NZ 21 year old Extreme Motocross World Champion

[Saint in Paradise]

Palmerston North's Levi Sherwood has become the youngest-ever winner of the Red Bull X-Fighters tour championship

- and an overnight millionaire.

 

The 21-year-old sealed the world title and a $1.3m windfall yesterday, claiming the Sydney leg of the extreme motocross

world series on Cockatoo Island - his third stage win of the 2012.

 

Unlike his more traditional peers, Sherwood has done it all off his own back, self-building practice facilities on his

Manawatu farm as a teenager, with Government funding all but completely closed to him.

 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/motorsport/7779868/Kiwi-motocross-rider-an-overnight-millionaire