American Darian Sanayei, a member of the Kawasaki Europe family since he arrived to compete in Europe, will continue his association with the Bike It Dixon Racing Team next season in the FIM MX2 World Championship.
Coming to Europe two years ago after a successful amateur career with Kawasaki in the USA, the twenty-one-year-old immediately found success in the European championship when he finished runner-up in the 2016 series. Moving up to the MX2 class with the Dixon Racing Team last year, he faced a learning season on many new tracks but confirmed his great potential earlier this season when he scored his first-ever GP moto podiums in Argentina and Spain. Missing his first ever overall podium in Spain by just a single point Darian had high expectations for the remainder of the season but a crash in practice at the opening round of the British championship series in which he damaged knee ligaments forced him to sit out several GPs. After attempting a return to action at the British GP it was clear that he needed to undergo surgery and, while recovering in his native USA, Darian has extended his contract with Kawasaki Europe and the DRT squad of Steve Dixon.
Darian Sanayei: “I’m really happy to be racing with DRT again next year. It feels good to continue our relationship and put our best efforts forward to accomplish an MX2 World Championship! My recovery with my knee is going really good and we are right on track. I should be able to start training on the bike around November/ December time, and that should be enough time to put in the work necessary for a good base to have a great season! I want to thank the entire team and the Kawasaki family for everything they are doing for me so we can achieve excellent results together.”
Steve Dixon (DRT team owner): “I’m delighted Darian has taken his third year option to stay with the Bike It DRT Kawasaki team. Darian, Kawasaki Europe, the team and the sponsors have unfinished business in the quest for world championship honours. Darian showed great speed before his ACL injury and it made perfect sense to sit down with Kawasaki and Darian to discuss the future and part of that plan was to take the best steps to fix the knee in readiness for a good campaign in 2019, I have to thank Kawasaki Europe for being instrumental in the long term plan. Darian has been a long-term loyal member of Team Green in the USA and then followed the Kawasaki path in Europe, first with Bud Racing in EMX2 and then with us since 2017; that loyalty goes a long way in these situations and I am looking forward to seeing Darian back on the Bike It DRT Kawasaki next season.”
KTM Junior Team’s Rene Hofer suffered a crash while contesting the fifth round of the ADAC MX Masters at Tensfeld last Sunday. The teenager is scheduled for surgery on Wednesday 1st August and will not compete again for the remainder of the 2018 racing calendar.
The sixteen year old will be airlifted today (Tuesday) from a nearby hospital in Germany to Universitätsklinik Wels, Austria where he will undergo surgery and the insertion of two plates to fix two fractures in his pelvis. Hofer also broke four ribs in the fall. The EMX125 European Championship red plate holder had been leading the second MX Youngster Cup moto when he hit a stone on the take-off ramp of a table-top jump and was dismounted.
2018 had been a fantastic season for Rene. In just his second attempt at the competitive EMX125 division he has won four of the ten motos on the KTM 125 SX, and scored two overall victories and four podium finishes from the five rounds of the season to-date.
“This is hard to take and we feel so bad for Rene; the season had been going so well for him and all the work he’d made in the winter was really paying-off,” commented Team Manager Didi Lacher.“He had made some important steps in his career in 2018 and was continuing to learn. I’ve rarely met a more determined and mature kid and I know he was fully set on his goals for the season and would probably have met them. We know motocross is an amazing sport, but it can also be a very cruel one. I have no doubt that Rene will somehow return stronger from this injury and experience, and will be ready to win again. We would also like to add our thanks to the people and facility at Wels for their great cooperation.”
The KTM Junior Team and the KTM Group wish to extend their best wishes to Rene for a full recovery and hope the Austrian will be back in ‘orange’ as soon as possible.
The FIM Motocross World Championship is ready to be back in Lommel, Belgium for the Fiat Professional MXGP of Belgium, round 15 of the series. Please find here below the timetbale as well as the entry list of MXGP and MX2 classes and in addition the entries from the European Championships EMX125 Presented by FMF Racing and EMX250.
MONACO (Principality of Monaco) 31 July 2018 – Youthstream is happy to announce the entry lists for the 2018 FIM Junior Motocross World Championship in Horsham, Australia. The event will take place the 25th and 26th of August in Australia’s Victoria region.
The event will bring together riders from 23 different countries who not only race for their flag but also for themselves and to be crowned Junior World Champion and 65cc World Cup Winner. Three classes will take part in the racing with 65cc, 85cc, and 125cc.
Starting gates will be filled with big names such as America’s Max Miller, Ryder Difrancesco, and Aiden Tijero along with European top guns such as Holland’s Raivo Dankers, and Belgium’s Liam Everts plus the newly crowned EMX85 Champion from South Africa, Camden Mc Lellan.
In addition to the competitive racing a competition titled the 2018 RIDE GREEN CUP will challenge the teams and riders to show their commitment to the environment also via social media. From correctly disposing of motor oil to promoting a sustainable approach to racing the teams will be judged at the end of the weekend. By clicking HERE you will be able to download the 2018 Ride Green Cup Info Document!
Full Entry Lists for all three classes can be found below:
Follow Red Bull KTM Factory Offroad rider Taylor Robert through a round of the AMA Hare and Hound Championship, and discover the thrills and chills of earning a living racing wide open through the desert on a motorcycle.
Following two back-to-back wins and a two-week break, Marc Marquez now has the Czech GP on his radar, an event where he will hit the special milestone of 100 MotoGP races.
The landmark is a good occasion for a quick look at the amazing achievements the 25-year-old has tallied so far in his still relatively short Premier Class career. In the five seasons and 99 MotoGP races since his debut in the class at the 2013 Qatar GP, Marc has so far earned:
40 wins
70 podiums
48 pole positions
42 fastest laps
4 World Titles (the youngest-ever rider to win four premier-class World Championships)
The Championship leader looks forward to updating some of those statistics next Sunday, at a track where he won last year and where he attended a one-day private test in early July alongside teammate Dani Pedrosa, who has also been very successful at the Czech circuit through his career.
The Repsol Honda pair have achieved two 1-2 finishes at the Czech GP, in 2013 and 2017. Marc holds the Pole record of 1’54.596” (2016), Dani the Circuit record at 1’56.027” (2014).
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Marc Marquez has 3 wins: 1 x Moto2 (2012) and 2 x MotoGP (2013, 2017), plus an additional 3 podiums and 4 pole positions.
Dani Pedrosa has 4 wins: 1 x 125 (2003), 1 x 250 (2005), and 2 x MotoGP (2012, 2014), plus an additional 7 podiums and 2 pole positions.
“We had a good test at Brno and we’re coming off of wins at two very different races, one an all-out battle and one more tactical, so we arrive in Brno in a confident mood. It was also good to enjoy a few days of vacation to recharge the batteries and prepare for the second half of the season, which will still be very long with 10 races to go, and not easy at all. Our rivals are riding fast at every circuit and in every situation, so we must understand and plan the best strategy each time. We’re working very well with the team and the HRC engineers, and we must continue that trend. I’ll go to Brno not thinking about the advantage in the Championship, as if we were all still at the beginning, on zero points. The target for Sunday is to try and win, but if the situation won’t allow it, we’ll manage to get the best result possible.”
Dani Pedrosa
“We’ve had a few days off, not a real summer break but good nevertheless. Now we go to Brno, which is one of my favourite tracks on the calendar, so we hope to be a little faster there. In order to do that, we must improve the feeling and setup of the bike, because so far we’ve been facing some problems everywhere. We mainly need to improve in cornering, because at the moment I can’t turn the bike fast enough, especially mid-corner and out of the corners.”
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