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The HRC Honda factory team has parted company with Roan van de Moosdijk after it was determined the young Dutch rider’s injury makes it impossible for him to continue.
The gloves came off at the 2024 New Zealand Junior Motocross Championships in the Manawatu/Horowhenua region at the weekend, with Honda star Phoenix Van Dusschoten landing most of the big punches.
Former Southland rider Seth Morrow was always going to be a frontrunner in the 15-16 years’ 125cc class at this year’s New Zealand Junior Motocross Championships at Himatangi.
It would be no stretch of the imagination to say that Raetihi teenager Karaitiana Horne is on top of the world, the New Zealand motocross world at least.
When Spain’s Sergio Garcia won round three of the 2024 Moto2 season in Austin, Texas, last weekend, he became the 25th different winner in the Triumph Moto2 era.
Just last weekend the adult elite of New Zealand motocross wrapped up their annual championship series and now it’s the turn of the sport’s rising young stars to reveal who’s ready to step up.
The 2024 New Zealand Enduro Championships series will again kick off in the South Island this coming weekend and once more it’s expected to be a torrid affair.
Motocross in New Zealand must be in a healthy state if a young man, on debut in the premier grade, can put himself on the podium at the New Zealand motocross championships, particularly in a series so packed with incredible talent.
Yet another national title has headed the way of West Auckland’s Hamish Harwood and his CML KTM Racing Team although perhaps this season’s win was the hardest of all to achieve.
Some things are just worth waiting for and the 24-hour delay called before the eventual running of the finale for the 2024 New Zealand Motocross Championships in Taranaki is a fine example of that.
The MotoGP racers head “overseas” (outside of Europe) again this weekend to tackle the third round of the 2024 MotoGP season, the Americas GP, scheduled for the Circuit of The Americas in Texas.
Monster Energy Triumph Racing’s Camden McLellan has secured his first overall podium result in this year’s MX2 World Championship with a stunning third at the MXGP of Sardegna.
Tasmanian-born former GP rider Jed Beaton and New Zealand’s Brodie Connolly shone out at Horsham, in Victoria, round two of the 2024 Australian Motocross Championships at the weekend.