Elena Rosell was the apple of discord between Sito Pons and Aspar Martinez, after Martinez decided to field the 25-year old as a replacement rider for injured Julian Simon during the Assen GP. Her Moto2 debut was disastrous as she crashed out three times and didn’t make the qualifying cut, but the powerful Spanish manager believed in her and her train and take part in the last three rounds of the CEV Moto2 championship with Team Laglisse (sponsored by Aspar), and had her wildcard at the Aragon and Valencia GPs where she finished 33rd and 25th, respectively.

Spanish website Marca.com is reporting that Rosell will now dispute the 2012 Moto2 season full time with the Qatar Motor & Motorcycle Federation Racing Team (QMMF) and replace Qatari rider Mashel Al Naimi.

It isn’t the first time that the Qatari Motorcycle Federation promotes a female rider, infact they helped Paola Cazzola, Nina Prinz and Nikolett Kovacs race in the Superstock category with a Suzuki GSX-R run by Qatar Endurance Racing Team (QERT) during last month’s Losail round of the QTEL FIM Endurance championship.

Rosell will now be joining the likes of Katja Poensgen, Nikoletta Kovacs and Marketa Janakova, all of whom have competed at a World Championship level.

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Elena Rosell will be getting another chance to race in Moto2 when the GP circus hits the Motorland Aragon circuit September 18th.

Jorge ‘Aspar’ Martinez promised the female rider at the end of her unfortunate debut at Assen another opportunity, and in order to have her much better prepared this time round, will have her testing on one of the team’s Suter MMXI before the Aragon GP in order for her to get used to this type of chassis.

Elena Rosell: “I’m happy about this new opportunity that the team is giving me. I have to say that from the day after Assen we’ve been working on this possibility, and have to thank Jorge Aspar and the team for the help they have and are giving me. I’ve raced at Alcañiz twice and I hope to get to the GP with a lot of mileage on the Suter, which will help me. Jorge Martinez has been following me all this time and even came to the CEV race at Albacete to wish me luck. And he brought me luck, because the race was great! Thanks to Jorge, the MAPFRE Aspar Team and my sponsors for this new opportunity and the chance to turn around what happened at Assen. ”

We wonder if Sito Pons will offer his unsolicited opinion on Martinez’s choices or if Chicho Lorenzo (Jorge’s father) will also have more to say about Rosell on his blog.

(Many thanks to Kumo for the tip about Lorenzo’s dad )

Source | motocuatro.com

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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.

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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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