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Hawke's Bay 19-year-old wins national motorcycle cross country title 19 Apr, 2021 09:53 PM 3 minutes to read 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 hi...

Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 5:14 pm 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. T...

Monday, 8 March 2021, 4:36 pm 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 Cen...

Many riders had already arrived in the region before the restrictions were announced. “It was a bit of a drama for us to get this happening,” Motorcycling New Zealand cross-country commissioner Chris Smyth said. “We spent a couple of hours ringing around medics between 11.30pm and midnight, but thanks to help from [national series steward] Lauren Stockley, we got it all organised and we were only half-an-hour late getting started.” Taupō's Wil Yeoman led from start to finish dominating the 90-minute junior grade race overall (and in his premier up-to-300cc four-stroke class) on...

Press Release – Bikesport NZ The senior podium at round one of the 2021 New Zealand Cross-country Championships near Marton on Sunday was (from left) Palmerston North’s Paul Whibley (2nd), Napier’s Tommy Watts (1st) and Napier’s Reece Lister (3rd). Photo by Andy McGechan, BikesportNZ.com MARCH 1, 2021: The COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc around the world, but the hardiest of Kiwis have once again knuckled down to find a way to carry on with their lives. The 2020 New Zealand Cross-country Championships were abandoned when the virus first impacted on sports in New Zealand in ...