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Desk Manager
Marc comes to us with an extensive motorcycle and mechanical background, with five decades of riding experience behind him. He also started racing cars and bikes with the opening of the Circuit Mont Tremblant in 1964, and has burned rubber on road circuits across Canada, the Eastern United States and England. After a completing his studies in mathematics, Marc worked in sales, marketing and distribution for IBM and various IT companies, as well as in the distribution of industrial products. He also spent two years with the Canadian Space Agency, working on the Space Station that is now in orbit -despite Marc's somewhat confused contribution... For 20 years now, he has also worked as a motorsports analyst for RDS, in addition to writing for MotoMag magazine and the Annuel de la moto. He joined the moto123.com team in November 2008 as desk manager and senior journalist.
Pascal has always been fascinated by all things mechanical. At 5 years old, he was already dirt racing on his 70 cc mini motocross. At 14, during his first official motocross racing season, he finished in 15th place out of 32 competitors in the 250 cc class. He has been quenching his thirst for speed ever since, racing motorcycles, ATVs, and snowmobiles alike. In 1999, Pascal discovered a new "hobby": car racing. After several advanced driving courses and 6,000 kilometers of track tests, Pascal embarked on his first season of Solo Sprint racing. In 2001, he finished second in the Solo Sprint class, in 2002, he was crowned champion of the Super Stock class, and in 2003, he became the overall leader in the Modified class. At the end of his first season of road racing, Pascal won the Rookie of the Year award. The following year, he finished first in the regional GTU series and second in the provincial GTU series. Career-wise, Pascal started out as a writer for the tuning section of the H. Grégoire magazine. He then worked as a moto and auto journalist for Automag, Motomag, and the Annuel de la moto. He joined our team in 2006, as an auto contributor (auto123.com) and moto journalist (moto123.com).
If there's one thing Henri is passionate about, it's motorcycles. He traveled to France to study mechanics and mechanical fitting, and then went on to work for Peugeot in the two-wheel design department. He returned to Quebec in 1973 and worked for the biggest motorcycle dealers of the Greater Montreal Area, where he steadily climbed the ranks, progressing from mechanic to foreman and finally to manager. He started his own company in the early '80s, selling and repairing motorcycles, snowmobiles, and ATV Quads. For over 15 years, he worked as tuner and mechanic for several drivers who have all been crowned champions, in Motocross, Drag, Dirt and Road racing. He returned to France in 1996 where he was offered a job as technician in charge of operations for a manufacturer of Grand Prix FRC (Fulgur Racing Concept) motorcycles. He came back to Canada, for good, in the spring of 1997. Since 1990, he has been teaching motorcycle and light car mechanics at the École des métiers de l'équipement motorisé de Montréal (EMEMM). At the end of the '90s, he became a journalist and started writing for MotoMag and Le monde du VTT Quad, and contributed to the very first Annuel de la moto. Today, Henri is part of the moto123.com team, our motorcycle and ATV mechanics expert. |
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