Australian Monster Energy MX Nationals ready to reignite at Appin MX1 series leader Todd Waters will enter the Appin round under an injury cloud. Heading into the second half of the 2013 championship series Motorex KTM rider and MX1 Series Leader Todd Waters will be behind the eight ball. Waters started the series with a dream run, then the week before round four Waters had a heavy fall racing in Queensland that only just saw him take to the track at Broadford, getting his medical clearance after practice. Waters again was unlucky at another Queensland state race where he fell and broke his collarbone and sustained a couple of other small injuries. Waters will come into the second half of the series again needing a medical clearance. Todd Waters Image: Jeff Crow/Sport the Library Whilst Waters mid season break hasn’t gone to plan, his main rival and the man on the move, Motul Suzuki rider Matt Moss has been getting plenty of riding in. Monster Energy Kawasaki rider Jay Marmont will be looking for some form in the second half, Appin is the local round for Marmont and he needs to find something. The two Moss brother Matt and Jake packed up and went to the USA for the mid season break, under the watch full eye of his Trainer Alter Ego’s Dan Reardon, word is Moss is on the gas. 
Kiwi Cody Cooper (Rockstar Energy Suzuki - Credit: Jeff Crow/Sport the Library) ) won Round 5 having shown much improved form and was unbeatable at the recent Battle of the Clubs at Taupo where he won all his races.  Another Kieran Scheele ( #917 - Credit: Jeff Crow/Sport the Library) who has had several races in MX2, has picked up a ride as a replacement for Dean Porter in MX1. Kieran has had experience in the UK and Europe having had two year's with Rex Michau's NZ Dirtbike Gym MX Team. It's only round by round at this stage for Full Force Racing out of Queensland on a CRF450. The Motul MX2 class will resume with plenty of fight, Carlton Dry Honda’s Josh Cachia will come into the second half knowing that he needs to win every moto to be a chance at the title, and Serco Yamaha’s Series leader Luke Styke knows exactly what he needs to do to win the championship this year after losing it in the final moto at Coolum last year. 
Kiwis Rhys Carter (Suzuki - Credit: Jeff Crow/Sport the Library) ) and Kayne Lamont (KTM) are also racing in the Class. Pirelli MXD will again be the biggest field of the round and led by Kiwi Hamish Harwood (KTM) The MXD is the true proving ground of the MX Nationals series, which is very evident when you consider that both Styke and Cachia are previous Under 19 champions. Tauranga's Logan Blackburn (Yamaha) is sitting in 9th. The MXD Class has not run at every round so Logan has had a run in the MX2 Class. Monster Energy MX1 Motul MX2 Pirelli MXD (Under 19’s) |