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This MA press release provides the names of the Aussies that the Kiwi MXoN Team: will be competing against at the 2004 Motocross of Nations, scheduled to be held in Lierop, The Netherlands, 2nd and 3rd October.
Two rookies will join seasoned campaigner Andrew McFarlane in the Australian team for this year’s Motocross of Nations (MoN) at Lierop in Holland on October 2-3.
Victorian duo Cheyne Boyd and 27-year-old Lee Ellis have been selected by Motorcycling Australia’s Motocross Commission to partner McFarlane in the prestigious teams’ event, which has been held every year since 1947. Gary Benn will again manage the Australian operation.
Boyd, 22, who finished fourth in this year’s Maxxis Australian Motocross Championship, one spot ahead of the much-improved Ellis, will campaign a KTM 540SX in the Open class at the MoN. Meanwhile, Ellis will be Honda CRF450R-mounted in the MX1 division and McFarlane, who has just undergone an operation in the UK to screw and plate the right collarbone he fractured in last weekend’s round of the Motocross World Championship, will pilot his Yamaha YZ250F in the MX2 class.
The Australian team has been selected based on the unavailability of reigning AMA supercross champion Chad Reed, and his American-based countrymen Michael Byrne, Craig Anderson and Brett Metcalfe.
A gritty Australia (McFarlane, Paul Grant and Paul Broomfield) finished second in the B Final at last year’s MoN, after just failing to earn a spot in the A Final –won by Belgium. In 2004, the MoN will revert to its original concept, with three motos again being used to declare a winner – each class of machinery facing off against each other once.
Mark Fattore
Motorcycling Australia
