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.
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.
The four-round 2021
Yamaha-sponsored New Zealand Cross-country Championships
kicked off near Marton, in the Rangitikei region, in late
Monday, 15 March 2021, 5:00 pm
Palmerston
North s Whibley (Yamaha), now with a share of the
championship lead after his senior race win at Dannevirke on
Sunday. Photo by Andy McGechan,
BikesportNZ.com
To say it s tight at
the top of the 2021 New Zealand Cross-country Championship
standings would be an understatement of massive
proportions.
The four-round 2021 Yamaha-sponsored New
Zealand Cross-country Championships kicked off near Marton
just over two weeks ago and on that occasion it was
Napier-based former Wairoa rider Tommy Watts who stole the
spotlight, with Palmerston North s Paul Whibley in his
shadow, finishing runner-up in the three-hour senior race
that day.