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Decorated CDR Yamaha team owner Craig Dack will continue to evaluate his 2016 rider options as this year’s MX Nationals series reaches its closing stages.

Dack’s current line-up of Kade Mosig and Dan Reardon have experienced a mixed campaign to date in 2015, currently fourth and sixth in the standings. The lone round win came from Mosig at Appin’s second round.

In a detailed interview with the MX Nationals this week Dack declared next year’s CDR Yamaha rider combination as open, not yet committed to running a three-rider structure again. Jacob Wright was signed this year alongside Mosig and Reardon, but has been sidelined with injury to date.

“Ultimately, as a pure-blooded sports person and as a passionate motocross person, I would like to have the guy who can win the championship and then the development guy,” Dack explained. “In its purest forms, that’s how I’d like to put the team together, but if I have good backing and some good dollars with sponsorship then that can change.

“The thing with sponsors is they want results straight away, so I will always put on the two best guys I can afford at the time. I mean, you fly between two positions; you look back to a few years ago and we had Jay Marmont and Josh Coppins, they were fighting like cats and dogs for a championship for two years.

“You go through different eras and stages with your race team where you need certain results for different reasons. I can tell you one thing for sure, CDR needs to win. That is the number one priority and we are going to do whatever it takes. We had that intent this year and it’s the same every year.

“When you look at the last eight years of the MX Nationals championships, CDR has won five of those and finished third the last two years. If things keep sliding the way they are at the moment, we are looking like we are going to have our worst year in eight years. But in saying that, there’s still a long way to go in the championship and we will keep fighting.”

Dack said he hasn’t made a decision who will make up his 2016 rider line-up at this point, but has plans to retain Wright for a full season after he was forced out of this year’s nationals with a knee injury. He’s due to return for supercross.

“In terms of who we are going to choose, with what we want to do next year I completely haven’t got my head around it yet,” Dack added. “Lots of riders, lots of options and lots of ideas. I’ve got huge wraps on Jacob and it would be hard for anyone to claw him away from me. But who the other guy or guys are, I’m not sure of that at the moment. My mind is very open.”