2007 Kawasaki Team Green ATV
Race Team Announced
Team Green has already signed three Pro riders for
2007, and there is a possibly the team will expand to
include some new faces before the end of the race season,
but as of now #8 Jason Luburgh and #270 Josh Creamer
will race motocross at either or both the ATVA MX Nationals
and/or the WPSA ATV Tour, and #5 William Yokley will
go after the championship in the GNCC Series on the
KFX450R.
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2007
Team Green ATV Race Team |
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William
Yokley |
Jason
Luburgh |
Josh
Creamer |
An official press release is expected from Kawasaki
in the very near future once all the team sponsors are
finalized including a title sponsor, but as of now it
has been confirmed that long time Kawasaki partner,
Pro Circuit, will be building the engines and exhaust
systems, and IMS-Roll will also be also be actively
involved with the race team.
The ATV racing community can give a big thanks to long
time ATV enthusiast Reid Nordin for his role in making
the KFX450 ATV and the newly formed race team a reality.
Kawasaki Team Green™ Manager Reid Nordin has been
with Kawasaki for over 21 years, and his career began
with Kawasaki as the wrench for pro ATC racer, Jimmy White,
which was short lived after the manufacturers dropped
out of racing, but Reid continued on with Kawasaki while
Jimmy White has remained involved in the ATV industry
over the years by managing the Pro Quads Stadium Series
for many years before its end in 2005, and he also has
worked with various ATV aftermarket manufacturers over
the years as well.
Two decades later, the pair is reunited with Jimmy
White returning to Kawasaki to assist Reid Nordin as
the ATV Team Coordinator with a new generation of ATV
racers being embraced by the manufacturers once again,
but hopefully this one want be as short lived as the
first time around.
In addition to Kawasaki fielding a race
team, they also released an impressive contingency program
for 2007 in the ATVA National MX, WPSA, WORCS, GNCC,
and White Brothers 4 Stroke Nationals. There is over
$560,000 up for grabs with pros eligible for a minimum
of $5,000 in contingency per round at all the event,
and the amateurs are also eligible for a large share
of one of the largest ever manufacturer contingency
payouts for ATVs.
The 2007 race season is looking to be
bigger and better than ever with Kawasaki, Suzuki, Yamaha,
Kymco, Polaris, and Can-Am all expanding their involvement
in ATV racing with KTM about to join in on the fun as
well. The only manufacturer cutting back its support
for ATV racing is Honda as they have dropped all their
support for the GNCC & Extreme Dirt Track series.
Over the month more race team details will begin to
be finalized and ATVriders.com will continue to be on
top of the latest ATV racing news.
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