Two weeks ago Gas Gas announced the incorporation of Giovanni Sala as Team Manager of the Gas Gas Enduro Factory Team project and this week it is time for another new face for the team. Gas Gas is pleased to announce the signing of the two-times world enduro champion Johnny Aubert.
The 37-year-old French rider joins the Gas Gas family as a luxury reinforcement for its renewed competition structure. Aubert will compete in a National Championship, yet to be determined, and in the French classics on the new Gas Gas EC300. A definitive sports program will be announced after the coming EICMA show in Milan.
“I am very excited to be putting in the cornerstone of this house in the renewal of the brand and demonstrate the qualities of their motorcycles to the Gas Gas enthusiasts. I am sure that this is the beginning of a great adventure between us” emphasised Aubert after signing with the Salt factory for two years.
With two titles and 38 GP wins behind him, Johnny Aubert has always stood out as one of the fastest and most complete drivers in the Enduro World Championship. His beginnings in motocross, a speciality in which he was proclaimed 80 cc World Champion in 1993, when only 13 years old, took him to the United States to compete in AMA Motocross and Supercross. This is the great league of this speciality, where the French driver forged his refined technique and explosiveness in the specials. Virtues that, a few years later and now back in Europe, took him to conquer the Enduro World Championship in both 2008 and 2009.
Two E2 world crowns to which Aubert also added two world sub-championships and two national enduro championships in France and Italy, as well as several victories with the ‘Bleus’ in the Olympics of this speciality, the International Six Days of Enduro. A competition that the French rider has won three times with his country – in the 2010, 2012 and 2013 editions – and two individually, as an absolute winner, in 2007 and 2010.
JOHNNY AUBERT
Date of birth: May 31st, 1980
Place of Birth: Maubeuge (France)
Current place of residence: Aix-en-Provence (France)
Featured Titles: 2 world titles and 38 GP wins
HONOURS
2016
Runner-up of the E2 Enduro World Championship
2014
3rd E2 Enduro World Championship
2nd Italian E2 Enduro Championship
2013
Winner with France of the ISDE World Trophy
4th E2 Enduro World Championship
2012
Winner with France of the ISDE World Trophy
5th E2 Enduro World Championship
2010
Winner with France of the ISDE World Trophy
Overall winner ISDE
Runner-up of the E1 Enduro World Championship
5th French E2 Enduro Championship
2009
E2 Enduro World Champion
Enduro Champion of France
2008
E2 Enduro World Champion
2007
3rd E2 Enduro World Championship
Italian Champion of Enduro Overall winner
Overall Winner ISDE
2006
4th Enduro World Championship
1999
Champion of France, Elite Motocross 125 cc
1998
Supercross Champion of France
1996
French Motocross Junior Champion
1993
80 cc Motocross World Champion
Cadete Champion of France
Champion Minivert France
