JCR/Honda is excited to announce the signing of Colton Haaker

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JCR/Honda is excited to announce the signing of Colton Haaker to compete in the 2014 XGames and AMA Endurocross series.

For Immediate Release, January 31st, 2014 San Clemente, CA: JCR/Honda is excited to announce the signing of Colton Haaker to compete in the 2014 XGames and AMA Endurocross series. Colton Haaker had an awesome year in 2013 with multiple podium finishes and was one of the fastest racers at every round. We want to send a special thank you to Rockstar Energy, Lucas Oil and Motion Pro for helping put this 2014 Endurocross program together. We are excited to have this opportunity to build on the successes of 2013. “I want to say thank you to JCR, Lucas Oil and Rockstar Energy for all the effort they put into my 2013 season. I’m happy to be on my Honda and bleeding red. I’m excited to be working with JCR lead technician Eric Siraton and to be on a solid program for the second year in a row. I want 2014 to be my best year yet, my expectations are high and I feel this is my year to shine. In addition to racing AMA and XGames Endurocross I am looking forward to racing in the King of Motos this coming weekend as well as Last Dog standing and the Tennessee Knock Out later this year.” — Colton Haaker “Colton Haaker is one of the most talented athletes I have ever seen on a motorcycle. I feel very blessed to have this opportunity to continue to work with him. I feel very strongly about continuing our efforts in XGames and AMA Endurocross. These events are bringing a lot of exposure and excitement to Off-Road racing. JCR is ready to compete at the highest level against the best racers in the world.” — Johnny Campbell

SuisseGas Steps Up Official Sponsorship with Yamaha Factory Racing

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Gerno di Lesmo (Italy), 31st January 2014

Following a successful first year together, Yamaha Factory Racing can today confirm that Official Sponsor SuisseGas has reached an agreement with the Team for the next two years. The two-year contract will see the energy brand receive greater exposure with the Team as their sponsorship commitment increases.

The SuisseGas logo will now be visible on both Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi’s YZR-M1 motorcycles for the full season in addition to two extra logos for the opening round in Qatar and subsequent Mugello and Misano rounds.

Established in 2008, SuisseGas is one of the leading supplier’s of natural gas in Italy to both industrial and civil clients.

		Lin Jarvis Yamaha Motor Racing, Managing Director
“After a successful first season together in 2013, the decision to collaborate further with SuisseGas through 2014 and 2015 is a very welcome one. We consider them a very important partner for Yamaha Factory Racing and are confident we will continue to benefit from the mutual satisfaction gained. As a premium brand involved in many sporting disciplines we share a great synergy. We look forward to strengthening our relationship through a number of initiatives at GP circuits and also away from race weekends.”

		Gianluca Borelli SuisseGas, Business Development Manager
“We are very proud to be able to continue as Official Sponsor, the route taken last year alongside the Team Yamaha Factory Racing, for the 2014 and 2015 MotoGP season. It is a matter of great satisfaction being associated with a winning team and two World Champions such as Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi. This is a major sponsorship for us that fits seamlessly into policy in support of high-profile sports teams and that our Group strongly wanted to pursue since its inception.”

About SUISSEGAS – Company Profile

The SuisseGas Holding Group was established in 2008, and it’s constituted by SuisseGas Sa and SuisseGas Italia S.p.A.

Within the European market, SuisseGas deals with transport, storage, exchange and delivery of natural gas to businesses and private homes.

In order to move with flexibility, the company owns a portfolio of transportation capacity and storage modulus.

The activity of SuisseGas includes all intermediate steps needed for a particular purchase, and more specifically the management of transport, storage and trading. Through the network of pipelines belonging to third parties, SuisseGas manages imbalances and supervises daily activities to the point of delivery.

It also manages inventories and analyzes withdrawal profiles and capacity.

The company is aware of the complexity and the uncertainty about the delivery, the acquisition and use of natural gas. For this reason, SuisseGas supports its clients in identifying proper management tools and flexibility in order to achieve the desired result with the highest level of efficiency.

Each action of SuisseGas is aimed at providing energy to the best market conditions, to meet the needs of companies and families.

Since 2013 SuisseGas offers power as well: gas and power for business and family.

SuisseGas Energy Effects. Put in motion the energy that suits you best.

