Race Results: 2025 Australia Pro Motocross | Round 1 Wonthaggi

The opening round of the 2025 Penrite ProMX Championship, presented by AMX Superstores, produced a weekend of spectacular competition, as the brutal Victorian circuit of Wonthaggi proved again to have the final say.

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A late crash by defending MX1 champion Kyle Webster saw his main rival Jed Beaton take a handy points advantage from the first round, while Honda rider Brodie Connolly continue to assert his dominance in the MX2 class.

MX1 CLASS: JED BEATON WINS

The 2025 campaign of Monster Energy CDR Yamaha rider Jed Beaton got off to a dream start at Wonthaggi. Not only did he claim the Kawasaki MX1 round win, but Webster gifted him a strong early points lead after suffering a DNF in the second moto.

Webster grabbed the holeshot in the opening MX1 moto of the season and tried to run and hide as Beaton quickly scrambled from a P5 start into second.

The pair gapped the field and duelled all race, but Webster held on to win by just one second. Monster Energy CDR Yamaha’s Maximus Purvis finished a distant third, while Penrite Racing Empire Kawasaki rider Luke Clout and Todd completed the top five.

A dramatic turn of events in the final MX1 moto saw Beaton take a wire-to-wire win and a sizable 10-point lead in the championship fight when Webster crashed out midway through the race.

Beaton jumped to the holeshot, and with Webster chasing hard, they stretched out a big gap over the rest of the field. Unfortunately, Webster had a big crash on the fifth lap, and even though he was able to remount, he pulled into the pits and DNF’d.

Beaton suddenly had a massive advantage over the rest of the pack, but he refused to settle and kept hammering to a 41.5-second win over Crawford and Gibbs. Recovering from an early error, Clout finished a distant fourth but comfortably ahead of Todd Waters (Raceline Husqvarna Racing Team).

Beaton’s 2-1 result saw him top the round podium, with Crawford (6-2) in second and Clout (4-4) third overall. Webster finished 10th overall.

Top 10 MX1 OVERALL

#14 Jed Beaton (Yamaha) 1-2
#3 Nathan Crawford (KTM) 6-2
#4 Luke Clout (Kawaski) 4-4
#145 Maximus Purvis (Yamaha) 3-9
#5 Kirk Gibbs (KTM) 10-3
#34 Levi Rogers (Yamaha) 8-6
#8 Zachary Watson (Triumph) 7-7
#20 Wilson Todd (Honda) 5-10
#72 Regan Duffy (Husqvarna) 9-8
#1 Kyle Webster (Honda) 1-DNF

MX2: BRODIE CONNOLLY WINS

Polyflor Honda Racing’s Brody Connolly couldn’t have wished for a better start to his title defence, dominating qualifying, then clean-sweeping the two Pirelli MX2 motos.

When the gate dropped on the first race, Monster Energy Yamalube Yamaha’s Ryder Kingsford led the pack through the first turn, but the defending champion Connolly tore past him just seconds later to secure the lead.

Kingsford hung tough throughout the race, but the Kiwi steadily built a gap before taking the opening moto win by 7.5 seconds.

The second moto saw almost a carbon copy of the opening moto from a results’ perspective. Ferguson scored the holeshot on his new KTM, but a mistake shortly after saw him buried well back in the field as Connolly took control.

Kingsford tried desperately to stay close to the Honda rider for the first half of the moto, but Connolly wouldn’t falter around the chopped-up track and stretched his buffer to take a 15.3- second victory.

Top 10 MX2 OVERALL