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In the press folder:

1) Intro: Husqvarna Enduro and Superm otard 2010 Team s

2) Husqvarna CH Racing Enduro Team

Intro

Team Staff

Riders

3) Husqvarna CH Racing Supermoto Team

Intro

Team Staff

Riders

4) 2010 Calendars


HUSQVARNA CH RACING ENDURO and SUPERMOTARD TEAMS TOGETHER IN THE SNOW

Antoine Meo, Bartosz Oblucki, Sebastien Guillaume, Matti Seistola,Mauno Hermunen and Adrien Chareyre havegathered together after Christmas holidays for an intensive training before the new racing season begins.

2010 racing Seasons has started for Husqvarna CH Racing Team Enduro and Supermotard teams’ riders

from Cogne, in the Italian region of Aosta.

Guided by the super active Team Manager Fabrizio Azzalin, 6 of the 7 Husqvarna Enduro factory riders –

new entry for 2010 Chris Hollis is still “sun bathing” in his beautiful Australia and will join next month the

team - have met on the beautiful mountains of Aosta for a week of hard physical training before starting

the new season.

French riders Antoine Meo, Seb Guillaume and Adrien Chareyre, the Finnish Matti Seistola and Mauno

Hermunen, the Polish rider Bartosz Oblucki and the “intruder” MX rider Alex Salvini, are now working on

improving their physical condition to reach the best shape ever to achieve the highest results in the

international races. Also, putting the two teams together, has made the riders focus on the common

targets and enforce the team spirit.

No bike riding is included in this training, the riders will start with the testing and developing of their TE

250s, WR 300s and SM 450RRs next week. Now it’s all about winter sports: long excursions and skiing,

with also a little SPA time to recharge the batteries.

A very effective way to start the new season in which all Husqvarna riders have one goal only, victory, as

team manager Fabrizio Azzalin explains: “Our target is to win two world titles in Enduro and one in

Supermoto. We have all the necessary ingredients to reach that goal: skilled riders, performing bikes and a

perfect structured team. Our group is now like a family, we have never been so in shape and compact as

we are now.”

“It will be a very important season for Husqvarna brand – added Husqvarna Racing Activities Coordinator

Martino Bianchi – we have presented new products and we have extremely important goals to achieve both

in Enduro and in Supermotard, in which we are world champions in charge with the three world titles

conquered last year. Also in the motocross category we want victory, and we’ll claim it. Here in Cogne I’ve

seen in the riders’ eyes the urge to reach these results and their physical preparation is excellent. We will

surely play a main role in the 2010 national and international championships.”


HUSQVARNA ENDURO TEAM 2010

Husqvarna owes its popularity to the Enduro category and the successful list of titles won in this sport.

Husqvarna CH Racing Team has become a milestone in both the history of Enduro and in the brand’s

centenary history itself.

In 2010, the main goal for the five factory riders will be the victory in the WEC World Enduro

Championship which will start on April, 11th with the GP of Spain. Antoine Meo, Matti Seistola and Chris

Hollis will be racing in the E1 class, all of them riding the new TE250, while Sebastien Guillaume and

Bartosz Oblucki will remain loyal to the two stroke riding the WR300 and both will be focused on reaching

the E3 World Title.

Italian-French Antoine Meo, at his third season in the Enduro category and second placed in 2009 in E1

class, is now ready to be a champion. The victories conquered in his last 3 GPs have made clear that he’s

the rider to beat in 2010.

Antoine will have as team and class mates Matti Seistola, awarded Rookie of the Year in 2009, and recently

emerged from a convalescence period after a knee surgery. New entry in the WEC and in the CH Racing

team will be Australian Chris Hollis, already a National Champion in his homeland, now looking for glory

overseas.

Team leader remains Sebastien Guillaume, because of his ages which makes him the “adult” in the team, but

also for the big experience gained in many years of Enduro races.

After the third place in 2009, the French rider wants the World Title more than ever and will surely be

stimulated also by his new classmate Bartosz Oblucki who passes from E2 class to E3 this year.

