MXGP

Honda has the great pleasure to announce the partnership with the Assomotor Honda team for 2017, to compete the FIM Motocross World Championship, with a renewed and competitive riders line-up.

Valentin Guillod after a rookie year in MXGP joins the Honda Team aboard the CRF450R in 2017and together with Alessandro Lupino, who raced for the Assomotor Honda team also in 2016 will complete the line up.

In 2017 Alberto Forato and Mathys Boisramè will join the new born in Team Assomotor, the Assomotor Honda Junior team.

Team Assomotor was founded in 1991 by Alfredo Bevilacqua, who himself competed in the Italian Enduro championship and the relationship with Honda started in 2001.

In 2015 the team left Supermoto for motocross and joined the MXGP championship with Alessandro Lupino and Kei Yamamoto. This year Alfredo bevilacqua started the Assomotor Honda Junior team with Alberto Forato competing in the European and Italian Championships, and in 2017 the squad will compete in MXGP, the Swiss and Italian MXGP National Motocross Championships with Guillod and Lupino respectively, and the French and Italian MX2 National Motocross Championships with Boisramè and Forato.

Alfredo Bevilacqua, Assomotor Honda Team Manager: “I’m really honoured to become a member of the Honda family with only two years of experience in the Motocross World Championship. With Honda Motor Europe, we are very excited to bring into the team Valentin Guillod for the next season in MXGP along with Alessandro Lupino, and in the European Championship, we believe that we have a good line up with Mathys Boisramè and Alberto Forato. I’m very happy for this new cooperation with Honda Motor Europe, and I’m sure that we will be able to achieve good results with this strong team next season.”

Valentin Guillod: “I’m really happy to be part of the Honda family, and I’m really looking forward to trying this new CRF450R. I watched Bobryshev riding on it the last GPs, and it was impressive. I’m going to ride for the first time out on the Honda CRF450R at the Geneva Supercross 2-3 December 2016, and I will do all that I can do to represent Honda and the team in the best way in the MXGP class.”

Mathys Boisramè: “It’s a pleasure to ride the CRF250R, the handling of the CRF250R is fantastic. I’m really happy to be part of the Honda family and it’s a new challenge for me, so I look forward to next season and doing my best. I’m excited for next year  and I want to thank Honda and the Assomotor Team for this opportunity.”

The last time San Marino held a round of the FIM Motocross World Championship was back in 2000 where Italian, Thomas Traversini won the 125cc grand prix. Now, seventeen years on, Youthstream is pleased to confirm that the fifth smallest country in the world, yet one of the most interesting, will host the thirteenth round of the world’s premier motocross series, MXGP, in 2017.

Youthstream Vice President Mr. Luigi Zompetti recently met with the Secretary of Tourism and Sport Mr. Teodoro Lonferini and the Federmoto President Mr. Amedeo Michelotti at Palazzo Begni at San Marino where all parties signed the contract that will see the MXGP of San Marino take place in Baldasserona on the 8^th and 9^th of July, 2017.

MONACO (Principality of Monaco), 14 October 2016 – In 2017 the FIM Motocross World Championship will be bigger and better than ever with twenty rounds scheduled to take place in seventeen different countries across four different continents. Youthstream is pleased to announce that the world’s premier motocross series, MXGP, will return to Russia for the first time since 2012, with the MXGP of Russia set to take place at Orlyonok, the same track and location that hosted the 2016 FIM Junior Motocross World Championship back in August.

In addition, the motocross Grand Prix will return to some of the old favorite venues such as Agueda, Portugal, Baldasserona, San Marino, Uddevalla, Sweden and Ernée, France, the venue that rocked this world back in 2015 when France won the Monster Energy FIM Motocross of Nations on home turf. With French motocross booming, France will also host a second grand prix, and it will be the final round of the 2017 season, at Villars sous Ecot.

Besides Pangkal Pinang, Indonesia will host the second round of the FIM Motocross World Championship for the first time.

See here below the full 2017 FIM Motocross World Championship calendar as well as the FIM Women’s Motocross World Championship, FIM Veteran’s Motocross World Cup, the FIM Junior Motocross World Championship and the Monster Energy FIM Motocross of Nations dates.

In addition the full calendars of Honda EMX150, EMX125, EMX250 and EMX300 Championships are available here below.

