Monday, 8 February 2021, 4:29 pm
Pukekawa’s
Tyler Brown (Kawasaki KX250F), top rider in the premier
14-16 years’ 250cc class at the 2021 New Zealand Junior
Motocross Championships near Tauranga at the weekend. Photo
by Andy McGechan,
BikesportNZ.com
The New Zealand
motocross stars of the future revealed themselves in the Bay
of Plenty at the weekend.
The Farmer Autovillage and
Yamaha-sponsored New Zealand Junior Motocross Championships
at Tect Park, about halfway between Tauranga and Rotorua,
hosted the event over three days of the long Waitangi
weekend, turning on an incredible spectacle, the undulating
course providing an exciting challenge for all
concerned.
Motocross: New Zealand Championship series fires up at Woodville Grand Prix
25 Jan, 2021 11:25 PM
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Close racing will again be expected at Woodville this weekend as riders chase GP titles as well as national championship points. Photo / Andy McGechan, BikesportNZ.com
Close racing will again be expected at Woodville this weekend as riders chase GP titles as well as national championship points. Photo / Andy McGechan, BikesportNZ.com
Rotorua Daily Post
By: McGechan
The heat goes on in more ways than one this weekend as Woodville hosts the first major event of the 2021 motocross season.
With the weather tipped to break thermometers and entries in excess of 600 riders, the obvious popularity and continued growth of the annual New Zealand Motocross Grand Prix at Woodville should ensure another bumper weekend of race action.
This means the racers will arrive for the two-day event in search of GP trophy honours, but now they ll also come to hunt valuable points towards national titles. Motorcycling New Zealand motocross commissioner Ray Broad said Woodville signified the start to a thrilling four-round senior New Zealand Motocross Championship series. Rounds follow in Rotorua on February 21, Pukekohe on March 20, and the fourth and final round at Taupō on March 28. “The Woodville GP has always been New Zealand s biggest motocross event, but, now that it s incorporating the New Zealand motocross championships, with all of the nation s top riders attending, it s going to be even more impressive.
Monday, 28 December 2020, 12:43 pm
DECEMBER 28, 2020: A bolt of lightning
might have been the only way to stop Waikato rider Josiah
Natzke in his tracks at the weekend.
It s almost
certain that only a freak of nature could have slowed down
the national MX2 (250cc class) No.2 from Hamilton as he
registered five wins from five starts at the big annual
Whakatane Summercross event near Matata on
Sunday.
With Natzke finishing unbeaten at this
traditional post-Christmas spectacular, it has surely rung a
few warning bells for his MX2 class rivals ahead of the 2021
national championships due to start early in the New