Chad Reed is confident his horror crash is behind him and he’s ready to contend in the US next season after a blistering finish to the Australian Supercross Championship.

The 30-year-old Australian great blazed away from the outset to win the final race in Newcastle on Saturday night by almost 25 seconds from Jay Marmont before 10,000 home town fans.

It capped a super comeback from Reed.

His 2012 American season was ruined by injuries, including a torn ACL requiring surgery, sustained in a high impact crash in the seventh round of the AMA Supercross series in Dallas in February.

Former world and AMA champion Reed led every lap of the three rounds he contested in the four-event Australian championship, at Phillip Island, Townsville and Newcastle.

It wasn’t quite enough to prevent Saturday night’s runner-up Jay Marmont from retaining the national title. Marmont needed only to finish on the podium.

But the four-time national champion could hardly have done more and feels his pace is back.

Reed returns to the US on Monday to prepare for the 2013 AMA series starting on January 5 in Anaheim, California and faces 17 rounds of racing over 18 weeks.

“I’ve really found my feet this past week. Coming back home and getting settled in has made me really comfortable and I feel like I am back on track and ready for Anaheim 1 in January,” said Reed.

“It was always going to be a challenge to make up the points on Jay – he is a great racer and is a very deserving repeat champion.”

Having switched from Yamaha to Kawasaki, Marmont claimed back-to-back national titles, with Daniel McCoy nine points behind in second and Reed third.