There was no stopping New Zealand's Katherine Prumm at round two of the Australian women's motocross championships on Sunday.
Racing on the eve of her 19th birthday, the women's world motocross champion from South Auckland was in a class of her own as she took her Kawasaki KX250Fto two easy wins at the Lakes in New South Wales.
Prumm was clinical in the execution of her wins, taking the day's first race by 22 seconds from fellow Kawasaki rider Ashley Bates, then stretching out to win the next race by an even more impressive 27-second margin, this time beating KTM rider Kirsty Gillespie to the chequered flag.
Fellow New Zealander Emma Davis (Taupo) finished fifth and sixth in the two races. She is now fourth in the series' standings. Davis (Yamaha) won the Australian title last season.
Meanwhile, Prumm is unbeaten in the series to date and has a 16-point lead over Gillespie at the top of the points table.
"I felt confident heading into the second round at the weekend, because I have put a lot of racing miles under my belt on board my KX250F this year, racing in events in New Zealand and in Europe," said Prumm.
As well as beating the Australians, the Kiwi star is also in the middle of defending her world title. She finished second and fifth in her two races at the series opener in Germany three weeks ago. These results put her fourth overall after this first of three rounds in the women's world championships.
She is only five points behind Germany's Larissa Papenmeier with races still to come in Sweden (July 1) and the Netherlands (September 2) to wrap up the world series.
Prumm will certainly clock up a few air miles this season.
In between her European commitments, Prumm will hopefully wrap up the Australian title at either Toowoomba, Queensland on June 24, or Horsham, Victoria on July 15.
It was been a sparkling season so far already for the teenager.
Prumm was twice called to the stage to receive two special awards at a glittering black-tie national motorcycling awards night in February. There, she was honoured with the Motorcycling New Zealand Off-Road Rider of the Year trophy and the 2006 Special Achievement Award.
