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Interview with Rok Bagoroš: “My fans are already connecting my story with the Akrapovič success story”

Rok Bagoroš was born in 1989 and comes from a small town in northeastern Slovenia. At the age of eighteen, he decided to become a professional stunt rider. After three years of demanding training and producing various videos (among other things, he did scooter stunts on ice and a golf course), he finally made a breakthrough: KTM offered him the position of a factory stunt rider.

Marco Melandri Visits the Akrapovič Factory

For the Superbike world championship racers, the season wasn’t over with the last race at Magny Cours. They have to meet the media and their sponsors, attend various other meetings, and test their motorcycles for the next season. But for this laughing Italian—who, in addition to racing, also likes to ride motocross, fly planes, and lick his fingers after enjoying a plate of pasta prepared by his girlfriend—visiting the Akrapovič factory wasn’t just another task.

Interview with Christophe Nambotin

This French enduro racer, born in 1984, has had a dream season after transferring to the KTM factory team. In eight rounds—that is, sixteen races—he was unbeaten fourteen times this year. He stood on the second step of the podium only twice, in Italy and Finland, where he claimed the world champion title one round before the end.

Interesting facts about the Audi World Champions trio

Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer are the first title winners of the new FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). Their biographies are packed with interesting details.

Interview with Pierre Alexandre Renet

The last round of the Enduro World Championship took place in Brignoles, France, and produced the last world champion this season. In the E2 class, 28-year-old French racer Pierre Alexandre Renet won the title after a tough battle with KTM-rider Cristóbal Guerrero. Renet is the first rider to win both the motocross and enduro world champion title.

Interview with Darren Higginson after Continental Drif

On 1 July 2012 Darren Higginson and Dave Darcy left London on a 22,000 km trip across Europe, Kyrgyzstan, Tibet, China, and all the way down under to Sydney, Australia. And not on some big, comfortable touring bike, but on a KTM 690 Enduro R, practically a racing bike.

Interview with Bruno Spengler

Four wins, three pole positions and finally the long-awaited title: Bruno Spengler (CA) made DTM history in 2012. In an interview, the freshly crowned champion and BMW Team Schnitzer driver speaks about his emotions, the final laps in Hockenheim (DE) and his plans for the coming weeks.

Interview with Antoine Méo

The KTM factory enduro team’s investment in this two-time world enduro champion (E1 in 2010 and E2 the following year) has definitely paid off. In his very first year on a KTM 250 EXC-F outfitted with an Akrapovič exhaust system, he dominated the E1 class to earn his third GP title one race before the end of the season. But what’s important is not only what this French racer, born in 1984, has achieved, but also how he did it.

Interview with Roger De Coster

On 3 October 2012 KTM released a teaser on its YouTube channel announcing the internet video series Behind the Machine. It offers a short history of KTM’s aggressive attack on the American motocross scene, and it mentions Roger De Coster as one of the key figures. “Who’s that?” is probably what young fans with photos of Dungey and Roczen as the desktop backgrounds on their laptops are asking.

Interview with Jeffrey Herlings

With seven individual victories and a final second place in the world championship, Jeffrey (born in 1994) already showed in the 2011 season that he’s got the right stuff to aim for the top of the MX2 class.

Interview with Antonio Cairoli

We chatted with the current top motocross racer in the world after Saturday’s qualifying race in the last round of the motocross world championship in Teutschenthal, Germany. Even though he was in a hurry, Tony took time to think carefully about his answers.

Interview with Sandro Cortes

He opened the door of the pit right on time, pointed to the clock, and said with a smile, “It’s five o’clock.”We’d arranged to have a short interview at five after Friday’s free training at the Misano World Circuit.

An interview with Javier Orellana, Competitor in the KTM European Junior Cup

All the scratches on his 690 cc KTM attest to how exciting his racing is; since the point of the cup competition is to offer racing experience for the money available, they don’t bother to fix up minor cosmetic damage. After walking through the pits, where there’s a really calm atmosphere alongside the loud music, it’s clear that the Akrapovič exhaust pipes are also getting a real workout in the European Junior Cup.

An interview with Marco Melandri

We knew that the guy’s fast, but nobody expected him to put in such a masterful performance in his very first season with the very young BMW Motorrad Motorsport team.

An interview with David Knight

A day after a pretty ugly crash at the Prologue to the Erzbergrodeo race, three-time Enduro world champion David Knight was already strolling around the Erzbergrodeo arena with a smile on his face, but he had to cancel his ride in the Red Bull Hare Scramble, one of the toughest Enduro races in the world, due to the accident.

Audi R18 e-tron quattro heading for Le Mans

In a mo

nth from now a prestigious success will be at stake for Audi. On June 16/17, a hybrid vehicle could be winning the Le Mans 24 Hours for the first time.

Interview with Taddy Bła

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After wining one of the most challenging enduro races, the Red Bull Hare Scramble in Austria, as a young unknown face in enduro, Tadeusz Błażusiak became unbeatable in the world of big rocks, steep hills, and slippery logs. At the end of the 2011 season we asked him a few questions after he won the second race of the Super Enduro World Championship in his homeland.

An interview with Marc Coma (KTM)

This three-time winner of the Dakar Rally paid a two-day visit to the country where the exhaust pipes for his KTM 450 Rally are produced. This racer, who became a legend in this sport at the tender age of thirty-five, took time for a brief interview.

Akrapovič Racing Service

Races are the biggest test of everything that we do. Our greatest satisfaction and motivation to further improve our designs comes with the victory of a motorbike equipped with our exhaust. The desire to win pushes us further along a path that no-one has taken before.

An Interview with Ben 'Elbowz' Spies

Ben Spies is 25- years-old motorcycle racer and champion from USA, who is now competing in world Superbike championship.

An interview with Alex Barros

Alex Barros is a Brazilian motorcycle road racer. After a long career in Moto GP, he moved in 2006 to the Superbike World Championship.

An interview with James Stewart

James Stewart is the man in American motocross right now. With multiple supercross and motocross championships, this 23 -year old from Haines City Florida has the world at his feet.

Giovanni Sala Testing for Akrapovič

Giovanni Sala, a 6-time World Enduro Champion, tested prototype exhaust systems for the Akrapovič’s Racing R&D Department.

Stefan Everts gets a taste of Akrapovič

The legendary Belgian racer and 10-time world MX champion who went from professional racer to KTM motocross race director tried out new factory machines equipped with Akrapovič racing exhaust systems.