The 2015 Husky Moto3 bike has had its first test in Spain. One of the riders will be Maria Herrera, an 18 year old girl who has been winning in the Spanish CEV series. While I'm sure many will whine that it it just a re-badged KTM, who cares? It's nice to see Husky in the Grands Prix.
4 stroke 250. It replaced the GP125 class. I always wanted to race a 125 since classes had fewer riders and not like the multi wave under 600 class. If I could pick up a Moto3 bike it would be fun for track days. Don't need to go over 130mph.
Maria Herrera became the first woman to win a Moto3 championship this weekend when she claimed the Motorland Aragonround of the CEV (España de Velocidad Championship). The Spanish 16 year old from Toldeo dominated the race leaving the men to fight behind for the remaining podium places. Eight thousand fans watched the historic victory. Maria rides for Junior Team Estrella Galicia and previously finished eleventh and 13th in the Catalunyan races. She now lies third in the championship. She gets a cool trophy and the guy on the left got a can of spray paint? Congratulations Ms. Herrera and it's a Husqvarna world via SP ... -- Spotted her big sister last weekend at a race just standin' and waitin' ...
Laia Sanz in Dakar top ten, Vicki Golden trying to be the first woman to qualify for SX, and this girl... that rocks.
2014 Moto3 was possibly one of the best championship years of any class that I have seen. Even moreso that fellow Aussie Jack Miller won the first few rounds and led the championship for most of the year. Pity about the final result but you take the good with the bad. I hope he can repeat his success in MotoGP this year.
Husqvarna tops the time sheets in Moto3 testing at Jerez. 1. Isaac Viñales SPA Husqvarna Factory Laglisse (Husqvarna) 1m 46.817s
This article points to the fact that SP sees Huskies off-road sales beyond what he expected before the buyout and he is acceleration his ideas for Husky 0n-road bikes with this Moto 3 racing part of that business model. http://cyclenews.uberflip.com/i/460339/62
A work mate gave me the DVD's of The Inbetweeners to have a look at. Have a listen as to why Jay thinks that Maria will have to be a very disciplined competitor to win the championship! https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=m1LX766Fp90#t=279
"At present the Bajaj-built KTM range consists of the naked Duke and the RC sportbike models. You told me two years ago you envisaged a dual-purpose enduro range being built there, too. Will that still happen?" "Not yet. Not an enduro model as such. The next new models that are coming out of India are the Vitpilen and Svartpilen concept bikes that you saw in Milano on the Husqvarna stand... ...those two concept models you have seen are very close to the production versions. In the 2017 model year they will be on the dealer's floor..."
