Auckland MX Champs Pix

[Goonrider]

Its great to see the young guys up front but im not sure if they realise theres another 2 races left, or in King or Cotters instance another 4. Its embarrasing the Kings, Cotters or should i say retirees are still kicking butt. The yound guns are obviously not training hard enough. I know im going to get shit for this and ive also got a top 5 son racing at the moment in the 11-12yrs 85cc so i guess ill be in the same boat when he turns 15-16 yrs whether or not he carries on or gives it a good go. Its interesting to hear of all the young guys headin abroad but cant understand the theory when they cant win here. Im not hiding behind my user name either. (Troy Tipene). I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of the new generation of juniors to jump up to seniors after the junior nats. Im sure they will ruffle a few feathers. Did you see the lap times of the junior 125s and 250s on the Saturday. Same track same conditions. I think with the guidance that Cotter, Broxholme and King are giving these new juniors may take work ethic to the next level.(Hopefully) Hamish Dobbyn, Kieryn Leigh, Ethan Martons hopefully will be names to watch. The top 3 125s in the 12-14yrs on Saturday were same lap times as Cotter and Groombridge.

[scott411]

Troy, the track was ripped much deaper for sunday, and watered more (you should know, you turned the water off for us) so it is not a 100% fair call to compare times, also if you have a look at the times the seniors set thier fastest times late in the race, where the juniors are early in the race and taper off, i would say only Dobbin would have a chance to get near the 2 top senior 125's on sunday, and over a 20 minute race, i would take Cotter 1st all the time at the moment, the youngs guys just are not as fit,
DK and Cotter are both basically full time riders, as their day jobs are coaching, both are extremely fit and do cycle races for fun (god knows how those things are fun!!!)
Groombridge is only 18, and is part of the new generation of riders, but as for them beating Cotter/Hurley and the King Boys, they need to pick up thier fitness a lot more, thats why those guys were winning the races, not just leading them early on,

I am sick of the Kings winning as well, Hurley/BT and Josh have proved they can beat them consistantly, and anyone looking at racing overseas should be trying to race those guys as much as possible before spending the money to go overseas, DK's is 38 for gods sake, Cotter is 33, and these are our fittest riders!!!!,

and untill the rest of the boys step up the full package, (riding and training) the old boys will keep winning here.