Red Devils Roma at Magny-Cours with Maxime Berger
French youngster Maxime Berger will step in to replace the injured Niccolò Canepa in the Red Devils Roma team for the last round of this year's FIM Superbike World Championship at Magny-Cours. The 23-year-old from Dijon is in his second year in World Superbike. After winning the European Superstock 600 title in 2007 and racing for three years in the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup, where he often finished in the leading positions, in 2011 Maxime made his debut in Superbike with a Ducati, and he continued with the Italian machine again this year.
Currently Berger lies sixteenth in the table with 74 points, but he did not take part in the last round at Portimao due to problems with the team he had raced for throughout this season.
Berger, just like the Red Devils Roma team, is aiming to finish the season in the best possible way and his experience on a Ducati 1198R, together with his desire to do well in front of his home crowd, were determining factors in the choice of the Italian team.
Berger declared: "I am happy to race the last round of the season with Red Devils Roma. I am sorry I couldn't take part in the Portimao round, but I'll try and make up for that at my home circuit of Magny-Cours in front of my home crowd. I'd like to thank Andrea Petricca's squad for the trust he has put in me and I hope to repay him with some good results".
