Avintia Racing

Avintia Racing
2018 name Reale Avintia Racing
Base Spain Madrid, Spain
Principal Raúl Romero
Rider(s) MotoGP:
10. Belgium Xavier Siméon
53. Spain Esteve Rabat
23. France Christophe Ponsson
Moto2:
18. Andorra Xavier Cardelús
Moto3:
77. Spain Vicente Pérez
Motorcycle MotoGP – Ducati
Moto3 – KTM
Tyres MotoGP – Michelin
Moto3 – Dunlop
Riders' Championships  –

Avintia Racing is a motorcycle racing team currently competing in the MotoGP World Championship.

History

Domestic racing

The team was set up in 1994 by Raul Romero and Josep Oliva as By Queroseno Racing, also known as Team BQR. Competing in the Spanish Road Racing Championship (Campeonato de España de Velocidad), BQR won three Fórmula Extreme and two 125GP class titles with riders José David de Gea, Stefan Bradl and Efrén Vázquez.

Grand Prix racing

125cc and 250cc classes

After many wild card appearances in the World Championship, BQR became a full entry in the 2001 season using Honda bikes in the 250cc class. In 2007 the team switched to Aprilia machinery. BQR won its first World Championship race with Scott Redding riding an Aprilia 125 at the 2008 British Grand Prix.

Moto2

The team unveiled the first Moto2 bike in February 2009 and fielded a prototype in the 2009 Spanish Road Racing Championship. In 2010, they participated in the new Moto2 World Championship, with Yonny Hernández and Mashel Al Naimi as riders.

MotoGP

In 2012 the team changed its name to Avintia Racing, following an alliance between BQR and the Grupo Avintia. The team debuted in the MotoGP class as a Claiming Rule Team using both FTR Moto and Inmotec frames badged as BQR, powered by Kawasaki engines. The riders were Iván Silva and Hernández. In 2013 Avintia entered the MotoGP class with Kawasaki-engined FTR frames, fielding two bikes for Hiroshi Aoyama and Héctor Barberá.

For the 2014 season Aoyama was replaced by Mike Di Meglio and the team fielded a new bike badged as the Avintia GP14, reportedly based on the 2007-2009 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-RR with some input from Kawasaki.[1][2] Following a mid-season agreement between Avintia and Ducati, Barberá received an Open-specification Ducati Desmosedici for the last five rounds.[3]

In 2015 the team entered two Open class Desmosedici GP14 motorcycles, for Barberá and Di Meglio. For 2016 Di Meglio was replaced by Loris Baz. In 2017 the team changed its name to Reale Esponsorama Racing.

Results

Year Class Team name Bike Riders Races Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points Pos.
2009 250cc Aeropuerto-Castello-Blusens Aprilia RSA 250 Spain Alex Debón 15012110110th
125cc Blusens-Aprilia Aprilia RSA 125 Spain Esteve Rabat 1700003718th
United Kingdom Scott Redding 17010050.515th
Spain Johnny Rosell 200000NC
2010 Moto2 Blusens-STX BQR-Moto2 Spain Dani Rivas 1 (2)[lower-alpha 1]00000NC
Colombia Yonny Hernández 1700003221st
Qatar Mashel Al Naimi 1500000NC
France Anthony Delhalle 2 (3)[lower-alpha 1]00000NC
125cc Blusens-STX Aprilia RSA 125 Spain Esteve Rabat 1702001476th
2011 Moto2 Blusens-STX FTR M211 Spain Joan Olivé 1 (6)[lower-alpha 1]00000NC
United States Kenny Noyes 1700001128th
Colombia Martín Cárdenas 100000NC
Spain Esteve Rabat 1701007910th
Colombia Yonny Hernández 1400014319th
125cc Blusens by Paris Hilton Racing Aprilia RSA 125 Spain Maverick Viñales 1749332483rd
Spain Josep Rodríguez 5 (8)[lower-alpha 1]00002 (3)[lower-alpha 1]32nd
Spain Sergio Gadea 1202001039th
2012 MotoGP Avintia Blusens BQR-Kawasaki Spain Iván Silva 1600001223rd
Colombia Yonny Hernández 1500002817th
Spain David Salom 20000127th
Australia Kris McLaren 000000NC
Japan Hiroshi Aoyama 10000325th
Inmotec-Kawasaki Italy Claudio Corti 100000NC
Moto2 Avintia Blusens FTR Moto M212
Suter MMXII		 Spain Julián Simón 1702008113th
2013 MotoGP Avintia Blusens FTR MGP13 Japan Hiroshi Aoyama 1600001320th
Spain Héctor Barberá 1800003516th
Spain Iván Silva 100000NC
Spain Javier del Amor 10000127th
Moto2 Avintia Blusens Kalex United Kingdom Kyle Smith 900000NC
Spain Toni Elías 1100002218th
Spain Dani Rivas 1 (3)[lower-alpha 1]00000NC
Argentina Ezequiel Iturrioz 600000NC
Spain Álex Mariñelarena 4 (6)[lower-alpha 1]0000227th
2014 MotoGP Avintia Racing Ducati Desmosedici GP14
Avintia GP14		 Spain Héctor Barberá 1800002618th
France Mike Di Meglio 180000925th
2015 MotoGP Avintia Racing Ducati Desmosedici GP14 Spain Héctor Barberá 1800003315th
France Mike Di Meglio 180000824th
2016 MotoGP Avintia Racing Ducati Desmosedici GP14 Spain Héctor Barberá 16 (18)000010210th
France Loris Baz 1500003520th
Italy Michele Pirro 2 (7)[lower-alpha 1]00001 (36) [lower-alpha 1]19th
Spain Javier Forés 100000NC
Australia Mike Jones 20000127th

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Non-bracketed number refers to the number accumulated with team, with number in brackets referring to the total accumulated for the season.

References

  1. ↑ Emmett, David (16 July 2014). "The Comprehensive Midsummer MotoGP Silly Season Update". MotoMatters.com. David Emmett. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  2. ↑ Birt, Matthew (21 July 2014). "Ducati to expand to six bike effort in MotoGP". MotorcycleNews.com. Bauer Consumer Media. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  3. ↑ "Avintia Ducati unveiled at Aragon". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. 25 September 2014. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
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