Round three of the Japanese Motocross Championship took place at the Off Road Village at Saitama. Australia’s Jay Wilson has started the season strongly again, but the competition has been closing in so it was important for Wilson to reassert his dominance in the championship with a good showing on the weekend.
In conditions that started out wet and muddy, then ended as a racers paradise, Wilson took the round victory with 1-5-1 results in the three moto format. He won races one and three by 15 seconds, but race two saw Wilson cross the finish line in fifth after two crashes really set him back. “That was a proper rookie mistake,” Wilson laments. “Sane corner and same jump and I was impatient and tried to make space where there wasn’t any and went down both times.
“I was riding as well as I have all year and was good in traffic but I got an awful start and then crashed so I was 15th on the first lap, then I crashed again on next lap and was 21st on lap two. The track was tough to pass on as it was wet off the racing line but I got a little lucky that 1- 5-1 was able to win the day and I now have a 23 point lead in the championship,” Jay Wilson ends.