Matt Moss creates history with perfect Supercross season
Monday 10 November: Team Motul Suzuki’s Matt Moss created history at Brisbane Entertainment Centre last night, becoming the first rider to take a clean sweep of the Australian Supercross Championship SX1 class.
Matt Moss: Photo - Marc Jones Photography
Moss won all five rounds of the series, securing back-to-back
supercross titles and his fourth consecutive Australian title.
Despite securing the championship by just making the 20-lap final, the
tight indoor track threatened to derail Moss’s plans of a clean
sweep.
A first turn hustle dropped the defending champion down the order to
ninth, but he worked his way forward and into the lead by Lap 14. Moss won
the final race ahead of NP Monster Energy Kawasaki rider Adam Monea and
Victorian privateer Sam Martin.
"I want to say thanks to the Brisbane fans for coming out
tonight,” Moss said. "It’s been a great year and I
can’t ask for any better than a clean-sweep.
"I got hit in the first corner, but then I could see the leaders
so I put the hammer down and got going.
"People have questioned if I could win without the holeshot so
tonight proved them all wrong which was pretty sweet.
"I am overwhelmed at the moment. Winning the way we did is a huge
feat and it hasn’t really sunk in yet,” Moss continued
In the SX1 championship standings Adam Monea and Lawson Bopping rounded
out the top three.
SX2:
Gavin Faith: Photo - Marc Jones Photography
Penrite Honda rider Gavin Faith claimed his second SX2 title, a second
place finish behind Boardstix Motorsports Taylor Potter on the tight indoor
track securing him the 2014 crown.
The American, holeshot the final but went down on the opening lap.
Faith pushed forward and worked his way back to second but ran out of time
to challenge Potter for the win.
"I got out of shape a couple of times and went down on the first
lap,” Faith said. "I’m super-pumped to wrap it up for
Penrite Honda and for all the fans who came out tonight,” Faith
said.
"Last year was pretty rough. I learnt a lot and bought it into
this year and I feel like I rode a lot smarter this year
"I will head to Germany now to do the four-round German series
before returning to the USA for the AMA Supercross Championship,”
Faith added.
Potter’s win elevated him to second in the championship behind
Faith with Kyle Peters (Wilson’s Jet Pilot Honda) third, giving Honda
a clean sweep of the SX2 class.
KTM rider Dylan Wills secured both the SXD round and championship,
while in the Junior Lites Jordan Hill took both round and championship
spoils.
2014 Penrite Australian Supercross
Championship SX1 Results – Rd 5 Brisbane, QLD
1.
Matt MOSS,
2. Adam MONEA
, 3. Sam MARTIN,
4. Daniel McCOY, 5. Jesse
DOBSON,
6. Josh CACHIA,
7. Lawson BOPPING
, 8. Kirk GIBBS
9. Kade
MOSIG,
10. Robbie MARSHALL
,11. Kieren TISDALE,
DNF. Jay MARMONT
2014 Penrite Australian Supercross Championship SX1
standings (Top Ten)
1. Matt MOSS 175,
2. Adam MONEA
150
, 3. Lawson BOPPING 142,
4. Kirk GIBBS 137
, 5. Jesse DOBSON
121,
6. Josh CACHIA 113
, 7. Kade MOSIG 111,
8. Jay MARMONT 104,
9. Justin CARAFA 94
, 10. Chris CAMILLERI 81
2014 Penrite Australian Supercross Championship SX2 results - Rd
5 Brisbane, QLD
1. Taylor POTTER,
2. Gavin
FAITH
, 3. Hayden MELLROSS
, 4. Dylan LONG
, 5. Geran STAPLETON,
6. Ryan MARMONT
, 7. Jackson RICHARDSON,
8. Kyle PETERS
, 9. Luke
WILSON
, 10. Kale MAKEHAM,
DNF. Brenden Harrison,
DNF. Luke
Arbon
2014 Penrite Australian Supercross Championship
SX2 championship standings
1. Gavin FAITH 167,
2.
Taylor POTTER 144
, 3. Kyle PETERS 140,
4. Hayden MELLROSS 137
, 5.
Kale MAKEHAM 125,
6. Ryan MARMONT 118
7. Brendan HARRISON 112
, 8.
Geran STAPLETON 103
, 9. Luke WILSON 99
, 10. Jackson RICHARDSON 96
2014 Penrite Australian Supercross Championship SXD results
- Rd 5 Brisbane, QLD
1. Dylan WILLS 102
2. Tomas
RAVENHORST 97
3. Aaron TANTI 88
4. Izak MAULE 84
5. Jack SIMPSON
82
6. Brock McLEARY 75
7. Connor RICE 69
8. Miles CLISSOLD 68
9.
Dylan WILSON 48
2014 Penrite Australian Supercross
Championship SXD championship standings
1. Dylan WILLS
475
, 2. Jack SIMPSON 459
, 3. Brock McLEARY 436
, 4. Tomas
RAVENHORST 431,
5. Aaron TANTI 396
, 6. Izak MAULE 388
7. Trent
WHEATLEY 290, 8. Blake SOLA 119
, 9. Tim O’BRIEN 118
, 10. Connor
RICE 69
, 11. Miles CLISSOLD 68
, 12. Dylan WILSON 48
2014 Penrite Australian Supercross ChampionshipJunior Lites
results - Rd 5 Brisbane
, QLD
1. Jordan HILL
95,
2. Kaleb BARHAM 94
,3. Lachlan HOLROYD 89
,4. Anthony REGINA 82,
5. Travis SILK 77
, 6. Jesse BISHOP 76
, 7. Joel CIGLIANO 75
, 8.
Drew CIGLIANO 72
, 9. Fraser HIGLETT 69,
10. Jacob BUCKMAN 69
2014 Penrite Australian Supercross ChampionshipJunior Lites
championship standings
(Top Ten)
1. Jordan HILL
503
, 2. Lachlan HOLROYD 464
, 3. Travis SILK 431,
4. Drew CIGLIANO
375,
5. Joel CIGLIANO 372,
6. Dylan DUKES 352,
7. Kaleb GROTHUES
158
, 8. Bradley CAIN 144
, 9. Kaleb BARHAM 94
, 10. Jacob BUCKMAN
92