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The supported by ME athlete Martin Choy raced at the final round of the motorcycle season in Seres, Greece.
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Martin Choy season recap and plans for 2018

Nov 282017

Bulgarian superbike racer Martin Choy supported by Monster Energy once again dominated the national motorcycling championship.

He won 6 of the 8 rounds this year and proved that experience and hard work usually pay off.

Except (apart from) winning the local championship Martin came second in the BMU EUROPEAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP for 2017, in which, due to other commitments he missed 4 of the races and still took the second step of the podium.

The supported by ME athlete Martin Choy raced at the final round of the motorcycle season in Seres, Greece.
Martin‘s ambitions didn‘t stop here though. For the second year in a row he took part in probably the toughest motorcycle championship in the world - FIM World Endurance Championship.  

We all remember how under the applause of 100 000 fans Martin finished his first race in the great 24 hours of Le Mans pushing his bike to the finish line after riding alone almost 15 hours due to injuries of his teammates.  

Choy and his team started the new season 2017/2018 with a solid 5-th place in the first race at the French track Bol d’Or. The next round will be on the 21-st and 22-nd of April on the legendary Le Mans.  

Check out what Martin told us in an exclusive interview for Monster Energy about the past season and his plans for 2018.

2017 was very successful for me

How do you rate your performance in 2017?

2017 was very successful for me and EKO BMV Racing Team – National champion and 9 wins in the European championship. The season in the FIM World Endurance Championship was OK for us, because from the beginning it was clear that we have the potential for top 5, but something always happened and we couldn‘t finish, but in a championship like this you also need a lot of luck. On a positive note we started the new campaign with a 5-th place in Bol d’Or.

Martin Choy at the 2016 24 Hours in Le Mans, France.
    

     

You dominated the national championship ones again, but came second in the European. Why did this happen?

It happened only because of the fact that we race in 4 different championships and many of the rounds overlap, but we are happy that we won all the races we managed to take part in.

Martin Choy getting tattooed
 

 

Your team came 5-th from almost 60 others in the first race of the FIM World Endurance Championship for 2017/2018. Do you plan to take park in all the starts next year?

We are currently working on the calendar for 2018, but yes, the plan is to race in all the rounds in 2018.

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