With only four races completed in the Moto2 championship, the axing has already started. The first rider to get chopped is Raffaele de Rosa.

De Rosa who hasn’t scored a point so far this season, will be replaced by 32-year old Spanish rider Carmelo Morales for the rest of the championship.

The news wasn’t exactly unexpected as Morales was called in to test Team G22’s Moriwaki during the private Moto2 test that was held at the Motorland Aragon circuit just the other day and now has been officially confirmed by the Nieto brothers, who need a high profile Spanish rider to satisfy their sponsors.

Nieto talking to the MotoGP.com website “There haven’t been any problems with Raffaele De Rosa and we’ll do everything to help him find a new team.” but the chances of De Rosa finding a new team are next to none.

Morales was a replacement rider in Moto2 for Pons Kalex and Racing Team Germany last season but is also Suter’s test rider for the 2012 Suter/BMW Moto1 bike and is currently leading the 2011 CEV Moto2 championship with Gigaset LaGlisse team. Morales has already two titles in CEV Extreme, two in the European Championship Superstock and won last year’s CEV Moto2 championship.

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More muscial chairs in Moto2. Carmelo Morales was a wild card for the Kalex Pons team during the Catalunya GP (he was 7th before his horrific crash made headlines) and now the 32-year old Spaniard has been called in by Moto2 Racing Team Germany for the final two rounds of the GP season.

Morales who won the European Supersport Championship on Sunday at Albacete, will be replacing Kazuki Watanabe, who in turn replaced Arne Tode in the team. It was Swiss manufacturer Eskil Suter who highly recommended the rider to the team, as Morales is currently points leader in the Spanish CEV with his Laglisse squad that uses a Suter chassis.

Dirk Heidolf’s team is currently off the 2011 provisional Moto2 entry list and needs a couple of decent results to try to get their application approved and Morales could be the rider get them into the top ten, something that the previous two riders were unable to accomplish.

Source | bikeracing.it

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Carmelo Morales is better known is Spain as a CEV rider and this weekend he was called in to replace injured Axel Pons in the Pons Kalex Moto2 team for the Catalunya round.

Now Morales has become famous worldwide after this horrific looking accident, when trying to slipstream Kenny Noyes over the finish line, he clipped the American’s rear tire and he and his bike were launched into the air. Morales was hit twice by his machine, which then flew into the catch-fencing on the finish line.

Amazingly enough, the Spaniard ended up with only heavy bruising and thanking his lucky star for his back protector.

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