A lot of work has been done to ensure the viability and potency of the Australian motocross nationals continues into 2020 and beyond.
According to a press release issued by Motorcycling Australia (MA) and Williams Event Management (WEM), a number of factors required a number of changes to the series calendar and the race formats.
Both MA and WEM (owner Kevin Williams pictured here) had planned the MX Nationals Pro Am at Traralgon in February for the Australian Women’s, Vets and Under 19’s, but, due to the extreme fire dangers being forecast, they have cancelled the Traralgon event in February and will make an announcement about that event and the class in January, both are looking at where they can fit the classes in the MXN calendar.
At least two New Zealand riders, Dylan Walsh and Maximus Purvis, have already indicated their intentions to race the Australian nationals in 2020.
The competition model that has been running over the past five years has had to see some major changes. The series will be conducted over 6 weekends and 9 rounds, 3 double-headers.
The series will see several changes in order to ensure the development of the model for sustainability and club management into the future.
WEM will be dropping all back-to-back races, so all rounds will have two-moto format only.
There are a number of other change in the works and will be announced in January.
Supplementary regulations will be released in the first week of February.
2020 Australian MX Nationals Calendar:
Round 1 & 2 Horsham, Victoria. April 4/5
Round 3 Newry, Victoria. May 3rd
Round 4 Gympie, Queensland. May 24th
Round 5 Conondale, Queensland. June 28th
Round 6 & 7 Maitland, NSW. July 25th/26th
Round 8 & 9 Coolum, Queensland. August 22nd/23rd
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