Ashley Fiolek Extends Contract With American Honda Racing Factory Team For 2011

Torrance,
CA: American Honda is proud to announce that two-time WMA Women’s
Motocross Champion and two-time X Games Gold Medal winner Ashley Fiolek
will be racing once again in 2011 with the American Honda Racing
factory team. Fiolek will join American Honda Racing teammates Trey
Canard and Josh Grant and will campaign for a third WMA title in 2011
on Honda’s CRF250R.

After a successful amateur-racing
career that saw her win 13 amateur national titles and more than 100
races, Fiolek made her full-season professional racing debut in 2008,
winning the AMA/WMA Women’s Motocross Championship in her first attempt
and garnering unprecedented mainstream and enthusiast media coverage.
She followed up that success with much more: joining the American Honda
Racing Team in 2009, she secured the WMA Championship for the second
year in a row and also earned a gold medal in the highly popular X
Games competition. After finishing 2010 as runner-up in the WMA series
and collecting X Games gold once again, this year she will vie for
another WMA title and compete in the 2011 X-Games competition plus
other select events. In addition, Fiolek recently penned “Kicking Up
Dirt,” a book documenting her efforts to overcome her deafness and
become a champion in the demanding sport of Motocross.

American
Honda Racing Team Manager Erik Kehoe said, “Ashley’s commitment to
racing and her strength have earned her not only the respect of Honda
but the entire industry. Her achievements have really helped elevate
women’s racing to a wider audience.”

“Being able to
race Motocross professionally on the factory team at Honda has been a
dream come true for me,” said Fiolek. “I can’t thank American Honda
enough for providing me this continuing opportunity and I look forward
to working with Erik and the whole American Honda Racing team once
again.”

For more information on Ashley and the American
Honda Racing team, go to hondaredriders.com. To meet Ashley in person
as well as the other members of the American Honda Racing team—Trey
Canard and Josh Grant—stop by the American Honda Racing team
transporter at Anaheim 2 on February 5, 2011.