Reed cements solid future for TwoTwo Motorsports
Tuesday 08 November: TwoTwo Motorsports Chad Reed has hit the ground running since returning to the USA, today announcing one of the most important partnerships of his career.
Just hours after arriving in California, Reed put pen to paper, cementing his team’s future, with increased support from American Honda for 2012 and beyond. The Australian, who started TwoTwo Motorsports
from scratch just 12 months ago is excited to be expanding his relationship
with American Honda and welcomed the consistency that would come from
multiple years with the manufacturer.
TwoTwo Motorsports will
now have access to a myriad of resources, from design to manufacturing,
with the team to be housed at American Honda’s Californian Racing
facility, directly next door to the Factory Motocross team.
"In
some ways this feels like redemption,” Reed said. "In the
beginning the support from American Honda was limited, which was completely
understandable given we were a new team without any runs on the
board.”
"Our new relationship with American Honda
holds so much potential and for me it is a money can’t buy
partnership to be associated with a manufacturer that is as equally
committed to winning as we are.”
Never before has a rider
started a team with such success and American Honda’s multi year
commitment to the team show they have confidence that the teams success
will continue.
"We are very excited to have TwoTwo
Motorsports continue with Honda for 2012 and 2013,” said American
Honda Race Team Director Ray Conway.
"Chad enjoyed a
tremendous level of success in 2011, his first year ever on Honda CFR450R
racing machines.”
"We are all anticipating that his
level of success will only increase during the coming year as he and his
team continue to build on the great foundation they’ve already
established,” Conway continued.
Whilst fans and industry
insiders were expecting the announcement of a second rider Reed opted to
recruit two key personnel to TwoTwo Motorsports for 2012.
Renowned motorcycle engineer Mike Gosselaar has joined the team as
Technical Director and Sergio Avento has taken up the role of Research and
Development Manager.
"As a rider, I am responsible for
my own performance and I expect to go out there and win, anything else is
second best,” Reed continued.
"With a team
situation there are so many other things that can affect an outcome, but it
was the sheer hard work and dedication of my crew this year that ensured
none of those factors influenced our performance.”
"They worked extremely hard 24/7 to create a dynamic within the
team that was second to none in the championship. It is the sort of dynamic
you normally see within a team that has worked together for years.”
"Recruiting Goose & Sergio will further strengthen
that dynamic and provide the additional resources we need to continue
building a solid infrastructure around the team,” Reed said.
TwoTwo Motorsports Team Manager Dave Osterman echoed Reed’s
sentiments.
"We had a dream year and the dream continues
into 2012 & beyond,” Osterman stated.
"I am
pleased to say that with our new long term commitment from American Honda
coupled with our growing infrastructure Chad Reed & TwoTwo Motorsports
will continue to be Championship contenders.”
After
working with Reed in 2009 Gosselaar said he was looking forward to teaming
up with the Australian again.
"I'm grateful for the
opportunity to join TwoTwo Motorsports,” Gosselaar said. "It's
a great feeling to be part of this program knowing we're growing into
becoming one of the top premier teams.”
"It's also
awesome to be back working with American Honda again and great to be
supported 100% by them. Bring on 2012.”
Reed will spend
the coming months in California testing with his TwoTwo Motorsports team as
they prepare for the opening round of the 2012 Monster Energy AMA
Supercross Championship, which will be held at Anaheim’s Angel
Stadium on Saturday January 7, 2012.