Brook MacDonald joins Laurie Greenland on MS-Mondraker
MacDonald returns to team after five years, along with Mike Jones
With returning talent and strong young riders, MS-Mondraker Team is looking strong going into the 2018 downhill World Cup season. The team will feature Brook MacDonald, Laurie Greenland and Mike Jones as well as a four rider development squad.
Brook MacDonald
Brook MacDonald is returning to the MS-Mondraker Team for 2018, after spending several seasons moving between a series of other teams. MacDonald’s last World Cup appearance in MS-Mondraker colours saw him win at Val d’Isere, France in 2012. Five years later, the crowd favorite rider is back on the team where he last found major success and is hoping for similar results in the upcoming season.
Laurie Greenland
Macdonald joins the speedy 20-year-old, Laurie Greenland. Going into his third year racing with MS-Mondraker, Greenland already has a second place at 2016 world championships under his belt. That impressive result, which came in his first year racing Elite downhill, was backed up with his first World Cup podium at Lenzerheide in 2017.
Mike Jones
Mike Jones signed with the MS-Mondraker Team for 2018, having chosen to stick with racing downhill when his former team, Chain Reaction Cycles decided to make the switch over to racing the Enduro World Series. While Jones battles injury for much of the 2017 season, the 22-year-old managed to recover on time to take fifth place at the longstanding, notoriously rough Mont Sainte Anne World Cup round.
MacDonald and Jones move into MS-Mondraker Team to fill the space left when Danny Hart left to join the U.K.-based Madison-Saracen squad.
MS-Mondraker Development Team
In addition to Greenland, MacDonald and Jones, MS-Mondraker will be fielding a development program of younger riders. Norwegian Brage Vestavik, Australian junior rider Patrik Butler, Italian Johannes von Klebelsberg and Austrian Fabian Ulrigh will race the Summum Carbon Pro Team bikes throughout the 2018 season.
