Stefan Everts and Roger DeCoster Meet at KTM Headquarters: Everts Signs 3-Year Contract

KTM is
proud to announce that Stefan Everts has signed another 3-year
contract to manage the Red Bull/KTM Factory Team. Everts meet with
Roger DeCoster, one of most iconic managerial figures in the
motocross community and now the U.S. Red Bull/KTM Factory Team
Manager, at the company headquarters in Mattighofen, Austria to plan
for the 2011 season and beyond.

Everts
and DeCoster, two of the most respected figures in Motocross Sports
Management, along with KTM CEO Stefan Pierer and KTM Racing Boss Pit
Beirer met to lay the groundwork for what will undoubtedly be a
successful year for KTM. The company went into 2010 with the
intention of gaining a stronghold on the MX1 and MX2 classes and came
away with 2 World Championships. KTM
Racing’s task for 2011 is to further secure their dominance on the
track while laying the foundation for similar performances in U.S.
competition in the AMA Supercross and Motocross Series.

Everts,
one of the most distinguished riders in the sport of motocross and a
10X World Champion, has enjoyed success both with the Red Bull/KTM
Factory Racing Team and for his input and consultation with KTM’s
Research and Development Department in the development of the KTM 350
SX-F. A huge success in its launch year, the revolutionary new bike
shunned the critics from the first time that KTM’s Tony Cairoli and
newly crowned MX1 World Champion rode to victory on its very first
track appearance in early 2010.

Roger
DeCoster, Belgian born but long time resident of the USA, is also a
multi-time World Championship title holder who moved on from his
success as a racer to a highly respected Team Manager in the U.S.
Most recently, DeCoster managed the victorious MXoN Team in what is
considered to be the Olympics of motocross racing. DeCoster was
inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame America in 1994, only the
seventh motorcyclist to have been awarded the honor. The 5X Motocross
World Champion and Trans-AMA Champion was also inducted into the AMA
Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999.

Pit
Beirer: “We are naturally
delighted to welcome both Stefan and Roger to Mattighofen and of
course to have signed Stefan for another three years. With him and
Roger onboard for the new US teams, we can now move forward with some
major plans for KTM Racing. There will be many challenges, including
maintaining our dominance here in Europe while establishing the team
as a force in the USA, but with Roger and Stefan we have the right
people. Both are hugely experienced and highly respected.”