MXGP

In the pleasant hall of the ‘Agriturismo Monteparadiso’ restaurant in Viterbo (Italy), has been presented the 2014 KTM Marchetti Racing team. The team is focusing on the growth of promising talents, and will participate, as in the two previous years, in the FIM Motocross World Championship and in the Motocross European Championship, and for the next season will have four young riders.

The Italian Ivo Monticelli, nineteen year old from Ancona, will ride in the challenging MX2 World Championship, with the aim of fighting in the top group. He will use the 2014 KTM SX 250 F, prepared by Marchetti Racing. Same bike for the seventeen year old Latvian Pauls Jonass (2013 World and European Champion), who will ride in the European EMX250 Championship, with the highest ambitions, and also in the MX2 World Championship, in non concomitant GPs.
Fifteen year old Ivan Petrov (from Bulgaria) with his KTM 125 SX will fight for the top of the 125cc European Championship, and only eleven year old, and mascot of the team Alessandro Facca, from Rome (2013 65cc Italian champion) in 2014 will make his debut in the minicross 85cc category.

Winter training has already begun for all the riders of Team Marchetti, and the first goals are arriving, with the first of the three races of the Italian Internazionali Motocross Championship scheduled for the 2nd of February in Riola Sardo ( OR).
The Motocross World Championship (eighteen GPs) will start on the 1st of March, with the first of three races outside Europe: Qatar, Thailand and Brazil.

Elio Marchetti, team manager: “This team presentation has become a tradition and an opportunity to meet friends and fans and exchange greetings for Christmas, but it is also the event that kicks off the new season. We are ready for 2014: the bikes are ready, the team, the structure, the technicians and materials, and the boys have started their training on the track. Our team has focused more on young riders, and our choice to grow young talents has found enthusiastic support from KTM and our sponsors. Working with the kids is great, the group is already very close-knit and I am optimistic”.

Photo: Copyright: KTM Marchetti Racing Team

FUNCHAL (Portugal), 14 December 2013 - Ticket sales for the awaited British MXGP, which will take place in Matterley Basin during the 25th May weekend, are now open. Purchasing the tickets online on the official event website during the Christmas time will allow you to take advantage of several special offers and discounts.

The Christmas promotion, which will be available until the 6th of January 2014, includes discounted rates for every type of tickets and free paddock passes if the spectators purchase a weekend ticket.

Don’t miss the chance to experience the amazing MXGP of Great Britain and click HERE to purchase your tickets today.

A part from the British MXGP other venues have already opened the ticket sales for 2014. Click here to purchase your ticket for the MXGP of Trentino, which will be held in Arco di Trento on the 13th April weekend, or here to buy your tickets for the Italian MXGP, which will take place in Maggiora during the 15th June weekend. 

Last but not least, the tickets for the best off road competition, the Monster Energy FIM Motocross of Nations, which will be celebrated in Kegums, Latvia, on the 28th September weekend are also available. Click here and take advantage of incredible discounts. 

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FUNCHAL (Portugal), 13 December 2013 - The second batch of screenshots devoted to the Brazilian track of Beto Carrero and to the MXGP Champions Gautier Paulin, which will be included into MXGP, The Official Motocross Videogame, have been released by Milestone

The new exciting videogame is based on the official FIM World Motocross Championship available in March 2014 for PlayStation®3, PlayStation®Vita, Xbox 360® and Windows PC®.

ABOUT BETO CARRERO
The Brazilian track of Beto Carrero, awarded as best GP of 2012 Motocross Championship and in 2013 for their great organization, is located in Estado de Santa Caterina, one of the most acclaimed tourist sites of the country.
The location of the track is strategic, being close to the biggest theme parks of Latin America – Beto Carrero World – and near Penha, famous for its 19 beautiful beaches.

Click HERE to have more information about the Brazilian Track.

ABOUT GAUTIER PAULIN
Super stylish Gautier Paulin has only been racing motocross for a limited time, but the now 22-year-old Frenchman from Draguignan is an ex World BMX champion, already a European Motocross champion and multiple GP winner in MX1 and MX2 including impressive race victories at the 2009 and 2011 Motocross of Nations for team France. Paulin took his first GP victory in 2009 at the opening round in Italy and the French rider battled for the MX2 Title, tallying up 2 GP wins and 7 podium finishes to end 3rd in the MX2 championship standings. 2011 saw Paulin on board a 250cc with Monster Energy Yamaha team as he went on to gain 7 podiums with a last minute decision to replace his injured team-mate in the MX1 class at the final round in Fermo, Italy. The result was a maiden victory in his first appearance in the Premier class, setting the tone for good things to come in 2012 with the Kawasaki Racing Team. After two successful seasons in MX1 Paulin has already won 8 GP’s (5 in MX1 and 3 in MX2) and amassed 7 podiums in 2013, becoming the biggest title threat for 2014. 

Click HERE to have more information about Gautier Paulin. 

Developed by Milestone Studio, one of the most recognized racing videogame developers and publishers for consoles and Windows® PC, MXGP, The Official Motocross Videogame will feature all riders, teams, bikes and rules from the official MXGP 2013 calendar including a redesigned career mode to experience the feelings of Motocross.

