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Toni Elias and Nicol Terol in Mapfre commercial
Mapfre is the leading insurance company in Spain and they are the title sponsor’s of Aspar’s Moto2 racing team that fields the last 125cc World Champion Nico Terol and 2010 Moto2 World Champion Toni Elias.
You can check out the company’s newest commercial that was broadcasted on Spanish TV during the Jerez GP above, but we actually prefer the one after the jump, that has Spanish racing legends Angel Nieto and Jorge ‘Aspar’ Martinez up against a gang of thugs.
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Valencia circuit to name corner after 125cc World Champion Nico Terol
The Comunitat Valenciana Ricardo Tormo Circuit will name one of its corners as the new 125cc World Champion, Nico Terol, who achieved the title in the last MotoGP Grand Prix held at the Valencia Circuit.
“Besides being a great rider, Nico demonstrates every day the values we try to instill in young people in our school, sacrifice, humility, perseverance, teamwork … all that with his immense talent has taken him to the top,” stated Julio Garcia, CEO of the circuit.
Terol will now have to chose the corner that will bear his name, “We do not know what corner to choose, but the important thing is that it is a great honor to have a corner in the track right where I started my career and where I was proclaimed champion”
The World Champion began his motorcycling career at the Circuit’s School and is the fourth Valencian rider who became a World Champion after Ricardo Tormo, Jorge Martínez Aspar and Champi Herreros.
Source | motogp.com
Toni Elias to ride for Aspar Moto2 team in 2012
Toni Elias will be riding for Aspar’s Moto2 team next season.
For Elias it will be a return to the middle class after winning the 2010 Moto2 championship and a very difficult 2011 season with LCR Honda, and it will also be a return to Jorge Martinez team. Elias rode for Martinez in the 2002 and 2003 250cc championships on a Aprilia with Telefonica and Repsol colours.
Elias will be fielded with the already confirmed 125cc World Champion Nico Terol, which means that recently signed Aleix Espargaro will now be promoted to ride one of Aspar’s Aprilia CRTs.
“I’m really delighted to return to the Aspar Team which is like a family to me because I was there in 2002 and 2003,” said Elias. “Many years have passed since then but I’ll work with the same technical team, and I know they have great potential. Added to that is the fact the bike is very strong. We’ll work extremely hard throughout the winter to be ready for next season, and I think we can have a very good campaign. We fought for the title together in 2003 and in the end we weren’t able to get it, so we have unfinished business there. This is an added motivation to fight for the title in 2012.”
Jorge Martínez ‘Aspar’, Team Owner: “I’m extremely happy to welcome Toni Elías to the Aspar Team. We still have great memories of his time in the team in 2002 and 2003. With regards to Nico, it’s fantastic that he makes the step up to Moto2. It’s a completely new category for him, and as such all he has to do is enjoy every moment and work hard so that he learns and moves forward. I’m convinced he’ll do well because he’s a World Champion, irrespective of what category he is in. We have a really strong line-up, and the Aspar team will continue to be at the highest level next season.”
Nico Terol is the 2011 125cc World Champion as Maverick Vinale wins the race at Valencia
It was a tall order for Johann Zarco to try to beat Nico Terol for the last ever 125cc championship title and unfortunately the rider crashed out on lap 3 and couldn’t rejoin the race after cutting open his right little finger, thus giving the title to the Spaniardwho was sixth at that moment and needed just a tenth place finish to take the crown.
The race in itself was a crash fest due to the intermittent rain, but Maverick Vinales won the race scoring his fourth victory in his 2011 rookie season. The Paris Hilton (yes, she was there Tweeting her heart away) Blusens rider celebrated his victory with a Marco Simoncelli dedicated flag as the Bankia Aspar team celebrated both Terol’s title and two podium finishes with Terol a distant second and Hector Faubel in third.
The gaps between riders were immense as Ajo riders Efren Vazquez (AvantAir Asia and Jonas Folger (Red Bull Motorsport) finished in fourth and fifth respectively, followed by Alberto Moncayo in sixth. Luis Salom took seventh, while Nicklas Ajo was more than a minute off pace with his 8th spot, and Luigi Morciano and Louis Rossi closed out the top ten.
