The CDR Yamaha Monster Energy Team is Yamaha Australia’s official MX1 racing program and has proven to be a great partner of Yamaha and the championship winning YZ450F. Under the ownership and management of former four time Mr Motocross champion, Craig Dack, CDR Yamaha are the longest running and most successful motocross and supercross racing outfit in the country, amassing over 40 national championships and playing a part in working with and developing some of the biggest names in the sport.
Chad Reed, Craig Anderson, Darryl King, Josh Coppins and Dean Ferris are just some of the stars to have worked and thrived in the CDR Yamaha environment and for over a decade, CDR Yamaha has been the dominant team at the MX Nationals taking home plenty of championships in recent years on board the YZ450F.
Team Personnel
Manager / Owner: Craig Dack
Motor and Electronics: Brad McAlpine
Suspension/ Chassis /Technical supervisor : Gary Benn
Riders: Luke Clout / Hayden Mellross
Technicians: Allister Kent /Aaron Clout
CDR Yamaha Monster Energy
Starting in 1992, the CDR Yamaha Monster Energy Team have set the benchmark for professional motocross and now about to enter their fourth decade, they continue to set the standard for others to match and be the team all riders want to race for.
Team Profiles
Luke Clout
Hayden Melross
Luke Clout is back on the CDR Yamaha YZ450F and looking to pick up exactly where he left off in 2019 before shooting off to the USA. Clout is a major player in the MX1 class and is considered a potential race winner every time the gate drops. He has won the Australian MX2 championship in 2014 on a Yamaha and after spending 2020 in the USA, he is determined to take all before him in Australia for the 2021 season.
After spending much of the 2020 season sidelined due to injury, Mellross is back to 100% fitness and ready to rip it up for 2021 with the CDR Yamaha team. The Mellross journey is one well-travelled as for the best part of the 2010’s, he spent racing in the US and trying to establish himself in the cut and thrust world of supercross. But now back in Australia full time and under the watchful guidance of CDR Yamaha, Mellross is in the prime of his career and desperate to add some championship success to his name in 2021.