Follow MXGP, The Official Motocross Videogame on Facebook, and on the official Youtube Channel or check the #mxgpvideogame hashtag.

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The new issue of Motocross Illustrated is already online. The new issue contains stories with Belgian Motocross legends Stefan and Harry Everts, British MX2 Champion Elliot Banks Browne, World MX2 Champion Jeffrey Herlings and new Red Bull KTM Factory signing Dean Ferris. It also includes some cool images from the International veterans race in Italy among Dave Thorpe, Ricky Johnson, Eric Geboers, Chuck Sun and many more legends.

Motocross Illustrated is one of the most read Online Magazines in UK and Europe with around 200,000 hits a month.

Click HERE to read the new issue of Motocross Illustrated.

Photo: Copyright: MX LARGE

The Standing Construct KTM team have proven to be more than just a fill-in on the Grand Prix scene. A team that has won a Grand Prix and also taken a rider to top five in the World. Team owner Tim Mathys thought about going in another direction with Suzuki, but in the last moments decided that he would prefer to stick with KTM and will continue under the same structure that took him to their 2013 successes. Here is what Mathys can mention about his 2014 plans.

“As you might have heard two months ago I decided not to do the fusion of my Standing Construct team with the Suzuki MX2 team, and that is why I decided to keep the current team as it was, the same crew, the same truck, the same “spirit”, etc. 

Although this makes a very big financial difference for me I am absolutely sure that it was the right decision and that in 2014 we will again have a powerful young team which could surprise again like we did in 2013.

Unfortunately we lost Glenn Coldenhoff, but Standing Construct KTM is delighted to announce the signing of the reigning European Champion MX2 Valentin Guillod. The Swiss rider will participate with the team in the World Championship MX2 and race selected events which are free after we consider the 18 event GP schedule. 

Valentin had several options for 2014 but decided to choose for the Standing Construct KTM Team after he had tested the team’s bike. Guillod dominated the European MX2 Series this year and is trained by former three time World Champion Yves Demaria.
We are really happy that Valentin has chosen our team because a lot of teams were interested in him. We are confident that when we give Valentin the same material and possibilities which Glenn Coldenhoff has had this year, he is able to show great things in 2014.
 
The team started with the idea to help talented riders to show their potential with good material in a great structure. We have done this together with a few people around Glenn Coldenhoff this year which resulted in the level he reached now. With Valentin we are going to try to do the same and we are pretty confident that he can make the same steps as Glenn did!’’

Besides Valentin Guillod the team has signed Damon Graulus for the Grand Prix’s next year. Damon had a difficult period last season because he combined studying with MX. Despite this he still finished in third position in the EMX250 series and clinched the Belgian MX2 Championship. He now has his diploma and is able to focus himself completely on motocross. 

The Standing Construct KTM Team will also enter into the EMX125 Series. The team has signed the young Belgian rider Yannick Vertommen, who is coached by Harry Everts. Together with Damon he will participate in the Belgian Championship Series.

On the 1st December, Monaco hosted the 2013 FIM Gala in the prestigious Salle des Étoiles. Amongst more than five hundred guests the MX1 World Champion Antonio Cairoli and MX2 World Champion Jeffrey Herlings stood out among all the awarded riders. For the MX3 World Champion Klemen Gercar it was a very emotional evening and the Junior Motocross World Champions, Pauls Jonass, Conrad Mewse and Aiden Tijero captivated the audience with their charisma.

After receiving the gold medal by the hands of the Motocross Legend Harry Everts, the Motocross World Champions, as well as the Snowcross World Champion Adam Renheim, explained how much they were enjoying the evening, what they had been doing since the season finished and what their plans are to prepare the 2014 campaign. 

Click HERE to watch the video. 

Photo: Copyright: FIM

With four World Motocross Championships it is little surprise that the FIM awarded Harry Everts with legendary status last weekend at the FIM Awards in Monte Carlo. The father of Stefan and grandfather of Liam Everts is very much in a good place in life.

Harry is one of the most popular people in the Grand Prix paddock; always happy with a big smile and a joke, the former 125cc and 250cc Motocross Champion can sit back and be very happy with his family life and experiences from the past. 

Still very much interested in helping young riders he is also excited that his grandson Liam is enjoying riding Motocross and improving at an alarming rate. Everts also conducts riding schools in Spain, for not only young kids, but also GP riders.

We caught up to Harry Everts and asked him about the recent success of Team Belgium, and also about why the GP riders now seem stronger than their American rivals.

“At the moment for me Belgium is the strongest,” Everts said. “But at the MXoN this year America had some bad luck, although so did Belgium. But it seems like the European riders are now stronger than the last few years. I mean look at Ryan Dungey, he was so disappointed in Lommel last year and I am sure again this year he was disappointed. I think at the moment the GP riders are stronger (than the American riders).”

Everyone is looking for answers to why the European riders once again dominated the American riders, for the second year running at the Motocross of Nations, although Everts feels he knows why.

