Ben Townley won the Woodville GP on Sunday. Image: MadMax Photography.

Carlton Dry Honda Racing’s Ben Townley has won the Woodville GP in New Zealand over the weekend.

Setting the fastest lap of each race and winning thee of the four moto’s, including the 20min feature race, Townley dominated the event.

The former world champion, who has endured a long road back from injury, said he was happy with today’s results and acknowledged that the event had provided a good opportunity to test the 2013 Honda CR450 under race conditions.

“We definitely made some gains today and we come away knowing what we need to work on,” Towley said.

“It was great to be able to test the bike under race conditions, we learnt a lot and will do some fine tuning based on today’s learnings.

“I am looking forward to the first round of the New Zealand Motocross Nationals, as my speed improves so does the need to change the bike.”

Crew chief Mike Landman, who flew over for the event will do some more testing with Townley before he returns to Australia next week, was also impressed with the outcome.

“As Ben improved we learnt a lot more about the motorcycle,” Landman explained. “We will fine tune the bike based on what we learnt at Woodville and we will test again prior to me returning to Australia.”

Townley will contest the opening round of the New Zealand Motocross Nationals at South Canterbury Motocycle Club on 10 February.

Apparel sponsor Shift will release a new video of Townley on Tuesday.

Second overall at Woodville was Suzuki’s first moto winner Cody Cooper, while Justin McDonald completed the podium. Top Australian was Todd Waters on debut for KTM in sixth, however he suffered a DNF in the final moto after scoring third in the opening two.

The feature race was again all-Townley, however Waters and new KTM teammate Kirk Gibbs rounded out the podium on that occasion in a promising performance.

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