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Husqvarna Racing Team motocross racer Todd Waters will continue in the Australian Off-Road Championship (AORC) throughout 2022, also set to debut in the Australian Four-Day Enduro (A4DE) and Hattah Desert Race.

Former national MX1 champion Waters was already named to be leading the brand’s factory ProMX effort riding an FC 450, while he will enter AORC as a title favourite in E2 and outright within his own Husky-backed enduro program.

Despite 2022 being his third campaign battling the best off-road racers in the country, 31-year-old Queenslander Waters is still relatively new to sport, having only raced five rounds of the AORC over two shortened seasons.

In that short time, though, Waters has quickly established himself as a serious contender. After finishing third in the AORC E2 standings on debut in 2020, Waters stormed to two E2 class wins at Golden Beach, VIC, last year prior to the season being cancelled.

“It’s exciting to be adding enduro to our motocross plans for another season and I’m ready to go,” Waters explained. “I’m never really results-driven from a training perspective, but I’m definitely going out to win any time that we line up.

“At the same time, it’s hard to prepare for the AORC, as I haven’t raced a full championship and I’ve never experienced a cross-country format yet! The different formats that we race in off-road really excite me and I’m looking forward to the longer enduro races and the likes of Hattah.

“This year we’re running the Husqvarna enduro program ourselves and that suits me to a tee – I’m confident with what we can supply and we’ve spent the past three months finding the optimal bike and suspension set-up. I’m fit, healthy and I’m going into the first round as prepared as I can possibly be.”

With the promise of a full season of racing the clock beckoning, Waters will be equipped with the highly-competitive Husqvarna FE 450 in the AORC when it takes off at Cherrabah in Queensland on 19-20 March.