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History 90s/2000
 
Birel won six Formula C World Championship titles in the years from 1990 to 2000 and led the classification of the most winning teams in the 125 ever. The victors were Alessandro Piccini, World Champion in 1990 and 1991, Gianluca Beggio, scored three wins in a row by winning the World Championships in 1997, 1998 and 2000, and Francesco Laudato, 1999 champion. During the first half of the nineties, Birel continued to leave racing activities to external teams but realised that the time to create a new racing department had come.

 
 
Valerio Sapere 1998 European Champion 125 ICC.
 
         
  Birel Motorsport was founded in 1995 and managed by Ronni Sala, Oscar's son, who had started managing the company at his father's side. Birel was profitably working with Yamaha during these years: the Japanese major entrusted the production to top level chassis for international competitions to the Lissone based company.
 
 
 
 
     
  Torsion, the first Birel chassis to be entirely computer designed, was created in 1997. It was a very refined chassis embodying a number of extremely innovative solutions, but which was rather difficult to manage and to tune.

At the end of the nineties, Birel became involved in amateur karting, "invented" endurance races, a new perspective in kart racing, and created a new chassis, the N035, specifically designed for these competitions.

Birel's commitment in the amateur karting sector focused on an extremely interesting new product in 2000, the Easy Kart, designed to draw an increasingly large new of enthusiasts to karting.
 
     
   
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