New Italian Tean to challenge MX1 World Championship
Saturday 24 December: A new Motocross Team was officially presented in Viterbo, Italy: the Marchetti Racing Team, that will participate in the FIM Motocross World Championship.
The Italian squad is led by Team Manager Elio Marchetti, ex car racer
that also owned the Team 747 Motorsport, racing in the Supermoto World
Championship.
The new team will debut in the 2012 season with two riders:
- Matteo
Bonini in the MX1 class. Mechanic will be
Sieve Ceccarelli.
- Giacomo Del Segato in the MX2 class. Mechanic will be Maurizio Marinetti.
- The
team Technical Director is Franco Tomassini.
Elio
Marchetti: "It's a long time project that has finally come true. We are finally ready to get on track in
the important and difficult motocross world championship. We are
preparing the season with determination and confidence, we need to grow
our experience but we hope to make good results as soon as possible. We
thank Youthstream for this opportunity, KTM and all our sponsors for
their support. We have two young riders but already with some
experience, and both have a good potential to emerge'.

Left to right. Giacomo Del Segato, born in Chiusi (SI) on 02 June 1992, will ride MX2 class with KTM 250 bike. Team Manager Elio Marchetti. Matteo Bonini, born in Castelnovo ne’ Monti (RE), on September 20th, 1985, will ride MX1 class with KTM 450 bike. Copy and photo courtesy Marchetti Racing Team