LeoVince Exhaust once again dominant brand at Daytona Speedweek, LeoVince USA announces U.S. and global sponsored teams. RICHMOND, CA – (Motor Sports Newswire) – With more than 42 sponsored professional riders competing in Daytona Beach Florida during the course of Daytona speedweek events LeoVince is again the dominant exhaust brand competing this week. LeoVince has seen the podium in Daytona the last five years with winning performances in AMA Pro Grand National Flattrack, the Daytona 200 and AMA Pro Superbike races. After leading most laps of the final of the AMA Pro Grand National Flattrack last evening Jersey Jake Johnson settled in for a hard earned third place finish ensuring that LeoVince continues its Daytona podium march for another year. With Speedweek in full swing LeoVince USA is announcing their U.S. and Global sponsorships for 2011. LeoVince’s U.S. Race Manager Ted Campbell states: “With more than 58 officially sponsored Teams globally and hundreds of additionally sponsored riders LeoVince is well positioned for another year of racing excellence worldwide. We are very happy to renew our sponsorship with Attack Performance and Cycle World, Kawasaki Superbike and Sportbike riders Eric Bostrom and JD Beach and excited to add young AMA Supersport sensation James ‘Rocket’ Rispoli.” Fabio Mozzone, LeoVince’s Global Sponsorship and Communications Manager adds: This year Tech 3 in MotoGP will be our top team in road racing with riders Colin Edwards and rookie Cal Crutchlow. Their M1 will be equipped with a special LeoVince R&D developed silencer. In World Superbike we will sponsor Factory Kawasaki with the new ZX-10R. This relationship showcases the high level of technical development of our new Factory R exhaust systems have. In World Supersport we will sponsor both Kawasaki and Honda and our focus is solely on winning the championship as second place for this series is not acceptable this season. In BSB and Road Race we supply the official Suzuki teams in every racing class”. He adds: “To complete the picture; in the World Endurance Series we will support the SRS Kawasaki team in the Superbike class”. To finish he states: “Our sponsoring program also includes the off-road competitions where we will supply many factory teams engaged in the World Series like Kawasaki in MX, Honda in MX, Enduro and Supermoto and Husqvarna in Enduro.” For more information on LeoVince products contact [email protected] or call 510-232-4040 2011 LeoVince USA Sponsored Race Teams AMA-DMG PRO RACING Cycle World/Attack Performance/Kawasaki Kawasaki ZX10-R and Kawasaki ZX6-R Superbike- Eric Bostrom Sportbike- J.D. Beach Ant Racing/National Guard/Monster Energy Suzuki GSXR-600 Sportbike- James Rispoli Peak Performance Racing Kawasaki ZX-6R Sportbike-Patrick McCord GP Bike Parts/Ohger Racing Yamaha R6 Sportbike- Travis Ohge HT Racing/MPH Racing Yamaha R6 Sportbike- Melissa Paris Slednecks/Josh Galster Racing Yamaha R6 Sportbike- Josh Galster Top Shelf Racing Ducati EVO 848 Sportbike- Matt Sadowski Sportbike – David Sadowski WERA/AFM/WMMRA Zendejas Racing/KWS Motorsports BMW 1000 R Superbike- Luie Zendejas Peak Honda Racing Honda CBR 600 RR Sportbike- Nicholas Lefurgey and Oliver Gooden Apex Road Racing/KWS Motorsports Suzuki GSXR-1000 Superbike- Tim Hunt Z2 Racing/Zoom Zoom Yamaha R6 Sportbike- Jason Lauritzen, Jenn Lauritzen, Greg McCullough, and David Benjamin Barf Racing Yamaha R6 and Suzuki GSXR-600 Sportbike- Berto Woodridge and Chris Siglin Skagit Powersports/Kawasaki Kawasaki Ninja 250 250 “LeoVince Corsa Twins” class Adam Faussett and Bill Cameron AMA SUPERCROSS AND MOTOCROSS BTOSports.com/Palometto Suzuki Suzuki RMZ-450 Carbon Fiber only Michael Byrne and Jason Thomas Eleven10 Mods/Renegade Fuels Honda CRF 250 Carbon Fiber only Darren Durham, Brandon Mays, and Alex Martin ARMA Energy SNX/Nitro Circus/Suzuki City Suzuki RMZ 250Carbon Fiber only Malcolm Stewart and Sean Lipovanoich The Dirtlab.com/Motovie.com/Honda Honda CRF 450 Ryan Clark OFFROAD TEAMS Stillwell Performance/KTM KTM 450 and 250 endurocross Nathan Woods and Kevin Rookstool Air Radiant Group/GASGAS/Kirpatrick Racing GASGAS 250 – 2 stroke silencers Cole Kirkpartrick Air Radiant Group/KTM/Levian Racing KTM 350 Steve Levian Feeding Performance/Husqvarna Factory Team Husqvarna TCX- 250 and TCX- 449 Phillipe Chaine, Guy Giroux, Karine Geoffrion, and Ryan Graffunder AM-PRO Yamaha/GYT-R/Yamaha Yamaha 250 and Yamaha 450 Paul Whibley, Thad Duvall, and Jordan Mashburn LEOVINCE GLOBAL RACING SPONSORSHIPS – 2011 MOTO GP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Tech 3 Colin Edwards (USA) – Cal Crutchlow (UK) Yamaha YZR M1 MOTO2 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Tech 3 Bradley Smith (UK) – Mike Di Meglio (France) Bike: Tech 3 Mistral 611 Pons Racing (Spain) Axel Pons (Spain) – Aleix