Motul Pirelli Suzuki's Todd Waters overall win at round five of the 2012 Monster Energy MX Nationals championships on Sunday held in South Australia marked the first win by an Australian rider in the premier MX1 class this season.
With internationals riders in the form of Ben Townley and Brad Anderson both winning one round each and New Zealand's CDR Yamaha mounted Josh Coppins winning two rounds, it as been slim pickings for Australian born riders in the first half of the season.
Cairns based Waters put a halt to the foreign riders domination of the Australian season with an impressive 1-1-2 score card at the Murray Bridge circuit and in the process put himself right in the championship hunt at the half way mark of the season.
Waters won the opening two 15-minute motos of the weekend that were staged back-to-back, before a second place after leading much of moto two sealed the overall victory for the round.
"It was pretty much just a picture perfect day." said Waters, I got three good starts and was in the top three for all of them."
"The first moto I got the hole shot and led from start to finish, then in the second moto I was up front again and made the pass halfway through." the 21 year old continued.
"I had a ball riding with Brad Anderson in the final moto, dicing for the lead, and I enjoyed it. I didn't get the win in that one, but I had a lot of fun. I love this track and it's one of my favourites, so it was good to come back and win." he added
