Jed Beaton

But this year...

Jed Beaton, MXGP, Alex Larwood, MX2, and Aaron Tanti all debut sort of... sort of performance is going to be for them at the Nations.

But Jed Beaton, of course, MX1 champ on a 450.

His teammate Aaron Tanti, second in the championship.

And then we've got Alex Larwood, who was the MX2 champ.

On paper, first and second, and an MX2 champ.

Very, very strong.

Okay, might not have the kudos of what we had before, but... you still think they could be a podium contender? I mean, you've seen Jed Beaton in the last couple of races outdoors, so you've kind of got an idea of his speed, his pace, and maybe something like that, you know?

I really don't.

Jed Beaton? Yeah.

Get him to ride over here.

I did actually start thinking that last night.

And fast forward to today where he now has both of his CDR Yamaha riders on the team.

I get Craig's thoughts on the year so far with Jed Beaton and Aaron Tanti.

His take on their motocross season and what it means to have both riders selected for the Australian team.

We discuss the current state of the sport and what it would take to stop the current domination of championships in Supercross from Honda Racing Australia and lots, lots more.

Yeah, I was nearly going to have to go out with injury myself.

But hey, this time of the year for you, it should really be pretty quiet.

Obviously, you just wrapped up the MX1 Championship with Jed Beaton.

But for you, it's still all action-packed.

Sexton...

Yeah, but I know Beaton was going to do it.

He's not now, but he was going to.

So they've gone far down.

And it was sort of like a pre-season international for the Australian series.

I've got to think that everyone would show up and shake out their machinery and whatnot.

Whereas for the second time in this episode, let me bring up Jed Beaton's plans.

He won't be racing Darwin, which in my mind is a great loss for both Australia and MXGP.

wreck it for some riders.

And then some would race Saturday in the All Powers, like having Jed Beaton rock up and race All Powers on Saturday and then Kyle race on Sunday and things like that.

It was cool for the riders and us as spectators to watch it.

I don't know, Pete.

Who was that,

Darren? Jed Beaton.

He just won the Australian motocross championship, and he's from Penguin.

Good boys, guys.

Take us through it.

Yeah, well, the team, as I'm sure most are aware, or pretty much everybody will be aware by seeing this, is, as we knew, Jed Beaton.

He is in as Team Australia's MXGP rider.

Aaron Tanti, national number two, so also teammates, but he's been called into the open seat.

in form in terms of the national championship.

So we'll get into it a lot more, but what's your initial thoughts?

Yeah, look, I'm satisfied with the team, right? You know, we knew Jed Beaton was going to be the main pick leading into it.

That second rider, we sort of guessed around a little bit.