It is going to be a sensational season of motocross this summer, especially if Taupo’s Brad Groombridge has anything to do with it.
RECORD EQUALLED
Spain’s Marc Marquez again rubber-stamped his MotoGP World Championship-winning 2014 season by charging to victory at the weekend’s Malaysian GP, the penultimate race on the calendar.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
This year sees the return of supercross action to the already internationally-famous Burt Munro Challenge in Southland.
KIWI CAMPAIGN No.2
We had a brief catch-up with British motocross ace Rob Holyoake last week and we spilled the beans on his plans to race again in New Zealand this summer.
He intends to race all four rounds of the New Zealand Motocross Championships in 2015, although that again depends upon whether he gets a call-up to head back to the UK early to prepare for the British Champs.
NEWS MAKERS
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Almost every weekend, the BikesportNZ.com crew will pop up at some major event or another, on the spot to give you accurate, first-hand accounts of just what is happening in the motorcycling world.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Britain’s Rob Holyoake has unfinished business in New Zealand.
The affable 18-year-old from Cheltenham, near Bristol, will be back in the “Land of the Long White Cloud” this summer as he has another crack at the Kiwi motocross scene and this time he’ll be on a KTM.
TOWNLEY’S VERDICT
The world can’t wait for the 2015 Motocross Grand Prix season to kick off and it’s probably all because of the injection of just one man … American motocross hero Ryan Villopoto.
THE ART OF MOTOCROSS
The title “My house in Rome” has a symbolic meaning in the life of the now eight-time motocross world champion Antonio Cairoli.
TAUPO THIS WEEKEND
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CANTERBURY CRUSADERS
The dirt will fly north of Christchurch this weekend as the region hosts the annual New Zealand ATV Motocross Championships.
UK STAR TO CHALLENGE
With seven consecutive national moto trials championships to his name, it would be a brave person indeed to bet against Wellington’s Jake Whitaker making it seven in a row this weekend.
THE PEAT GOT NAILED
With 118 riders representing 27 schools, the recent Hauraki Plains College Nailing The Peat Motocross Competition was a huge hit.
MOSS LEADS AFTER FOUR
Team Motul Suzuki’s Matt Moss and Lawson Bopping continue to star in the 2014 Australian Supercross Championship, exiting last weekend’s Phillip Island round sitting first and second in the five-round national series.
MILLSAPS SNATCHES CUP WIN
It was a surprise win to Kawasaki ace Davi Millsaps at the fourth running of the Monster Energy Cup in Sam Boyd Stadium, Las Vegas, Nevada, yesterday.
YAMAHA 1-2-3 AT THE ISLAND
Italy’s Valentino Rossi has expressed his delight at wrapping up a first MotoGP World Championship victory on Australian soil in nine years after surviving an incident-packed race in Phillip Island yesterday.
COVERING THE EVENTS
BikesportNZ.com gets around the place.
Almost every weekend, the BikesportNZ.com crew will pop up at some major event or another, on the spot to give you accurate, first-hand accounts of just what is happening in the motorcycling world.
THE EARLY YEARS
With his second consecutive MotoGP World Championship firmly under his belt, the phenomenon that is Marc Marquez just keeps getting more and more impressive …
