Pauli Pekkanen races for KTM in FIM Superstock 1000 World
Cup
 The
KTM Maehr Superstock Team, this year contesting their first
season onboard KTM's recently released 1190 RC8, is being
reinforced as of the next race in Brno, Czech Republic with
a second rider, Finnish racer Pauli Pekkanen.
Pekkanen joins Rene Maehr as the second rider in what is the
company's first season in Superstock, one in which KTM and
the team is dedicated to gaining experience with the bike
and in a whole new category of motor sports activity. Sending
the RC8 straight on to the racing circuits is yet another
extension of KTM‘s Ready to Race philosophy for the
manufacturer that is one of the world leaders in the production
of sports motorcycles.
Hailing from Jämsä in Finland and a motorcycle technician
by profession, Pekkanen is yet another Finnish rider to race
for the Orange team. Mika Kallio is a dominant force in 250
cc road racing while Juha Salminen, Samuli Aro and Marko Tarkkala
are all dominant forces in the three classes of Enduro world
championships.
Pekkanen has graduated through the ranks, racing in the Finnish
Championship Cup B and A classes where he was overall 125
champion and third overall in the Scandinavian open class.
In 2004 he was fourth in the Finnish Supersport Championship
and third the following two years. He registered race wins,
podiums and track records in the Finnish Supersport championship
in 2007 before moving to international KTM Super Duke racing
where he has been a force on the podiums. His presence will
add both weight and experience to the KTM Maehr Superstock
Team in this, KTM's first year of this type of racing.
"It was clear to us right from the start that alongside
the extremely talented Rene, we would need a second rider
so that we would be able to gather even more experience in
the first year of motor sport for the RC8. After some tests,
Pauli Pekkanen is also going to be able to help us by racing
so that we can keep advancing with the Superstock development
project. Until now he has integrated himself into to team
perfectly, we have the infrastructure in place and we will
also be supporting him in the best possible way in his first
race in this class in Brno," said Philipp Habsburg, Head
of KTM R&D.
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