odds of becoming a professional motocross racer

He was unhappy and about to quit motocross after his first international season in 2003 but a friend of Claudio’s – a former racer – that said we should give him a chance. “We knew of him because he was from Sicily and there were not many riders from his country in the Italian championship. “Tony was a kid that really wanted to work and had the right attitude to get results,” ‘Nazza’ says. Properzi has been part of De Carli’s unit from the early 1990s and remembers when they decided to take a chance on a skinny 18-year old teenager in 2004. 59 years old.Īny visitor to an MXGP paddock and Claudio De Carli’s team in the last fifteen years might have spotted a small bespectacled Italian quietly prepping the #222 machine. Nazzareno Properzi – Tony Cairoli’s mechanic (and who has been with the De Carli outfit since the beginning of Cairoli’s pro career)

In a quest to understand how two Australians, a Belgian and an Italian ranging from their mid-twenties to their late fifties came to be the cornerstone of a KTM racer’s weekend, we ventured (with a facemask and at a safe distance) into the MXGP awning. Behind the riders and champions like Tony Cairoli, Jeffrey Herlings, Jorge Prado and recently crowned FIM MX2 Motocross World Champion Tom Vialle is a diverse spread of race mechanics: some of whom who have been on the spanners for more time than the riders have been alive and others who have come into the squad and made an immediate impact.

The team can rightfully claim to be one of the very best in Grand Prix.

PC Bull KTM have won both classes of the FIM Motocross World Championship in the same year seven times in the last decade with largely the same technical crew and band of experts both at the circuits and back at the Motorsport HQ in Munderfing.

How do you get to the very top of motocross? Do you have to be a technical genius? Lucky? A boisterous team player? Or well connected? We asked the Red Bull KTM mechanics for their stories… There is a range of ages and characters in the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing team – all of whom are fully committed to their job

Odds of becoming a professional motocross racer