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The Fox Holeshot is quite possibly the most rewarding achievement of each race, other than getting to the checkered flag first, and is definitely an important aspect in making a main event as easy as possible. At the first ever Monster Energy SMX Riders’ and Manufacturers’ Cup, which took place inside the VELTINS-Arena, Germany, Fox Head Europe put €1000 on the line for each of the three races.

The MXGP World Champion Tim Gajser had a €2000 payday thanks to his two holehots on his Honda CRF450RW, while the FIM Supercross World Champion, Ryan Dungey added €1000 to his purse with a holeshot on his KTM450SX-F in the final race of the evening.

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20 events, in 15 different countries, over a 9-month calendar.

SEL, as Official Carrier and Official Travel Agency of the FIM Motocross World Championship, has provided transport solutions and services of motorcycles, equipment, teams, riders and authorized personnel, covering more than 80,000 km with an estimate of over 90 hours of flying, across 4 continents.

SEL Logistics managed to carry 65,000 kg around the world during the overseas rounds. 

SEL Logistics engaged aircraft of B747-300 and B747-400-F-F for Europe/Qatar, Mexico/Europe, US/Europe, A380 for Qatar / Thailand - Thailand/Argentina and MD-11-F for Argentina/Mexico and Europe/US.

SEL Travel, granted a 24hr dedicated assistance at the over 350 passengers who flew,for each MXGP event, during the overseas rounds, with more than 100 hours flying time, using over 20 different airlines, reaching more than 25 airports in the world, booking more than 2.500 hotel’s nights.

Pier Carlo Bottero, CEO, SEL Sports & Events Logistics srl, - "We are proud of the work done this year and we are already planning the 2017 season in order to start our cooperation with the Teams for the next MXGP World Championship. Our aim is to be always beside our clients, raising up them from being busy with transportation and travel’s matters, to let them being focused on their work and on sport’s goals.“

Giuseppe Luongo, President, Youthstream: “SEL continue to be a solid performing partner for us and the teams. Their high level work support Youthstream in our most important goal: do the best possible for Teams and Riders in order to be make them ready and confortable at the starting grid". 

Team MXGP & SEL are looking forward to 2017!

The Monster Energy Supermotocross Riders Cup turned out to be a very interesting event with the best supercross riders in the world going head to head with best motocross riders in the world, around a motocross circuit indoors.

As many people expected the Red Bull KTM Factory team took out the victory, with Ryan Dungey, Marvin Musquin, Jeffrey Herlings and Jorge Prado. AMA Supercross champion Dungey was more than happy with his first race back in several months.

“It was nice to be back,” Dungey said. “My first race since my injury. We have had two or three weeks at the supercross track. It’s nice, but every time you go to the gate its nerve racking, but once we did that first one and Gajser was riding well and we had a good pace and by the time we got into the third one the personal reward was looking good and I was more focusing on the team aspect, that was first. Winning individually was second most important thing, and it was nice to get that one out of the way and it was nice from the boys at KTM, they all came up from Austria. It was a unique race and I am sure there was good coverage on television and the track developed much more different than I thought. I was proud of Marvin and Herlings and little Prado.”

Jeffrey Herlings looks super-fast all weekend and probably the fastest rider on the track, but crashes caused him to finish less than he might have expected.

“It is kind of a MXoN race,” Herlings said. “Coming here I knew I had the strongest team, which wasn’t the case at the Nations. I mean riding with these guys and working with Roger, who is the man of motocross. It was great all the KTM crew here and we gave them a 1-2-3 and the manufactures Cup, so that is pretty amazing. First moto I was struggling and tried to pass Romain and we both went down. Second moto I holeshot and I thought ok here we go, but then I went down and came from last to fifth. The last moto I figured we have to make it happen. I was mid pack and made it to the front. I am looking forward to next season and having more battles going on.

World MXGP champion and Honda rider Tim Gasjer was also super quick around the indoor motocross circuit, and despite picking up a slight injury enjoyed his evening.

“Track looked nice,” Gajser said. “I liked it, not too technical, but I liked it a lot. I think, we MXGP guys also know how to ride indoors, but for sure it was tighter, and they (the American riders) have more experience riding in a stadium, but I knew we would fight hard for sure. It’s nice having the names like Dungey, Musquin, Osborne and those guys who race in America. I think it’s the same, he is good, and a good guy, and a quick racer and fast and everything, but as a rider you go and do your own thing and you don’t think about somebody else. We never do that, because it will mess with your head.”

