Intro. Team Staff. Riders. Intro. Team Staff. Riders. Husqvarna Motorcycles Srl - Via Nino Bixio Cassinetta di Biandronno (VA) Italy

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1 In the press folder: 1) Intro: Husqvarna Enduro and Superm otard 2010 Team s 2) Husqvarna CH Racing E nduro Team Intro Team Staff Riders 3) Husqvarna CH Racing Superm oto Team Intro Team Staff Riders 4) 2010 Calendars

2 HUSQVARNA CH RACING ENDURO and SUPERMOTARD TEAMS TOGETHER IN THE SNOW Antoine Meo, Bartosz Oblucki, Sebastien Guillaume, Matti Seistola,Mauno Hermunen and Adrien Chareyre have gathered together after Christmas holidays for an intensive training before the new racing season begins racing Seasons has started for Husqvarna CH Racing Team Enduro and Supermotard teams riders from Cogne, in the Italian region of Aosta. Guided by the super active Team Manager Fabrizio Azzalin, 6 of the 7 Husqvarna Enduro factory riders new entry for 2010 Chris Hollis is still sun bathing in his beautiful Australia and will join next month the team - have met on the beautiful mountains of Aosta for a week of hard physical training before starting the new season. French riders Antoine Meo, Seb Guillaume and Adrien Chareyre, the Finnish Matti Seistola and Mauno Hermunen, the Polish rider Bartosz Oblucki and the intruder MX rider Alex Salvini, are now working on improving their physical condition to reach the best shape ever to achieve the highest results in the international races. Also, putting the two teams together, has made the riders focus on the common targets and enforce the team spirit. No bike riding is included in this training, the riders will start with the testing and developing of their TE 250s, WR 300s and SM 450RRs next week. Now it s all about winter sports: long excursions and skiing, with also a little SPA time to recharge the batteries. A very effective way to start the new season in which all Husqvarna riders have one goal only, victory, as team manager Fabrizio Azzalin explains: Our target is to win two world titles in Enduro and one in Supermoto. We have all the necessary ingredients to reach that goal: skilled riders, performing bikes and a perfect structured team. Our group is now like a family, we have never been so in shape and compact as we are now. It will be a very important season for Husqvarna brand added Husqvarna Racing Activities Coordinator Martino Bianchi we have presented new products and we have extremely important goals to achieve both in Enduro and in Supermotard, in which we are world champions in charge with the three world titles conquered last year. Also in the motocross category we want victory, and we ll claim it. Here in Cogne I ve seen in the riders eyes the urge to reach these results and their physical preparation is excellent. We will surely play a main role in the 2010 national and international championships.

3 HUSQVARNA ENDURO TEAM 2010 Husqvarna owes its popularity to the Enduro category and the successful list of titles won in this sport. Husqvarna CH Racing Team has become a milestone in both the history of Enduro and in the brand s centenary history itself. In 2010, the main goal for the five factory riders will be the victory in the WEC World Enduro Championship which will start on April, 11th with the GP of Spain. Antoine Meo, Matti Seistola and Chris Hollis will be racing in the E1 class, all of them riding the new TE250, while Sebastien Guillaume and Bartosz Oblucki will remain loyal to the two stroke riding the WR300 and both will be focused on reaching the E3 World Title. Italian-French Antoine Meo, at his third season in the Enduro category and second placed in 2009 in E1 class, is now ready to be a champion. The victories conquered in his last 3 GPs have made clear that he s the rider to beat in Antoine will have as team and class mates Matti Seistola, awarded Rookie of the Year in 2009, and recently emerged from a convalescence period after a knee surgery. New entry in the WEC and in the CH Racing team will be Australian Chris Hollis, already a National Champion in his homeland, now looking for glory overseas. Team leader remains Sebastien Guillaume, because of his ages which makes him the adult in the team, but also for the big experience gained in many years of Enduro races. After the third place in 2009, the French rider wants the World Title more than ever and will surely be stimulated also by his new classmate Bartosz Oblucki who passes from E2 class to E3 this year. All the five CH Racing riders will also take part to the national championships, with Meo remaining in France, while Polish rider Oblucki will move to Spain and the Australian/French/Finnish trio Guillaume, Seistola and Hollis, will be committed on the Italian Championship s tracks.

