Moore opens X-Fighters account with Mexico City victory
Australian claims first-career round win as 2015 season starts.
Source: Red Bull.
Australia’s Clinton Moore was on the hunt for his first Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour podium, and in Mexico on Friday night he got that and more.
A sold-out crowd of 38,000 gave the Australian the ovation of a lifetime as he stood on top of the podium ahead of three former World Tour champions -Levi Sherwood second, Thomas Pagès third and Dany Torres fourth.
In six previous starts in the world’s most prestigious freestyle motocross series, the inked Aussie had always shown potential, but he’d never made it past the Quarter Finals.
This year, he put all his big tricks, like the Bundy Body Varial and a Flair off the quarter pipe, into the same run and that made the difference.
Moore beat Sherwood, who wrote history by landing the first Transfer Flip ever done in competition, by the narrowest of margins.
The five-round 2015 Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour continues in Athens, Greece, on 12 June.
2015 Red Bull X-Fighters
Round one – Mexico City
Overall results:
1. Clinton Moore (AUS)
2. Levi Sherwood
3. Thomas Pagès
4. Dany Torres
5. Rémi Bizouard
6. Adam Jones
7. Javier Villegas
8. Brody Wilson
9. Jeremy Rouanet
10. Harry Bink (AUS)
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