Dougie Lampkin has confirmed that he’ll race a KTM at the Tough One on Saturday.
Long standing Red Bull athlete Dougie Lampkin will break cover this weekend aboard his new Eurotek Hope KTM as he debuts the orange machine Hawkstone Park venue near Shrewsbury this coming Saturday.
Complimenting his relationship with new Spanish trials bike manufacturer Vertigo, Lampkin will ride the Austrian enduro brand for the Ripon based KTM specialist dealer Eurotek for 2014 whilst extending his long association with Hope Technology.
The Tough One will mark Dougie’s first Hard Enduro race of 2014, with the Red Bull Erzberg Rodeo in June, and the Extreme de Lagares in Portugal later in the year also planned.
“First of all I would like to thank Eurotek, Hope and KTM for putting this deal together and for providing me a great bike to get the job done,” told Lampkin.
“I am fully aware just how tough it is going to be on Saturday, as the deep sand and steep hills at Hawkstone Park are totally unforgiving and are going to make it a very different event to when it used to be in the quarry. But I will be doing my best to get up there and amongst them and will hopefully be able to show a few of those younger lads that there is still a little bit of life in the old dog yet.