2011 Can-Am BRP ATV &
SxS Race Teams Announcement
Can-Am ATV & SxS Racers
Out to Defend Championships in 2011
Valcourt, Québec (1/13/2011)
- Last season, Can-Am ATV racers saw their most
successful campaign of racing yet. This year, in
addition to taking to the tracks on Can-Am ATVs,
BRP adds side-by-side vehicle racers to its roster
of factory-supported pilots across North America
with the introduction of the Can-Am Commander side-by-side
vehicle to the racing world.
“Continued success on the track means continued
improvement for our line of products,” says
Denis Morin, vice-president, Product Development
& Racing. “We at BRP were pleased with
last year's pro and amateur championships. For
2011, we look forward to seeing the results of
our factory-supported pro and amateur racers and
cannot wait to race the new Can-Am Commander side-by-side
vehicle."
Team Warnert Racing / Can-Am
Warnert Racing will concentrate on bringing the
Can-Am DS 450 championships in the XC1 Pro class
and the Women's class for 2011. Returning in the
XC1 Pro class is long-time Can-Am racer Chris
Bithell, who finished fourth overall last season.
This will be his third season with Warnert Racing
on the DS 450. Joining Bithell in the XC1 Pro
class is Adam McGill who is looking to improve
on his third-place finish in the XC1 Pro class.
Lexie Coulter returns to Warnert looking for her
first Women's class championship.
Jeremie Dudding will race all six rounds of the
GNCC side-by-side vehicle racing series in a Warnert
Racing-prepped Can-Am Commander 1000 X side-by-side
vehicle, and he will compete in the UTV Modified
class. Dudding has been a long-time Can-Am ATV
racer and is making the switch to side-by-side
vehicles in 2011.
Team Motoworks / Can-Am
Motoworks will build on its late-season success
that saw teammates John Natalie and Chad Wienen
combine to win three of the last four rounds in
the AMA ATV Motocross national championship. Both
racers return on the DS 450 with one goal in mind:
a national motocross championship.
In the WORCS series multi-time champion Josh
Frederick is back to defend his No.1 plate in
the Pro class. He will be joined full time by
teammate Dillon Zimmerman. Jeremie Warnia will
also race selected WORCS races in the Pro class.
All three riders will be on the Can-Am DS 450
ATVs.
For side-by-side vehicle racing, Mark Holz will
compete in SBS Class 1 of the WORCS championship
in a Motoworks-prepped Can-Am Commander 1000 X
side-by-side vehicle.
Team BCS Performance / Can-Am
Cody Miller returns to defend his Pro and Pro-Am
class championship in the NEATV-MX series on a
DS 450 in 2010. Joining him in the pro class will
be Miles Santaniello, also on a Can-Am DS 450.
Team Gorilla Axle
BRP is pledging support for the Gorilla Axle Mud-Racing
team this season. The team will represent BRP
with Can-Am Outlander 800R X mr ATV – which
it helped develop – and Can Am Renegade
800R ATVs at various mud races and events throughout
2011. The Gorilla Axle Team will also race the
new Can-Am Commander 1000 side-by-side vehicle
in selected mud races.
MPR Racing
Mike Penland, one of the most popular and respected
figures in the history of ATV racing returns on
a Can-Am Outlander 800R XT ATV to race next season
in the GNCC racing series.
Can-Am X-Team
In addition to the partner teams, BRP offers factory
race support to numerous riders. In the AMA ATV
Motocross Championship, Pro-Am Production champion,
Chase Snapp, will move into the Pro 450 class
aboard a DS 450. Snapp took five overalls in the
Pro-Am Production class last season and finished
off the podium only three times last year; he
also finished second in the Pro-Am Unlimited class.
Defending Production A class champion Cole Henry
will move to the competitive Pro-Am Production
and Pro-Am Unlimited classes on a DS 450. His
brother, Chase Henry, who won the Four-Stroke
B championship, will move to the Production A
and Four-Stroke A classes.
In the GNCC series, defending class champion,
Bryan Buckhannon, will compete in the 4x4 Open
class on a Can-Am Outlander 800R X xc ATV, alongside
Michael Swift and Zac Zakowski. In the 4x4 Lites
class, Kevin Trantham will look to repeat as the
class champion on his Can Am Outlander 500 XT
ATV. Cliff Beasley will defend his U2-class championship
aboard a Can-Am Renegade 800R X xc ATV as well.
The CMRC Quebec provincial series will see Richard
Pelchat and Pier-Olivier Lavergne race motocross
in 2011. While in the Canadian FMSQ cross-country
series, Amélie Lavallée will defend
her series title racing aboard a Can-Am DS 450
for the Can-Am X-Team.
Racing the Extreme Dirt Track ATVA Nationals
series will be Chuckie Creech on a DS 450. Creech
will contest the Pro, Pro Lites and Pro-Am classes.
In Texas, as part of the TQRA race series, Hunter
Miller returns to defend his Open Expert and Pro-Am
class championships on the DS 450. He will also
defend his Pro championship the Texas Off-Road
Nationals ATV Series (TORN) as part of the Can-Am
X-Team. Joining him in the TQRA Open Expert class
will be Pro Johnny Hale.
Visit www.can-amxteam.com
for more information on the contingency program,
photos on the 2010 season along with information
and results from the upcoming 2011 ATV racing
season.
About Bombardier Recreational
Products Inc. (BRP)
BRP is a privately-held
company, is a world leader in the design, development,
manufacturing, distribution and marketing of motorised
recreational vehicles. Its portfolio of brands
and products includes: Ski-Doo and Lynx snowmobiles,
Sea Doo watercraft and boats, Evinrude and Johnson
outboard engines, direct injection technologies
such as E-TEC, Can-Am all-terrain and side-by-side
vehicles and roadsters, as well as Rotax engines.
BRP products are distributed in more than 90 countries.
To learn more about BRP please visit www.brp.com.
www.can-am.brp.com
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