2023 PRESSKIT
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KAWASAKI RACING TEAM
OPERATED BY ICEONE RACING
Our MXGP factory team is managed by Antti Pyrhönen, a former Motocross world Championship rider from Finland.
The team owner is Kimi Räikkönen, Formula 1 driver and one of the most famous sports person.
The team is based in Lommel, Belgium, the European hotspot for Motocross.
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TEAM HISTORY
THE 12TH YEAR OF ICE ONE RACING
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2011-2012 ICEONE Racing was established, supported by Kawasaki Finland. 2013 Satellite team and factory support from KTM. 2014-2021 Team started to manage the official Husqvarna Factory Team Several Wins, Podiums and World Championship medals. 2022 Kawasaki Factory Team.
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ROMAINFEBVRE
Bike: Kawasaki KX450-SR
Riding number: 3
Quickly rising through the ranks in French adult motocross he sensationally clinching the FIM European EMX250 title in a nail-biting finale at the age of nineteen and by the age of twenty-two had scored his maiden GP victory in Brazil and secured the MX2 series bronze medal. Entering the premier MXGP class the following year he made a solid start with a string of top six finishes before rising to the occasion at the eighth round of the series in his native France. He eventually recorded eight GP victories on his way to the 2015 MXGP world title.He has also led his country to three victories in the Motocross of.
Nationality: French Injuries cost him the opportunity to repeat his individual world title success in following seasons and a broken femur sustained in August 2019 but the opportunity to join the Kawasaki Racing Team the following season softened the blow.
Immediate surgery and rehabilitation saw him back in training by the end of the year but a mutual decision between rider and team delayed his racing comeback until his body was totally recovered. The wisdom of this decision was confirmed when he returned to racing in Latvia in 2021 after sitting out the first two rounds of the world series and immediately raced onto the podium.
Date of birth: 31 December 1991
Place of birth: Epinal, France Hometown: Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
A succession of top six placing, including a season total of six podiums and a first victory in Green at Mantova in Italy saw him ranked fourth in the final, narrowly missing a medal despite sitting out those first two rounds as his smooth and highly-effective riding style has blended impeccably with the outstanding power and handling of the KX450-SR.
Romain enters his third season with Kawasaki and, with an undisturbed winter of preparation, both rider and team prepare for the season with understandable optimism.
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MITCHELLEVANS
Bike: Kawasaki KX450-SR
Riding number: 43 Nationality: Australia
The Kawasaki Racing Team welcomes Mitch Evans to contest the 2023 FIM World MXGP Motocross Championship alongside Romain Febvre.
The twenty-three-year-old from Cairns in the northern Australian state of Queensland first contested the FIM World Motocross Championships in 2019 after securing his national MX2 title the previous summer.
He had already secured international recognition in 2016 when, as under-nineteen champion, he was selected to represent his country in the FIM Motocross of Nations as a seventeen-year-old.
In a sensational debut on the world stage, he mounted the podium at his very first GP in Argentina and has displayed stunning speed ever since though serious shoulder and wrist injuries have interrupted his career.
Date of birth: 10 November 1998
Place of birth: Cairns, Queensland Hometown: Queensland
Absent for the 2021 season through injury he bounced back spectacularly this summer, rounding out the secondhalf of the campaign with five top-six moto finishes and a defeat of the entire world elite in Qualifying for the Swedish GP in August and help his country to stand on the podium at the season-ending Motocross of Nations.
Mitch will start riding with the team in Europe this week before they fly to Japan for intensive testing with Kawasaki Japan factory technicians.
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KAWASAKIKX450-SR
The Kawasaki KX450–SR is the pinnacle of Kawasaki’s four-stroke motocross GP technology, with class- and race-leading power delivery controlled by state-of-theart suspension, lightweight high-tech chassis and sizzling innovations.
The KX450–SR, the result of ongoing development by technicians from the Japanese factory’s Akashi race department and the KRT base in Europe, will be campaigned in the FIM World MXGP Motocross Championship by France’s Romain Febvre and Italy’s Ivo Monticelli under the KRT banner; it is a natural cohesion of OE components and unobtainable exotic items such as Factory Showa suspension.
The ‘SR’ also reflects many of the same outstanding features found on the standard KX450 machine available from any Kawasaki off-road dealer with the leanest, most ergonomically-precise chassis ever on a KX450, a perfected E-starter with automated centrifugal decompression system and the exclusive finger-follower valve actuation, a valve train designed by Kawasaki’s MotoGP & World Superbike engineers which enables larger-diameter valves and more aggressive cams to derive the optimum from a new engine which boasts an increase in peak power of approximately 2.5 kW (3.4 PS) whilst maintaining Kawasaki’s renowned low-rpm performance through a flatter torque curve to make it even easier to get on the gas at all times.
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MOTOCROSS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
FIM MOTOCROSS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP / MXGP
- Motocross racing in the highest level.
- The best riders from around the World.
- Global calendar: 20 rounds in Europe, Asia, Mid East, USA and South America.
- All Factory teams are participating (Kawasaki, Honda, Yamaha, KTM, Husqvarna, GasGas, Beta)
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THE FUTURE OF ICE ONE RACING
Team starts a new partnership with Kawasaki to operate as official Kawasaki Factory Racing Team at the MXGP World Championships.
Has engaged the best riders to fight for the World Championship title
Kawasaki factory team is pure elite of MXGP, very powerful technically and operationally.
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COOPERATION
We have opportunity to propose technical sponsor position at our exciting new adventure.
Major logo visibility for live audience, at Global TV, social media channels etc..
The MXGP World Championship is the strongest motocross championship in the world. The attention of the media is very high.
The Grand Prix competitions are broadcast in no fewer than 157 countries.
In addition to the TV attention, the reach of the championship is also very large on social media:
Facebook – 310,000,000 followers Twitter – 482,00 followers Youtube – 307,000 subscribers Instagram – 120,000,000 followers
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VISIBILITY
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LOGO
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