International Dealer News IDN 155 June/July 2020 | Page 20

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Patented polyester filter technology
specialist Sprint Filter has
announced a partnership with
Honda Racing as Official Technical
Supplier of performance air filters
for the Repsol Honda Team. Sprint
Filter is on board the RCV213 bikes
of reigning World Champion Marc
Marquez and his team-mate Alex
Marquez. Sprint joins the likes of
Puig, SC-Project, Alpinestars, Yuasa,
RK and NGK as HRC partners.
The Honda Racing RedMoto World
Enduro Team and Scott Sports have
signed a partnership until 2022, with
impact protection company D3O coming
on board, confirming and increasing
support for the Italian team of Matteo
Boffelli made up of Thomas Oldrati (CRF
250RX Enduro), Daniel McCanney (CRF
450RX Enduro) and Roni Kytonen (CRF
250RX Enduro Junior).
It has now been confirmed that
Australian Jack Miller will move
from the satellite Pramac Ducati
team and join the factory Ducati
Corse MotoGP team for the 2021
season - probably replacing Danilo
Petrucci (rather than Andrea
Dovizioso).
KRT has announced that Alex Lowes will
remain with the official KRT FIM Superbike
World Championship team for the 2021
season - the winner at the Phillip Island,
Australia season opener on the Ninja ZX-
10RR - where Lowes and teammate and
reigning five time WSBK Champion
Johnathan Rea took a win each.
Piaggio
Piaggio Group Q1 (January - March
2020) consolidated net sales totalled
€311.4m, a reduction of -10.1% from
€346.2m at 31 March 2019 and sold
117,100 vehicles worldwide (140,400
in the year-earlier period).
Two-wheeler sales rose in Asia Pacific
(+3.5%), mitigating in part the fall in
sales in the EMEA and Americas area
(-8.3%) and India (-28.5%) caused by
the health emergency.
In Q1 the Group sold 76,400 twowheelers
worldwide (-9.7% from
84,600 in the year-earlier period),
generating net sales of € 208.8m
(-7.9% from €226.7m in 2019 Q1).
The figure includes spares and
accessories, on which turnover totalled
€26.2m.
The decreases were largely the result
of the decline in business in Italy (in the
second half of March) where PTW
shipments were down -33% (-35.9%
net sales) and India (with -33.5%
shipments; -20.3% net sales). The
American two-wheeler market saw a
rise of 5.5% in shipments and 4.5% in
net sales, and Asia Pacific an increase
of 3.5% in shipments and 4.8% in net
sales.
The Piaggio Group confirmed its
leadership in the European scooter
segment with a share of 21.9% and
maintained a strong positioning on the
North American scooter market, with a
share of 26.2%. In North America the
Group is also consolidating its
presence in the motorcycle segment
with the Aprilia and Moto Guzzi
brands.
In the Motorcycle segment, sales rose
for the Moto Guzzi V85TT and for the
Aprilia RX, RS 125 and Shiver.
On May 4th Piaggio restarted Moto Guzzi production at the Mandello del
Lario factory that has been the brand's home since 1921.
Sales of the Mp3 were up in Q1
The Scooter segment reported
substantially steady sales of Vespa
models with 50 cc plus engines, for a
5.6% improvement in net sales, and of
the Piaggio Mp3 three-wheel scooter,
and an increase of more than 24% in
sales of the Piaggio Medley highwheel
scooter.
In Commercial Vehicles, Piaggio
reported sales volumes of 40,700
vehicles (-27% from 55,800 vehicles
in the first quarter of 2019) and net
sales of € 102.6m (-14.2% from
€119.5m in the year-earlier period).