Newsgroup: it.sport.ciclismo
Titolo: (MTB) (X-Post) Bren Fairclough alla Honda

L'inglese Brendan Faiclough, giovane promessa del downhill fino allo 
scorso anno al team Orange, fa il grande salto e dal 2007 andrà ad 
affiancare Greg Minnaar e Matti Lehikoinen nel team giapponese G-Cross Honda
Il comunicato (in inglese):
Team G Cross Honda will once again be returning to the international 
mountain bike race season in 2007 with riders Greg Minnaar (RSA), Matti 
Lehikoinen (FIN) and new addition Brendan Fairclough (GBR). The new line 
up of three riders will be contesting the UCI World Cup Downhill as well 
as selected Maxxis Cup events, British National Point Series events, and 
sending selected riders to other high profile events such as Crankworx 
and the Lisbon Downtown.
Greg Minnaar, 25 years old from Pietermaritzburg, who has been with Team 
G Cross Honda since 2004, will begin his 4th season on the Honda RN01 
chasing the World Title, as well as looking to take back the World Cup 
title he won in 2005. It's clear his main rivals in 2007 will continue 
to be Steve Peat (GBR) and Sam Hill (AUS), but as always his title 
pursuits will be supported by the best equipment sponsors on the 
circuit; Showa suspension, Formula brakes, Alpinestars clothing & 
protection, Maxxis tyres, Mavic rims and SDG I-Beam seats and posts.
Matti Lehikoinen, 22 years old from Helsinki, had a great season in 2006 
winning the World Cup of Brazil, the Red Bull Empire Rider in Peru and 
finishing 6th overall in the World Cup. Team G Cross Honda is very happy 
to have retained his services for a 3rd season and look forward to 
helping Matti reach his goal of Top 5 overall in the World Cup, and of 
course, more World Cup podium results.
Brendan Fairclough, 18 years old from Hampshire, won the inaugural 
Junior World Cup Downhill overall in 2006, and has been impressing 
people since arriving on the international scene in 2005. Apart from his 
two World Cup podiums as a junior-aged athlete, Brendan has impressed 
the team with his all round approach to racing and will make a welcome 
addition to the team as it seeks to retain its 2006 title of Men's 
Downhill Team of The Year.
Martin Whiteley, Team Director. "We are very excited about the 2007 
season. Firstly we have been very fortunate to be able to retain the 
services of both Greg and Matti who make excellent team mates and have 
both had great success on the Honda RN01 in recent years. We can now 
also announce that we have secured one of the most exciting young riders 
on the world scene in Brendan. He and the other two riders know each 
other very well and they are all good friends which is important in 
building team spirit as we hunt our goals for 2007. It should be a very 
exciting year ahead".
Matti and Brendan will make their first racing appearance for Team G 
Cross Honda at the Maxxis Cup in Gouveia in Portugal on March 18. Greg 
will start his downhill season a little later, in April, at the opening 
round of the British National Points Series.
Other product suppliers confirmed at the time of the release include 
Sapim spokes, SRAM, Truvativ, PowerBar and ODI.


...che botta.....!!! bravo... ma a mio dire un po sopravvalutato..... sul 
suo livello direi che ce ne sono parecchi altri....
...poi vabbeh seguo la scena mooolto di sfuggita...
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