Dutch-2-UK Racing’s Mark Van Daalen retires from racing after 16 years and is on the hunt for riders to race for the family run team in the Relentless British 125cc championship in 2010.
Van Daalen spent 14 years racing a 125cc before moving up to the Senior Superstocks for the last two years.  He started his racing career on a moped in Holland which after four years he moved up to the Superteens category finishing the season as the first runner up in the championship losing out by only a few points. 
He then moved up to the 125GP championship also in Holland before starting to race at European level in 2006.  2007 saw him come onto the British scene for the first time following which a year later he took his first leap to the 1000cc due to the age restriction on a 600cc.
Van Daalen now has decided to hang up his boots but with motorbike racing being his passion he intends to run a team along with his dad who has constantly been supporting him throughout his racing history.  Together they have 16 years experience which they want to use to help mentor and support young riders.
It is looking positive that the team have may have found their first rider Simon Low who is 22 years old and only been racing for two years mainly in the Thundersport GB Series, but they are still looking for one or two more.
Talking about the basic options they are offering Van Daalen said: “We’d prefer they have their own bike then we can upgrade it with kit stuff, if they don’t have any bike we have one bike and I will be selling my R1 to buy a 125cc again and prep that one.  This depends on the budget.  Going by the rider along with their budget we will see how we can prep the bike.”
“All riders will ride with the disc valve system that we developed ourselves. It’s just a bolt on system you have to make some alterations to the engine casing but that’s easily done.  We tested it a whole year and never had any problems, but it is easy to take off and people can either buy one off us or lease it.”
“Basically it’s a different inlet system to the usual valves in the Honda 125cc which you have to change a lot and riding wise the disc valve system is more drivable because on higher revs you still have a lot of power. It widens out the power band in the two strokes which makes it easier to drive out of corners, you can drive more rpm so you still have power and the torque is a bit better also.”
Van Daalen is not intending to make money out of this, he merely wants to break even to allow him to continue with his passion and provide knowledgeable support to others in all aspects of racing.  The team also hope to run 600cc’s in the future.
For more information or to discuss options in detail contact the team at info@pevada.com.