Supermoto Central

This week the Husqvarna SuperMoto and Enduro factory teams gathered in Cogne ski resort for some intensive training days on the Italian snow. The 2010 Husqvarna CH Racing SuperMoto line up made of Mauno Hermunen and Adrien Chareyre did attend to make the most of these days and prepare themselves for the forthcoming racing season.

With the 2010 FIM SuperMoto World Championship being made of just one class, three time World Champion Adrien Chareyre and Mauno Hermunen will finally be able to challenge each other as well as plenty of top riders.

Rumours where floating around that Thomas Chareyre will be joining the TM team in 2010 but I didn't want to post about it until it was official. Since the same news is now on the official Youthstream site I thought it was safe enough to post.

Thomas will be leaving the Husqvarna team after several years of riding for Husqvarna in the World Championship. He will be joining the TM team wich is keeping Davide Gozzini for 2010.

Occhini will be leaving the TM team to join Suzuki Rigo Racing. Nothing is known yet about the future of S1 World Champion Thierry van den Bosch...

The need to save money to compete in a championship does not come only from the big international competitions, but also in Italy they move to get races with more participants and better performance, as proposed by the DBO in its events Supermoto Championships:  Internazionali d’Italia, Campionato Italiano FMI and the Coppa Italia. The Coppa Italia is a new class for 2010 with only Italian motorcycle manufacturers.

The major changes lie in adopting the single tire supplier for the categories S1 and Open and the limit of tire changes to 4 a Weekend (2 for the Coppa Italia). This will lead to a drastic reduction of costs, as strongly wanted by the teams, and, consequently, the prize money will increase. The choice for supply of tires fell on Goldentyre.

In the S1 and Open class rider is allowed to bring two motorcycles, while in S2 only one is accepted. The 2010 championship has 6 rounds. Click read more for the full calendar.

KTM Motoracing has announced an agreement with the two-time World Champion Bernd Hiemer for the 2010 season.

The German and the Italian team will be supported by the KTM Factory and KTM Italy. Hiemer will ride a Factory KTM SMR450.

He will fight with the big names in the World Championship and Italian Championship, also confirmed in the ranks of KTM Motoracing is Mattia Martella, 2009 Italian S5 Champion, who will ride the European Open and the Italian Open.

Steps are being taken to make sure that there will be a six-round national series for professional Supermoto riders to compete in for 2010. The series is planned to start in June and run through October. At this point AMA is not involved, but who knows if that will change. There will be amateur days tied to the professional races but the focus is building professional race events that draw fans and interest in the sport of Supermoto, local promoters will coordinate the amateur races and open practices.