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Nieto Teams up With Stalker in PSG-1 Kawasaki
Team PSG-1 Kawasaki has announced the names of its riders for 2006. Chris Walker, who performed excellently last season, finishing 7th in the championship and with a 3rd place in the second race at Valencia, was always going to be confirmed.
The real news is the arrival of Spaniard Fonsi Nieto, who had a difficult time last season, first with Team SC Ducati, and then, for the last two races, with the Kawasaki of Pier Guido Pagani?s team. Determined to redeem himself, Nieto will be delighted to use the fast Ninjas of Team PSG-1 as a motorcycle test bed. Nieto is nearly 25 years old and comes from Madrid. His best placing this year was a fifth in race 2 at Phillip Island.
Team PSG-1 will also continue to compete in the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup, where it will enter the 19 year old Denis Sacchetti from Cesena for the second year running.
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Frankie Chili to Ride For DFX Honda For 2006
Pierfrancesco Chili and Michel Fabrizio will be team mates in next season?s World SBK. The negotiations that have centred around Chili have finally come to a positive conclusion, and the rider from Bologna will find himself guaranteed not only great sporting satisfaction but the honour of playing role model to one of Italy?s most promising young talents. The two men will join forces to ride Honda CBR 1000s. Team Honda DFXtreme is hoping that this combination of experience and youth will put them back on track after the disappointments of last season?s SBK championship. The team has reached agreement with Honda Europe and Honda Italy to boost the Japanese manufacturer?s involvement in World SBK. On the technical side, the engines will be prepared by Robby Moto Engineering under the auspices of technical manager Domenico Brigaglia.
We spoke to Pierfrancesco Chili. ?I?m delighted that everything has worked out. We?ll have a really professional organisation behind us next season so we?re determined to show what we can do. I?m very happy to have Michel riding alongside me. He?s a really talented rider, and I?m looking forward to coaching him on to even greater things. We?ll even be training together for the championship. Michel?s moving to Bologna for a few months so that we can do some riding. If everything goes as it should, we?ll be racing together in mid December, probably starting at Jerez?.
Daniele Carli (team manager) gave us his viewpoint. ?It took a lot of talking but we?ve finally reached an agreement that makes everybody happy. There are three sides to this contract, Honda Italy, who will be supporting Pierfrancesco Chili, Honda Europe who have given us the talented young Michel Fabrizio, and of course our team. We have worked really hard to satisfy the requirements of Honda Italy and Honda Europe, but at last we can be confident that the new contract will deliver the business. We?ll be up there with the top teams in World SBK next season.
We?ve put together a great mix of experience and youth. There?s nothing I need say about Chili. His career and his competitiveness speak for themselves. Fabrizio is a young rider and fresh from the world of Supersport, but both Honda and ourselves have great faith in him. He?s already proved he can do great things with superbikes. He could turn into the rightful heir to Vermeulen. We can?t wait to start practice for the 2006 championship.?