Enter Bruforce.
In the current troubled times for world motorsport, new set-ups joining any paddock scene is a rare occurrence, but the world motocross series has shown that they can, and do, exist with the arrival of Bruforce Racing.
Belgian-based Bruforce rises from the ashes of Team Millennium and Team Vangani and, under the guidance of Swa Goffings, has secured support from the KTM factory to field riders in both the GP and 125cc classes.
In the current troubled times for world motorsport, new set-ups joining any paddock scene is a rare occurrence, but the world motocross series has shown that they can, and do, exist with the arrival of Bruforce Racing.
Belgian-based Bruforce rises from the ashes of Team Millennium and Team Vangani and, under the guidance of Swa Goffings, has secured support from the KTM factory to field riders in both the GP and 125cc classes.
Team leader will be Patrick Caps, the 25-year old Belgian making the move to the hotly-contested new Motocross GP class aboard the 250cc KTM. And, although he is an unknown quantity in the premier class, the team is confident that he will make his mark.
In the 125cc class, the team will rely on teenage riders Tanel Leok, Tyla Rattray and Eric Hubin. The Estonian and the South African need little further introduction to the motocross community, having both enjoyed a breakthrough year with Vangani in 2002, which led to Rattray ending the season as high as seventh in the world.
Hubin, however, is a relatively new name, the 19-year old having made his way through the amateur ranks in Belgium, and moved to the professional federation in 2002. He has had a couple of GP outings, qualifying on his first attempt in Genk.
Riding under the YouthForce emblem will be Dennis Verbruggen and Bas Verhoeven. Like Rattray, Belgium?s Verbruggen needs no further introduction, as the 15-year old talent has been on the radar screens of every talent scout on the continent. Verbruggen is the reigning World 80cc champion, European 85cc champion and title winner of the International ADAC Series.
Leok will have the honour of being the first rider to represent the new team, when he lines up for the supercross at Bercy next weekend. The Estonian spent the last two weeks in the USA preparing for the event under the watchful eye of Grant Langston, and hopes to make the most of his first ever supercross outing. Although initially entered for the Bercy event, Rattray will be forced to sit it out as a result of an injury sustained at a supercross event in Holland two weeks ago.
