He bravely tried to continue racing and had worked his way back to deep inside the top ten when the bars finally gave way, snapping in half and leaving him now choice but to retire from the race.
"I had a good start to the weekend on Saturday with a second place finish in my heat race which was good confidence booster leading into the final." Sutherland explained.
"I got into third place early on lap one of the final then capitalised on a mistake Marmont made an moved into second, I was feeling really comfortable an was slowly inching on the guys behind me.
"Just before the half way mark of the race I was in a rhythm section and there was a tough block right were I was landing. I had no to go an came down pretty hard, destroying my bars."
Sunday proved to be a bit of a repeat performance for Sutherland. After qualifying 3rd fastest in the SX lites class, he once again finished second in his heat race, before an early crash in the main event left him to charge from last place and over half a lap down.
He was able to work is way to 8th place when the flag fell at the end of the race.
"Sunday started out really well, I felt really good straight away and I ended up qualifying third fastest. I was feeling quiet confident to get on the podium, but I got caught up in a first turn pile up an by the time I got untangled the whole field was gone." Sutherland reflected.
"It felt good to be a top 3 rider all weekend though, and I just need to take the positives out of the weekend an get a good result at the final round in Toowoomba."
