Josh Cachia raced to a podium result in the mud at Toowoomba in his rookie Pro Lites season. Image: Alex Gobert.

JDR Motorex KTM’s Pro Lites MX Nationals rookie Josh Cachia has rated his Australian Motocross Championship season a success after finishing seventh overall.

Victorian Cachia, who was last year’s Under 19s champion, concluded his debut Lites season with seventh overall at Coolum last weekend, also taking out that same position in the championship.

“Today went fairly well, I couldn’t ask for much more after starting off slow in the first two motos,” Cachia commented. “I was able to redeem myself in the final two motos with two fifths.

“With a couple of race wins and podiums during the year, I’m pretty stoked with my first season.”

Cachia stunned with a moto victory on debut at Broadford and backed that form up with two other moto wins during the season, finishing on the podium overall at Broadford and Toowoomba.

Cachia will now head into Super X with the JDR Motorex KTM team, looking to improve upon his eighth place finish in last year’s series.