11.03.2024

RETURNING FOUR-RIDER KTM JUNIOR RACING TEAM SETS SIGHTS ON 2024 SEASON

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After achieving tremendous amounts of success throughout last season, the KTM Junior Racing Team has announced an unchanged four-rider roster for 2024, featuring Jackson Fuller alongside Cooper Ford, Kyle Harvey and Ollie Birkitt.
Heading the program once again will be Queensland talent Jackson Fuller. After winning the 85cc 14-U16 years title at last year’s KTM Australian Junior Motocross Championship (AJMX), Fuller will now shift his focus to the 13-U15 years 125cc and 250cc categories on the KTM 125 SX and 250 SX-F, competing at a state and national level, as well as contesting the MX3 class in the Australian ProMX Championship.

Tasmanian Cooper Ford, who won the inaugural CR22 85cc Cup in the Australian Supercross Championship, will once again contest the 85cc 12-U14 years division, but will look to make a more predominant step up to the 125cc 13-U15 years ranks after getting a taste of the class last year. Ford will once again be equipped with the KTM 85 SX and 125 SX in 2024.

Back for his third season with the KTM Junior Racing Team, emerging Queenslander Kyle Harvey will look to return to his winning ways after injury saw him miss last year’s AJMX event in the Northern Territory. Harvey will add the 125cc 13-U15 years class on a KTM 125 SX to his schedule for 2024, alongside 85cc 12-U14 years commitments on his KTM 85 SX.

Western Australian youngster Ollie Birkitt will make the step up to the 85cc 12-U14 years class in 2024, once again equipped with the KTM 85 SX. Birkitt wrapped up the title in the 9-U12 years division at last year’s AJMX championship and will look to continue his success on the national level, as well as at home in the Western Australian state titles.

Tam Paul (KTM Group Australia National Brand Manager): "With an unchanged and maturing KTM Junior Racing Team, we are looking forward to another extremely successful year of domestic and national racing. Jackson Fuller will be entering his final junior year and has been super-strong in the pre-season races, adapting well to the KTM 250 SX-F – we are expecting huge leaps from him as the season progresses. Kyle Harvey is getting back to full strength after an injury-challenged 2023, he is focused on a dominant final year on the KTM 85 SX while growing in confidence on the 125 and fighting for podiums on the bigger bike also. Cooper Ford, like Kyle, will be looking for another strong year on the 85, building off the back of his recent Australian Supercross Championship, and he will be a force to be reckoned with. Cooper also is adapting to the 125cc and building his confidence quickly. Last but not least, our WA-based rider Ollie Birkitt will be racking up plenty of miles whilst competing in the ultra-competitive QLD state series events and preparing for his home-based KTM Australian Junior Motocross Championship in Bunbury. We are beyond stoked to continue our long-standing relationship with the following racing partners who play a key role in our program – Motorex, Troy Lee Designs, Dunlop, ODI and Funnel Web, plus we would also like to welcome SKDA to our program."
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