Source: Penrite Honda.

Multiple-time Australian Motocross Champion Jay Marmont has clarified his plans to retire at the close of this season after being confirmed with Penrite Honda for the 2014 Australian Supercross Championship (ASX).

Marmont announced at Conondale’s MX Nationals round that this year would be his last, however with Yamaha pulling its factory teams from supercross, Marmont will instead wrap up his career in red at Brisbane’s ASX finale in November.

It was always in the plans for 31-year-old Marmont to end his illustrious career following supercross, the move to Honda triggered by CDR Yamaha’s decision to sit out the upcoming ASX series.

“The decision is clear that I am retiring at the end of this year,” Marmont told MotoOnline.com.au. “At the start of the year I obviously signed up [with CDR Yamaha] for both series – motocross and supercross – and then at Conondale I announced that I was going to retire at the end of 2014.

“Right before I made the announcement Craig Dack and Ray Howard said that because Yamaha isn’t racing supercross, they would let me out of my Yamaha contract after Coolum if that’s what I wanted to do. From there I opted to race supercross, so I went on the hunt to find myself a ride and ended up finding a new home at Penrite Honda Racing.”

Marmont will make his race debut with Penrite Honda at the season-opening round of the 2014 Australian Supercross Championship on 10 October at Bathurst in New South Wales.

As of 2015, Marmont hasn’t ruled out further one-off appearances with Honda similar to the likes of former world champion Ben Townley this year, but has elected to focus on his current supercross assault before confirming next season’s schedule.