2014-01-07 10:18 CET KTM CHARGES INTO NEW YEAR!

Ken Roczen, and Jason Anderson sweep the supercross season opener at Anaheim, California (USA) and leads the Red Bull KTM rally squad after the first stage of the Dakar 2014 in Argentina. Supercross

Red Bull KTM Factory Team rider Ken Roczen delivered a top performance in the opening round of the 2013 AMA Supercross Championship to take his career first 450SX class win onboard his KTM 450 SX-F. Factory teammate Ryan Dungey, finished in the runner-up position at Angel Stadium in front of a sold out crowd.

“This is an amazing feeling,” remarked Roczen. “Not only to get my first win but to get it at the opening round is amazing. I have been working very hard during the off-season and I am so glad the hard work has paid off. Congrats also to my teammate Ryan.

It is great to share this moment on the podium with him.”

Red Bull KTM Factory rider Dean Ferris earned 14th overall in his debut Supercross race. A big congratulation also goes out to Rockstar Energy KTM rider Jason Anderson who earned the holeshot in the 250SX class main event and went on to take the win aboard his KTM 250 SX-F race machine.

Dakar Rally

Red Bull KTM Factory rider Marc Coma launched his bid for a fourth title when riders set out on Stage One of the world’s toughest rally race on Sunday. At the end of a long day Coma, riding the all new 450 cc rally machine, finished second to of just 37 seconds behind the leader. Further 720 km later after stage two the Spaniard currently is in 5th place.

Coma said he took things relatively easy on Day One: "It was a bit tricky with just a special of 180 km and on the first day of the Dakar you don't yet really have the right feeling. But I am happy for what we managed today. I took things fairly easy but the race is long and this is just the beginning."All four of Coma's Red Bull KTM Factory teammates were within six minutes of the leader. Francisco 'Chaleco' López of Chile was well placed at sixth fastest, trailing only by 3:24 minutes. As second fastest rider overall on day, Lopez reduced the gap to the leader on day two to only 2 min. Ruben Faria finished eleventh fastest at 5:11 minutes and Jordi Viladoms was thirteenth at just under six minutes. Riders are competing on the brand new KTM 450 RALLY bike.

Daily Dakar Rally 2014 results updates on http://www.ktm.com/factoryracing/rally/news.html

Results 450SX class Anaheim 1 1. Ken Roczen (D), KTM, 19:43.636 min (20 laps) 2. Ryan Dungey (USA), KTM, +3.186 sec 3. (USA), Kawasaki, +9.228 4. Ryan Villopoto (USA), Kawasaki, +13.886 5. Justin Barcia (USA), Honda, +20.668

Standings 450SX class after 1 of 17 rounds 1. Roczen, 25 points 2. Dungey, 22 3. Reed, 20 4. Villopoto, 18 5. Barcia, 16

Results West 250SX class Anaheim 1 1. Jason Anderson (USA), KTM, 14:44.951 min (15 laps) 2. Cole Seely (USA), Honda, +0.425 sec 3. Zach Osborne (USA), Honda, +18.168 Standings West 250SX class after 1 of 9 rounds 1. Anderson, 25 points 2. Seely, 22 3. Osborne, 20

Results Dakar 2014, Stage One Rosario to San Luis – 629km liaison, 180km special1. Joan Barreda (E), Honda, 2:25:31 h 2. Marc Coma (E), KTM, +37 sec 3. (F), Yamaha, +1:40 min 4. Alain Duclos (F), Sherco, +1:56 5. Paolo Goncalves (P), Honda, +2:25 Other KTM6. Chaleco López (RCH), KTM, +3:24 11. Ben Grabham (AUS), KTM, +4:50 12. Ruben Faria (P), KTM, +5:11 13. David Casteu (F), KTM, +5:32 14. Jordi Viladoms (E), KTM, +5:51 17. Stefan Svitko (SK), KTM, +6:57 20. Kuba Przygonski (PL), KTM, +8:23 26. Ivan Jakes (SK), KTM, +10:42

27. Riaan van Niekerk (RSA), KTM, +11:14 http://www.ktm.com/ http://www.ktmimages.com

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