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MONACO (Principality of Monaco), 27 January 2016 – Youthstream is pleased to release the first time schedule of the year for the opening round of the 2016 FIM Motocross World Championship, MXGP of Qatar, which is set to take place at the world renowned circuit of Losail, Qatar on February 26^th and 27^th.

From now on you will be able to download the time schedule of each event on the event page on www.MXGP.com.

Please find here below the timetable for the MXGP of Qatar and click HERE to download the document.

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The nice story of Team 114 will go on next season, and Livia Lancelot will have new teammates around her in 2016. The World Championship will remain of course the main goal of Livia, who met two new riders in her team: Yvana Demaria and the young Axel Louis.

Rider but also team manager, Livia keeps her legendary strong motivation for next season with the support of her partners. Livia the rider will enter two series: the French and the World Championships. Five times winner of the French series, Livia will of course focus on the World title after being so close to get her second title this season. With a stronger support from Kawasaki, Livia will start training for the Motocross season next week, just after the Supercross experience that she enters this weekend in Lille.

Livia the manager has good news for next season, as she will meet two new riders in her team. Injured this season Gloria Jacquemard will take a break, and it’s Yvana Demaria who will be her new teammate. The daughter of the former World Champion will make her GP’s debut, but her main goal is the French Championship. The team also met a young kid who impressed Livia; only 11 years old, Axel Louis will race on an 85 Kawasaki. With her strong racing experience at the highest level, Livia will provide advices and full support to both riders in a professional team.

Livia Lancelot: “As Gloria wanted to make a break after another knee injury, we reached an agreement with Yvana. I know her as we met in the French series, and I’m pumped that Yvana and her father Yves who has a huge career gave me their confidence. I’m sure that Yvana has a great potential, we’ll help her to get the best results. For the first time in it’s young history, the team welcomes a boy. Axel just started racing an 85, I saw him while training in South of France and I’m sure that he also have a strong potential; he will go for a top ten in the French hopefull series. My goal is to help both riders to reach another level, but for sure I will stay focus on my own goals. Nothing would be possible without my partners and sponsors, and I want to thanks all of them and especially Kawasaki, Bihr and Fox who provides us the best material.”

Yvana Demaria: “Moving to team 114 will change many things for me, and it will be nice to ride in a professional team, to have good material and to share with Livia her great experience. All these keys gave me another motivation, and reinforced my ambitions in this sport. For next season the goal will be to get a podium in the French series, and enter a few GP’s.”

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Team Motocross Marketing’s KTM Silver Action will take part in the 2016 FIM MX2 and WMX World Championship’s, as well as the European Championship and the Italian Championship.

In the premier championship, MX2, Belgian Jens Getteman will be representing KTM Silver Action while in the WMX it is another Belgian in the form of 2015’s 4^th place finisher, Amandine Verstappen.

In the European EMX250 Championship they will have Italian’s Davide Cislaghi and Nicola Bertuzzi and Belgian Cyril Genot while in the EMX125 they  will have Frenchman Stephen Rubini.

FUNCHAL (Portugal), 05 November 2015 – Due to a unique request, the 2016 FIM Motocross World Championship calendar has undergone some changes. MXGP rounds of Patagonia Argentina, Leon and Europe will take place on new dates. Below is the updated version of the official 2016 FIM Motocross World Championship calendar.

2016 FIM MXGP / MX2 MOTOCROSS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CALENDAR

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Watch the highlights from the Women's Motocross of European Nations which took place in Pietramurata last weekend, here: 

Racing has just got underway in Pietramurata for the Motocross of European Nations. Here are the highlights from the qualifying heats that took place yesterday.

EMX125/250 Qualifying Heat Highlights

EMX85 Qualifying Heat Highlights

WMX Qualifying Heat Highlights

Livia Lancelot and Kawasaki signed a fresh agreement during the Monster Energy MXoN last weekend for the French lady to race a KXF250 for the eighth season in the 2016 Women's World Championship.

Livia, who has been riding green bikes for most of her career and was world champion in 2008, had a great 2015 season despite narrowly missing the world title. Winning two GPs and scoring ten podiums, Livia also claimed her fifth French title after she won every round of her national series. The charismatic Kawasaki ambassador, who has raced all over the world including the USA where she twice contested the X Games, will add a new experience in November, as she will line up in the MX2 class at the famous Paris-Lille Supercross event. She will also continue to run her own structure, as Team 114 will enter its third year next season, with two riders and one young kid as Livia wants to built a long term project with this team and Kawasaki.

