Last December several spanish websites including AS.com ran a story that international movie star Antonio Banderas wanted to get into racing and was looking for funding to run teams in the 125cc and 250cc championships, as well as the Spanish and European series.

Spanish RTVE talking to Banderas, who is in Los Angeles, announced that he is ready to launch his Promoracing Team in Moto2 that will be run by Daniel Devahive and that the first rider they’ve chosen is 125cc rider Jean Olive.

Olive currently rides with the Derbi Racing Team and is 10th in the standings.

Banderas and Devahive had originally chosen Aleix Espargarò but the rider bowed out to ride in MotoGP for Pramac Ducati next year.

Espargarò must have signed a lot of pre-contracts in Moto2, because before signing up with Pramac, he was also in the final stages of negotiations with Luca Boscosuro of the Speed-Up-Aprilia team.

After the jump we’ve added the Moto2 teams entry list that was announced during the Estoril round. Bandera’s team is on the reserve list with two riders.

Accepted Teams and number of entries accepted (reserve entries in brackets). The accepted teams now have until the November 2nd to finally confirm the names of their riders, and to lodge a security deposit with IRTA. Should any of the accepted teams propose riders not acceptable to the Committee, or if the security deposit is not paid, then consideration will be given to the teams on the reserve list.

AJO MOTORSPORT: 1 (1)
BALATON RACING TEAM 250: 1
CAMPETELLA RACING: 1
CARDION AB MOTORACING: 1
CIP MOTO - GP250: 1 (1)
EMMI - CAFFE LATTE: 1
G22 RACING TEAM: 2
HAYATE RACING TEAM: 2
HONDA GRESINI: 2
JIR: 2
KINO RACING: 1 (1)
MAPFRE ASPAR TEAM: 2
MATTEONI RACING: 1 (1)
PONS RACING PEPE WORLD: 2
PRAMAC RACING: 2
RACING TEAM BY QUERESENO: 2
RACING TEAM GERMANY: 1 (1)
SCOT RACING TEAM 250: 2
SPEEDUP APRILIA: 2
SPRINT TECNOLOGY RACING: 2
STOP AND GO RACING TEAM S.L.: 2
TEAM ROBERTS: 2
TECH 3: 2
VIESSMANN KIEFER RACING: 1 (1)
WTR SAN MARINO TEAM: 1
SUB TOTAL: 39 (6)
Reserve Teams:
MZ: 2
PROMORACING: 2
SUB TOTAL: 4

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