4 THE TEAM Fabrizio Azzalin Team Manager Enzo Fontana Sport director Roberto Bazzurri Riders advisor Mauro Cremonesi Sebastien Guillaume s mechanic Thomas Viola Bartosz Oblucki s mechanic Freddie Sheene - Chris Hollis s mechanic Fred Lavergne - Antoine Meo s mechanic Stefano Cenzin Matti Seistola s mechanic Mauro Uslenghi - Follower Riders Antoine Meo France E1 Class TE 250 Matti Seistola Finland - E1 Class TE 250 Chris Hollis Australia - E1 Class TE 250 Sebastien Guillaume France E3 Class WR 300 Bartosz Oblucki Poland E3 Class WR 300

5 NAME: CHRIS SURNAME: HOLLIS NATIONALITY: AUSTRALIAN HEIGHT: 1.80 cm WEIGHT: 79 kilos DATE OF BIRTH: 9/7/1984 PLACE OF BIRTH: Australia BEST PERFORMANCE EVER: place in the Australian Four Days Enduro out right class 1 place in the Australian Championship place in the Six Days Enduro, E1 class FAVOURITE RACE : Australian Four Days Enduro WHAT I LIKE TO DO IN MY FREE TIME: Playing Golf and going to the beach

6 NAME: SEBASTIEN NICKNAME: SEB SURNAME: GUILLAUME NATIONALITY: FRENCH HEIGHT: 1.81 WEIGHT: 82 kilos DATE OF BIRTH: 1st March 1978 PLACE OF BIRTH: Poissy (France) BEST PERFORMANCE EVER: Classified in the World Championship, E3 class Classified in the World Championship, E3 class Classified in the World Championship, E3 class Classified in the World Championship, E3 class FAVOURITE RACE: Hard races FAVOURITE RACE TRACK/GP: GP of France WHAT I LIKE TO DO IN MY FREE TIME: Jet Sky WHEN I WAS A CHILD I WANTED TO BECOME..: Enduro rider

7 NAME: ANTOINE SURNAME: MEO NATIONALITY: FRENCH HEIGHT: 1,83 WEIGHT: 80 kilos DATE OF BIRTH: 29/08/1984 PLACE OF BIRTH: Digne (France) BEST PERFORMANCE EVER: classified in Supercross World Championship 125 class classified in French Championship 250 class Campionato, 15 Classified in MX1 World Championship classified in the Enduro World Championship E2 class In 2008 Antoine took part to the European Supercross Championship. He also participated to the International Supermotard Race at the Eicma fair in Milan showing his estreme versatility classified in the Enduro World Championship E1 class Won the Six Days Enduro in Portugal with the team of France 1 classified in the Italian World Championship FAVOURITE RACE: Asti WHAT I LIKE TO DO IN MY FREE TIME: Cycling, going out with friends, going to parties WHEN I WAS A CHILD I WANTED TO BECOME..: Cross rider

8 NAME: BARTOSZ NICKNAME: BARTEK/BART/POLSKA SURNAME: OBLUCKI NATIONALITY: POLISH HEIGHT: 1.81 WEIGHT: 79 kilos DATE OF BIRTH: 21 February 1981 PLACE OF BIRTH: Warsaw (Poland) THE BEST PERFORMANCE BY TODAY: Classified in the World Championship 250 4T class (Husqvarna) Classified in the World Championship 250 4T class Classified in the World Championship E1 class 5 Classified in the Six Days Enduro (Poland) E1 class Classified in the World Championship E1 class 1 Classified in the Six Days Enduro (Slovakia) E1 class Classified in the World Championship E1 class Classified in the World Championship E1 class Classified in the World Championship E1 class. During this year Bartosz suffers for an accident happened during the GP of Sweden which holds him for a long time away from the world scenes. He also participated to one of the most Extreme races in the world, the Roof of Africa, ranking He obtains excellent performances in the Enduro E2 World Championship, but he is injured during the GP of Greece and is forced to retire from the championship finishing in 6th place FAVOURITE RACE : Erzberg Rodeo FAVOURITE RACE TRACK/GP: Unadilla WHAT I LIKE TO DO IN MY FREE TIME: Devote to my own business, going out with my friend Taddy Blazusiak WHEN I WAS A CHILD I WANTED TO BECOME..: factory rider

