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lation locations. We also saw an incredible evolution with the on-board camera images, giving the rider’s real point of view. We had a drone and a cable cam at several events providing breath-taking aerial views of the racing and the In this issue you’re going to transferring the atmosphere be able to find out about the at the event to our spectators Youthstream TV department at home. Last, but not least, and the novelties that will be introduced in MXGP’s TV pro- we experienced the new quadcam that gave viewers thrilling duction for this season. sensations of the riders’ true speed. The remarkable HD Last year we already saw quality will continue into 2014. amazing images from our micro camera, which, due to For 2014 we’re delighted to it’s unique placement (acbe bringing our fans an even tually installed on the track) gave impressive close-to-the- better TV coverage and improvements to the already imaction shots which we would pressive TV production with a never have been able to see total of 20 cameras providing with normal camera instalDear MX friends, Hopefully you’ve all passed a great festive season; only 2 months to go until the first MXGP round in Qatar! We can’t wait!!!

you with outstanding shots. In 2013 1.2 billion of TV viewers from all over the world followed our sport. It was a year of records where we also doubled the number of hours broadcasted on TV; there was more than 4,000 hours.

Naturally our Internet streaming channel MXGP-TV.COM will maintain delivering all our World and European Championships to you, and obviously MXGP and MX2 will also be found on the best TV broadcasters world wide.

We’re looking forward to an action packed season which will be transmitted to our sport’s fans at home in a sensational style on main sports stations worldwide.

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Whether you dig an old school grass roots style of motocross or you are looking to see something new and unique, the 2014 FIM Motocross World Championship calendar has all the bases covered. It is not called the ‘world’ championship for nothing and the proof is in the pudding with all three opening rounds taking place outside of Europe.

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The season opener in Qatar will set the stage for the series as it prepares to redefine the word “epic”. Much like last year, the race will be held on a Saturday evening in the floodlit arena of the Losail circuit though while last year was nothing short of spectacular this year we can expect even more. With the installation of a new permanent lighting system the track should be much closer to its full potential by covering the track with an even sheen of bright light. With the Women’s Motocross World Championship joining the MXGP field

for its first race the addition of more ‘female friendly’ structures to accommodate the lovely ladies will be greatly appreciated by the competitors and fans alike.

fresh soil will be added to the surface as well as a few minor alterations to the jumps.

Known for its incredible atmosphere and entertainment the draw of Beto Carrero and Round two in Thailand has its distinctive red soil takes become a greener place since us to Brazil for round three. the inaugural event in 2013 In previous years the South with the planting of grass American track has featured and trees around the faciliin the middle of the seaty; it has also been blessed son but given that it is such with better track preparation an amazing event and the machinery, Internet and wash crowds there are so animatbays. The track itself was ed, it is only right that Brazil definitely one of the favorites gets its shot at an early sealast year due to its width and son Grand Prix. flowing lines and for 2014

In 2014 the MXGP World Championship travels to Ukraine for the first time and goes back to Mexico and Spain, while Brazil will host two GP.

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European motocross fans and enthusiasts who will have spent the long winter months making predictions, bets and arguing with their buddies over who they think will stand on the podium are sure to be longing for this moment, the first Motocross Grand Prix in Europe. In 2014 Europe’s opening round will take place in Trentino, Italy, one of the most picturesque locations on the tour.

The venue of ‘Arco Di Trento’ is currently having a make over where everything is get-

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ting the GP super size treatment, with the paddock, parking areas, starting grid and the media center all being uprated, even the track will gain an new section to improve its length. To top it all off, a new Gold VIP area will be allocated and set up for those who choose to splurge on a VIP Gold Pass for the weekend.

While round five has still to be confirmed, round six dives into a sea of rowdy orange clothed people, with thousands of waving Herlings#84 flags and troops of chain

saw wielding MX fanatics in Valkenswaard, The Netherlands. The fans of ‘sand’ style motocross will be stoked to know that the track will be ripped deeper than last year, making for a more gnarly and traditional sand race.

Spain is making a return to the Grand Prix’s with round seven at the legendary track of Talavera de la Reina while the spectator friendly ‘Matterley Basin’ in Great Britain will take on round eight in the middle of the British “spring”.

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For those that never miss the Motocross of Nations, you’ll be pumped to know that the next three rounds are known for their MXoN success. We love the French and Italian crowds with their fire and passion, which is why Saint Jean D’Angely in France and Maggiora, Italy, will take on rounds nine and ten.

the weekend of June 22, when round eleven of the 2014 FIM Motocross World Championship rolls into town.

