16 Mar. 2022

Husqvarna Motorcycles and Waters Target Off-Road Success

Husqvarna Racing Team motocross racer Todd Waters will continue his quest for titles in the Australian Off-Road Championship (AORC) throughout 2022, also set to debut in the Australian Four-Day Enduro (A4DE) and Hattah Desert Race.

Former national MX1 champion Waters was already named to be leading Husqvarna Motorcycles’ in-house factory ProMX effort for another season riding an FC 450, while he will enter AORC as a title favourite in E2 and outright within his own Husky-backed enduro program.

Despite 2022 being his third campaign battling the best off-road racers in the country, 31-year-old Queenslander Waters is still relatively new to sport, having only raced five rounds of the AORC over two shortened seasons.

In that short time, though, Waters has quickly established himself as a serious contender. After finishing third in the AORC E2 standings on debut in 2020, Waters stormed to two E2 class wins at Golden Beach, VIC, last year prior to the season being cancelled.

With the promise of a full season of racing the clock beckoning, Waters will be equipped with the highly-competitive Husqvarna FE 450 in the AORC when it takes off at Cherrabah in Queensland on 19-20 March.

Todd Waters: “It’s exciting to be adding enduro to our motocross plans for another season and I’m ready to go. I’m never really results-driven from a training perspective, but I’m definitely going out to win any time that we line up. At the same time, it’s hard to prepare for the AORC, as I haven’t raced a full championship and I’ve never experienced a cross-country format yet! The different formats that we race in off-road really excite me and I’m looking forward to the longer enduro races and the likes of Hattah. This year we’re running the Husqvarna enduro program ourselves and that suits me to a tee – I’m confident with what we can supply and we’ve spent the past three months finding the optimal bike and suspension set-up. I’m fit, healthy and I’m going into the first round as prepared as I can possibly be."

Kyle Blunden (KTM Group Australia Motorsport Manager): “To continue our long-standing relationship with Todd in his pursuit for success in the off-road segment and also in motocross is very exciting. Todd has shown on numerous occasions that he has what it takes to win against the country’s best racers and, after refining his set-up with Paul at MPE, he is feeling more comfortable than ever. Todd has grown both as a racer and Husqvarna Motorcycles ambassador over the years and we are thrilled to be going racing with him in 2022.”