Hampered by blinding mud in his third race in the second
round of the New Zealand motocross championships, Scott
Columb took a risk.
He flung his ineffectual goggles off and sneaked past race
leader and main rival Michael Phillips, of Rotorua, who was
racing on his home track at the weekend.
The Queenstown international rider was passed back by
Phillips and seized a chance to reverse their fortunes again.
"I tried to dive back on the inside, otherwise I would have
been eating his roost [mud flung up by the rear tyre] the
whole race," Columb said.
The two MX2 class front-runners collided, went down, and once
they returned to a racing rhythm, it was Phillips home fifth
and Columb sixth - a broken front brake lever hampering his
Suzuki.
The latter's wins in the first two races were enough to lift
him level with Phillips on points, with two rounds remaining
in November.
A bonus may arrive in the form of the fuel injection Suzuki
RMZ, which Columb hopes will be his new steed for the
season's remainder.
In the MX1 class for 450cc motorbikes, Christchurch's Justin
McDonald had a consistent run carding three seconds behind
various winners after series leader post-round-one, Daryl
Hurley, crashed damaging an ankle.
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