Transmoto Issue 58 ISSUU

The Two-Stroke Strikes Back
When Daniel Sanders and his beloved
300EXC went 1-1 at the season opener
in Queensland, it prompted us to go
back through the AORC’s stats to
identify the last time a two-stroke had
gone unbeaten over an AORC race
weekend. The answer? AJ Roberts and
his Husky WR250, way back in 2005.
And if anyone thought the two-stroke’s
win was an aberration back in March,
they had another thing coming. While
the 450cc four-stroke machines of
KTM’s Tye Simmonds and Yamaha’s
Chris Hollis managed to nab one
Outright round-win apiece this year,
Sanders scooped up the rest of them.
And to ram the two-stroke point home,
Sanders and his training partner, Husky
TE300-mounted Lyndon Snodgrass
(pictured above) , went 1-2 Outright
on the slick grasstrack at the final two
rounds; in conditions where you expect
the four-strokes’ tractability to be
unbeatable. Yep, these new-generation
two-strokes have become much more
versatile and rideable, and we’d expect
to see a lot more of them on entry lists –
for trail and race events – next year.
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