Moving into the Scandinavian region, a calendar regular in the form of Uddevalla, Sweden, will host round thirteen followed by the special track of Hyvinkää in Finland. What is so special about Hyvinkää?

Following them and moving Before last year’s race Finforwards from the epic scenes land had a whopping twenat the Motocross of Nations is ty-two year absence from Teutschenthal, Germany. The the MXGP calendar, in fact chances are you were probthe previous Finnish Motoably there but if you weren’t, cross Grand Prix was way you will have another opporback in 1991, where a Fin tunity to witness some world Pekka Vehkonen miraculousclass racing on Teutschenly won. Today, the motorcythal’s phenomenal circuit on cle club Hyvinkää is home to

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the “KISS” campaign, which stands for ‘Keep It Shiny and Sustainable’. As apart of the campaign last year our champions Antonio Cairoli and Jeffrey Herlings, along with a few of the all time greats Stefan Everts, Joel Smets and Finland’s own Heikki Mikkola and Pekka Vehkonen, planted trees at the circuit as a symbol and example to motocross enthusiasts to take care of the environment we race and train in.

Loket in the Czech Republic is another golden oldie on the calendar which will hold round fifteen, while round sixteen moves to the ‘motocross capital’ Belgium with the ven-

ue to be confirmed soon.

2014 will go out with a bang as the last three MXGP locations are all calendar rookies. Although The Ukraine has a solid history of motocross, hosting multiple European Championship and MX3 World Championship rounds, this year will be the first time in modern history that the country will host an MXGP round.

From there it is all about excitement and as much as we love tradition we also love new arena’s to play in, which leads us to the last two rounds in Brazil and Mexico. Brazil, as always, will be a stand out event with a new track being construct-

ed, following the design cues of Beto Carrero and it is expected that more than 30,000 fans will turn up to see our MXGP stars duke it out. Meanwhile, the grand finale will be held in front of our Mexican “amigos” at a completely new location. The track in Leon will be built inside a huge city park, which is a famous for hosting major sporting events and activities. The track will be located near a lake and the soil used to build the track will have been extracted from the bottom of that lake. To top it all off, the design of the track has been made and approved by the city Leon itself.

signed sealed and delivered with two champions crowned we will head to Kegums in Latvia for yet another stellar Motocross of Nations and what better track to have it on. The fluffy caramel colored dirt looks all fine and dandy, but it is deceiving how gnarly that track gets and as we have seen time and time again, at the Motocross of Nations anything can happen which is why we love it.

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Putting it out there

When we talk about factory bikes in Motocross it conjures images of one off specials dripping in hand made parts, fans mutter in hushed tones of race budgets that dwarf the dreams of mortal MX riders and innovations that will hopefully trickle down to the bikes we can buy in the years to come. On the other hand when we talk of TV the view is a bit more simplistic, get a camera, get a satellite or Ethernet cable and send it to a

station, right? Not quite.

We’d actually be better of using the sort of words that we reserve to describe exotic race machines for TV as the pace of development in broadcasting in the last 10 years has accelerated well beyond that of the bikes that it is used to cover.

First the aspect ratio went WIDE with the change to 16:9, look at any unwanted television

that’s left outside by an ungrateful owner nowadays and though it may only be 8 years old, by today’s standards it is a clunky grey box from the dark ages. Then we went HD and all went out and bought a new TV that could support the format, but before long that was only half the story as 3D became the standard to strive towards and now even that is not enough for the manufacturers. With 4K being pushed to become the home

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viewing standard in the next 5 years there is a whole new avenue for broadcasting opening up that goes above and beyond what even 3D can offer.

All those are the bits that the consumer sees, behind the scenes there has been a sea change in the technology that is needed to provide the signals and content to satisfy and explore the capabilities of the fast changing consumer market. Youthstream jumped in to the middle with LIVE Motocross since its beginnings and it has been a rapid acceleration ever since.

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live tapeless HD broadcast in place after years of investment, a revamped magazine programme in HD using the latest camera technology, a new outside broadcast truck and live TV graphics that could begin to tap the extra screen capacity of the HD signal.

The investment paid off, not just for you the viewer in terms of the clarity and content of the programmes you watched but also in the worldwide reach of the Motocross World Championship. Overall there were 2006 extra hours of MXGP on worldwide TV in 2013 that thanks to our varied broadcasters had a potential viewer total of 219 Million people at any one time. Figures that gave MXGP a potential

cumulative audience of over 1,2 Billion over all the season.

The reach of the networks and their interest in MXGP is in direct correlation to the investments made in the best and latest broadcast standard equipment and technology and with the World Championship moving East to the Qatar and Thai Grand Prix there was an explosion of coverage in south east Asia through Pan Asian broadcasters.

