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As you maybe already know Matti is staying in CA at Intense Cycles to work with Jeff Steber on his 2008 M6 race machine….
Markus Stoeckl, owner of MS-RACING, has been nominated for the «Laureus World Sports Award» in the category of action sports. Joined by mountain bike downhill world champion Sam Hill he made it among the last ten athletes, including big names like Shaun White (snowboard) or Simon Dumond (freeskiing). Unfortunately neither Sam nor Markus could advance into the final round of the top six nominees.
MS-Intense Factory-Racing adds the 17-year-old U.S. American super talent from California to the team, already consisting of Matti Lehikoinen (FIN), Anneke Beerten (NED) and Mio Suemasa (JPN). With a second place in the junior’s downhill finals at the 2007 world championships in Ft. William (UK) J.D. proved his extraordinary racing skills. Earlier in the year, when he took the overall win at «Ray’s 3 Ride» mountain bike contest he already beat a bunch of the 26-inch elite.
