Jed Beaton put the crowning glory on a colossal season by wrapping up the 2026 Penrite ProMX Championship presented by AMX Superstores (ProMX) with a round to spare in Conondale on July 26.

Holding a handy buffer heading into the penultimate round of Kawasaki MX1 action, Beaton (Monster Energy CDR Yamaha) kept his powder dry on the beautifully prepared Green Park track, with a third place in moto two enough to build an unassailable lead in the championship.

After two runner-up MX1 results in the last three years, and his promising 2025 campaign coming to a shuddering halt after a broken leg, Beaton is now the premier class champion for the first time – adding to his MX2 success in 2016.

"Unbelievable, I've been waiting a long time for this so to put it together this year is brilliant,” said Beaton. "It's been an unreal season and I’m just super happy to get it done. Hats off to the team, which has been behind me through thick and thin which is what makes this feel so much better. We've also had some terrible luck over the last two years but it's all come together in 2026. To come back from that injury (last year) and get it done is unbelievable. Also, thank you to my brother Ross, my fiancé Holly and my mum. Unfortunately, my dad is not here, so that's a tough one.”

Beaton’s teammate Aaron Tanti (2-2) was the overall MX1 winner in round seven, while the moto victories were shared by Honda Racing Australia teammates Nathan Crawford and outgoing champion Kyle Webster.

Webster and Tanti are now level on points in equal second, setting up a grandstand battle for silver and bronze at the Queensland Moto Park (QMP) finale on August 1-2, while Alex Larwood, Hayden Draper and Lachlan Turner are holding the balance of power in the Pirelli MX2, Maxxis MX3 and Ezilift MXW classes.

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Beaton had already punched out a remarkable body of MX1 work – 11 wins out of 12 motos – ahead of Conondale, which meant that round seven was more about playing it smart than pushing the boundaries.

And the Victorian’s response was textbook, with his 3-3 scorecard enough to leave Conondale with an unbeatable 61pt (335 to 274) championship lead over Webster and Tanti.

It was also Yamaha’s fourth win in the last six years of MX1 competition, following on from Luke Clout (2021), Tanti (2022) and Dean Ferris (2023).

After Levi Rogers (Caloundra Motorcycle Centre Yamaha) came out on top in MX1 Superpole, the heavy hitters reasserted their authority in the two 25-minute plus a lap motos, with Crawford leading most of the way in the opener from Tanti, followed by Beaton, Webster and Ryan Alexanderson (Penrite Empire Kawasaki). It was Crawford’s first MX1 victory in Honda colours.

Todd Waters (Raceline Husqvarna TDUB Racing), Rogers and Rhys Budd (Motocoach Elite Racing Honda) completed the top eight.

The second moto was a more pulsating affair, with Tanti again setting the fastest lap but it was Webster who had more late speed to win by 0.862 seconds.

Beaton and Crawford were third and fourth from Alexanderson, Budd, Zachary Watson (KTM Factory Racing) and Waters.

Crawford (232pts) and Waters (199pts) are likely to finish fourth and fifth in the MX1 title unless QMP delivers some seismic changes to the pecking order.

It’ll be all the line at QMP as the Pirelli MX2 title boils down to a spicy intra-team shootout between Honda Australia Racing duo Alex Larwood and rookie Kayd Kingsford.

After his 2-1 results at Green Park, Larwood holds a 26pt advantage – but the gap could have been so much closer if Kingsford wasn’t caught up in a melee at the start of moto two. He eventually finished ninth, while Larwood took maximum advantage by claiming his 10th win of the season.

Despite his lowly moto two finish, Kingsford (1-9) still finished third overall in Conondale behind Larwood (2-1) and Dylan Walsh (KTM Factory Racing, 3-2), and ahead of Ryder Kingsford (Honda Racing Australia, 5-4) and Byron Dennis (KTM Racing Australia, 4-6).

The pace was lightning fast in moto one, as agreeable track conditions saw the MX2 top brass set the fastest lap times of the day – with Kayd Kingsford setting the benchmark at 2:07.710. Reid Taylor (Honda) was a DNF in that outing before a brilliant third in moto two, right on the bumper of Walsh.

Walsh and Dennis, who will lead the local wildcard charge in the MX2 class at the MXGP of Australia in Darwin, are equal third in the ProMX standings on 249pts, making for an intriguing bronze battle at QMP.

While Seth Morrow (Honda) continued his stunning late-season purple patch – a second flawless round in succession to move up to fourth in the standings -- it was very much a case of damage limitation for championship leader Hayden Draper (Monster Energy WBR Yamaha).

The New Zealander was clearly unwell on race day, but dug deep with 6-3 results – only allowing main championship rival Heath Fisher (Honda Racing Australia, 2-6) to trim his lead by 2pts.

Draper is now 20pts (270 to 250) ahead with two motos remaining to see out the season, followed by Riley Burgess (Boyds Moto Racing KTM, 231pts, Seth Morrow (223pts) and Jackson Fuller (KTM Factory Racing, 216pts).

Morrow again had a spring in his step all day, winning the Maxxis MX3 motos by 14 and nine seconds respectively with lap times two seconds faster than the next best. He was joined by different sets of riders on both podiums: Fisher and Burgess in the opener and Hayden Downie (Yamaha) and Draper in moto two.

American Lachlan Turner (Monster Energy Yamalube Yamaha) is clearly a cut above the Ezilift MXW opposition in 2026, prevailing in both the easy and hard way in Conondale.

In the opening moto, Turner won easily ahead of Charli Cannon (Honda Racing Australia) and Taylah McCutcheon (JPM 360 Kawasaki), and in the second she went down and dropped back to fifth.

However, she regrouped and clawed her way back through the field, passing Cannon with three laps remaining to keep her unbeaten run intact.

McCutcheon was again third, while Madi Simpson (Yamaha, 5-4), Darci Whalley (Honda, 4-6) and Emma Milesevic (Yamaha, 6-5) were also prominent.

Turner leads the MXW standings by 34pts (150 to 116) over McCutcheon, while Cannon’s four-year reign is likely to come to an end at QMP. Still riding with an injured shoulder blade, Cannon is on 110pts.