 

IceOne Racing 2014 Teaser

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RedBull IceOne Husqvarna Team 2014 – Tyla Rattray&Todd Waters
Music by: Trip Deuce “Best is yet to come”

 

Kawasaki Racing Team Launch In Barcelona Proves To Be A Great Success

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The official launch of the Kawasaki Racing Team SBK took place on Thursday 30th January in Barcelona, with the latest Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R and the competing KRT riders on display to the media.

SBK riders Tom Sykes and Loris Baz were joined by new SBK Evo rider David Salom, with their 2014 machines painted in striking and distinctive new colour schemes.

After Tom Sykes won the championship for Kawasaki in 2013, the media interest was particularly strong at the launch held in the unique Pabello Mies van der Rohe in the centre of Barcelona.

The 2014 season is a particularly important one for the Kawasaki family as it marks the 30th Anniversary of the Ninja model line, and this 30th of January event was the perfect way to start the celebrations of Kawasaki’s trademark supersport range of machines.

As well as the riders, a number of special guests and other team members made speeches during the launch, including Javier Alonso, Managing Director of Dorna WSBK, Shigemi Tanaka of Kawasaki Motors Europe, Steve Guttridge KME Racing Manager, KRT Marketing Manager Biel Roda and Team Manager Guim Roda.

Shigemi Tanaka, Kawasaki Motors Europe: “I am happy to say that not only do we enter 2014 as champions in Superbike, but also we look forward to celebrating 30 years of the famous Ninja brand as the year unfolds. We wish all of our Kawasaki World Superbike team sponsors, and those engaged in support for the KRT Provec team, good luck and good fortune in the year ahead.”

Steve Guttridge, KME Racing Manager: “We are 100% committed to winning the World Superbike title again. As you already know, we are now looking to the future of WSBK and making an extra commitment via our development of a new SBK Evo rules machine within the 2014 Championship, with the highly talented Spaniard David Salom on board the Evo SBK Ninja ZX-10R.”

Biel Roda, KRT Marketing Manager: “This launch is a form of thank you to everybody for helping the team and there are so many people involved in that. The riders, our technical people, suppliers, Kawasaki and so many more people than just those ones. This event is to explain to these people just how big this project is. We made this event in this beautiful building because it is very clean in design, very simple but also very strong. It is like a metaphor for our team.”

Tom Sykes: “It is great to be here in Barcelona at the 2014 launch.
I do not even need to look at the bike to know what it is because it is engraved in my memory. I have shared a lot of great times with this Ninja ZX-10R and I know we can be competitive again. We have had some really good tests in the off-season even though I did not feel at my full potential. I am excited and even more motivated than last year to start racing again.”

Loris Baz: “We know that on Fridays and Saturdays we have to improve in practice and qualifying. In the races I am always strong but the nearer you start to the front row the better it is. The target for me is to start in the two front rows each time, and then try to go with the leading guys. If I can start well I am sure I can be with those guys in front in the races. We have already made a big step with the bike set up in testing this winter. It looks really good this year with more white on the fairing so it will look different from some of the other bikes.”

David Salom: “I am very pleased and proud to be riding the SBK Evo bike for the official Kawasaki Racing Team. Because I will ride the Evo machine it will not be like the full Superbikes of Tom and Loris but I hope to be at the head of the Evo race each time. I am happy to be in the Kawasaki family again.”

Best of OnBoard: Moto2™ 2013

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A selection of highlights from the Moto2™ OnBoard cameras as the riders pushed hard in the intermediate class throughout the 2013 campaign.

 

Traxxas E-Revo Brushless Edition – Now with Waterproof Electronics!

Courtesy of Traxxas

The Traxxas E-Revo Brushless Edition is designed to harness massive brushless power and high-voltage LiPo batteries and turn it into extreme off-road fun! E-Revo is now equipped with a waterproof MXL-6s Power System to complete the ultimate monster truck setup for out-of-the-box excitement in any condition. Water, snow, mud, sand, dirt; you name it and the E-Revo Brushless Edition will tackle the terrain and come back for more. Outfitted with sealed electronics, two 8.4-volt Power Cell NiMH battery packs, TQi Radio System with Docking Base, factory-installed telemetry sensors (speed, RPM, battery voltage, and motor temperature) — E-Revo Brushless Edition is the best equipped, versatile, innovative, award-winning monster truck, period.

