Pāpāmoa’s Cody Cooper is going from strength to strength with his 2023 national motocross championships campaign.
The Bridgestone Kawasaki Racing Team rider has been busy over the past few months, winning the premier MX1 class at the MX Fest in Taupō, the men’s 35-39 years class at the 2022 New Zealand Veterans’ and Women’s Motocross Championships and dominating the MX1 and MX2 categories of the Waikato Motocross Championship series.
But that was all just a build-up to the 2023 national series.
Following the second round of the four-round series at Horohoro, Rotorua on Sunday, he finds himself running away with the MX2 title and within striking distance range of clinching the MX1 class title as well.
At Horohoro he won two of his three MX2 (250cc) races and finished third in the other which, added to his hat-trick of wins at the series opener at Balclutha, means he is now 25 points clear of his nearest challenger, Oparau’s James Scott.