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DPH Motorsport Yamaha’s Wilson Todd will carry a slim three-point advantage into Coolum’s final round of the 2017 Motul MX Nationals, in the box seat to wrap up the MX2 championship.

Todd has been in control of the red plate for much of this season and is targeting his first MX2 crown since stepping up to the class as the reigning MXD champion last season.

It was a mixed performance from Todd at Toowoomba last weekend, carding 4-2 results as primary title rival Egan Mastin powered his KTM 250 SX to another 1-1 sweep, placing him right in championship contention with a round to spare.

“I’d rather be three points in front than three points behind,” Todd told MotoOnline.com.au. “I mean, I’m just going to go out there and ride like I know how to and whatever happens, happens. It’s the same pressure for every round really – if you’re not good enough, you’re not good enough. We will give it our best shot and hopefully pull it together.

“[At Toowoomba] I just didn’t ride any good in qualifying and the first race, but come race two I got another bad start and pulled it together for the second half. I started making some big gains on the boys in front of me – passed Mitch [Evans] and started to pull in Egan, but the chequers came out.

“The way the track formed up, I really liked it. I just wasn’t executing in the first part of the race how I’d like to and neither in the first race. I ended up riding like myself in the end, I ride a lot of tracks like this and went pretty good in that second half.”

Todd leads the championship by three points entering the final round on the Sunshine Coast this Sunday, with former Yamaha teammate Mitch Evans a further 11 points in arrears with two motos remaining this Sunday.