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Legendary Australian team owner Craig Dack has detailed his decision to pause Monster Energy CDR Yamaha’s World Supercross Championship program for 2025, unable to work through clashes with the AUSX series calendar after clinching last year’s SX1 crown with Eli Tomac.

Dack – who operates Yamaha’s official premier class effort domestically – entered WSX as one of the 10 licensed teams from the series’ inception in 2022, having fielded a team in each of the years that followed.

In 2024, the CDR team captured the SX1 class championship with Tomac in collaboration with US powerhouse Star Racing, however, multiple calendar clashes in 2025 with the Boost Mobile AUSX Supercross Championship in the initial schedules released ultimately led Dack to park the operation for this year.

“We won’t be doing [WSX] this year,” Dack told MotoOnline. “We won’t be because, at the beginning of the year, we had previous contracts that needed renewing. At the time of renewal, we had a period where we had to give WSX an answer by a certain time.

“At the time we were trying to renew the contract with World Supercross, the schedule that was initially put out, there were two to three clashes with our [AUSX] series here. Now there’s only one clash – which is the Gold Coast round and the final round of our domestic series here in Adelaide.

“For us to be able to do the WSX series, we would have had to start up a whole new team. I would need two complete teams that go separately, as we couldn’t really integrate both of them into each series – and because of the timeout clause or period with the World Supercross contract, we just couldn’t pull everything together in time to make that happen.”

The current pause doesn’t signify a total exit from the world championship, with Dack going on to explain that if everything aligns – which would involve building a separate team to contest WSX in the future – that he would be open to participating once more.

“I like everything about World Supercross,” he continued. “I like the people involved, I like their vision, and the financial offer they made to all the teams – including CDR – is great. But because of what I said, we’d have to form a whole new team with all new staff, [and] probably base the team out of America.

“It was all just too much, too soon for us to really get our heads around. It was just more of a timing thing, and it was very difficult for me to see a way to pull it together in the timeframe that they needed it.”