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Bud Racing is a company who like the challenges, and rather
than staying in Grand’s Prix they’ve decided to move in the US
Supercross series. This is a thoughtful decision, and it will allowed
the team to continue to get strong results with their 250 Kawasaki Bud
which already claimed two GP podiums this season with Dylan Ferrandis,
but also two French Elite titles in 2012 and 2013. Dylan joined another
Kawasaki team, but the Bud Racing team keeps Valentin Teillet; the
Frenchman can’t race anymore the MX2 GP’s due to the age regulation, but
he wants to stay in this class and will race the American Supercross
series. He already got some good results in the European Supercross, and
will enter the West coast series.
Valentin will fly to California in a few days, alongside Jacky Vimond
the team’s trainer and his mechanic. He will be based in the Bud Racing
USA workshop in California, and will be on January 4th in
Anaheim (California) for the first round of the series. He will be back
in France for the French Elite series, and Bud Racing will present later
his 2014 European and French program.
Valentin Teillet: "It’s a new challenge for me and I put all my
energy to be ready for it. I raced the GP’s during four seasons and I
didn’t got the results I was expecting, so I enter now another challenge
and I’m very happy to do it with Bud Racing. I know the bike and the
team, as we are working together since two years now. I didn’t raced so
many Supercross the past seasons as I was focused on Motocross, but
since two years I did a few SX; I love this sport and I enjoyed riding
Supercross. As many French riders I was dreaming to race one day the US
Supercross, but I know that it’s a tough championship and I’m already
working hard to prepare the season. I saw in Bercy, where I raced on a
250 among the 450, what I must improve; it’s difficult to reveal any
goal, as I never raced on a US track that are different than the
European ones. We’ll see when we’ll be in Anaheim for the first race!”
Stephane Dassé: "Honestly we were not very motivated to race
another season the GP’s, so we took the decision to move to the US with
Valentin. He will race the West Coast as our company is now located also
in California. It’s a great challenge for us, but that’s only one part
of our program as we’ll continue with the support of Kawasaki Europe to
help young riders in the European 85 and MX2 programs. We have always
work with promising kids, and we have with Jacky Vimond a great trainer
to help them. Concerning the US program it’s like a dream for us to be
there with Valentin, we’re happy to give him another chance, as he was
not allowed to race anymore the MX2 GP’s. Last summer we open a Bud
Racing shop in the US and we’ll use it for the team. Valentin will come
back in France to race the French Motocross and Supercross
championships, as there is no conflict with the dates, and maybe he will
also race a few rounds of the Motocross series in the US.” |
