Road to MotoGP™: a thriving feeder to the World stage

As a consequence of the ongoing and relentless work by Dorna Sports, the Road to MotoGP™ program has emerged as a accurate success platform for dozens of young riders seeking to fulfil the ideal dream: become a MotoGP™ World Champion. The path to the tip is clearly defined as a vary of countries have the contrivance to allow future stars to delivery up their trudge to success.

The numbers discuss for themselves. The 2020 campaign will heavily feature riders who have made their preliminary tag in Championships corresponding to FIM CEV Repsol, Purple Bull MotoGP Newbies Cup or the Idemitsu Asia Talent Cup. And you’ll accept Moto3™ to be doubtlessly the most easy offer of this.

Of the 31 riders who for the time being produce up the grid, 29 of them have beforehand participated within the FIM CEV Repsol, 17 within the Purple Bull MotoGP Newbies Cup and six within the Idemitsu Asia Talent Cup. Three who have ride within the FIM CEV Repsol Championship have been topped Champions within the Moto3™ Junior World Championship: Dennis Foggia (Leopard Racing) in 2017, Raul Fernandez (Purple Bull KTM Ajo) in 2018 and Jeremy Alcoba (Kömmerling Gresini Moto3) in 2019.

And in 2020, there’ll be 5 other Champions of a Road to MotoGP™ program. Jakub Kornfeil (BOE Skull Rider Mugen Trail), Ayumu Sasaki (Purple Bull KTM Tech 3) and Carlos Tatay (Reale Avinita Arizona 77) have received the Purple Bull MotoGP Newbies Cup title in old years, with Sasaki also winning the Idemitsu Asia Talent Cup in 2015 before his 2016 Newbies triumph. Kaito Toba (Purple Bull KTM Ajo) and 2020 teammate Deniz Öncü have also received the IATC.

The Moto2™ World Championship also boasts a healthy pool of riders who have risen thru the Road to MotoGP™ ranks. 22 of the 29 riders within the intermediate class have ride within the FIM CEV Repsol, eight have participated within the Newbies Cup and two within the IATC. Four riders have an FIM CEV Repsol title to their name: Lorenzo Dalla Porta (Italtrans Racing Group), Nicolo Bulega (Federal Oil Gresini Moto2), his teammate Edgar Pons and Jesko Raffin (NTS RW Racing GP). Then, three riders have a Newbies Cup title to strut: Jorge Martin (Purple Bull KTM Ajo), Lorenzo Baldassarri (FlexBox HP 40) and Bo Bendsneyder (NTS RW Racing GP).

It’s easy to ascertain how a success the FIM CEV Repsol and Newbies Cup Championships are as breeding grounds for the World stage. Even MotoGP™ has a excessive tally of riders who have ride within the FIM CEV Repsol, 15 to be right, with three having raced within the Newbies Cup: Joan Mir (Group Suzuki Ecstar), Miguel Oliveira (Purple Bull KTM Tech 3) and Brad Binder (Purple Bull KTM Manufacturing facility Racing). With regard to Champions of a Road to MotoGP™ title, six premier class riders don’t have any longer no longer up to one. The oldest of them is Aprilia Racing Group Gresini’s Aleix Espargaro, the Spaniard winning the FIM CEV Repsol 125cc crown in 2004. Younger brother Pol Espargaro (Purple Bull KTM Manufacturing facility Racing), Maverick Viñales (Monster Vitality Yamaha MotoGP) and Alex Rins (Group Suzuki Ecstar), Alex Marquez (Repsol Honda Group) and Fabio Quartararo (Petronas Yamaha SRT) – a double Junior World Championship winner – are the different stars.

With the FIM CEV Repsol, Newbies Cup, IATC, British Talent Cup and the brand new Northern Talent Cup all web hosting loads of promising, young riders, the future stays gleaming for the Road to MotoGP™ to proceed thriving. Who will we survey emerge as World Championship contenders within the arrival years?