Webmaster posted on August 18, 2010 11:16
Yamaha riders Kirk Hutton and Tom McCormack continued their domination of the Queensland Pony Express series on Sunday, taking the Pro Class win by a huge margin of about 12-minutes at round two of the series.
King Kirk and Tom McCormack
Hutton, 37, has won the series nine times with various partners and said he was stoked to be riding with 17-year-old McCormack this season.
“Tom started this one as we agreed to take it in turns and I started at the first round last month,” Hutton said.
“Tom did brilliantly on Sunday, had a good start and came in off the first 23-minute lap with a minute lead over Ryan Smart, who was teamed up with AJ Roberts.
“I had a good day. Managed to keep it rubber side down and pull about a minute on AJ on most laps.
“Tom also had a great ride, gaining about the same on Ryan, which gave us the big lead and the win.
“The track at Kyogle was ideal, they’ve had rain so it was loamy and there was very little dust.
“Our pony express events go for five-hours, so it is a lot of riding, which is good training and good fun when you’ve got a track as ideal as the one on Sunday.
“Now we’ve won the first two rounds, the pressure isn’t on too much for the final round this weekend at Ironpot near Kingaroy.
“We’ll just go out there and do our best and I’m sure our YZ’s - I’m on the awesome YZ450F and Tom’s on the equally as good YZ250F - will carry us to a series win.”
McCormack, from Byron Bay, said his YZ250F was “working awesome”.
“The track was really technical, there were a lot of off-cambers, it was hilly and got a bit rough near the end,” he said.
“But my YZ250F had more than enough power to get up the hills and my suspension was working great, too, thanks to Chad from Chad’s Off-Road Set-Up’s.
“I really enjoyed it out there... just had fun with it and came away with the win, so it was all good.
“I’d just like to thank everybody for helping out in the pits: my dad, mum and sister helped heaps and I really appreciate it.”
The final round of the Pony Express Series will be held at Ironpot (near Kingaroy) this Sunday.
The next national race for the duo will be the final rounds of the 2010 Yamaha Australian Off-Road Championship (AORC) being held at Cherrabah Resort (near Warwick) on September 4th and 5th. For more info go to www.aorcracing.com.au
Hutton has won four Australian enduro championships, nine Queensland Enduro Championships and seven International Six Days Enduro individual gold medals.
Kirk is also Queensland Agent for the Yamaha Academy of Off-Road Riding and runs two-day coaching schools, as well as one-day, half-day and one-on-one sessions.
For information on Kirk, his racing and schools please visit www.kirkhuttoncoaching.com.au
Kirk would like to thank YAMAHA MOTOR AUSTRALIA, YAMALUBE, GYTR, FOX, DID CHAINS, UNIFILTER, ENDURA, CTI 2, DUNLOP, RHK PRODUCTS, PRO GRIP GRIPS, TALON SPROCKETS AND HUBS, UNIVERSAL and JOHN TITMAN RACING.
Tom McCormack is the youngest rider to go straight to the pro class in Queensland enduro racing. He is current Yamaha Junior Queensland Enduro Champion, Yamaha SEQ Enduro Series winner and is ranked second in the country for Junior Off-Road racers.
Tom’s ultimate goal is to make the sport he loves his profession and become the fastest in Australia.
Check out Tom’s website: www.tommccormackracing.com
Tom would like to thank his sponsors: PRO MOTORCYCLE’S QUEENSLAND ENDURO TEAM, YAMAHA QUEENSLAND, AXO, DIRT ID, SHARK HELMETS, BELRAY, CHAD’S OFF-ROAD SET-UP’S, DID, SCOTT GOGGLES, BB FREIGHT SERVICE AND UNIFILTER and his mum and dad for taking him to all the races - about 50,000km’s of travel every year.
For more information on Yamaha visit http://www.yamaha-motor.com.au/