Aspar Racing riders take a field trip to a nuclear power plant
Almost every rider in the GP paddock has more or less decided to go to Motegi (of their own free will?) and since knowing about radiation, nuclear plants isn’t part of a professional rider’s cultural baggage, Jorge ‘Aspar’ Martinez decided to qualm his teams fears by taking several members on a day field trip to the Cofrentes nuclear power plant in Spain.
MotoGP’s Héctor Barberá and 125cc riders Nico Terol and Adrián Martín were present, and everyone got a lesson on the inner workings of a nuclear plant and were told by the plant’s experts why there is no health risk involved in travelling and staying in Japan and everyone got to ask questions so any last doubts and fears could be finally laid to rest ahead of the Japanese GP.
Field trips just like in junior high …
Source | asparracing@facebook.com
Nico Terol dominates 125cc race at Aragon
Nico Terol took his eighth 125cc victory of the season today at a wind swept Motorland Aragon circuit. The Spaniard got the hole shot from his pole-sitting team mate Hector Faubel and at the end of the first lap there was no story for the rest of the field, because Terol would cross over the finish line with a dominating 6.771s lead.
Title rival Johann Zarco took second with his slower Ajo Derbi RSA, after a battle with Faubel that lasted for several laps until the Faubel lost control and crashed out at the final corner of the last lap, awarding Maverick Vinales the third spot on the podium.
While Vinales rode to a lonely third place, the battle for fourth became a humdinger, with five riders wanting the position. Luis Salom, Efren Vazquez, Sandro Cortese, Danny Kent and Alberto Moncayo gave up an entertaing knock out, drag out fight with Luis Salom finishing ahead Vazquez and Cortese and these last two were so close over the finish line that the positions were decided by a photo finish.
Danny Kent ended up in seventh followed by Alberto Moncayo. Closing out the top ten were Adrian Martin and Jonas Folgar.
Only 21 riders finished the race which saw numerous crashes. Aprilia took home the 2011 constructors title which wasn’t hard considering that they supply most of the 125cc grid.
How to lose a 125cc race at Misano (w/video)
If you watched the 125cc race at Misano Sunday morning you probably ended up saying, “WTF is he doing?” and then calling him a pratt, idiot, stupid and left wondering what 21-year old Johann Zarco was thinking in those final meters when he looked back (twice) at Nico Terol and then egged or waved him on with his hand instead of tucking in, opening wide the throttle and going for the finish line.
The French rider was beaten by just 0.022s and it was another race to add to the list of his 2011 frustrations despite the fact that he holds second place in the standings. He lost a first place when he was slapped with a post-race penalty at Catalunya, he lost a tie-break at Sachsenring with Terol, and then lost a last last lap, last turn battle at Brno against Sandro Cortese.
Zarco is now 31 points from the Bankia Aspar rider.
125cc Indianapolis: Nico Terol wins with a big margin
Nico Terol confirmed that Indianapolis is one of his favourite tracks by winning the 125cc race with a big margin and almost uncontested for the entire 23 lap race and taking his sixth win of the season.
The Aspar Aprilia rider literally out rode everyone in the first laps while breaking the 125cc circuit record previously held by Marc Marquez on his third lap and building up more than a 10 second lead and then easily administered his enormous advantage to literally cruise under the chequered flag with a comfortable 3.633s lead.
A three-way battle for second went to Maverick Vinales who found his hands full early on with Johan Zarco. the two exchanged positions several times until the French rider had a big moment on lap 15 which gave the Spanish rookie some breathing space as Zarco dropped back to seventh, but Vinales wasn’t out of the woods as he ended up battling with Sandro Cortese and Blusen’s team mate Sergio Gadea trying to join the fray.
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Catalunya 125cc: Nico Terol wins after Zarco receives penalty
Nico Terol took his fourth victory in this 125cc season at Catalunya after Johann Zarco was penalized with a 20 second ride-through after he passed Terol in what the Race Direction considered an ‘illegal overtake’ at the exit of the final turn.
Terol and Zarco battled in the final laps of the race and when they got to the final corner Zarco leaned in and slightly elbowed the Aspar Aprilia rider pushing him over the the white line and onto the grass, finishing first under the flag.
But with the Simoncelli and Pedrosa controversy still fresh and not wanting to seem biased, the Race Direction immediately announced an investigation and with the riders at the parc ferme it was announced that Zarco had been penalized which dropped him to fifth in the race standings giving Terol the win and promoting Jonas Folger to third.
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