The San Carlo Honda Gresini team chose the Galleria del Vento (wind tunnel) at the headquarters of the Polytechnic University of Milan to host the presentation of the MotoGP, CRT and Moto3 projects for the 2012 season. The ambitious project has the motto “Technology and Passion” which summarizes the team’s philosophy for this new adventure. Fausto Gresini and Alberto Vitaloni commence the challenge with energy and enthusiasm and a vision to build a project based on the present and the future of motorcycling.

2012 sees the interests of the team diversified in many directions: Álvaro Bautista will race in MotoGP with the Honda RC213V, Michele Pirro will be responsible for the FTR with the Honda CBR1000 RR engine tuned by Ten Kate in the CRT category and Niccolò Antonelli will be riding the NSF250R in Moto3.

“Technology and Passion is the perfect combination and remains the driving force behind the project we are doing with the Gresini team. From here a new season begins and we are proud to continue a collaboration that has given us much excitement in recent years. We want to continue on behalf of Marco (Simoncelli), because I’m sure he would have wanted it that way. I hope the choice we made will bring us new successes,” said Alberto Vitaloni President of San Carlo

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Fausto Gresini has decided to field teenager (he’s just 15) Niccolò Antonelli as one of his riders next season in the inaugural Moto3 GP championship.

Niccolò is the son of former Italian CIV rider Igor Antonelli, who also had a couple of wildcard rides in 125cc and 250cc class back in the late ’90s and the youngster is also this year’s 125cc CIV champion winning the title in the last race of the season at Mugello by pipping Romano Fenati by just 0.019s and two points.

Gresini said he chose Antonelli because “he’s a very promising rider that dreams like Marco [Simoncelli] did.”

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