Livia Lancelot: “I’m really happy to sign again with Kawasaki for next year; this is the bike I really love and I didn’t want to change. I want to be part of the Kawasaki family as it’s a great one ! They also want to keep me so everybody is happy ! Of course they were also disappointed with what happened this year, and I know that my team has not so much experience to run engines during the World Championship so we found some really good options for next year with Kawasaki France and Kawasaki Europe. Team 114 will of course continue next year; we’ll again have two riders and maybe a kid will join us. It’s my new project; I want to start working with kids in the future. Last but not least, the season is not over for me; the last GP was in July, the next one is in February, so there’s a pretty big gap and I’ve decided to race the Paris-Lille Supercross. I know it’s a crazy idea, but I woulds say I will approach it smartly. I won’t put pressure on myself; I will prepare myself and will do my best in the MX2 class, but I will not take too many risks as the 2016 World Championship is my main goal.”

Steve Guttridge: “I’m so happy to sign again Livia for the future, she grew up with Kawasaki and she’s a member of Team Green Kawasaki. She had a fantastic year, holding the red plate for most of the season and has done a great job for Kawasaki so for us to continue the relationship is perfect. She is one of our most professional athletes and she is a good example for the younger riders, a great ambassador for us ! She did the X Games and Le Touquet in the past, we know that her next project is racing some supercross at the highest level and that’s also good for us. But of course the ultimate goal is for Livia to be again a World Champion with Kawasaki next season!”

FUNCHAL (Portugal), 28 July 2015 – Yamaha MXFontaracing’s Kiara Fontanesi put the icing on the cake of what was an epic weekend for Yamaha at the MXGP of Czech Republic. The Italian female motocross legend, Fontanesi, wrapped up her fourth FIM Women’s Motocross World Championship with a smart 2 – 2 result for second over all at the sixth and final round of the WMX world championship last weekend.

In the six round series made up of twelve races, Fontanesi won five races and three overalls to remain undefeated for the fourth year in succession, which is a massive milestone for her as she made history as the first female to do so.

“I never stopped believing I could do it, I knew I could win because the speed was there and when you are almost three seconds faster than anyone else on this track then it means you can make the difference,” she said. “I am really happy and I’m the first female racer to win four titles in a row. This is really good and we are working well with the team. I have taken Pole at every round so I have been faster than the others and this is good to know we are working in a good way.”

Click HERE to watch the video on the impressive performances of Kiara

KIARA FONTANESI - BIOGRAPHY AND CAREER

Number/Class: 8/WMX

Name and Surname: Kiara Fontanesi   

Bike: Yamaha

Nationality: Italian                                                            

Date of birth: 10/03/1994                       

Website: www.kiarafontanesi8.com                           

First Round raced – Sevlievo, Bulgaria 2009                     

World Titles – 4      

First World Title – 2012   

Rounds wins - 14 

First Round win – Vantaa, Finland 2011

Last Round win – Teutschenthal, Germany 2015

2015 position in the Championship - 1, WMX

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LOKET (Czech Republic), 26 July 2015 - It was a day of peaks and pits at the sixth and final round of the 2015 FIM Women’s Motocross World Championship. Making up the ‘peaks’ were the performances of Yamaha riders Nancy Van de Ven and Kiara Fontanesi who both came away winners, while it was the pits for the championship leader Team One One Four’s Livia Lancelot who had the title slide through her fingers after a mechanical failure on the sighting lap meant she couldn’t even start the final race.

It was set to be the greatest race of the season. Two of the best female motocrossers in the world, both champions in their own rights, were supposed to go head to head for the 2015 WMX title. Only four points separated the two, Lancelot led, and it was expected to be intense but instead of being the nail-biting finale we had awaited, it ended before it even began when Livia Lancelot’s bike ceased on the siting lap.

The FIM rules state “5.17 - Each rider can bring one motorcycle only in the Skybox waiting zone; the one that will be used for the race”. Lancelot changed bikes, which meant she was not permitted to start and had to watch Fontanesi cruise to what should have been a hard fought victory, easily.

Putting the championship drama aside, the stand out performer this weekend was Holland’s young WMX prodigy Nancy Van de Ven who took her first race victory yesterday and then put in another epic performance today for the win and her first ever WMX overall.