More impressive was that the Qatar season opener had the season’s joint highest viewing figures around the world, with the flood lit race sharing the spot with the classic event of Loket and the return of the Finish GP the diversity of the Championship and the TV coverage really shows.

Far from resting on its laurels for 2014, the TV production will take another step with a huge increase in the number of Cameras covering the races, Ioannis Nikolaidis Youthstream’s TV Executive Manager can explain it best.

“We will have in total 12 RF signals this year. #1 is our usual RF CAM, #2 will be the “drag way” camera which last years tests proved were ac-

tually very nice perspectives of the races. #3-5 will be our traditional on board cams on the bikes/riders, #6-8 will be PIT LANE action live, #9-11 minicams in the field and the #12 will be the DRONE. We do believe that with all these new views the home viewer will have a more LIVE coverage than ever.”

At each Grand Prix these cameras and the now standard HD track feed cameras will provide the networks and fans with 2 hours of the MXGP class, 2 hours of MX2 racing and at the MXoN 2 full days of action. There will also be full coverage online as MXLIFE.tv morphs into MXGPTV.COM with all the races streaming live online from their events plus the support-

ing cast of WMX and the full spectrum of EMX Championships.

To cap it all off the race by race half hour magazine programme will continue to evolve in 2014 with more cameras bringing all the best bits of the weekend’s action and intrigue to the audience straight after the GP, with insider titbits, rider interviews, unique race highlights and comprehensive news coverage from inside the MXGP paddock.

It is all about making the most of the technology available and with TV continuing to evolve and shift year by year, the Motocross World Championship is investing and growing to stay on the peak of the curve.

MXGP SOCIAL

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@HondaPowersprts Happy New Year from your friends at Honda! #RideRedin 2014 #mxgp

@BeccaaDianna17 Such a good New Year’s Eve. Spent it with my favourite people. Looking forward to the motocross season starting again now. Happy 2014! @AndrewMckinstry Merry Christmas to everyone at @mxgp excited for the 2014 season!!2014! @StandingKTM Best wishes to all people with a passion for motocross... Thanks to all of you we can enjoy this wonderful sport. @MarkBisselink @mxgp season package for 2014 in the pocket!#letsgo

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@shawngraham91 Go away rain! This is the year I become a professional motocross rider and quit the day job!

@BearSwanson My new years resolution is to dedicate myself 100% to Motocross #motolife

@MotocrossYou Ready to start off this new year with some Motocross

Arjen the unbeatable MXGP-TV Youtube competition Last month, many young riders had a chance to register on MXGP Facebook and win winter training in Spain with the MXGP Academy. All young riders were very enthusiastic and competitive but unbeatable was 15 years old Arjen Froma from the Netherlands.

The young Dutch rider’s training video received over 11,000 views and he won one week MXGP Academy training in Malaga, Spain. You can watch all videos that entered the competition by clicking here.

Congrats to Arjen and see you in Spain!

Last month MXGP-TV Youtube subscribers had a great chance to follow best moments of the Motocross of Nations. And we went back all way to 1986 up to the most recent 2013 Monster Energy FIM Motocross of Nations! Subscribe to MXGPTV Youtube channel and join the MXoN trip! Click here to join.

BOOK, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE Visit MXGP Instagram (@MXGP) and have fun!

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MXGP Academy

Lights the way for our talented young stars

There are a lot of important decisions to be made in young riders careers that, as much as we hate to say it, can ultimately make or break them in the long run. In order to take some of the pressure off parents by minimizing career guesswork, Youthstream created the MXGP Academy, a program designed to develop and guide young riders towards realizing and achieving their motocross dreams.

As mentioned in the previous issue of the MXGP Mag the MXGP Academy will be led by two-time Motocross World Champion John Van Den Berk and fitness expert Jan Postema. Using their combined accomplishments and industry inside knowledge they have come up with the ultimate program to maximize the potential of the next generation both on and off the track.

Riders can now enroll in the MXGP Academy’s winter training program to be held in the south of Spain where they will train under the watchful eyes of Jan and John. The winter program began on December the 23rd and will run through to March 1st in week long blocks. Thanks to the support of KTM, the MXGP Academy has multiple ‘ready to race’ KTM SX65, SX85, SX125 and 250SX-F bikes

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available for the riders to train on. In addition to the invaluable knowledge and world class advice the riders will be given, they may also be get the chance to meet and ride with MXGP stars such as two-time MX2 World Champion Jeffrey Herlings and last years MX2 bronze medalist José Butrón.

