Hawke s Bay 19-year-old wins national motorcycle cross country title
19 Apr, 2021 09:53 PM
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Hawke s Bay s Tommy Watts (Yamaha), outright winner of the senior grade at this year s New Zealand Cross-country Championships. Photo by Andy McGechan / Bikesport NZ
Hawke s Bay s Tommy Watts (Yamaha), outright winner of the senior grade at this year s New Zealand Cross-country Championships. Photo by Andy McGechan / Bikesport NZ
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Andy McGechan
It was celebration time for Hawke s Bay s Tommy Watts at the weekend, with back-to-back wins in the South Island earning him his first national motorcycling cross-country title.
The 19-year-old Napier-based former Wairoa man had a share of the lead in the Yamaha-sponsored competition after the first two four rounds for the series, with just two days of high-speed motorcycle racing in the South Island, near Balclutha on Saturday and then near Mosgiel on Sunday, to wrap it all up.
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Napier-base
former Wairoa rider Tommy Watts (Yamaha), with an equal
share of the championship lead at the halfway stage of the
series. Photo by Andy McGechan,
BikesportNZ.com
New Zealand s elite
cross-country motorcycle racers will wrap up the 2021
national championship series in the South Island this
weekend.
It will be a huge double-header weekend this
Saturday and Sunday, with competitors tackling a course near
Balclutha on Saturday, followed by racing near Mosgiel on
Sunday, a sudden and potentially-explosive end to what has
been a thrilling competition.
The four-round 2021
Yamaha-sponsored New Zealand Cross-country Championships
kicked off near Marton, in the Rangitikei region, in late
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Taupo s
Wil Yeoman (Yamaha), runaway winner in the junior grade at
round one near Marton two weeks ago. Photo by Andy McGechan,
BikesportNZ.com
New Zealand s elite
cross-country racers are back in business again this coming
weekend, each of them keen to push on or improve upon their
results from the series opener two weeks ago.
The
four-round 2021 Yamaha-sponsored New Zealand Cross-country
Championships kicked off near Marton, in the Rangitikei
region, two weeks ago and it certainly sorted the men from
the boys and the women from the girls.
Round two in
the Central Hawke s Bay region this Sunday is not likely to
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