No doubt all three riders will look forward to coming back to the SMX Cup and continues what looks like being a long tradition to this event.

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MONACO (Principality of Monaco), 10 October 2016 - Recently in front of all the biggest industry names in both disciplines of motorcycle sport, on-road and off-road, KTM cut the ribbon on its all new Motorsport Building in Munderfing, Austria.

The new Motorsport Building covers an area of 18,000 m2. It is located directly behind KTM’s Engine Factory in Munderfing and is flanked by the new KTM Logistic Center and the WP Group. The ground floor offers an area of 110 x 60 meters, enough space for workshops in the categories Motocross, Enduro, Rally, and MotoGP, including truck parking bays. The first floor has over 2000 m2 of storage space, while the upper floor has 50 modern offices for 180 employees. About half of the KTM Motorsport employees can thus benefit from the perfect infrastructure during daily operation, and provide the basis for the company’s unique commitment to global motorsport.

Since KTM’s first World Championship title in 1974 by Gennadij Moiseev (Motocross 250), the brand has up to now earned 269 more world championship titles, 15 consecutive Dakar Rally victories, and in the last two seasons has taken the final big title in offroad motorsports, first place in the Supercross World Championship. Now, after an early victory in the 2016 Moto3 World Championship, KTM in 2017 enters Moto2, the intermediary category of road racing, and the premiere class, MotoGP.

Pit Beirer (KTM Motorsport Director): "It is a great honor for us to be here in the new KTM Motorsport Building, and in the presence of the most important worldwide promoters, sponsors, team managers, the entire board of the KTM Group, WP and Pankl board members, chief designer Gerald Kiska, and of course, our factory riders and motorsport employees. A new building was inevitable after the integration of 'Husqvarna' three years ago, and the decision to go into the MotoGP class. For this concept, it was a matter of great concern to us that the entire KTM Motorsport family could strive for further success under one roof. A special thanks to the team from Architekturbüro Hofbauer from Wels for the brilliant planning. With Stefan Pierer as a great thinker and leader of the KTM Group, and with the passion of our employees, we will be able to pursue further major goals together and celebrate our future successes.”

Stefan Pierer (CEO KTM Group): “Motorsport is nothing without strong promoters and loyal sponsors, so we are particularly pleased to welcome them all here on this special day. In 1992 KTM Racing was still a single small workshop, and successfully tackled Rally and Motocross alongside the initial niche of Enduro under the strong leadership of Heinz Kinigadner. Meanwhile, since Pit Beirer took over our motorsport in 2006, the team has grown to more than 300 employees worldwide and employs more than 60 factory riders. READY TO RACE and motor racing are a way of thinking that keeps the company fresh and drives our more than 3000 employees in Mattighofen and Munderfing every day. Five percent of our annual sales flows into our motorsport and makes KTM Europe’s biggest sport motorcycle manufacturer with the ambitious goal of being on the podium all over the world in the coming years.”

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Photo: From left to right: Marc Coma, Wolfgang Srb, Stefan Pierer, Pit Beirer, Giuseppe Luongo & Carmelo Ezpeleta

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Following the yesterday’s press conference here at the VELTINS-Arena, Germany, where the first ever Monster Energy SMX Riders’ and Manufacturers’ Cup has just taken place, Youthstream Director Mr. David Luongo was joined on the podium by Mr. Xavier Audouard from Paris-Bercy Lille SX and two of France’s fastest Frenchmen, Marvin Musquin and Jordi Tixier, to announce that Youthstream will assist in the promotion of the highly acclaimed Paris-Bercy Lille Supercross that will take place on the 12^th and 13^th of November.

“In the future we plan to collaborate more and more, so we are very keen to help with this event. Lille is a great event, it’s an historical event in France and France is a very good market for motocross, and it has been for a long time. Our world, motocross and supercross, is not a big world so when everyone can work together we can make it better. I feel this is a good spirit to have, and on behalf of Youthstream we will be proud to help out with the promotion of the event.” Mr. Luongo said.

Mr. Audoard shared his tanks and also announced that Monster Energy DRT Kawasaki’s Tommy Searle will be racing, as will Arnaud Tonus and of course, Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Marvin Musquin and Monster Energy Kawaski Racing Team’s Jordi Tixier.