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national series winner, was involved in the crash and finished in eighth place. Third was Andrew Gillett from Western Australia.

For Gold Coast girl, Cherie Simpson, a win in the state titles today finished off a stellar weekend after she won the national series race yesterday. The 18 year old was again challenged by former dual world champion, Jaclyn Wilson-Thompson. The 32 year old mother of two from Bendigo just faulted slightly during the race leaving Simpson to take it out. “It’s my first Queensland title,” exclaimed Simpson.”It was a close race as I had two faster ones who had beaten me in the motos but I stuck to my race plan and it turned out the way I wanted it to. I’ve had a really good weekend and I’m wrapped with my results.”

Junior men’s winners were a repeat of yesterday’s national round places with Victoria’s Matthew Dunsworth and Perth’s Darryn Goodwin placing first and second respectively. “It was tougher than yesterday,” declared Dunsworth. “Back to back’s not bad.”

Former World Champion, Melinda McLeod from Mackay returned to form to win the state junior women’s title over Gold Coast’s Lacey Oliver. McLeod withdrew from racing on Saturday and missed the finals of the national round. “It hasn’t been a great weekend. I had to pull out of the Probikx yesterday as I had a stomach virus,” explained McLeod. McLeod had obviously recovered by today though to take the win. “It’s so good the competition we’ve got there’s Lacey (Oliver) and Molly (Nichols-Pavy) up there,” McLeod said.

Several Mackay riders picked up wins in both the national round and the state championships and according to McLeod they and the track will be ready to host next year’s State Championships. “It’s looking good for Mackay we’ve picked up a few plates here this weekend. The home track is going to be good for next year. I only live about ten minutes from the track so I won’t have so far to travel then!” laughed McLeod.

The Masters 30 plus men’s race was won by the local club favourite, Justin Lamb from Ashmore.

A total of 920 riders competed on Sunday in a total of 38 classes from as young as 8 to over 50 year olds. Next year’s state championships will be held in Mackay, Central Queensland.

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