Yearbury also leads the battle for the over-301cc four-stroke class title .
SCOTT SHOWS HIS VERSATILITY Oparau ’ s James Scott is a relative rookie when it comes to enduro bike racing , but his dominant performance at the latest round in Marlborough has made a mockery of all that . The talented teenager , a fencing contractor during the week , tackled his first ever enduro event just last year and now , just two rounds ( three days of racing ) into his 2021 New Zealand Enduro Championships campaign , he has climbed into the top step of the enduro podium . Honda man Scott is not yet renowned for enduro racing , although that might be about to change , judging by his outstanding performance at the doubleheader round two in Marlborough in late
April , particularly on the Sunday . The 19-year-old took his CRF250R to finish runner-up at the 2021 New Zealand Motocross Championships , which wrapped up in Taupo in late March , and then immediately decided to take a 2021-model CRF450X enduro bike and tackle the five-round New Zealand Enduro Championships , “ just for the fun of it ”. Scott finished fourth overall at round one of the enduro nationals near Tokoroa in early April and then , encouraged by that success , he headed south two weeks later for the double-header second round in Marlborough . Scott finished fifth overall on Saturday ’ s first of two days of racing in Marlborough , but then stunned everyone when he topped the timing sheets in all four of Sunday ’ s “ special tests ”, winning the day outright , finishing 54 seconds
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