Mount Maunganui’s Rhys Carter is going from strength to strength on his beefy Suzuki RM-Z450 motorcycle and it could be just a matter of time before he cracks a podium finish on the big bike class across the Tasman.
THE MONSTER MASH
KTM Motocross Race Team’s Kirk Gibbs stole outright honours in the MX1 class at the seventh round of 10 in the 2014 Australian Motocross Championships at Conondale, in Queensland, at the weekend, while the Kiwi duo in the class battled hard to scavenge as much as they could from a difficult day of racing.
TWO MORE FOR GROOMBRIDGE
Intensive, high-speed race action saw new champions crowned in half of the 16 separate championship categories at the 15th annual New Zealand Mini TT Championships near Kuratau, at the southern tip of Lake Taupo, at the weekend.
NOW NINE IN A ROW
Not even the chaos of a mass ‘motocross-style’ pitlane start could prevent MotoGP champion Marc Marquez completing a perfect nine race win-streak at Sachsenring, in Germany, on Sunday.
DUNGEY DELIVERS
Just outside Washington D.C., the United States Motocross Championships celebrated 25 years of competition in Southern Maryland on Saturday with the annual Budds Creek National from Budds Creek MX Park, the seventh stop of 12 this summer.
A KTM DOUBLE ACT
Round 13 of the FIM Motocross World Championship in Hyvinkää was a tough one for all concerned.
NEW FACILITY IN THE BAY
The Hawke’s Bay Motorcycle Club could be the envy of New Zealand as it gets ready to celebrate the grand opening of a brand new motocross circuit – The Ngaruroro Raceway – on July 20.
AUSTRALIAN NATIONALS
Check back with BikesportNZ.com this week as we bring you exclusive, behind-the-scene stories and photos from round seven of the Australian Motocross Championships on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
THUMBS UP FOR TAIKOREA
BikesportNZ.com has great pleasure to reveal that a report has come back from the Manawatu District Council saying that the Taikorea Motorcycle Park facility may continue to operate as before.
RETIREMENT DELAYED
The Australian Motocross Championships will welcome back an old favourite this weekend, and say farewell to another, as the championship continues at Conondale on the Sunshine Coast.
BIKESPORTNZ.COM ALL AROUND
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.
LAMONT READY TO POUNCE
BikesportNZ.com rider Kayne Lamont is determined to put his Australian Motocross Championships MX2 campaign back on track this weekend.
LOOKING GOOD FOR SERIES WIN
Four wins from four starts in a major racing series in the United States, it couldn’t get any better for Pahiatua off-road motorcycle ace Paul Whibley.
COMING TO NEW ZEALAND
Biggles Racing Team (BRT), Moto Academy NZ and Innovative Moto Developments (IMD) are thrilled to welcome international rider Marc-Antoine Jacquet to the team for the summer of 2014-15 to compete on the new and improved IMD250 in the 125GP/Pre-Moto3 class.
TOWNLEY TO RACE TOO
As we hinted on BikesportNZ.com yesterday, it has been confirmed there will now be four Kiwis racing at round seven of the Australian Motocross Championships this weekend.
MARTENS AFTER MX1 CROWN
Waitakere’s Ethan Martens made it two national MX2 class titles in a row when he won the category at last year’s New Zealand TT Championships near Turangi.
IT IS TIGHT AT THE TOP
It is going to be close racing at round seven of the Australian Motocross Championships this weekend and perhaps expect to see the Kiwis to the forefront with at least four of them set to attack the Conondale track.
BIKES AT FULL THROTTLE
If you can picture superbike racing on a grass track, then you’ll have no trouble at all imagining what it will look like at the annual New Zealand TT Championships near Turangi this weekend.