Colombian rider Stefano Mesa, 19 years old, will be racing for DMS Racing team at the top class of road racing in USA, AMA Pro Superbike, after signing for the Florida based team.
DMS Racing will line up in the AMA Pro Superbike with Mesa and Kawasaki ZX-10R all the season, starting at Daytona 200 in March. The goal for both, rider and team, it´s to continue the growth process and gradually improve the results.
Stefano Mesa (8/19/1984, Medellin, Colombia) remains one of the youngest talent from Colombia and one of the most successful road racing contenders from his country with a short but successful career:
2013 – Raced in AMA Pro SuperSport East, finishing 3rd in the point standings. Recorded one win and one pole position.
2012 – Competed in AMA Pro SuperSport East, finishing 4th in the standings. Breakout year accounting for 12 top 5 finishes. Recorded one win on the year.
2011 – Raced in AMA Pro SuperSport East, finishing the season seventh in the point standings and earning a best finish of second place in Race 1 at Daytona.
2010 – Competed in AMA Pro SuperSport East, finishing a season-high best of fifth place in Race Two at Barber. Also raced the USGPRU’s 125GP and MD250H classes, finishing fourth and second, respectively, in East Coast points standings
Stefano Mesa: “I am really happy to be a part of DMS Racing for my 2014 season. I will be doing a big jump and stepping it up with the superbike guys so that has me anxiousness a little bit but I still think that’s my best choice that I got! I honestly current do it without the DMS crew, all my sponsors for being a part of the team this year, now it’s time to give it over best and have fun!”.
Mauricio Comitre, owner DMS Racing: “It’s with great pleasure and happiness that we have Stefano Mesa riding for DMS Racing Team in 2014, it will be the first full season for both on the AMA Superbike series and we will work together to make it a great year.
Stefano is a young rider with great potential and we know that he will quickly adapt to the Kawasaki ZX10R Superbike since he have previous experience riding the 1000cc bikes on another championship.
We want to thank our sponsors as well for seeing the potential of our team, we strive to be a reference and with hard work we will fight to succeed on that”.