Report: Australian Supercross - Jimboomba
By Team TMX on 22nd Nov 15
Round four of the Australian Supercross Championship presented by Penrite Oils at the Jimboomba X Stadium in south-east Queensland delivered an absolute feast of action.
It was CDR Yamaha's Dan Reardon and Davey Motorsports KTM's Lewis Woods wearing the biggest smiles on the night after taking the wins in the SX1 and SX2 Championship classes respectively.
For SX1 Championship leader Reardon, the Jimboomba event saw him capture his third straight round win of the series and extend his advantage over arch rival and defending champion, Team Motul Suzuki's Matt Moss.
Reardon was in blistering form all night long, much to the delight of the partisan local crowd, setting the fastest qualifying time and winning both SX1 heat races.
But in the main event Moss grabbed the vital holeshot, however Reardon was immediately on his tail out of the first turn, the pair soon locking horns through the first lap before Moss lost control of his front end coming into a hairpin turn and fell.
The drop left Moss with no option but to put his head down and charge back through the pack on the technical and hard packed track if he wanted to keep his Championship hopes alive.
And for the third straight round, that's just what Moss did, the gutsy Suzuki ace working right back through the field to take an eventual second place finish.
But out front Reardon was also doing what has now become his habit – winning – the SX1 Comeback King gapping the field to take his third straight round win as he slowly but surely stamps his domination over the Championship, with just two rounds now left to run.
Behind Reardon and Moss, second CDR Yamaha rider Kade Mosig rode strong all race to nail down a solid third place finish
SX2
In the SX2 Championship , the win streak of American invader Jimmy Decotis (Penrite Honda Racing) was finally broken, and it was young Victorian rider Lewis Woods from the Davey Motorsports KTM team who took the prized scalp.
Woods used a blistering start in the SX2 main event alongside fellow Newcastle KTM runner Dylan Wills to quickly open a gap over the pack, while a crash just off the elevated startline that involved SX2 Championship runner-up Luke Clout (Serco Yamaha) left him at the back of the pack.
In the closing laps of the race, Woods proved his mettle and kept making the front running, despite Decotis moving ever closer, but this time around the American couldn't pull off one of his come from behind wins, and instead had to settle for runner-up behind the KTM rider.
An elated Woods was rapt to take the SX2 win, which came after he earlier in the night won the Best Whip contest.