E-Revo Brushless Edition (#56085) Features:
– Waterproof MXL-6s Brushless Power System
– Traxxas TQi 2.4GHz Radio System with Docking Base
– Equipped with RPM/speed, motor temperature, and voltage telemetry sensors
– Up to 25.2 Volts of Massive Brushless Power
– State-of-the-Art Integrated Chassis Design
– Heavy-Duty 17mm Splined Aluminum Hex Hubs and Wheel Nuts
– Hard-Anodized PTFE-Coated Aluminum GTR Shocks
– Traxxas Power Cell NiMH batteries included
– Top Speed: 65+mph with optional Power Cell 3S LiPo batteries!
– Talon™ tires mounted and glued on 3.8″ black chrome Gemini™ wheels*

* Sand video sequences show the E-Revo Brushless Edition with optional accessory tires and wheels. Geode wheels (#5671) and 3.8″ Maxx Tires (#4973) are sold separately.

Product details: http://traxxas.com/products/models/el…

Trailer Oficial – 2014 Huanchaco Longboard Pro

Courtesy of ASP

Huanchaco Longboard Pro abre o calendário 2014 da ASP South America.

 

GO&FUN Honda Gresini launches for 2014

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The Teatro Titano of San Marino was the venue on Thursday as the riders of GO&FUN Honda Gresini revealed their motorcycles for the season ahead.

Spaniard Alvaro Bautista remains with Fausto Gresini’s team for a third straight MotoGP™ season on the Honda RC213V, as Great Britain’s Scott Redding climbs up to the premier class of the World Championship with an Open-specification Honda RCV1000R, having ended 2013 as the runner-up in the Moto2™ category.

In Junior Team GO&FUN Moto3, Niccolo Antonelli is now joined by Enea Bastianini who collected two race victories in last year’s Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, finishing fourth overall. The pair of Italians will be piloting KTM machinery.

“2014 is a really important year for Gresini Racing,” commented Team Manager Fausto Gresini. “First, it will be our 18^th year in the World Championship: an important goal, thanks to which we can say with pride that our organization has…become of age! Since 1997 we have had a permanent presence on the Grand Prix scene and we are also one of the few Independent Teams who can boast of having participated every year in MotoGP™ since the beginning of the new four-stroke era in 2002. All these things, added to two world titles, 40 GP victories, 109 podium finishes, 29 pole positions and more than 5,000 World Championship points put our team among the most important entities in motorcycling worldwide.”

Bautista now looks forward to claiming a first podium finish since 2012.

“I am happy to continue my adventure in MotoGP™ with Gresini for the third consecutive year and there is a great family atmosphere,” says the Toledo-born rider. “We unfortunately missed out on the podium last year, even though we close on more than one occasion. In general, I consider my second half of 2013 to have been very good and found myself battling with Valentino Rossi (Yamaha Factory Racing) in almost every race. We have done a great job developing the Showa suspension and this puts us in a good position and starting with a good base for 2014. My goal is to do well from the first race; the official bike are always difficult to beat, but I am convinced that, working well, we can be on the podium several times.”

For Redding – who at Donington Park in 2008 became the youngest ever winner of a World Championship race, winning in 125s at 15 years of age – this year brings a new challenge, as he steps up from Moto2™ in which he challenged for the title.

“Everything is new to me but I like challenges like this,” the Englishman begins. “Everyone in the team has been very welcoming and I am eager to get back in the saddle for Sepang testing, for what is the real start of the season. My wrist (broken at Phillip Island last year) is now better and I have been training hard because I want to be able to test in the best possible conditions. I have not set specific targets for the first tests, but of course I will try to reduce the gap to the leading Open bikes. During the season, my intention is to be the best amongst those riders. I loved the RCV1000R when I tried it in Valencia (in November) and now we wait to see what happens at Sepang.”

As Redding narrowly missed out on the Moto2™ crown in 2013, Bautista ended the MotoGP™ season in sixth position overall and as the leading satellite Honda rider.

Photos:

• GO&FUN Gresini, Team presentation
• Scoot Reding, GO&FUN Honda Gresi…
• Niccolo Antonelli, Junior Team G…
• Alvaro Bautista, GO&FUN Honda Gr…