Auckland’s Liam Draper was a “man on a mission” at the big annual Dead Toad cross-country race in the Riverhead Forest at the weekend.
REARDON WINS
The Craig Dack Racing Yamaha team of Dan Reardon and Kade Mosig rocketed to a 1-3 finish respectively in the 20-lap main event at round four of the Australian Supercross Championship at the Jimboomba X Stadium, on Saturday Night.
SIX-HOUR CANCELLED
The 23rd edition of the big annual Suzuki Six-Hour Dirt Bike Challenge, set for next weekend, has been cancelled.
NEWS BREAKERS
We don’t bring you endless reprints of factory fantasies – here you can find out what really happened at an event or is likely to happen at the next one!
WATCH THIS SPACE
The MXGP class is going to be jam-packed with former world motocross champions in the new season.
JOINING FORCES
Ten times World Motocross Champion Stefan Everts has joined Suzuki’s official 2016 Factory Motocross team as the new Team Principal and to celebrate the moment Suzuki has produced a new video filmed on location at Geboers Racing Promotion’s Lommel HQ in Belgium.
EVENT A JAW-DROPPER
Last weekend saw the inaugural running of the Backflips Enduro X at the Christchurch A&P Show.
NOW FOR KAWASAKI IN EUROPE
From humble beginnings in New Zealand, former Kiwi motocross champion Hunter Lawrence is now ready for the big time with Kawasaki.
CURTIS ALMOST PERFECT
Terrible track conditions were really the only obstacle faced by Kaiwaka’s Cullen Curtis at the New Zealand ATV Motocross Championships in Taranaki at the weekend.
BACK TO STOMACH-CRUNCHING BEST
It seems you can’t keep a good man down.
TWO OF EVERYTHING
There was two of everything terrific at the New Zealand ATV Motocross Championships in Taranaki at the weekend.
PEICK CROWNED KING
The winner on Saturday, the first night of the Supercross in Lille, American Weston Peick became the new ‘King of Lille’ after scoring a second position the following night behind Frenchman Christophe Pourcel.
MAYHEM IN THE MUD
The racing went down to the wire in several bike classes at day two of the New Zealand ATV Championships near New Plymouth today.
DOING THE HARD YARDS
We don’t bring you endless reprints of factory fantasies – here you can find out what really happened at an event or is likely to happen at the next one!
ATV ACTION AT ITS BEST
It was a perfect first day of racing action at the New Zealand ATV Championships near New Plymouth today.
NEW CHAPTER TO BE WRITTEN
The book had been closed and placed carefully up on the shelf, but it has been taken down again and a fresh new chapter will now be written.
EVERTS JOINS FORCES WITH SUZUKI
It’s another of those “worst kept secrets in the GP paddock” as, almost a quarter of a century since they were last World Champions together Stefan Everts and Suzuki have announced overnight that they are once again collaborating to powerful effect as the sport’s most successful Grand Prix rider is now in control of the Suzuki World MXGP team and organisation.
CAIRNS TACKLES THE AUSSIES
Five-times New Zealand Women’s Enduro Champion Natasha Cairns continues to show us what she is made of.