Local riders did the Hunter proud at rounds five and six of the Australian Off Road Championships on the weekend.
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Stroud enduro star Josh Green recorded two seconds, Dungog’s Jessica Gardiner won round five and finished second in round six of the series.
Fellow Dungog’s riders Korey McMahon finished second in round six and Corey Hammond claimed a third spot.
Series leader Gardiner had a brilliant opening day on the weekend beating Emelie Karlsson in round five.
Karlsson reversed the results in round six finishing in a time of one hour, 1 minute, 33.534 seconds, finding her groove in the middle section of the race to hold off Gardiner who ended her day with a time of 1:02:03.029 aboard her Yamaha.
Former Australian champion Josh Green not only had to contend with tough conditions but a red-hot E2 series leader Daniel Sanders who collected both round wins from the weekend.
Green in a time of (52:57.406) finished third in the overall scratch rankings behind Sanders (52:43.042) and E3 class leader Daniel Milner in round six.
Green said he was feeling everyone of the 400km he was in the saddle on the weekend and praised Dungog for once against hosting an awesome event.
Dungog’s Korey McMahon went into the weekend leading the J4 championship but the KTM rider found Honda rival Kyron Bacon in scintillating form and had to settle for second.
In the EJ class, Dungog’s Corey Hammond claimed third place on the podium delighting his home crowd with a great ride completing the tracks hot on the heels of winner Michael Driscoll and Joshua Brierly.
Luke Styke jumped straight back in the winner’s circle to take out round six of the E1 class after his first loss of the season in Saturday’s round five.
Geoff Braico had back to back wins in the 125cc Amateur Cup.
Jason Chibnall won both rounds of the Veterans class, but only a second separated him and Jade Gartlan in Sunday’s round six.
Geoffrey Ballard won both rounds in Masters and Ashley Sprenger was also successful on both days in the Vintage Pre Evo-86 class.
Will Riordan (J3 class) and Kobe Conley (J2) both had clean sweeps.