Friday before selected MXGP events. The sessions will last three hours where the chosen riders will be given the utmost amount of guidance and attention from the fabulous MXGP Academy trainers, as well getting the opportunity to get up close and personal with current MXGP athletes.

With the MXGP Academy winter program already in full swing and popularity increasing by the minute, we are finally able to spill the beans on what’s in store for the MXGP Academy during the 2014 season. When the season begins on March the 1st specially selected MXGP Academy riders will be invited to train on the actual MXGP circuits on the

The MXGP Academy realizes that for our future stars all roads lead to Bastogne, Belgium, where the 2014 FIM Junior Motocross World Championship will take place. This event attracts an abundance of young talented riders who travel from all corners of the globe to test their speed on the world stage. For the majority of the MXGP Academy riders it

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will be their time to shine and the MXGP Academy trainers would like nothing better than to see their riders reach their full potential at the championship. For this reason the MXGP Academy setup will attend the Junior Motocross World Championship where they will arrange some activities specifically designed to extract the best out of the riders.

With so much already happening and with so much more to look forward to we hope you have had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

For more information on the MXGP Academy or to enroll contact secretariat@ mxgp-academy.com.

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FIM Asia Elections

On the 11th of December 2013 a new wave rode its way through the general assembly of the FIM Asia as the scheduled elections revealed a see change in the governance of motorcycle sport in the Asia Pacific region.

The assembly in Kuala Lumpur called together 24 national members of the federation, as well as the latest addition the Oman Motorcycle Federation, to vote for the President and Vice Presidents of the Federation for the next term of office.

Fittingly the election was a victory for Mr Wan Ahamed Zaharuddin of Malaysia who will be ably supported in his first term as president by three newly elected vice presidents representing the full spectrum of the Federation.

For Asian motocross fans there is good news as he has experience of creating tracks to FIM international standards for the Lebanese Motocross Championship where he worked closely with the second man elected to the vice presidency Mr Ali Dagher.

Mr Dagher, the president of the Lebanese Motorcycle Federation, has also shown great support for Motocross in the Arab regions and their Mr Essa Al Awadhi, President of joint presence is a boom for off road racing in FIM Asia. the Bahrain Motorcycle Federation was the first to be elected carrying 20 votes to his name, a The third, until the 2014 fact that reflects the importance election to vote in a 4th member, Vice President to be of his previous experience on elected was Mr Sadkin Aksa, the executive committee of the who has held the office of Arab Motorcycle Federation.

Vice President for the Indonesian Motorcycle federation since 2012.

The 4th and final Vice President will be elected during next years general assembly.

These election results mean that the FIM Asia now has an entirely new executive committee to continue to move an area of the world with a huge interest and consumer base for motorcycles forward with sport, coupled with the MXGP World Championship making two highly anticipated trips to Asia as the first steps for the 2014 season, motorcycle racing and most importantly Motocross in Asia is continuing it’s rapid ascendance.

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Four times a World Champion, Harry Everts the racer wrote some of the very best pages of Belgian Motocross History way before he gave the sport another huge champion in his son.

The father of Stefan, the greatest Motocross rider in the history of the World Championship, Harry had to work harder than anyone to reach the highest level. A task he has never shied away from and that dedication and passion for the sport continues today at 61 years of age, as he shares his experience with new young riders.

Born on the 6th of February 1952, Harry had to fight on his hands from day one as he had early physical troubles that required repeated surgery before he could even walk normally. Perhaps it was in that formative time that he forged his legendary obstinacy, a trait that helped him to overcome obstacles that any other might

have found insurmountable to facturer Puch with the Belgian eventually become World Cham- ace winning one Grand Prix pion. and finishing third in the standings - in fact he was second It was thanks to his uncle Jeff in total points scored but the Teuwissen that the young Har- rules back then stated that only ry discovered Motocross and the top twelve results of the entered his first race when he twenty two events were countwas fourteen years old. It was ed towards the final classificaa race that required a tiny bit tion. of deception as Everts was too young to race his 400cc Maico Winning the last round of the in the event, but the organ1974 series gave Everts a isers never knew his true age. momentum that he was able to It was first race and first win carry into the following season, for Everts and it was enough Harry was one of the regular to convince him to continue in GP winners alongside Hakan the sport, and three years on Andersson and Willy Baufrom that moment he claimed er, both riding for Japanese his first title of renown in the brands. It was Everts who took Senior Belgian Series. the spoils come seasons end Harry scored his first point in the World Championship during his first GP season in 1971 but had to wait 3 more years before he stood on the podium.

