Alessi All-In For USGP

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April
8, 2010 - Glen Helen
Raceway, CA - KTM factory racer Mike Alessi has a well-deserved
reputation for being one of the fastest starters in motocross and he
continues to live up to this billing by getting the holeshot as a top
U.S. star signing up for
the U.S. Grand Prix (USGP) at the historic Glen Helen Raceway. On May 29-30th Alessi
looks to defend American honor against the best motocross racers in the
world as round six of the MX1/MX2 World Championships visits Southern
California.


"I'm really looking forward to the USGP," says the holeshot king,
originally from the High Desert community of Hesperia. "Glen Helen is
basically my home track and it will be a blast to go against my European
teammates on
the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team." However Alessi is quick to add,
"don't think for a second that I will take it easy on Tony Cairoli!"

Cairoli,
the defending MX1 World
Champion, is part of the powerhouse Red Bull KTM Factory effort that is
all-in for the USGP. KTM is committing two world champs and two
vice-champions to their six rider factory effort that will be coming to
America. Italian Cairoli,
German Max Nagl and Rui Goncalves from Portugal will compete in the
premiere MX1 (open class), while Marvin Musquin from France, Scotland's
Shaun Simpson and Jeffrey Herlings from Holland will race the MX2 (250F)
class.


They will be joined at Glen Helen Raceway by two more KTM factory racers
in the form of Alessi and Britain's Tommy Searle (who are both
competing in AMA competition this season). "This is a great opportunity
for us to show the quality
of our factory team and our racing bikes in the USA, which is a very
important and growing market for us," notes KTM Sportmotorcycles CEO
Stefan Pierer.

The
fact that KTM's U.S. headquarters is in nearby Temecula and KTM is
looking to kick-off their all-new 350 SX-F certainly makes sense for KTM
to be the first to step up
in support of the USGP concept. Pierer says KTM is definitely stacking
the deck in their favor: "We go to the U.S. with our World Champions and
our World Championship bikes, including the new KTM 350 SX-F that MX1
World Champion Tony
Cairoli has chosen to defend his title on!"


Tickets for the "Race of the Century" as the USGP is being billed, go on
sale Friday, April 9th at the
www.glenhelen.com,
as well as at participating local Yamaha dealers. Reserved camping will
also go on sale for $50 per spot.