It might not be the biggest or most heavily backed team getting around, but the SD3 Husqvarna team continues to punch well above its weight, announcing the signing of international star Brett Metcalfe as its full-time premier class rider for season 2017.
The 32-year-old, originally from Mannum in South Australia, will ride the Australian MX Nationals championship in its entirety, before taking on the Australian Supercross Championships at the end of the year.
In a glittering international career that has lasted almost 15 years, Metcalfe became AMA motocross Vice Champion in 2010, Southwick National winner in 2011, and was a member of the Australia motocross of Nations team which finished on the podium in 2011.
Metcalfe rode a four-race stint for the SD3 team at the beginning of last year's MX Nationals, and with the ink still drying on his contract and virtually no test time, still gave the brand its first real premier class contender since the 1970s.
Riding a very standard Husqvarna FC 450 against the thoroughly developed factory bikes of the opposition, the decorated international still scored podium finishes in two of the four rounds, and gave Husqvarna a race victory in the third round of the championship at Appin, before departing to compete in the Canadian Motocross Nationals.
