Today we want to introduce to our readers the host nation, the "E.L. Sea Products- Namibia Team". The chances for the Namibian riders are more than good. The "Fear" of the unknown quality of European riders has completly vanished, since the Namibians were not only succesful on home-turf, but also did extremly well at the "1998 Deutschland-Tour".

Let’s introduce the riders representing Namibia. It should however be stated, that this team is not a National-Team but the best riders chosen in every catergory. Let’s start with the Kindergarten-Class:

Matthew was born on December 2nd 1998. He started riding motorbikes at the age of three. With 4 years he won the 50cc Junior Class, he repeated that feat in 2003 and in 2004.

In 2005 Matthew participated in the South African Championships. He was consistently in the top-5 and even won the Bloemfontein National for PW-Classes. During that same year he won the 50cc Senior Class in Namibia absolutely dominating!

For 2006, now 7 years old, he’s competing in Namibia in both the 50cc Senior Class as well as the 65cc Class, but competing in this Class on a small 50cc bike. He has won every heat in th 50cc Class and is good enough to win a rostrum spot on many occassions in the 65cc Class. He also competes in all the South African Championship races and has had a best placing of 5th overall . Currently he’s lying in overall 8th position out of 35 competitors.

Matthew has received an invite by a motocross clothing manufacturer from America to participate in a Supercross event in California held in January 2007.

Mark Sternagel is 11 years old and started racing in 1999, three years old then. Mark can look back already to a most successful mx-career. Mark came second in 2003 in the 50cc Class and again 2nd the year after. 2005 was a highlight in his career when he finished as runner-up in the 65cc AMU Southern African Challenge Championship. That same year he became 65cc Namibian Champion. That is exactly what he wants to repeat in 2006. He’s called “Mr Maximum” because he usually wins all three heats on maximum points.

Geoff is 15 years old, he hails from Okahandja. He started racing in 1999 and ever since improved year after year and it was in 2006 that all eyes were fixed on Geoffrey when he beat Jaco Loots. That boosted his confidence enormeously! Geoffrey is leading the 85cc Class in the moment and therefore was chosen to represent Namibia at the Inter-Series.

Frank was born on 18. October 1988. He started racing quite late, in 2002 it was. What began with enthusiasm ended later in hospital, he was booked off for 5 month with a leg injurie. In 2003 Frank finished the 85cc Class in 4th overall. Because of age he was relegated to the 125cc Class the year after and finished in an astonishing 4th overall.. In 2005 his breakthrough came, Frank became 125cc Namibian Champion, a feat he wants to repeat in 2006 as well.

Franky also participated successfully in AMU events in Namibia and in Zambia. He’s got the ambition to compete in Europe one day.

Ronnie was born on February 9th 1974 and started racing in 1980. Since this time he was chasing Namibian-Championship titles. Ronnie was very successful, won many runner-up titles before he won his first 80cc Championhip in 1986. It took him another 9 years before he could win the 125cc Class title in 1995. He could repeat that feat two years later in 1997. One must take into consideration, it was the hightime, when all the Namibian “stars” were still active, riders like Uwe Trümper, Nicki Pajewski, Mike Swanepoel, Rainer Becker or Ingo Waldschmidt, to name but a few.

But Ronnie is and always was determined to practise more and more and more in order to be in peak condition. In 2005 he became the AMU Southern African Challenge Champion, the highlight in his career. Because of this performance Ronnie Adams was choosen to represent Namibia at the 2006 Grand Prix of Soth Africa, where he could add to his learning curve, more could not have been expected. This year he is leading the Namibian Championship which will be decided at the Air Namibia Inter-Series.