Rider Quotes

Ryan Marmont – Pro Lites – 1st – “I chose the wrong rubber for qualifying and after only being 20th quickest I thought well things can only get better from here!

“I concentrated on working my way through the pack in the opening moto and had a fairly good run and I could just see the leaders in the distance when I ran out of laps so I knew that if I could get a good start in the second moto then I could certainly challenge for the win.

“I did get that reasonable jump out of the gate in the final moto and was around 7th early in the race but got into a good flow and worked my way to the front and managed to pull a bit of a gap and had a good race.

“I don’t get to ride sandy tracks very often so it was quite encouraging to be able to win at Coolum. The track got very rough during the day so it was really pleasing to be able to run a race winning pace there.

“Two round wins in a row is a tally I hope to add to at Newcastle later this month. While Coolum is mainly flat there is plenty of air time at Newcastle and hopefully I can add a first moto win to my tally of final moto wins.”

Daniel McCoy – Pro Lites – 2nd – “I was the 2nd fastest in qualifying. In the first race I was running in 2nd place and trying to challenge Burkhart for the lead over the first few laps but then made a mistake and went down which put me back to around 6th and then I concentrated on working my way back up and managed to get 3rd place before I ran out of laps.

“I didn’t get a great start in the second moto but got up to 2nd again but an incident on the penultimate lap saw me slip back to 3rd.”

“We took some good points here and I managed to really progress up the championship standings which is of course the primary aim at the moment.

“I look forward to our successful trend continuing at Newcastle later this month.”

Rob Twyerould – Motorex KTM Team Manager – “We were really well organised for this round and everything ran like clockwork for us.

“The week up here in Queensland was fairly good for the boys as we got to ride on some great tracks during the week while training.

“The priority now is to get Lee fit as he is very sore. Once it got bumpy it was just too hard for him to hang on with his injured wrist. We have three weeks until Newcastle and hopefully that time will enable him to regain near full fitness.

“Our Pro Lite riders are closing in on that championship goal bit by bit.

“We still haven’t touched the motors on the new bikes as we have just been concentrating on fine tuning the suspension to suit the riders and the tracks. We have only been adjusting springs and the valving inside the forks and shock absorber to suit local conditions but to be honest the new 250 SXF has the pace to win races right out of the box.”