Victorian motocross ace Adam Monea scored his first moto win for 2012 at the fourth round of the Australian Motocross Championship season, in Wanneroo.
Monea, is in his comeback season of full time MX Nationals MX2 class competition, since having two seasons off. The emphatic moto win in the gruelling 30 minute final moto of the ay was his first since 2008 and earned him a solid third place overall for the round.
Showing great speed all weekend on the sandy Wanneroo circuit. Monea qualified fourth fastest on Saturday, before being fastest by a full second in Sunday‰Ûªs warm up session.
In the first of the two ‰Û÷back to back‰Ûª 15 minute races, Monea recovered from a minor fall to place seventh. Race two, saw the 23 year old from Koo Wee Rup finish a solid fifth place.
When the gate dropped for the final 30 minute moto, Monea headed into the first turn in second place, behind fellow Victorian Kade Mosig. Wasting no time, he made the pass into the lead and never looked back.
On what is arguably the roughest and toughest track on the MX Nationals circuit, Monea won by a dominating 17 seconds and moved himself into a podium position for the round.
‰ÛÏThat was toughest track I‰Ûªve ridden on in a very long time, if not ever!‰Û
