DICKEY
ith an unbeatable three wins from
three starts, KTM rider Jason Dickey
has his hands on the 2019 New
Zealand Cross-country Championships title
with a round to spare.
There is still the fourth and final round of
the series to come in six weeks’ time and,
although there is nothing left to prove, the
24-year-old dairy farmer from Raglan has
now set himself a fresh target, to make it a
clean sweep of wins this season.
Only three of the rounds are counted,
as riders discard their one worst result,
so Dickey’s 1-1-1 score-card thus far
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means the chase for the coveted senior
title is over for 2019, but he didn’t
have everything go his own way at the
penultimate third round of the series in
Marlborough on April 14.
A snarl-up near the start of the day’s
gruelling three-hour race left Dickey (KTM
350XC-F) with plenty of work to do.
“It was a pretty eventful day for me
actually,” said Dickey.
“I was last off the start line and got caught
up in a pile-up in the first gateway. Then
I got tangled in a fence and was behind
about two-thirds of the field.