KTM Australia press release:

Davey Motorsport KTM rider Egan Mastin put two perfect finishing touches to a sensational 2017 Australian MX2 Championship campaign at yesterday’s MX Nationals finale at Coolum.

Entering the round three points in arrears of championship leader Wilson Todd, Mastin had to win both races to ensure the championship, and he and his KTM 250 SX did exactly that, racing to two massive 10+ second wins on a testing Coolum track.

His sixth and seventh consecutive race wins saw him shoot past Todd at the last hurdle to claim the national title by five points, as Mastin won the opening moto from Kyle Webster and Todd, before taking the second ahead of Todd and Webster respectively.

Mastin has completely dominated the second half of this year’s championship on his two-stroke, KTM 250 SX, recovering from a position 42 points down before the half way mark, to win four of the last five rounds and eight of the last ten races.

Raceline KTM’s Jay Wilson (KTM 250 SX-F) was fifth on the day with 6-7 results, while Mastin’s Davey Motorsport team mate Hamish Harwood (KTM 250 SX) was seventh overall after 5-12 finishes. Jayden Rykers was tenth on the Raceline Motorsports KTM 250 SX-F from scores of 18-6.

KTM Factory Junior Team rider Regan Duffy added another title to the KTM tally – albeit in unique fashion – limping across the line to claim the 125cc Junior Cup title with a broken wrist, after a muffed final corner passing attempt saw him kicked over the bars on Coolum’s sizeable final jump.

Duffy had earlier finished second to Husqvarna’s Bailey Malkiewicz in the opening moto, and after remounting in the second, he scrambled across the line on his KTM 250 SX-F with a four-point buffer.

QB4 KTM rider Kerrod Morrissy wrapped up the KTM Amateur Cup Championship on his KTM 450 SX-F after adding pair of fourth places to his pair of Echo Valley wins.

Chase Mosig won the round from Jesse Bishop and Jordan Flaherty, but Morrissy comfortably won the title over the Husqvarna of Flaherty, while KTM-mounted Blake Cobbin was third aboard a KTM 250 SX-F.

Morrissy perfectly illustrated the validity of KTM’s Ready to Race ethos when he revealed that his KTM 450 SX-F is so box-stock that he hasn’t even checked the sag!

In the Australian Women’s Motocross Championship, KTM’s defending Champion Jess Moore was heartbroken to narrowly lose her crown to Maddy Brown, after finishing with 2, 2, 2, 1 scores at Coolum.

Brown took the championship with 137 points, ahead of Kalgoorlie girl Moore on 131 and Tori Dare on 118.

In the MX1 class, rising 16-year-old Callum Norton made a solid fist of his second run with the big boys, qualifying twelfth-fastest on the Moto-Tech KTM 450 SX-F.

The big Victorian ran top-ten in the first moto until a solid face-full of roost penetrated the seal of his goggles and began to bounce into his eyes, causing him to pit and ultimately finish 16th.

His second race was looking spectacular – he had just passed Kyle Peters for seventh place when he discovered that a mix up in pit crew roles had led to his bike not being refueled before the moto – and his sensational run was over.

Egan Mastin – KTM 250 SX: “There is no better feeling than this, there’s been a lot of hard work and more than a few obstacles thrown our way, so it’s great. The last five rounds we’ve just kept our eyes on the little picture and looked at winning races, and we ended up coming away with it. Yesterday the penalty was unlucky – I definitely didn’t intentionally have a part in anyone’s crash so that was hard to swallow. I was tenth off the start in the first one and third in the second – we just had to go out there and get it done, and I’m stoked to get it over the line. It’s good to win both the day and the championship, there’s no better feeling. The bike was great – people will come up with excuses when they’re getting beaten but a lot of tracks were harder on the two-stroke, there was a lot of hard-packed track this year. It’s funny no one was complaining all year until I started winning races. But I just spent the time and gelled with the bike.”

Regan Duffy – KTM 125 SX: “I’m very happy to get this, but breaking my wrist on the last jump on the last lap wasn’t the best way to do it. But I still got the job done, so I’m stoked! Coolum was a bit of a surprise for me on Saturday because I was expecting big sand whoops and I was real happy about that, but then I got here and it was hard-packed ledges – you get that sometimes. I got second in the first race from Bailey after a horrible start. I came through from third-last to fourth on the first lap, but by then Bailey had grabbed a fairly big lead. Then in the second moto I got an even worse start, and eventually got up to fourth. I went to pass for third in the last corner and that’s when I hit a kicker on the big jump and went over the bars. I came through nearly at the back of the pack, but I had a big enough lead to still take the title overall. I’m very happy – I’ve had a great year and worked hard for it.”

Kerrod Morrissy – KTM 450 SX-F: “I’ve had a few goes in the Amateur Cup here and there, but this is the first time I’ve done the complete series, and I’m absolutely pumped to come away with the overall. In Toowoomba, two holeshots and two wins made life easy, but I knew coming to Coolum was going to be hard, because I don’t ride a lot of sand. I didn’t get the best of starts – I was ninth on the first lap of each race but I came through the pack to fourth both times. I absolutely loved it – I wish the motos were a bit longer. That KTM 450 is stock standard, straight out of the box – I haven’t even done the sag on it; I just pump the air pressure to what the manual says and use the Launch Control, and nine times out of ten I pull a holeshot. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my mind on the starts today – I was more worried about the bumps!

Jess Moore – KTM 250 SX-F: “It was heartbreaking, especially to lose the first race today the way we did with an incident with a lapper that essentially decided the championship. But we went out and dominated the last moto and I showed what I can do. I felt right at home in the rough sand at the end of the day and we won the last race by 30-odd seconds, which I guess that makes it feel a little bit better, going out on top. Losing put some fire in the belly and we’ll be back next year. I wanted this badly and we put a lot of work into make it happen, so there’s no way I won’t be back. I can’t thank everyone at KTM enough, especially Jeff for believing in me and giving me a chance and making racing possible for me altogether, as well as Herb Watson Racing in WA and Neil Dunn for all their support.

Callum Norton – KTM 450 SX-F: “I copped a face full in that first race and it slipped down in my goggles and it was making my eyes worse, then I threw them and copped some more so I had to pull off and clean my eyes out. I ended up getting back to 16th and was still going quite fast at the end there. Moto two I beat my way through a bit and was happy in tenth behind Styke and Peters. Then I could see I was catching them. Clout went down and then I got Styke and Peters so I was seventh for a bit there, but then she started dying on me. I was shattered but you can’t get too angry, it happens. It would have been nice to finish seventh or eighth, but it’s still a good experience to ride up front with those guys.”