KTM signs Toby Price until 2019
Dakar star inks deal with KTM for the next three seasonsAustralia’s first-ever Dakar winner Toby Price has secured a contract with the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team until the end of the 2019 season, a move which the Aussie has described as the best thing for him.
“I can just concentrate on what I need to do and that’s riding motorcycles and racing as fast as we can,” the 29-year old from Singleton said.
“I'm very privileged and pumped to get this, it’s going to be a great time and I’m just hoping we can deliver on the results and do the job we’ve been contracted to do. I can’t wait, and I’m looking forward to what the years ahead will bring.”
The Aussie off-road hero will be joined by Sam Sunderland, a talented British rider who finished runner-up in the 2016 FIM Cross Country Rallies Championship behind Pablo Quintanilla and ahead of Price in third place.
Four-time World Enduro Champion Antoine Meo will also form part of the four-rider Red Bull Factory KTM squad, though will sit out next month’s Dakar Rally to undergo surgery on his right wrist in a bid to be at full fitness in time for the opening round of the Cross Country Rallies Championship in April.
Meo’s Dakar seat will be replaced by Mexican off-road star Ivan Ramirez, who was crowned AMA National Hare and Hound champion earlier this year, while Austria’s Matthias Walkner completes the squad. Walkner is back to full fitness after breaking his femur during the 2016 Dakar Rally.
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