Fontanesi had a hard time clearing her head after Lancelot had been refused to race, but managed to do enough for second. Meanwhile Motocross Marketing Silver Action KTM’s Amandine Verstappen was hauling on the opening lap after she took the holeshot but was pushed back to third by Van de Ven and the world champion, Fontanesi.

France’s Justine Charroux ended up flying the flag for the French with a solid fourth place while Denmarks Julie Dalgaard rounded out the top five.

At the end of the weekend, the top five overall replicated the results of race two. Nancy Van de Ven topped the box in convincing fashion with a double race victory while Kiara Fontanesi stood on the second step and Amandine Verstappen rounded out the top three.

After what was an emotional and dramatic end to a thrilling championship, Yamaha MXFontaracing’s Kiara Fontanesi wrote her name in the history books as the first female to claim four FIM Women’s Motocross World Championship titles on the bounce.

Team One One Four’s Livia Lancelot had to settle for a heartbreaking second while Nancy Van de Ven rounded out the season in third.

WMX Race 1 Top Ten: 1. Nancy Van De Ven (NED, Yamaha), 24:37.678; 2. Livia Lancelot (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:02.838; 3. Kiara Fontanesi (ITA, Yamaha), +0:22.746; 4. Amandine Verstappen (BEL, KTM), +0:54.174; 5. Justine Charroux (FRA, Yamaha), +1:15.897; 6. Britt Van Der Werff (NED, Suzuki), +1:18.672; 7. Genette Vaage (NOR, KTM), +1:33.061; 8. Joana Goncalves (POR, Yamaha), +1:35.921; 9. Julie Dalgaard (DEN, Honda), +1:36.285; 10. Kimberley Braam (NED, Kawasaki), +1:38.679.

WMX Race 2 Top Ten: 1. Nancy Van De Ven (NED, Yamaha), 25:13.129; 2. Kiara Fontanesi (ITA, Yamaha), +0:14.787; 3. Amandine Verstappen (BEL, KTM), +0:18.139; 4. Justine Charroux (FRA, Yamaha), +0:32.198; 5. Julie Dalgaard (DEN, Honda), +0:34.395; 6. Emelie Dahl (SWE, Yamaha), +0:37.942; 7. Francesca Nocera (ITA, Suzuki), +0:39.133; 8. Genette Vaage (NOR, KTM), +0:57.943; 9. Shana van der Vlist (NED, Yamaha), +0:59.600; 10. Joana Goncalves (POR, Yamaha), +1:15.094.

WMX Overall Top Ten: 1. Nancy Van De Ven (NED, YAM), 50 points; 2. Kiara Fontanesi (ITA, YAM), 42 p.; 3. Amandine Verstappen (BEL, KTM), 38 p.; 4. Justine Charroux (FRA, YAM), 34 p.; 5. Julie Dalgaard (DEN, HON), 28 p.; 6. Genette Vaage (NOR, KTM), 27 p.; 7. Joana Goncalves (POR, YAM), 24 p.; 8. Emelie Dahl (SWE, YAM), 22 p.; 9. Livia Lancelot (FRA, KAW), 22 p.; 10. Shana van der Vlist (NED, YAM), 20 p.

WMX Championship Top Ten: 1. Kiara Fontanesi (ITA, YAM), 260 points; 2. Livia Lancelot (FRA, KAW), 242 p.; 3. Nancy Van De Ven (NED, YAM), 229 p.; 4. Amandine Verstappen (BEL, KTM), 176 p.; 5. Genette Vaage (NOR, KTM), 150 p.; 6. Justine Charroux (FRA, YAM), 147 p.; 7. Francesca Nocera (ITA, SUZ), 127 p.; 8. Virginie Germond (SUI, SUZ), 104 p.; 9. Madison Brown (AUS, YAM), 99 p.; 10. Marianne Veenstra (NED, HUS), 92 p.

WMX Manufacturers: 1. Yamaha, 283 points; 2. Kawasaki, 250 p.; 3. KTM, 207 p.; 4. Suzuki, 180 p.; 5. Honda, 144 p.; 6. Husqvarna, 92 p.

Click here to obtain the complete results.

All the photos of the MXGP of Czech Republic will be available here

MXGP CZECH REPUBLIC  – QUICK FACTS

Circuit length: 1586 m

Type of ground: Hard Pack

Temperature: 20°C

Weather conditions: sunny

Crowd Attendance: 24,000

MXGP is available across the board in high definition and is also globally available to view live and in HD on MXGP-TV.com. Click here for the complete list of countries and cooperating MXGP broadcasting networks.

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