McCormack, 16, won the hotly contested Junior Outright and Junior Lites Class in round six on Sunday.

The Pro Motorcycles Yamaha Queensland Enduro Team rider now leads Junior Outright by eight-points and his class by one-point going into rounds seven and eight of the championship, to be held at Warwick (QLD's) Cherrabah Resort on August 15th and 16th.

"I'm really happy with how the weekend turned out, I'm where I want to be now," McCormack said.

"Now I'm just going to work really hard the next couple of weeks and try to pull it off again in the Queensland rounds."

McCormack said his victory had not come easily, with extremely tough competition from the large field of Junior racers.

"I had a heap of compeition this weekend. There was Ben Burrell, Jake Wright, who's a motocrosser from Cairns, and Dale Blackwell and they were all riding really well," he said.

"The times were really close all day [Sunday] and it came down to the last lap."

McCormack finished third in his class in Saturday's round five and said he was struggling a bit to adjust to the sand.

"I found it hard to get used to the track straight up on Saturday, I've been training in sand, but South Australia was very unique," McCormack said.

"The tracks were really rough and definitely after the pro's rode them they were very challenging. I thought they were really hard to ride and keep on the bike.

"I changed a bit of my bike set-up on Saturday night and it worked awesome for me on Sunday.

"I was lucky enough to have a new YZ250F for the race and it went awesome."

Tom's next national competition will be the Queensland rounds of the AORC to be held at Warwick's Cherrabah Resort on August 15th and 16th. To follow Tom's progress in the AORC go to www.dirtbikepromotions.com.au

Tom's next Queensland competition will be the opening round of the Pony Express Series on July 5th. For more info go to www.qldenduro.com.

Tom McCormack is current Yamaha Junior Queensland Enduro Champion, Yamaha SEQ Enduro Series winner and is ranked third in the country for Junior Off-Road racers.

Tom's ultimate goal is to make the sport he loves his profession and race at the pinnacle of off-road competition in the United States and Europe.

Tom would like to thank his sponsors: PRO MOTORCYCLE'S QUEENSLAND ENDURO TEAM, YAMAHA QUEENSLAND, AXO, SHARK HELMETS, BELRAY, CHAD'S OFF-ROAD SET-UP'S, DID AND UNIFILTER and his mum and dad for taking him to all the races - about 50,000km's of travel every year.

Tom can be reached on 0403 669 565, 02 6685 4778 or (Dad Brad's mobile) 0411 887 507.