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ha, and Everts took the chance, after 250 campaigns for Puch and Bultaco, to lead the charge for the Hamamatsu brand in the smallest class.

tirement came in 1984 he didn’t Always working with young riders, he has been involved in the move away from the paddock, continuing to work in the sport success of riders such as Steffi Laier, Jonathan Barragan and to this day. He opened his MoGlen Coldenhoff, and contintocross school in Spain,www. evertsmxcamp.com which cele- ues to enjoy a daily motocross It was the beginning of his brates its 20th anniversary this life, his life. Always smiling and domination, as Harry won three year, where he was the first me- friendly, this ambassador of our consecutive titles and sixteen chanic and he worked for sev- sport is now also taking care GP’s in the class with Suzuki. eral years with his son Stefan of young Liam, who may well A time which he looks back on before creating his own team. become the third generation of fondly: “My best memory was the Everts family to shine on the He worked for the Spanish 1979; it was a fantastic season Federation and finally joined motocross tracks of the world! as I won eight GP’s, seventeen the KTM factory staff several heats, the 250 Belgian GP and years ago.

Text and photos by P. Haudiquert nearly won the 500 Belgian round. And we also won with Malherbe and De Coster the 1973 250cc Motocross World Championship - 14th (Puch) Motocross of Nations! I had 1974 250cc Motocross World Championship – 3rd (Puch) a couple of accidents in my 1975 250cc Motocross World Championship – 1st (Puch) career as I broke more than 1976 250cc Motocross World Championship – 5th (Puch) twenty bones, but luckily I was 1977 250cc Motocross World Championship - 4th (Bultaco) a very fast healer; for example 1978 250cc Motocross World Championship – 6th (Bultaco) one day I broke my wrist and 1979 125cc Motocross World Championship - 1st (Suzuki) four weeks later I was riding 1980 125cc Motocross World Championship - 1st (Suzuki) my bike”.

1981 125cc Motocross World Championship - 1st (Suzuki) Motocross was in Evert’s blood, and when the inevitable re-

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1982 125cc Motocross World Championship - 4th (Suzuki) 1983 500cc Motocross World Championship – 4th (Suzuki)

PADDOCK TALKS

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Paddock Talks 01/David Philippaerts testing the new videgame. Click to watch the video of the MXGP riders’ visit at Milestone.

02/In a few weeks time the MXGP World Championship will start at Qatar. 03/The MXGP Academy was very active in December with the winter camp. 04/CLS Monster Energy Kawasaki Pro Circuit send their best wishes to all the MXGP community!

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Paddock Talks 05/All the FIM MX World Champions were awarded by the FIM at the glamorous Salle des ร toiles in Monaco.

06/The Monster Rig will be present at all the MXGP in 2014, visit it and have fun!

07/Rui Gonรงalves and Jake Nicholls having fun during the MXGP of Brazil. 08/Antonio Cairoli and Alessandro Lupino having fun between Grand Prix.

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QUESTIONS TO THE EDITOR

QUESTIONS TO THE EDITOR Hi MXGP, What is included to the MXGP Season Package on www.

MXGP-TV.com ?

Regards, Roberto Marchi.

Hi Roberto, Thanks for reaching us. 2014 MXGP Season Package includes LIVE coverage of 2014 FIM Motocross World Championship and Monster Energy FIM Motocross of Nations in high definition. You will also have access to the exclusive 26mn MXGP lifestyle magazine and other premium video content.

All the best, Youthstream Hi MXGP, When will we find out the missing (tba) MXGP? Best wishes, Jac Malin.

Hello Jac, We will announce the missing round in the calendar very soon. Stay tuned with MXGP Facebook page for the news.

All the best, Youthstream

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Hi MXGP, Can my 12 years old son join the MXGP Academy?

Gerco Goedhart, Patrik Prochazka Hi Gerco, Thank for the interest to MXGP Academy. Of course, your son can join the school. Please contact secretariat@mxgp-academy. com for more information.

Best Regards Youthstream Hi MXGP, Is Motors TV covering the MXGP this year?

Thanks.

Matt Chance.

Hi Dario, Youthstream is in the negotiation with a few top TV sport stations in the United Kingdom.

As soon as the final decision is made, we will inform you.

Meanwhile follow MXGP Facebook page for the news.

Best Regards!

Youthstream

Hi MXGP, On which TV Channel can I watch the MXGP Championship 2014 LIVE? Thanks.

Dario Basso.

Hi Dario, Thank you for the interest. You can follow the races on MXGPTV from all over the world and on your favorite device. For more information, please visit www.mxgp-tv.com Best Regards!

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