It has been finally confirmed that Jorge “Aspar” Martinez will get his MotoGP team for 2010.

Martinez has been trying to to add MotoGP to his stable of racing teams and in these last three years has been knocking on all the manufacturers doors to do it and his last chance was Ducati who has decided to give him the bikes he wanted for 2010. Speculation has it that he could also pick up the now defunct Francisco Hernandez team from the the Nieto brothers starting at Brno and finish the 2009 season.

More news about who will be Martinez’s rider as soon as we get it.

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Jorge “Aspar” Martinez and Gábor Talmácsi held a press conference yesterday in Budapest to confirm that he and Talmácsi were unable to reach a common agreement on communication and media rights in Hungary that caused the Hungarian rider to pull out of the Le Mans race. The former 2007 125cc World Champion who won with Martinez will no longer ride with the Balatonring Team and is out of series and no other ride waiting for him.

Martinez had offered Talmácsi a further year under contract and more involvement in the team and the Balatonring circuit that is being built near Balaton Lake and should be finally ready to host MotoGP in 2010.

Both parties emphasized that the “divorce” was a friendly one.

Martinez has hired Nemeth Balazs, a twenty year old rider from Budapest for the Mugello race.

After the jump, Martinez’s comments from the press conference:

Continue reading: Martinez vs Talmacsi: "Divorce" finalized

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Jorge “Aspar” Martinez is going to try again to break into the MotoGP top class in 2010 and this time with rider 250cc rider Alvaro Bautista.

Martinez has previously tried with Suzuki and Kawasaki. The deal with Kawasaki fell through when the manufacturer refused to supply a third bike unless the Spanish manager put Shinya Nakano on the bike, which was naturally unacceptable to Martinez’s sponsor who needs a Spanish rider to push their products.

Aspar had this to say:

“For the last two years I’ve included in my contract with sponsor Mapfre, a written option for MotoGP and they’re willing to add another two million euros and despite this I’ve haven’t been able to move to the MotoGP because there aren’t enough bikes. A larger number of bikes on the grid could also lower riders salaries.”

“The answer could be a 5th Yamaha. I know that Furusawa said at Sepang that even with the one bike rule in 2010, they would continue to supply only 4 bikes but I don’t think this is Yamaha’s final answer. The most important thing is that the project has to start now and it’s the moment to present it to our sponsor. Carmelo Ezpeleta has promised that by Motegi, the MSMA will have found an agreement.”

Source | solomoto

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Just last week in Sepang, the Jorge Martinez deal to lease a Kawasaki ZX-RR for 2009 MotoGP season fell through after lengthy negotiations. The deal mainly failed due to the fact that Martinez and his Spanish sponsors were willing to back only a Spanish rider, while Kawasaki were insisting that that the “Aspar” team take on Shinya Nakano as their rider.

Now according to the Italian website Racergp.com it seems that Kawasaki may apparently field their own third factory bike, with indiscretions seemingly coming from a company that says they have received a further order from Kawasaki to supply additional extra parts. So we may hopefully see Nakano on a Kawasaki next year.

Source | Racergp.com

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