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By Alex Gobert // MotoOnline.com.au

Australian Cody Mackie’s dream continues, with Jeff Ward Racing’s Lucas Mirtl this morning confirming that Mackie will continue for the team in upcoming rounds of Monster Energy AMA Supercross.

Mackie has officially signed to ride for the team at both the San Diego and Dallas rounds of the series, before his longer term future will be decided after that round.

With the return of regular team rider Josh Grant to be decided week by week, Mackie has also been linked to a third Kawasaki KX450F alongside Grant and Kyle Chisholm for the season remainder.

Mackie first joined the team for the Oakland round of the series after Grant was injured in Los Angeles, qualifying for the main event and finishing a credible 16th.

Last weekend at Anaheim II, Mackie crashed while in a transfer position during the heat, before finishing fourth in the stacked LCQ.

To see more on Mackie, check out this film that Racer X Online put together this week.

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smee113 wrote: 8:35pm February 7, 2012

Well a 16th is better than Grant has done this season, maybe Grant should be Mackie's backup! haha

smee113 wrote: 8:41pm February 7, 2012

I think its funny how Grant didn't sign with SuperX.com Honda because he didn't want to play "second fiddle" to Andrew Short, who is a top 5 threat every weekend, and now he's playing second fiddle to Kyle Chisholm, and where is Grant during all of this? Where he's been for the majority of the last two seasons, on the sidelines. I remember telling my dad after Grant won A1 three years ago that this kid was going places, and so far the only place he's gone is to the hospital.

mxsp17 wrote: 10:35pm February 7, 2012

In any job you can get used to staying at home with checks coming in.Then it runs out and total wake up call!Believe me!

dd4130 wrote: 3:30am February 8, 2012

Well done. He followed his dream & is doing a great job. Good luck to Codie & JWR in San Diego!

mxchampion wrote: 5:45pm February 10, 2012

JWR should dump grant and keep mackie because atleast hes making main event and FINISHING races. JWR should keep mackie and pick up kyle regal for the outdoors

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