American Honda Signs Ashley Fiolek as Official Member of the 2009 Honda Red Bull Racing Factory Team

Torrance, CA: American Honda is proud to officially announce that 2008 WMA
Women’s Motocross Champion Ashley Fiolek has joined the Honda Red Bull
Racing factory team. Fiolek will join Honda Red Bull teammates Andrew Short,
Ivan Tedesco, Davi Millsaps and Ben Townley, and will defend her WMA title
in 2009 on Honda’s CRF250R.

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For 36 years Honda has led the way, winning 57 AMA Motocross and Supercross
titles and more races than any other manufacturer. In addition, Fiolek’s
signing with Honda Red Bull Racing marks an historic milestone for the
industry as the 18-year-old champion is the first female athlete in history
to be signed with Honda’s factory team.

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. The inspirational racer will represent the Honda
Red Bull Racing team in the 2009 WMA Championship, X-Games 15 competition
and other select events.

Honda Red Bull Racing Team Manager Erik Kehoe is pleased to have five
talented riders on the factory team. “It is great to have all four riders
back this year and I am really looking forward to welcoming Ashley to the
team,” said Kehoe. “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 a full factory team at Honda
is a dream come true for me,” said Fiolek. “I have been excited beyond
belief! I can’t thank American Honda enough for providing me this
opportunity and I look forward to working with Erik and the whole Honda Red
Bull Racing team.”

For more information on Ashley and the Honda Red Bull Racing team, go to
www.hondaredriders.com or www.redbull.com. To meet Ashley in person as well
as other members of the Honda Red Bull Racing team—Andrew Short, Ivan
Tedesco and Davi Millsaps—stop by the Honda Red Bull team transporter at
Anaheim 2 on January 17, 2009 and get an official Honda Red Bull Racing
sticker as well as autographed rider posters.

About Ashley Fiolek

Born profoundly deaf, Ashley began riding and racing motorcycles at age
seven and worked her way up the amateur Motocross ranks. In 2004, at the age
of 13, she won her first national championship at the AMA Amateur National
Motocross Championships at Loretta Lynn’s. Between 2005 and 2007 she went on
to win 12 more national championships. She has won more than 100 races in
her career so far, including winning six races in the 2008 AMA/WMA Women’s
Motocross Championship to lock up her first professional title. For more
information about Ashley, see: www.ashleyfiolek.com.