9 NAME: MATTI SURNAME: SEISTOLA NATIONALITY: FINLAND HEIGHT: 1.83 WEIGHT: 75 Kilos DATE OF BIRTH: 4 March 1983 BEST PERFORMANCE EVER: 2004 MX2 European Champion in MX2 World Championship 5 in MX2Italian Motocross in the Enduro World Championship. Named Rookie of the Year.

10 HUSQVARNA CH RACING SUPERMOTARD TEAM Thanks to 8 World Championship titles in the last 3 seasons, Husqvarna is certainly the queen of the Supermoto. In 2010 the class will be again one as it was in the beginning of this category and the factory team has revised the efforts without losing its diamond: Adrien Chareyre, three time World Champion in 2007, 2008 and Adrien will be supported by the young and exuberant Finnish rider Mauno Hermunen, at his second World Supermoto Championship experience after conquering the 4 th place in 2009 S1 class. The two riders, who will still be coordinated by sport director Massimo Manzo, will also race in national championships. Adrien Chareyre will take part to the Italian Supermotard Championship and some races of the Swiss Championship. Mauno Hermunen will again race in the German championship as well as in his homeland. Nevertheless, Adrien and Mauno will hit the tracks of the most famous European races such as Mettet, Tours, Motor Show Bologna and few races of the Husqvarna Supermotard Trophy.

11 HUSQVARNA CH RACING SUPERMOTARD TEAM THE TEAM Massimo Manzo Sport director Guerrini Giorgio Mauno Hermunen s mechanic and team organizer Fongaro Luca - Adrien Chareyre s mechanic Pensè Luca - Mechanic assistant for Hermunen-Chareyre Poerio Lucio - Adrien Chareyre s mechanic assistant Banchi Danilo Mauno Hermunen s mechanic assistant RIDE RS Adrien Chareyre France SM 450 RR Mauno Hermunen Finland SM 450 RR

12 NAME: ADRIEN NICKNAME: THE CAT SURNAME: CHAREYRE NATIONALITY: FRENCH WEBSITE: HEIGHT: 1.79 WEIGHT: 69 Kilos DATE OF BIRTH: 11 February 1986 PLACE OF BIRTH: ALES, FRANCE BEST PERFORMANCE EVER: 2006 Double victory in French Championship at Villars Sous Ecot 2007 World Champion S1 class 2008 World Champion S2 class 2009 World Champion S2 class FAVOURITE RACE : ALL THE RACES I WIN FAVOURITE RACE TRACK/GP: VILLARS SOUS ECOT WHAT I LIKE TO DO IN MY FREE TIME: GOING OUT WITH FRIENDS,GOING TO RESTAURANTS, HAVE FUN WHEN I WAS A CHILD I WANTED TO BECOME..: PROFESSIONAL CROSS RIDER

13 NAME: MAUNO SURNAME: HERMUNEN NATIONALITY: FINLANDIA WEBSITE: HEIGHT: 175 cm WEIGHT: 62 kilos DATE OF BIRTH: 26 March 1988 PLACE OF BIRTH: Vantaa, Finland BEST PERFORMANCE EVER: in Finnish Championship in German Championship S2 class 1 in Scandinavian Championship S1 and S2 class in Supermoto World Championship S1 class WHAT I LIKE TO DO IN MY FREE TIME:: Supermoto, Motocross, MiniMX WHEN I WAS A CHILD I WANTED TO BECOME..: OFF ROAD PILOT

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