Team Motul Pirelli Suzuki will field Cody Cooper and Matt Moss in the 2013 Australian Motocross Championship, focusing on the premier MX1 category with the RM-Z450.
Cooper, fresh from winning last weekend’s opening round of the New Zealand Motocross Championship, will return for his fourth consecutive season, while Moss will be reunited with a team where he won three national MX2 titles across the 2008-2009 seasons.
After spending much of last season in the United States, Moss returned home to join Suzuki for supercross, however injury at the opening round sidelined him for the balance of the championship.
“I’m excited to be back with Suzuki and I really want to focus on a successful season ahead,” Moss explained. “I feel like I will be ready for the opening round and I am looking forward to the challenges ahead in the MX1 class.
“I think I could have stepped up to MX1 a year or two earlier, but I really wanted to try and race in America, so that’s why I had stayed on a Lites bike. For this year I will step up full-time and I have learnt a lot winning titles on the RM-Z250 in the past with Jay (Foreman) and the team. Now it’s up to me to carry that form over to the 450.”
The opening round of the 2013 Australian Motocross Championship will take place at Raymond Terrace (NSW) on April 14.