Maxtra Gets A Name Change
Press Release | March 18, 2009
The following is from Maxtra, er… Haojue…
China’s largest motorcycle manufacturer, the Jiangmen Dachangjiang Group has today confirmed that its on-going 125 GP team will now run under the company’s key brand name – Haojue.Launched at the 2008 China MotoGP event in Shanghai under the Team Maxtra banner, the unique ‘upside down’ engined 125cc GP machine has undergone nine months of development under the supervision of racing legends John Surtees and Garry Taylor. Since the launch a number of issues came to light over the international use of the Maxtra name and the company decided to revert to its original plan to run under the Team Haojue name. Haojue sold over 2.95 million machines in 2008.”The issue with the name change made it necessary for us to close the Team Maxtra website, but we now have a basic Team Haojue site at www.haojue-racing.com,” explained Team Haojue director Garry Taylor.”The on-going development programme is continuing as planned, with Jan Witteveen testing and developing a variety of new engine components and Harris Performance progressing with chassis and bodywork refinements.”As we said right from the launch in China last year, we don’t expect to be on podium pace in year one, but Haojue is one hundred percent behind the project and we are determined to make progress and aim to challenge for podium finishes in 2010,” he added.Team Haojue will make its public debut at the IRTA test in Jerez at the end of March.