MOTRCROSS AUSTRALIAN SUPER X SERIES

27 May 2013

8th November 2008Sydney -

The Top 10 Shootout.This gave the fastest 10 qualifiers a chance to go for one hot lap to determine the gate pick for the Open final. Bragging rights were also in play as three of the fastest riders of the night where on Lites bikes. The lites brigade of Moss, George and Dale would do more than hold there own finishing a respectable  3rd ,6th and 7th. To no-ones surprise Rockstar Suzuki's Chad Reed was the winner of the shoot out. What was a surprise though was he was behind at the spilt timing point to Dan Reardon. With the starts being critical on such a short  and technical track, CDR Rockstar riders would suffer the most with neither Boyd or Jay Marmont getting it right on the night and being relegated to the 9th and 10th gate pick.  

PosNo  Name                                    Machine                                                        

1    22   Chad REED (NSW)               Rockstar SuzukiSuzuki                          38.5571

2   122Daniel REARDON (QLD)       Woodstock Geico Power Honda          38.9311

3   10   Matt MOSS (NSW)                Shift Motul SuzukiSuzuki                       39.0401

4    905Troy CARROLL (QLD)          Coolair Troy Carroll Kawasaki Racing  39.4131

5    111Cameron TAYLOR (VIC)       Shift Motul SuzukiSuzuki                       39.8051

6    10   Luke GEORGE (NSW)           Team Kawasaki Racing                         39.9531

7    41   Ford DALE (QLD)                  Serco Yamaha                                      40.4011

8    65   Daniel McCOY (VIC)             Woodstock Honda Thor Racing            40.6111

9    2    Jay MARMONT (NSW)         CDR Rockstar Yamaha                         41.0881

10  4    Cheyne BOYD (VIC)              CDR Rockstar Yamaha                        49.9871 

Lites Survival at Parramatta  

The theme of the evening was "Survival" and that's what it turned out to be, the survival for the fittest and fastest. Sadly for some they would not make to the start line.

 The current points leader, Jake Moss, was dealt a huge blow in the lead up to the round 4 at Parramatta. Moss sustained a serious spinal injury fracturing his L5 vertebrae. The injury being serious enough for him to be air lifted to the Royal North Shore Hospital were he will spend the next 8 weeks in traction then many weeks in rehab.

  The Moss family flag still flying high after Matt flew out of the start gate to take the hole shot he also made Dean Ferris' return to the series a short one by taking him and Lewis Woods out at the first turn. Even thought both boys would remount. The damage was well and truly done.

  Matt Moss would charge out to about a 5 second lead over 2006 & 2007 Lites SX champion Ryan Marmont. The orange (KTM) train was running rampant in the early part of the race. With Costal KTM's Danny Anderson in 3rd and Ryan's Motorex KTM team mate Tye Symmonds in 4th.

  On lap 7 came the first change to the leader board. Bourke's 16yo Tye Symmonds would take over the final podium spot (3rd place?) from Danny Anderson. The lap times he was putting down were only being bettered and matched by Matt Moss. This rising star  has been consistently up the front of the field in his first year out of juniors and deserves to be sitting 5th in the championship. He would narrowly lose that podium spot on lap 13 to Factory Kawasaki’s Luke George when he got caught in a corner 

  Luke him-self is backing up his great 2008 title winning MX form with consistently hard and fast SX racing. Had Luke made a good start he would have been a lot closer than the 7 seconds he was behind by the end of the race.

 Serco Yamaha’s Ford Dale experienced almost as many ups and downs as the Super X track itself. He started out being one of the fastest guys in practice but could only manage 12th out of 17 in his heat race some 23 seconds behind the leader. Winning the Last Chance Qualifier he then fought back finishing a respectable 5th place in the final.

 With a dominate display from start to finish Matt dedicated his win to his hospitalized brother. “I wanted to win this for my brother and the rest of my family. The series is really in my sight now and I am going to go for it.”

 Pro open survival 

Race 1

 Cameron Taylor opened up with yet another great start ahead of Dan Reardon and Chad Reed. It didn’t take long for the action to start as on the first lap Reardon passed Taylor and then on the start finish Jump Reardon was over taken mid air by Chad Reed. Once in front Reed was never to be headed and cruised to an easy win. Now in this format it’s not who wins the race but who finishes in the last 5 because they are eliminated in each race. With the race done and dusted it was Factory Kawasaki rider Adam Cini heading back to the transporters for an early night after race 1. One to just make it through was CDR’s Cheyne Boyd finishing in the 14th spot  

Race 2

Chad Reed nailed the hole shot and did not look back and the usual suspects, Jay Marmont and Dan Reardon also made their way to the front of the field. The excitement in this race happened when Chad was given a 15 second penalty as Mike Gosselaar, his mechanic took his bike form the transition area to the start gate (the rider must do it him self) This relegated Reed to third after a hard charging ride. 

Race 3

The best start of the night went to Dan Reardon while Woodstock Hondas Daniel McCoy was in second and Cool Airs Troy Carroll and Jay Marmont in 3rd and 4th. Chad Reed got stuck up in

the first corner coming out in dead last. What is a world Champion to do with only 5 laps of

racing? With one lap to spare he passes Dan Reardon for the lead to the biggest cheer of the evening. Cheyne Boyd pushed his luck once to often and was the unlucky 6th placed rider and therefore missing his place in the Final as was the hole shot king in Cam Taylor who finished in 7th place. 

The FINAL

 With two minutes until the kick off the final there was a bit of an argument about gate choice. No-one wanted the inside gate but with 30 seconds to go Carroll, McCoy, Reardon, Marmont and Reed are ready with no-one on the inside gate. The final started out with Reardon taking his second hole shot in a row with Reed up close behind and Dan McCoy in third. On the first lap McCoy lived up to his reputation, shoving his bike up the inside of Reed just after whoops. On the following corner it was Jay Marmont’s turn to take Reed down a peg into fourth. That arrangement lasted all of one corner as Reed took the places straight back from both of them. Now firmly in second place he was after Dan Reardon and it didn’t take that long to take that top spot back either with just two laps to spare. Jay moved past McCoy and set of after Reardon as well although he would run out of time and have to settle for third.

 Reardon summed up the evening saying “I had a lot of fun out there tonight. The new format was tough and I liked it because it got the crowd so pumped. There was some close racing”   

Final Results  

1) Chad Reed               Suzuki

2) Daniel Reardon         Honda

3) Jay Marmont            Yamaha

4) Daniel McCoy          Honda

5) Troy Carroll             Kawasaki

 

 

 

 

Tony Gardner  

18/11/2008