KIWIS TAKE SILVERWARE
FROM ACROSS THE TASMAN
Carl Robson
A
team of Kiwis tackled the Australian
Moto Trials Championships in the
Barossa Valley in September and
managed to come away with more
than their fair share of the silverware.
Wellington’s rising young star Dylan
Ball won in the A grade, the only rider entered
on a 125cc bike, while fellow Wellington man
Carl Robson narrowly missed out on the top
spot in B grade, coming home in second.
As an aside, Robson and Daniel Herbert
also rode a midweek trial with Robson
coming away with a solid win and Herbert
coming away with fourth in the B grade.
Dylan Ball
The main event in the Barossa Valley, South
Australia, was held the following weekend
on a rock farm. Ball and Herbert were riding
open junior 13-17 years, which Herbert just
scraped into, turning 13 the Sunday before.
Ball easily won the grade, dropping no points
to become the Australian open junior champ
for 2017, and Herbert scored a solid fourth.
Robson rode the masters and won on day
one, but unfortunately he finished fifth on
day two and earned fourth overall.
Photo: Andy McGechan
Hunterville’s Hannah Rushworth won the junior
women’s grade title. Robson, Ball and Rushworth
were also part of the Oceania team pitted
against three Australians, each of them riding
the same grades, of which they won, with each
of the Kiwi riders beating their matched rider.
KIWI RIDER 19