Then, to add icing to the cake, another new CMR Red Bull KTM team signing, Matakohe’s Hamish Dobbyn joining the team only last week, stunned the motocross community by winning the senior MX2 class the following day, beating former world No.2 and multi-time former national champion Darryll King, of Hamilton, and Queenstown’s current national MX2 champion Scott Columb in the process …
Josh Coppins fait (encore) la gueule …
Dobbyn perhaps surprised even himself with his MX2 class stunner on Sunday.
“I’m pretty happy with that because I’m still not 100 percent fit,” said the 21-year-old Dobbyn afterwards.
“I’m starting this week with Jade Thompson, of Target MX Coaching, and that will certainly help me to get my fitness level up.
“I haven’t been racing a lot lately. I was away in the United States for two years and not riding much over there. Before that I had to have three or four knee reconstruction operations, so it has been a long time between drinks for me.
“It was a great way to make my debut for the team. I’m really grateful that this team has given me the opportunity.”
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Kiwi internationals Josh Coppins and Ben Townley, men who have in the past been favoured to win the Honda Whakatane Summercross, recently retired from fulltime racing but they are not lost to the sport and this year both men will still have a huge influence on who does the winning at the December 28-29 event …
, le il y a 12 années et 11 mois.
