Mount Maunganui's Cody Cooper is on target to win the national MX1 crown. Photo / Andy McGechan BikesportNZ.com
After a stunning performance at the latest 2019 New Zealand Motocross Championships round, Mount Maunganui's Cody Cooper looks set to be on track to win his seventh national MX1 motocross title.
The Honda man grabbed the lead in the premier MX1 class at the opening round of four in the
2019 New Zealand Motocross Championships near New Plymouth on February 3, but then had to deal with tough competition from his key rival, visiting Australian Kirk Gibbs, at round two near Rotorua a week ago.
Both men were level at the top of the points table when they met again at Pukekohe's round three on Sunday, when they were difficult to separate on the race track too. The pair swapped first and second position in every one of the series' MX1 class races this season.
When 35-year-old Cooper (Alpinestars Motul Honda CRF450) won the day's opening MX1 race at Pukekohe on Sunday, it gave the Kiwi hero a three-point edge over the Aussie invader.
Cooper won the next race too and so his advantage was boosted to six points.