All the five CH Racing riders will also take part to the national championships, with Meo remaining in

France, while Polish rider Oblucki will move to Spain and the Australian/French/Finnish trio Guillaume,

Seistola and Hollis, will be committed on the Italian Championship’s tracks.


THE TEAM

Fabrizio Azzalin – Team Manager

Enzo Fontana –Sport director

Roberto Bazzurri – Riders advisor

Mauro Cremonesi –Sebastien Guillaume’s mechanic

Thomas Viola – Bartosz Oblucki’s mechanic

Freddie Sheene - Chris Hollis’s mechanic

Fred Lavergne - Antoine Meo’s mechanic

Stefano Cenzin –Matti Seistola’s mechanic

Mauro Uslenghi - Follower

Riders

Antoine Meo – France – E1 Class – TE 250

Matti Seistola – Finland - E1 Class – TE 250

Chris Hollis – Australia - E1 Class – TE 250

Sebastien Guillaume – France – E3 Class – WR 300

Bartosz Oblucki – Poland – E3 Class – WR 300


NAME: CHRIS

SURNAME: HOLLIS

NATIONALITY: AUSTRALIAN

HEIGHT: 1.80 cm

WEIGHT: 79 kilos

DATE OF BIRTH: 9/7/1984

PLACE OF BIRTH: Australia

BEST PERFORMANCE EVER:

2008 1° place in the Australian Four Days Enduro out right class

1° place in the Australian Championship

2009 5° place in the Six Days Enduro, E1 class

FAVOURITE RACE : Australian Four Days Enduro

WHAT I LIKE TO DO IN MY FREE TIME: Playing Golf and going to the beach


NAME: SEBASTIEN

NICKNAME: SEB

SURNAME: GUILLAUME

NATIONALITY: FRENCH

HEIGHT: 1.81

WEIGHT: 82 kilos

DATE OF BIRTH: 1st March 1978

PLACE OF BIRTH: Poissy (France)


2006 2° Classified in the World Championship, E3 class




FAVOURITE RACE: Hard races

FAVOURITE RACE TRACK/GP: GP of France

WHAT I LIKE TO DO IN MY FREE TIME: Jet Sky

WHEN I WAS A CHILD I WANTED TO BECOME ..: Enduro rider


NAME: ANTOINE

SURNAME: MEO

NATIONALITY: FRENCH

HEIGHT: 1,83

WEIGHT: 80 kilos

DATE OF BIRTH: 29/08/1984

PLACE OF BIRTH: Digne (France)


2002 1° classified in Supercross World Championship 125 class

2003 2° classified in French Championship 250 class Campionato, 15° Classified in MX1 World

Championship

2008 5° classified in the Enduro World Championship E2 class

In 2008 Antoine took part to the European Supercross Championship. He also participated to the

International Supermotard Race at the Eicma fair in Milan showing his estreme versatility.

2009 2° classified in the Enduro World Championship E1 class

Won the Six Days Enduro in Portugal with the team of France

1° classified in the Italian World Championship

FAVOURITE RACE: Asti

WHAT I LIKE TO DO IN MY FREE TIME: Cycling, going out with friends, going to parties

WHEN I WAS A CHILD I WANTED TO BECOME ..: Cross rider


NAME: BARTOSZ

NICKNAME: BARTEK/BART/POLSKA

SURNAME: OBLUCKI

NATIONALITY: POLISH

HEIGHT: 1.81

WEIGHT: 79 kilos

DATE OF BIRTH: 21 February 1981

PLACE OF BIRTH: Warsaw (Poland)

THE BEST PERFORMANCE BY TODAY:

2002 3° Classified in the World Championship 250 4T class (Husqvarna)

2003 3° Classified in the World Championship 250 4T class

2004 3° Classified in the World Championship E1 class

5° Classified in the Six Days Enduro (Poland) E1 class


1° Classified in the Six Days Enduro (Slovakia) E1 class



2008 11° Classified in the World Championship E1 class . During this year Bartosz suffers for an accident

happened during the GP of Sweden which holds him for a long time away from the world scenes. He also

participated to one of the most Extreme races in the world, the Roof of Africa, ranking 4°

