JGR take over as Factory Suzuki!
Suzuki Motor of America, Inc. (SMAI) have announced that Joe Gibbs Racing will combine with them to become the primary factory team starting from the 2018 Supercross season. Both 450 and 250 classes will be under the new team covering Supercross and the Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross outdoors seasons.
Kerry Graeber
SMAI's Vice President of Sales and Marketing
"Racing is an important part of our effort to sell off-road products, and we're looking forward to an even stronger relationship with Joe Gibbs Racing, JGR is one of the most well-respected operations in racing. They share our vision of building a top-level team with elite athletes competing for championships."
Coy Gibbs
Team owner
"JGR is very excited to deepen our partnership with Suzuki and Yoshimura, The JGR crew has worked extremely hard to get into position to win championships, and this new effort and structure cements that championship-winning philosophy. We now have the right tools to lead the RM Army into battle. We are excited and ready to get the job done on every level."
It has been confirmed that veteran manager Jeremy Albrecht will lead the team going forward. They will be fielding two riders in both the 450 and 250 class for Supercross and have not named the riders yet. Watch this space as they will be announced shortly.
JGR will also be developing and marketing performance parts for Suzuki and the new Factory Team will be making their debut Supercross opening round on Jan. 6, at Anaheim, Cali.
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My first Dirtbike was a Yammie, and also have had an R6 road bike.
I'm a KTM man now though :) love them
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Glad you liked it @changfly :)
The bike sure is pretty!
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Good to see Suzuki backing them, RCH leaving was a shock.
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It will be in the right hands :)
I hope :)
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