2021 World Champions - powered by Vertex GP-Racer's choice
Italian piston specialist Vertex (VP Italy) continues to consolidate its position as the premier piston brand, powering the titled riders of the off-road world championships, starting with Maxime Renaux of the Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MX2 team - with the new MX2 World Champion it was "Gold all round for Vertex - with quality bringing home the results.
"In the motocross 2021 season, the victory at the Internazionali d'Italia in the MX1 and Supercampione classes with Romain Febvre of the Monster Energy KRT team, the victory at the Prestige Elite MX1 Championship with Alessandro Lupino (MRT Racing KTM team) and at the Italian Women's Championship with Kiara Fontanesi (MX Fonta Racing team), all made for a truly golden season".
The season had begun uphill for 21-year-old Frenchman Renaux, who dislocated his shoulder at the Internazionali and made a quiet debut in the world championship in the opening race in Russia, but then everything went better and better as the season progressed with five GP victories, seven second places and two third places to win the championship with two races to spare.
Additionally, in the MX World Championship, Vertex Pistons also got the vice-champion title with Jago Geerts (Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MX2 team) and took second and third world championship places in the MXGP - respectively with Romain Febvre and with the multiple world champion Tim Gajser (Honda HRC team).
In the WMX, Vertex won the vice-champion title with Nancy Van de Ven (Ghidinelli Racing team) and the third step of the podium with Kiara Fontanesi. Added to these are the titles won in the European championship, where the Vertex pistons were highlighted with the victory of Valerio Lata (KTM Marchetti Racing) in the EMX125 and the second place of Kevin Horgmo (GASGAS SM Action team) in the EMX250.
Vertex Pistons then scored excellent results in World Enduro, with 6 titles won: Brad Freeman of the Beta Factory team became world champion of Enduro GP and E3, Matteo Pavoni (TM Boano Factory team) won the Junior and J2 world champion titles, Lorenzo Macoritto (also of the TM Boano Factory team) became champion in EJ1, and Albin Norrbin (Fantic D'Arpa Racing team) won the EY title.
Finally, new successes were also achieved in the Supermoto with Marc Reiner Schmidt and Thomas Chareyre, riders of the L30-Tm Racing team, with which Vertex Pistons earned the S1Gp world champion and vice-champion titles respectively.
Vertex Pistons supported all these motocross, enduro and Supermoto champions with its GP-Racer's choice pistons.
At the top of Vertex Pistons' 4-stroke off-road production, this model is hot forged with high resistance VP-310 alloy, equipped with the exclusively machined T-Bridge (inspired by F1), DLC (Diamond Like Coated) coated pin, and high-performance rings in chromed or nitrated steel -depending on the application. "Racer's choice pistons stand out for the exclusive shape of the head, allowing a guarantee of excellent performance without any loss of reliability".
In addition to the GP-Racer's choice model, the range of 4-stroke off-road pistons is completed by the hi-tech Replica, High Compression and Big Bore models.
"All are characterised by a molybdenum disulfide coating - to enhance smoothness and wear resistance - and each is equipped with application-specific features that guarantee a perfect replacement of standard pistons with an excellent quality/price ratio (hi-tech replica), an increase in the compression ratio, which improves power and torque (high compression), and an increase in displacement, which greatly improved performances (big bore models)."
The off-road 4-stroke Vertex pistons range has been updated for the cross, enduro and Supermotard 2022 models and is available for Beta enduro motorcycles in the 350/390/430/480 RR versions and for the whole KTM, Husqvarna and GasGas range - as well as for Honda CRF 250/450, Kawasaki KX 250/450 F, Yamaha YZ 250/450 F and Suzuki RM-Z 250/450.
VERTEX PISTONS/VP ITALY S.R.L.
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