2009 He obtains excellent performances in the Enduro E2 World Championship, but he is injured during

the GP of Greece and is forced to retire from the championship finishing in 6th place

FAVOURITE RACE : Erzberg Rodeo

FAVOURITE RACE TRACK/GP: Unadilla

WHAT I LIKE TO DO IN MY FREE TIME: Devote to my own business, going out with my friend Taddy

Blazusiak

WHEN I WAS A CHILD I WANTED TO BECOME ..: factory rider


NAME: MATTI

SURNAME: SEISTOLA

NATIONALITY: FINLAND

HEIGHT: 1.83

WEIGHT: 75 Kilos

DATE OF BIRTH: 4 March 1983


2004 MX2 European Champion

2007 8° in MX2 World Championship – 5° in MX2Italian Motocross

2009 18° in the Enduro World Championship. Named Rookie of the Year.


HUSQVARNA CH RACING SUPERMOTARD TEAM

Thanks to 8 World Championship titles in the last 3 seasons, Husqvarna is certainly the queen of the

Supermoto. In 2010 the class will be again one as it was in the beginning of this category and the factory

team has revised the efforts without losing its diamond: Adrien Chareyre, three time World Champion in

2007, 2008 and 2009.

Adrien will be supported by the young and exuberant Finnish rider Mauno Hermunen, at his second World

Supermoto Championship experience after conquering the 4th place in 2009 S1 class. The two riders, who

will still be coordinated by sport director Massimo Manzo, will also race in national championships. Adrien

Chareyre will take part to the Italian Supermotard Championship and some races of the Swiss

Championship.

Mauno Hermunen will again race in the German championship as well as in his homeland. Nevertheless,

Adrien and Mauno will hit the tracks of the most famous European races such as Mettet, Tours, Motor

Show Bologna and few races of the Husqvarna Supermotard Trophy.


HUSQVARNA CH RACING SUPERMOTARD TEAM

THE TEAM

Massimo Manzo – Sport director

Guerrini Giorgio –Mauno Hermunen’s mechanic and team organizer

Fongaro Luca - Adrien Chareyre’s mechanic

Pensè Luca - Mechanic assistant for Hermunen-Chareyre

Poerio Lucio - Adrien Chareyre’s mechanic assistant

Banchi Danilo – Mauno Hermunen’s mechanic assistant

RIDERS

Adrien Chareyre – France – SM 450 RR

Mauno Hermunen – Finland – SM 450 RR


NAME: ADRIEN

NICKNAME: THE CAT

SURNAME: CHAREYRE

NATIONALITY: FRENCH

WEBSITE: www.adrienchareyre.com/

HEIGHT: 1.79

WEIGHT: 69 Kilos

DATE OF BIRTH: 11 February 1986

PLACE OF BIRTH: ALES, FRANCE


2006 Double victory in French Championship at Villars Sous Ecot

2007 World Champion S1 class



FAVOURITE RACE : ALL THE RACES I WIN

FAVOURITE RACE TRACK/GP: VILLARS SOUS ECOT

WHAT I LIKE TO DO IN MY FREE TIME: GOING OUT WITH FRIENDS,GOING TO RESTAURANTS,

HAVE FUN

WHEN I WAS A CHILD I WANTED TO BECOME ..: PROFESSIONAL CROSS RIDER


NAME: MAUNO

SURNAME: HERMUNEN

NATIONALITY: FINLANDIA

WEBSITE: www.kerkeis.com/

HEIGHT: 175 cm

WEIGHT: 62 kilos

DATE OF BIRTH: 26 March 1988

PLACE OF BIRTH: Vantaa, Finland


2007 1° in Finnish Championship

2008 1°in German Championship S2 class – 1° in Scandinavian Championship S1 and S2 class

2009 4° in Supermoto World Championship S1 class

WHAT I LIKE TO DO IN MY FREE TIME:: Supermoto, Motocross, MiniMX

WHEN I WAS A CHILD I WANTED TO BECOME ..: OFF ROAD PILOT

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