It was a Honda 1-2 at round nine of MotoGP at Sachsenring in Germany overnight, but it remains a Yamaha 1-2 at the top of the championship standings.
NEWS MAKERS
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NZ NAMES SQUAD
The battle lines have been drawn and New Zealand has its three-rider squad ready for the big fight in France this September.
HORSEPOWER HEROINES
Women and girls are tackling motocross, enduro and cross-country events in greater numbers than ever before.
SAND CIRCUITS COMING UP
The Motocross World Championships could get very tricky indeed in the coming weeks, with four of the next seven rounds of the FIM Motocross World Championship set to take place on the deep sand circuits of Kegums, Lommel, Mantova and Assen.
TRANS-TASMAN CO-OPERATION
The fighting ANZAC spirit has probably never been stronger in the Australasian motocross community than right now.
INTERESTING STATISTICS
Ben Townley’s third consecutive win at the weekend’s Honda Tarawera 100 cross-country marathon puts him in elite company as one of only five riders who have won the Tarawera 100 three times or more since the event’s inception in 1978.
TRIBUTE TO TRENT
It was an almost totally dominant performance from Taupo brothers Cohen and Wyatt Chase at the inaugural Trent Haywood Memorial Motocross near Te Puke on Friday.
BARCIA AND MARTIN
Just one week after earning the first moto win and the first overall victory of his 450 class career in thed United States Motocross Championships, Justin Barcia repeated the feat at the Red Bull RedBud National, round seven of the series at the weekend.
STILL IN THE TOP 10
It wasn’t the best of weekends for Kiwi heroes Cody Cooper and Hamish Harwood at Raymond Terrace, in New South Wales, at the weekend, the two New Zealanders racing at the sixth round of 10 in the Australian Motocross Championships.
IT’S FEBVRE AND GAJSER AGAIN
Traction was hard to come by as the complex gravel track of Uddevalla, in Sweden, made for another set of manic results in the 2015 FIM Motocross World Championship at the weekend.
WAIROA RIDERS LEAD THE WAY
Wairoa riders led the way at the inaugural Trent Haywood Memorial Motocross near Te Puke on Friday.
THREE FROM THREE
Bay of Plenty’s Ben Townley has now made it three wins from three starts at the fabled Honda Tarawera 100 cross-country motorcycle marathon after winning again on Saturday.
COVERING THE EVENTS
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MXGP OF SWEDEN
A large number of riders had success last weekend as they prepared for the Grand Prix of Sweden this coming weekend, round 11 of the world championships.