Espargaró (Spain) Bike: Kalex SUPERBIKE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP & NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Kawasaki World Superbike Racing Team (Paul Bird Motorsport) Chris Vermeulen (Australia) – Tom Sykes (UK) – Joan Lascorz (Spain) Bike: Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R Team Pedercini Roberto Rolfo (Italy) – Mark Aitchison (Australia) Bike: Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R UK CHAMPIONSHIP Team TAS Joshua Brookes (Australia) Bike: Suzuki GSX-R 1000 SUPERSPORT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP & NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Team Provec Motocard.com Broc Parkes (Australia) – Luis Salom (Spain) Bike: Kawasaki ZX-6 R Team Parkalgar Honda Miguel Praia (Portugal) – Sam Lowes (UK) Bike: Honda CBR 600 RR Team Bogdanka PTR Honda James Ellison (UK) – Pavel Szkopek (Poland) Bike: Honda CBR 600 RR Team Lorenzini Vittorio Iannuzzo (Italy) – Massimo Roccoli (Italy) Bike: Kawasaki ZX-6 R UK SUPERSPORT CHAMPIONSHIP Team TAS Alaistar Seely (Ireland) Suzuki GSX-R 600 SUPERSTOCK 1000 WORLD CUP Team Lorenzini Sheridan Morais (South Africa ) – Lorenzo Savadori (Italy) Kawasaki ZX-10 R Team Pedercini Leandro Mercado (Argentina) – Marco Bussolotti (Italy) – Bryan Staring (Australia) Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R Team MRS Jeremy Guarnoni (France) Yamaha YZF 1000 R1 Team SS Lazio Motorsport Andrea Boscoscuro (Italy) Ducati 1098 R Team Bogdanka PTR Honda Marcin Walkowiak (Poland) Honda CBR 1000 RR UK CHAMPIONSHIP Team TAS Guy Martin (UK) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 STOCK 600 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP & NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Team MRS Romain Lanusse (France) – Christophe Ponsson (France) Yamaha YZF 600 R6 REGIONAL Superbike – Superstock – Supersport Team TAS – TT – North West 200 – Ulster GP Guy Martin (UK) – one to be announced Suzuki GSX-R 1000 – Suzuki GSX-R 600 ENDURANCE SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP Team GSR Julien Da Costa (France) – Gregory Leblanc (France) – Olivier Four (France) Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R ENDURANCE SUPERSTOCK 1000 CHAMPIONSHIP Team Biker’s Days Grégory Fastre (France) – Denis Bouan (France) – Raymond Schouten (Holland) Yamaha YZF 1000 R1 FRENCH SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP Team GSR Julien Da Costa (France) – Gregory Leblanc (France) Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R FRENCH SUPERSPORT CHAMPIONSHIP Team Biker’s Days Mathieu Gines (France) – Denis Bouan (France) – Olivier Four (France) Yamaha YZF 600 R6 FRENCH PROMOSPORT 600 CHAMPIONSHIP Team GSR Erwan Quellet (France) Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R FRENCH PROMOSPORT 1000 CHAMPIONSHIP Team GSR Claude Lucas (France) Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R ONE-BRAND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Honda Trophy 2011 (Italy) Bike: Honda CB 600 Hornet – Honda CBR 600 RR – Honda CBR 600 F – Honda NSF 100 Junior & Extreme European Junior Cup 2011 (during the European WSBK races) Bike: Kawasaki Ninja 250 R MOTOCROSS WORLD & NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Team Kawasaki Racing – MX1 National Championships: *France – ** UK – *** Spain Sébastien Pourcel (France)** – Jonathan Barragan (Spain)*** – Xavier Boog (France)* Kawasaki KXF 450 Team LS Honda – MX1 National Championship: Belgium Ken De Dycker (Belgium) – Shaun Simpson (UK) Honda CRF 450 R Team CLS -ONLY CARBON FIBER PARTS Ben Townley (New Zealand) – Tommy Searle (UK) – Max Anstie (UK) Kawasaki KXF 450 – KXF 250 UK CHAMPIONSHIP Team TAS Pilot: Gordon Crockard (UK) – Mel Pocock (UK) Bike: Suzuki RM-Z 450 – RM-250 ENDURO WORLD & NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Team CH Racing – EJ – E 1 – E2 – E3 National Championships: *Italy – **France Redondi (Italy)* EJ – Salminen (Finland) E1 – Seistola (Sweden)* E1 – Meo (France)** E2 – Albergoni (Italy)* E2 – Guillaume (France)* E3 Bikes: Husqvarna TE 250 – TE 310 – WR300 Team Jolly Racing E1 – E3 National Championship: Italy* – Portugal** – Sweden*** – France**** D’Ambrosio (Italy)* EJ – Joly (France)**** EJ – Calle (Sweden)*** EJ – Thain (France)**** E1 – Goncalvo (Portugal)** E2 – Ahola (Sweden)* E3 Facchin (Italy) E3 – Blythe (USA) EJ – Lindholm (Sweden) EJ Bikes: Honda CRE F250R – CRE F450R – Honda CRE F480R Team Boano Racing Sport – EJ – E2 National Championship: Italy Philippaerts (Italy) EJ – Mangini (Italy) E2 Beta 450 RR – 525 RR Team MGP National Championship: France Germain (France) E1 Yamaha WR 250 F SUPERMOTO WORLD & NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Team HM Giletti Assomotor – S1 Ivan Lazzarini (Italy) – Max Verderosa (Italy) Bike: Honda CFR 450 R