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HUSKY COMPLETES 2018 OFF-ROAD TEAM
H
usky officially announced its com-
plete off-road roster for 2018. The
Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory
Racing Off-Road Team will be made
up of four riders: Colton Haaker, Josh
Strang, Thad Duvall and newcomer Dal-
ton Shirey.
Haaker is already back in action, de-
fending his number-one plate in the FIM
SuperEnduro World Championship, and
he will also try and win back the number-
one plate in the 2018 AMA EnduroCross
Championship.
Strang will return to the GNCC Series
alongside teammate Duvall. Strang will
ride an FX 450 and Duvall an FX 350. Duvall will also campaign the 2018 AMA National Enduro Series.
Shirey's new assignment will be on the west coast, where he will compete in the AMA National Hare
& Hound and AMA Big 6 WCGP (West Coast Grand Prix) Championships. CN
(Left to right) Colton Haaker, Dalton Shirey,
Josh Strang and Thad Duvall will make up
Husqvarna's 2018 off-road racing team.
JUANFRAN GUEVARA
ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT
S
panish Moto3 rider Juanfran Guevara has announced his retirement from motorcycle racing.
Guevara, who took a podium for the RB Racing KTM squad in 2017 at the Italian Moto3 Grand
Prix, has called time on his career to focus on his business studies, which he was undertaking along-
side a burgeoning grand prix career.
The 22-year-old Spaniard revealed in an interview with Spanish publication Motociclismo that the
stress of racing, studying, finding sponsors, training and traveling finally became too much and that he
was looking forward to a life in the business sector.
"If I am honest, especially in Moto3, 32 or 33 of the riders
in the category don't know how to do anything other than race
a motorcycle," he said. "It is hard to do anything once you get
off the bike. I stopped to weigh things up, and for everything
that I've lost, what my family has been through, does it make
sense for me to be here? It's been complicated. But life is full
of difficult decisions." CN
Guevara has called time on a promising Grand Prix career
at the tender age of 22. His reasons echo the difficulty of
being a pro racer in the modern age.
