Danny Hart and Emmeline Ragot join MS Mondraker's 2015 DH Roster
It got a bit quiet around the MS Mondraker Team since the big success in 2012, where the team was competing for the top spot in the UCI Worldcup team ranking. For sure we had some good results, but we were missing the big victories we had in the past.
We run our team because we are race driven and hungry for victories, but we needed to set back for re-orientation after the leaving of the two top team riders. We knew where we wanted to be, but we had to wait till our stars align for building our new line up.
We are happy to announce that worldchampion of 2011 Danny Hart will join our program and we welcome back worldchampion of 2009 and 2011 Emmeline Ragot, who was one of the main reasons for our success in 2012. Both will join our long-term member Markus Pekoll and our rookie Innes Graham.
Markus Stoeckl: "2012 was our best year, the team was fighting to get the top spot in the world cup team ranking and our riders developed impressively. After 2012 we had to let 2 of our riders and friends go, we focused on supporting Markus and Damien and started to look for new riders to built a new and fresh team which would be able to be on the top of the ranking again.
Now after years of talks and negotiations we are happy to welcome Danny Hart and all team members are looking forward to work with Emmeline again, she is a guaranty for great races and lots of fun while traveling and in the pits."
Danny Hart: "...I really like it, I feel the sort of family atmosphere, it is a good time every time we are all together, all new bike, but I have been riding it now for a few weeks, and have a decent base, and we haven’t even had a proper test session yet and I feel like the bike is great! I can’t wait to see what we can really do with this machine!"
Lukas Haider: "We are happy to welcome back two time world champion Emmeline Ragot. She left MS-RACING after 2012 for a good opportunity, but now she come back to our family. We can't wait to work with her agin."
Markus Pekoll: "I just re-signed a 3 year deal with MS Mondraker! We got the new Carbon weapon, we got Danny, we got Emmeline! Everything feels like a re-start and everyone seems to get a portion of extra motiviation with this new set up off the team! I´m looking forward to work with Danny as Teammate and to perform in the Top 10 as much as possible this year!"
Innes Graham: "Over the last 2 years, being part of MS Mondraker Team has not only brought my riding to new levels, it has taught me a lot about the commitment it takes to be a professional athlete. Staying on the same bike and team is something I've never had the opportunity to do and I'm grateful to be part of such a tightly knit family."
The main focus of the team will be the 2015 UCI mtb worldcup as well as the 2015 UCI MTB world championships in Andorra. Furthermore we are going to attend selected races of the BDS series and the European IXS cup series.
The whole team will compete on the new Summum CARBON with the support of Marzocchi suspension- the further sponsor lineup will be released soon. Now we are going into our off-season, which will be busy with testing new bike setups. We are looking forward to get prepared for the 2015 season.
Visit our website for the latest news, videos and pictures of the team- just click on the image to see our team presentation video.
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She was let go by Lapierre ( to let Finn in ... ) glad she stays in a big team
"STAY ON YOUR BIKE DANNY!!!!"