Elena Rosell’s world debut in Moto2 at Assen did not go at all well, the young female rider who comes from the CEV Extreme Stock championship crashed out heavily three times during the weekend, causing extensive damage to her bike. According to the Aspar team they were unable to makes all the repairs in time for qualifying, however the situation was pretty much moot because the few laps and times Rosell posted wouldn’t have allowed her to make the 107% qualifying cut.

However her presence on the grid sparked a mini GP version of the Spanish Civil War between two very famous and highly respected team managers; Sito Pons and Jorge ‘Aspar’ Martinez.

Pons openly criticized Martinez’decision to field Rosell as replacement for injured Julian Simon calling it a publicity stunt and that shouldn’t have been allowed.

Continue reading: Elena Rosell becomes the apple of discord between Martinez and Pons

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Super team owner Jorge ‘Aspar’ Martinez looks like his decided to play Pygmalion/Henry Higgins in fielding replacement riders while Julian Simon is recovering from his fractured tibia and fibula sustained during the Catalunya GP.

After choosing CEV Moto2 rider Jordi Torres for the British GP, who unfortunately DNF’d in the very wet race, Martinez has decided to give another rider a chance to debut internationally and this time has chosen a female racer, Elena Rosell for the upcoming Assen GP.

25-year-old Rosell currently races in Extreme Stock series of the CEV championship and fourth in the standings, will be the first woman to compete in a GP race since Katja Poensgen took part in the now defunct 250cc championship eight years ago.

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Jorge ‘Aspar’ Martinez for the second year running will have teams in all three classes in Grand Prix racing and yesterday at the “Casa Encendida” in Madrid officially presented his 2011 rider line-up and liveries.

Martinez is able to run six riders thanks to Mapfre who has doubled their sponsorship backing and the entry of Bankia, the new name of twelve Spanish savings banks that were fused together last November and is sponsoring Aspar’s 125cc team.

Continuing with Hector Barbera in MotoGP and in Moto2 with Julian Simon second in the 2010 overall standings, who is teamed up with Javier Fores, reigning CEV Stock Extreme champion who took part in three Moto2 wild card rides last season. In 125 on the Aprilia RSA’s will be Nico Terol, Hector Faubel and Adrian Martin, who recently was signed by the team.

“For the second consecutive year we are present in all classes of the Championship, I’m very proud of this. It’s a great challenge, we are all involved and we always give our best to move forward. We must say thanks to our sponsors as Mapfre, Spain’s leading insurance company and Bankia, the first national bank of Spain,” said Martinez. “I think that we will be successful in Moto2 and 125 in 2011 and we’re aiming at the titles, while in MotoGP with one year of experience we’re aiming for the top ten, and gaining the most points at every race and when possible, the top five. We are an all Spanish team with six riders, almost all of them from Valencia, it’s a great responsibility .”

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With the upcoming Moto2 championship season that will kick off on April 11th in Qatar, the Moto2 teams are starting to reveal their official liveries for the upcoming inaugural season.

Jorge ‘Aspar’ Martinez with Moto2 riders Julian Simon and Mike di Meglio unveiled this colour scheme on their RSV Moto2 bike.

Martinez is the only team manager to run squads in all three GP series. Besides Moto2, he also runs Banjaca Aprilia in 125cc with Nico Terol and Bradley Smith and the Paginas Amarillas Ducati MotoGP team with rookie rider Hector Barbera.

Moto2 teams will be at Jerez again this weekend for another two days of official tests.

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Julian Simon, the reigning 125cc World Champion and one of the hotly tipped riders to rule in Moto2, got the chance to test an evo version of Ducati Desmosedici GP10 the other day at Jerez.

With Vitto Guareschi in Qatar with the Ducati team for the final pre-season test and new test rider Franco Battaini out due to a wrist injury, the Ducati management decided to contact Julian Simon’s team manager Aspar Martinez to ask if the Spanish rider could carry out two days of testing. The test was overseen by Filippo Preziosi who wanted to prove once again that the Ducati isn’t a one rider bike.

Simon did 115 laps and a race simulation with a best lap of 1′41.4, only 1.6s from Valentino Rossi’s lap record on this track.

The Aspar Mapfre rider will be back on track with his RSV always at Jerez for the official Moto2 test scheduled for March 27-29th.

Source | as.com

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After Aprilia’s late decision to pullout from Moto2 that left several teams without a bike to use and needing to find last minute replacements, the Cardion AB Motoracing team that will line up Karel Abraham as their rider has decided to contest the new championship 2010 with Riccardo Drisaldi’s RSV Motor DR 600 M2.

Spanish manager Jorge ‘Aspar’ Martinez according to Spanish websiteAS, after testing five different bikes during the Valencia tests in December has narrowed down his choice for his Moto2 team between the German made Kalex and the RSV for World Champions Mike Di Meglio (2008) and Julian Simon (2009).

Martinez told AS : The decision will depend on the technical conditions, and Kalex has their close association with the Pons team going against them,” Martinez explained. “In contrast, RSV is just a manufacturer who can get fully involved with our team.”

Continue reading: Moto2 – RSV Motors chosen by Cardion AB Team, Team Aspar leaning towards same choice

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Julian Simon who was crowned the 2009 125cc World Championship last week at Phillip Island has confirmed that he’ll be riding with his present Aspar team, but in the new Moto2 series next season.

“Yes I will be in Moto2. I am happy to go to a new category again. Last year I came back to 125 and now I have the opportunity to go back up to Moto2. I hope I can stay strong, have a good bike and make the best of it. I’m really looking forward to learning to ride in a new category and especially to riding a four-stroke. Like everybody, one day I would like to reach MotoGP.”

Simon’s team mate Bradley Smith, who would like to move to Moto2 next year, has yet to decide if he’ll remain with Aspar in 125cc series or make the jump to Moto2.

Source | teamaspar

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