“Why is that, good question, and it is difficult to say. When the tracks are getting more and more difficult, with a lot of rough sections, it seems easier for the European riders. When I spoke to Ken Roczen’s father he said in America the tracks are wide open, also in practice during the week, then they go to the races and again the tracks are wide open. Then they (American riders) come to Europe and the tracks are not wide open. A guy like Roczen, after two or three days he knows how to do it again, and the tracks are more difficult than the American tracks. In Germany this year I was at the back of the track, and there were deep, deep lines, big holes and you could see the AMA guys had big problems.”

Harry Everts will always be a proud Belgian rider, a rider who won at every level of the sport, his desire to see his fellow Belgians improve and continue to help his proud nations to more MXoN success. It was after all Harry Everts who had the misfortune of crashing in the 1981 Motocross of Nations in Lommel that cost his country victory and handed Team USA their first ever win in the MXoN.

FUNCHAL (Portugal), 5 December 2013 – Teams and Riders will receive a significant support from Youthstream for the Overseas Grand Prix events, the decision confirming Youthstream’s strategy of expanding the series worldwide.

Youthstream is committed to helping a maximum of 20 riders per class for the races in Qatar, Thailand and Brazil with 200 kg freight for each rider, therefore a total of 60 riders for Qatar (which includes the WMX Class) and 40 riders for Thailand and Brazil (which include MXGP and MX2 only).

Teams and Riders having an engagement with Youthstream for the whole 2014 season and having proven their professionalism throughout the past seasons will have the priority. 

For more information, please contact Mr. Hans Martin Fetzer at sportoffice@youthstream.org.

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Photo: Air view of Beto Carrero during the 2013 GP

FUNCHAL (Portugal), 4 December 2013 – On the 1st December Youthstream hosted the annual organizers meeting in Monaco headed by Mr. Giuseppe Luongo, President of Youthstream, and Dr. Wolfgang Srb, FIM / CMS Director. Youthstream presented the novelties for 2014 and the organizers had the opportunity to present their venues.

Mr Giuseppe Luongo started the meeting by welcoming all the organizers, especially the new venues and announced that in 2015 there will be some more new countries entering: “The major goal is to cover the entire world, not only with television, which is already happening, but reaching all the areas of the world with our Championship events”. 

The President of Youthstream continued explaining how important the cooperation amongst Youthstream, FIM and Organizers is in order to have a successful event, presenting the 2013 successful TV coverage and audience and social network. Both Mr Luongo and Dr Srb highlighted thesafety as one of the main aspects to work on for 2014: “We will redesign some tracks in order to make them safer for riders, workers and fans, and at the same time keeping the public close to the action maintaining the soul of Motocross. We all need to work together to make it happen and find the balance between innovation and tradition”.

Mr Luongo also placed special attention on the MXGP Academy, which is a very important project for Youthstream at the moment. “The main goal is finding talented young riders from around the world and bring them to Europe where they would be placed in a professional structure and receive dedicated formation. These riders would have the opportunity to grow in the European Championship, racing on the same tracks as theMXGP riders and in front of the same spectators as the World Champions”. 

Dr. Wolfgang Srb took the floor sharing Mr Luongo’s thoughts about exporting MXGP to all continents and creating local heroes. Dr Srb highlighted the importance of improving the safety on the race tracks announcing that former FIM Race Director Dave Nicoll will still be involved in MXGP leading the working group that will be in charge of improving the safety on the tracks. Dr Srb also went through the changes on the FIM Regulations and he introduced the new MXGP Race Director, Mr Ingo Partsch.

In a positive and cooperative atmosphere, all the Youthstream departments exposed their novelties and improvements for 2014 and all the organizers had the opportunity to present their venues. A special attention was given to the new venues, such as the State of Goiàs (Brazil),Mexico, Spain (Talavera) and Ukraine, whose Mayor Mr Trebushkin attended the meeting, as well as to the Monster Energy FIM Motocross of Nations and the Monster Energy FIM Junior Motocross World Championship, which will take place in Kegums, Latvia, and Bastogne, Belgium, respectively. Mr Nasser Khalifa Al Attiya and the QMMF and Losail representatives were also present and they explained how the lighting system will be improved for the first round of the MXGP World Championship next year. The organizers of the Grand Prix of Trentino,Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Finland also participated to the organizers meeting.

Everyone is keen for the 2014 season to start.

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As a sequel to the book “The Art of Nations, Lommel 2012” the finishing off of the 200-page book “The Art of Nations, Teutschenthal 2013” is in the finishing straight before it goes to the printing presses. The book in a 225×300 mm format tells in pictures the story of a stunning weekend in the history of motocross. The spirit, the atmosphere and the action nicely summarised in the style of “The Art of Motocross".

The Belgian team that took the win looks back on an eventful weekend and this in four languages. All text in the book is in Dutch, French, English and German.

Given the success of orders taking advantage of the free shipping worldwide, we extend our action until December 31. Order and pay for the book before December 31 and you pay no shipping costs.

The book was produced in a high quality finish and incorporates the most striking and imaginative pictures.

Price: €49,95

Visit the website the art of motocross for further information.

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