As the Berry Sweet/Lucas Oil/Yamaha team prepares for the 2013 season, team owner Craig Anderson has revealed that new recruit Tye Simmonds will be their sole focus throughout the upcoming motocross and supercross series’.

The choice to support just one rider in the professional ranks will allow Anderson and his crew to concentrate on taking the Bourke native and his YZ450F to the top of the premier class.

“It’s going to be just Tye on the 450,” said Anderson. “We’ve sort of taken a bit of a different approach this year, instead of having two or three guys on the team, we’ve gone with just Tye – he’s our main guy.

“Then we have myself that’s going to be doing the vets championship, we’re talking to Jessica Patterson at the moment to come over and do the women’s championship. We also have a kid from Western Australia that will do the two junior races over here as well.”

Although Anderson will be recruiting other riders in support classes throughout the year, he says the main focus will remain on winning races with Simmonds.

“So we just really want to get a bunch of people that are going to be up front in all different classes,” he added. “So we’re really focusing on Tye and winning races.”

Click here to view MotoOnline.com.au’s complete interview with Anderson.