IT SEEMS as if time off through injury has failed to slow down young motorcycle gun Kruse Brady.

While the 11-year-old may be wiser after breaking a leg and a hand, he has continued his dominance of dirt track racing this year with a series of impressive results.

After third places in modified 80cc and 85cc and fourth in 65cc at the Victorian state titles, the family packed up the trailer during the school holidays and headed off on a 5300km round trip that took in the NSW Dirt Track Titles at Kempsey and Australian Junior Long Track Championships at Townsville.

Racing on a hard-packed surface at Kempsey, Kruse again finished third in the 85cc and modified 80cc, and fifth in 65cc.

Proving that preparation is the key, but finals racing is a different beat, Kruse had finished all his heats in the top three.

Moving on to Townsville's loose granite gravel surface against the best young riders in the country and with speeds well over 100 km/h, Kruse finished third in the modified 80cc class.

With little lead-up competition - club days and the Golden Wheels Riverina dirt track competition had been rained out - and no time to practise on the track, Kruse just had to turn up and ride.

Racing has become more of a challenge for Kruse as he gets older, but he has to stay on the smaller capacity bike because he can't move up to 125cc until he turns 13.

"The little kids that are stepping up, they're quick," Kruse said.

"I'd probably do better if I trained a bit."

More recently, Kruse raced at the South Coast Cup on July 19 and 20, returning with first places in the 65cc and modified 80cc classes, and a second in 85cc.

However, the next move could be to speedway racing according to his father Matt, with the nine to 16 years age group able to ride bigger bikes.

"He's riding a 125 speedway bike at home so we will do that next," Brady said.

Speedway is preferable to motocross for Kruse as you can ride for longer with less wear on the body.

"In speedway you can do five laps and you ask 'is there any more?'," he said.