KTM announces worldwide partnership with Athena and GET products

KTM, the sports motorcycle specialist
from Austria is pleased to announce a worldwide partnership with
Athena, leading manufacturer of motorcycle cylinders, gaskets,
pistons and makers of GET ECU’s, data acquisition systems and video
devices for motorsports.

“What started with a good
relationship when Claudio de Carli joined the KTM factory team
management structure when Tony Cairoli first signed with us in 2010
has now developed into a productive and rewarding global
partnership,” said Pit Beirer, Head of KTM Motorsports.

Beirer also confirmed that a solid
partnership with Athena also represents a further strengthening of
the three-way thrust of KTM’s factory racing activities: with De
Carli as manager of the MX1 World Championship factory team, Stefan
Everts as head of the MX2 World Championship factory team and Roger
DeCoster as manager of the Red Bull KTM factory team for SX and MX in
the USA. He said Athena’s high tech devices are instrumental in
helping to maintain and monitor the on-track activities of the
factory teams and suggests to KTM dealer network outlets and
enthusiasts that they use them.

About KTM
KTM, trading as
KTM Power Sports AG is a leading international manufacturer of
motorsports vehicles. KTM has already achieved 203 world championship
titles and has won the Dakar Rally ten consecutive times. The
operational core business develops and produces race-ready offroad
and street motorcycles. The KTM-Sportcar GmbH is the company for the
super lightweight sports car, the X-BOW, with which KTM has taken the
first step into the automobile area.

About Athena

Athena Spa works out of three plants in
Alonte, Italy, occupying a total area of 40,000 square meters of
factory floor where it manufactures gaskets, stamped and pressed
metal components, aluminum cylinders for internal combustion engines
and other engine hard-parts. The dedicated R&D plant is home of
the finest developments and the GET technology products. Athena also
has manufacturing and/or sales and distribution facilities in Spain,
Brazil, India and the USA.