Phillips and Boyle join KTM off-road
The pair will join Toby Price in the 2014 line-up, while Phillips will also be on world title duties as wellThe Motorex KTM Off-Road team has signed world junior enduro champion Matt Phillips and Peter Boyle to join incumbent Toby Price for the 2014 season.
The team, managed by seven-time Aussie champion Brad ‘Wonka’ Williscroft, will target the brand new KTM Australian Enduro-x Nationals series, the Australian Off-Road Championship and the Australian Four-Day Enduro, as well as the Hattah and Finke desert races.
Phillips will also contest the 2014 world enduro title with the high-profile Farioli KTM team.
“I’m really excited to join the KTM family and I’m looking forward to working alongside Brad and the team that I always imagined I’d be a part of,” said Phillips. “I’m excited at the opportunity to race overseas in the world championship, then race with the guys here and hopefully share some of the things we’re doing in Europe.
“I have eight weekends of racing with the world championship and I haven’t finalised my timeline yet but it looks like I’ll get to almost every race the Motorex team has targeted including Hattah and some of the other desert races.”
Boyle, one of the most versatile and skilled riders racing in Australia, competed at national level across enduro, cross country, enduro cross, desert and even motocross in 2013.
“I’m over the moon,” said Boyle. “I’m really grateful about the opportunity Wonka and KTM have given me and I’m really looking forward to next year.”
Price will return from long-term injury in 2014, against riders like Daniel Milner (Yamaha) whom have been massive improvers over the last 12 months. He said: “My goals for next year are simple -- I just want to be back where I was. It's going to be a tough year because everyone has progressed heaps and I’ll need to catch up, but I need to win so I know I'm okay.
“My recovery has been good, I’ve just got to put that behind me now and focus on the tasks ahead. Of those tasks Finke and Hattah are the ones I’m looking forward to the most. Those are the races that will give me a chance to race in America in 2015.”
Meanwhile, Jarrod Bewley and Geoff Braico have been chosen to fly the Husaberg flag in what is to be the marque’s final year as a distributor-backed entity in Australian off-road racing.
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