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great to get my first XC1 Championship and now I am determined
to stay on top. I am looking forward to an exciting season."
Eight-time National Enduro
Champion Mike Lafferty will return in enduro for his final year of
racing, while Steward Baylor will
be back to win back the National Enduro title that he earned in
2012 and will compete full time in
the XC1 class for the first time in
the GNCC Series. Baylor missed
most of 2013 with a wrist injury.
In the desert, Ivan Ramirez
will focus on the National Hare &
Hound Championship.
"Last year was my first full-time
year in the series," said Ramirez,
who finished fourth in the 2013
Championship. "I love desert
racing, so I am really looking forward to returning to that series. I
learned a lot from my friend Kurt
Caselli and I am hoping to take
what he has taught me and go
after my first title in that series."
"We lost a great leader in our
team with the passing of Kurt
Caselli, and it is our goal, to con-
tinue to do what he has taught
us to do, which is to continue to
improve each season to reach
new goals and championships,"
said factory FMF/KTM Team
Manager Antti Kallonen. "We've
always had a team of great riders
and this year is no exception. The
2013 season was very successful and it is never easy to repeat
that success but with our group
of riders, mechanics and team
staff I know we have what it takes
to defend current titles and go after new ones."
FERRIS JOINS RED BULL KTM
TM Motorsports has announced the newest member of its 2014 Supercross and
Motocross Team – Aussie Dean
Ferris.
The 23-year-old has been a
fixture in the World Championship GP MX Series the past couple of years in the MX2 class.
He finished off the 2013 GP
season with a race win and more
recently turned a lot of heads
competing for Team Australia at
the Motocross of Nations in Germany. Roger DeCoster, the race
team manager for the Red Bull
KTM Team in the U.S., was so
impressed that he offered Ferris a ride in the U.S. Supercross
and Motocross Championships.
Even though Ferris was already
set to compete in Europe for a
third straight year, he chose to
come to America.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT PALMER
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Aussie Dean Ferris is the latest member to the Red Bull/
KTM Supercross/Motocross Team.
Ferris will compete in the 250
West Supercross Championship
and the 250 outdoor Motocross
Championship.
Ferris says his specialty is motocross but is anxious to get his
Supercross career going.
"I'm just a country kid from
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