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, 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 Central Hawke s Bay region this Sunday is not likely to
Reigning senior champion is 26-year-old Raglan farmer Jason Dickey, the outright winner when the series was last held in 2019. He is sidelined with an ankle injury and unable to defend his crown. Likewise for Taupōs three-time former champion Brad Groombridge, who has a knee injury after he crashed during the motocross nationals event near Rotorua on Sunday. However, Whanganui s Seth Reardon, the runner-up in 2019, is expected to line up on Sunday, alongside Palmerston North s 2015 national champion Paul Whibley, Wairoa s Tommy Watts, Pahīatua s Charles Alabaster, Raglan s Brandon Given, Hamilton s Phil Goodwright and Andrew Charleston, Te Kauwhata s Jacob Brown and Rotorua s Callum Dudson.
Tuesday, 23 February 2021, 11:54 am
New Zealand s elite cross-country racers will be
back in business this weekend and, after a 2020 season
ruined by a pesky virus, the 2021 series is sure to be a
ripper.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced organisers to
write off the 2020 Yamaha-sponsored New Zealand
Cross-country Championships, just a week after the
competition had kicked off in the Rangitikei region last
February and, with the country now under only Level One
restrictions, riders will be eager to make a welcome return
to the exact same venue for the start of the 2021 series
this Sunday.
The four-round series kicks off on
farmland near Marton on Sunday, with a line-up that s likely