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Despite carrying a serious knee injury, current World Champion Katherine Prumm will board her YZ450F in order to maintain her lead in Yamaha Australian Women's Motocross Championship at the second round of the series at Newry this weekend.
After blitzing her competition and winning the first round of the Australian championship at Queensland in March, Prumm was involved in a practice crash in Belgium while preparing for the first round of the World Championship.
This weekend the 19-year-old will defy doctors orders who advised her not to compete until a knee reconstruction is carried out to fix her ACL joint which is unstable due to the injury.
Already the New Zealander has beat the odds and competed in the first two rounds of the World Women's Championship. She is currently second in the point score and just two points behind leader Livia Lancelot who has 82 points.
With the structure of the World Woman's Championship this will be Prumm's last appearance in Australia in 2008.
"I really enjoy racing in Australia and while my knee is far from being 100% better, the event at Newry will give me additional time on the bike before the next round of the World Championship," Prumm said.
"My YZ250F was great at the first round of the series at Tivoli and hopefully we can continue to record strong results this weekend. I've never raced at Newry but I am looking forward to the challenge."
"Unfortunately my commitments overseas mean that I am unable to attend the final round of the series at Lakes in June. Given this I really wanted to make sure I competed in this weekend's event and record a strong result for Yamaha who have supported me since the start of the year."
The Queensland Yamaha Junior Development Team will have two entries competing in the MX Development Series this weekend with Shaun Redhead and Sam Southey both making the trip to the Victorian circuit.
Redhead will be out to repeat the stellar form displayed at the first round of the championship where he won the 13 – 14 years 250cc and 13 – 14 years 125cc classes after taking victory in all the motos conducted across the two classes.
Sam Southey will make his 2008 MX Development Series debut and he will compete in the Under 19s category after missing the opening round of the championship due to injury. The Queenslander will be up against his Victorian Yamaha Junior Development Team counterpart Ross Beaton.
The Victorian team will field another three entries in the races conducted on the weekend with Michael Crugnale (13 – 14 years 125cc and 13 – 15 250cc), Steve Bennett (13 – 14 years 125cc, and 12 – 14 years 150cc) and Troy McNally (Rookies).
MR2 Under 19s Championship (after one round) 1. Harley Quinlan (47 points) 2. Nick Geck (47 points) 3. Joel Rizzo (40 points) 4. Luke Wilson (33 points) 5. Shannon King (29 points)
12 – 14 years 85cc/150cc 1. Scott Mann (43 points) 2. Jackson Richardson (42points) 3. Jacob Wright (42 points) 4. Errol Wilis (35 points) 5. Joben Baldwin (34 points) 10. Joel Milesevic (22 points) 11. Steven Bennett (20 points)
13 – 14 years 250cc 1. Shaun Redhead (50 points) 2. Thomas Rushton (42 points) 3. Dylan Gosling (38 points) 4. Dylan Berwick (34 points) 5. Jacob Wright (34 points) 6. Michael Crugnale (33 points)
13 – 14 years 125cc 1. Shaun Redhead (50 points) 2. Michael Crugnale (40 points) 3. Dylan Berwick (40 points) 4. Jackson Richardson (36points) 5. Jake Wright (33 points) 10. Steven Bennett (22 points)
Under 15s Rookies 1. Tye Simmonds (50 points) 2. Dylan Peterson (44 points) 3. Jason Reed (40 points) 4. Chris Gay (34 points) 5. Troy McNally (31 points)
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