Last Thursday at the Hard Rock Cafè in Prague, Liberty Racing, the new Czech based team that will contest next season in the World Superbike Championship, gave it’s official launch party.
Fielding Jakub Smrz and Sylvain Guintoli and run by Natale Egi, the team backed by Liberty CZ Group with title sponsor, Czech beer maker Effenbert, threw a big party that included Miss 2009 Czech Republic Iveta Lutovska, and 2008 winner Eliska Buckova.
The new team will have an experienced staff that includes techs and engineers from Ducati and Ferrari and will have Ducati official technical support and will be using the upgraded versions of the former factory team’s Ducati 1198 F10’s and will be at Portimao for testing at the end of January.