Cachia & Marmont sign with Husqvarna

In what has been a phenomenally successful first competition season for the new-look Husqvarna racing program in Australia, Husqvarna welcomes two new riders into the factory motocross team for a two-pronged assault on the 2014 Australian Supercross Championship.

Less than a month after Egan Mastin wrapped up the factory team’s first Australian MX Championship in the MXD category, exciting 22-year-old South Australian rider, Josh Cachia, and experienced Wollongong-based Pro, Ryan “Doggy” Marmont, will target its first Australian SX title.

The pair will bring plenty of firepower, with Cachia a consistent top-level performer with an MXD title and AMA Supercross racing experience, while 29-year-old Marmont is a four-time national championship winner who finished third in last year’s Pro Lites championship.

“I feel quite privileged, to tell you the truth,” said Cachia. “With Honda I didn’t really leave on good terms, but people saw that I still want to win and I still wanted to ride, and Husqvarna and Jeff Leisk and Ando all saw the passion that I had in my eyes, and they made things happen in hard times. I feel very grateful for what they’ve done. I really want to be at the pointy end in this series. It was only last week I was looking through my computer at all the photos of me racing with JDR in America, lining up against Eli Tomac, Tyla Rattray and Ken Roczen, just the world’s best. I haven’t raced supercross in Australia since I went to America so I’m pretty pumped.”

They’ll also bring two new Husqvarna models under the factory team awning for the first time, with Marmont electing to race the four-stroke FC250 in the Pro Lites category, and Cachia banking on the sublime balance of the FC350 for his tilt at Pro Open supremacy.

“These guys have won a lot of races and championships, and I am very excited to have two guys of that calibre ride for me,” said Team Manager, Craig Anderson. “I’ve spoken to them pretty much every day, and they’ve been very upfront, communication has been awesome and they’re pretty much pumped with the bikes already. Josh will ride the FC350 in the Open class, and Doggy is riding an FC250 in the Lites class. I think with Josh stepping up to the Open class, and he being a little guy who rides a 250F quite well, going straight to a full 450 may have been a big jump, so we are thinking the 350 may suit his weight and riding style better. The 250F is as good as anything out there. We gave Doggy an option to ride either, and he picked to ride the four-stroke. I think he can ride it faster and longer.”

“We always go to win, but if we get both boys in the top five that will be great,” added Anderson.

The opening double-header rounds of this year’s Australian Supercross Championship take place in conjunction with the annual Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama on October 11-12.