250) finished third overall.

Cambridge’s Aston Grey (KTM 200XCW) won the Motomuck 90, a 90-minute race for the juniors earlier in the day.

© Words and photos by Andy McGechan, www.BikesportNZ.com

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