Image: Jayden Fabry.

Four-time MX Nationals champion Jay Marmont has no plans of making a fulltime comeback despite an impressive guest ride with Husqvarna at the 2015 Manjimup 15,000.

Marmont, 32, retired at the end of the 2014 season, but made a surprise appearance on a near-stock FC 450 at the iconic Western Australian event in which he’d won three times during his career.

After taking a solid third place in the opening moto of the weekend, Marmont struggled with arm-pump and fatigue for much of the event on his way to fifth overall.

“I’ve only been riding a couple of times in the last couple of months, so naturally it was hard,” Marmont explained. “First moto I got seventh or eighth off the gate and came through to third and finished there. My arms pumped up pretty hard and the turnarounds are fairly short, so second moto I was in third and drifted back to fifth.

“By the last couple of motos I was starting to get fairly fatigued. We had a little bit of a shock drama in the third moto; I think I drifted from second back to eighth, then the last moto I drifted back anyway – nothing to do with the bike, it was all me.

“But I’m fairly happy with the result. I did what I could do and full credit to the Husqvarna. To be able to pull it out of the crate and run top three at the Manjimup 15,000 is great, especially considering I haven’t been on a Husqvarna or a KTM for a number of years now.

“To come back and do Manjimup was fairly special to me and motivates me to work to do a little bit more riding and mix it with the guys up front, not on the national scene, but in a few more of these kinds of races.”

Marmont has been riding on board Husqvarna machinery after parting ways with the Penrite Honda Racing team in an ambassador role earlier this year.