There will be added incentive for New Zealand motocross fans to tune in to the racing at the final round of this year’s FIM Motocross World Championships in England this weekend.
Ōpārau’s James Scott and New Plymouth’s Rian King will be in the thick of the action at the spectacular Matterley Basin circuit, near Winchester, in southern England, the two young men determined to measure themselves against the world elite.
Scott has raced in Europe before, but for 17-year-old King it will be his first foray into a motocross cauldron as hot as this.
Scott has been chosen for the first time to represent New Zealand at the season-ending Motocross of Nations (MXoN) in France next month, the talented South Waikato rider understandably proud to wear the Silver Fern apparel for the first time and race at this prestigious annual “Olympic Games of Motocross” event.
It will provide an ideal warm-up for Scott ahead of the MXoN at Ernee, in north-western France, on the weekend of October 7-8.