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Roberto Rolfo returns to Moto2 with Technomag-CIP team
After spending a year in World Superbikes with Kawasaki Pedercini and finishing a disappointed 18th in the championship, veteran rider Roberto Rolfo will be returning to Moto2 championship in 2012 with Technomag-CIP.
Roby will be joining Dominque Aegerter, and the team will again be fielding a Suter as they have in the past two seasons. ‘Roby’ knows well the Suter MMX, as he helped develop the machine back in 2009 and in 2010 won the Sepang GP and a took a podium at Sachsenring on the Suter when he was riding for the Italtrans Racing Team.
Technomag-CIP will also be fielding riders Alan Techer and Kenta Fuji in the 2012 Moto3 championship who will riding TSR Honda’s
Roberto Rolfo breaks knee in bicycle accident
Roberto Rolfo who celebrated his 100th World Superbike presence at Magny Cours last weekend has broken his kneecap.
The Pedercini rider was out training with his bicycle on Monday and fell sustaining a compound fracture to his left patella (kneecap). The Italian has already undergone surgery and will miss the last round of the World Superbike season at Portimao next weekend.
Rolfo returned to WSBK racing this year and is currently 18th in the standings, and at the moment there is no news whether Pedercini will find a replacement rider.
Source | bikeracing.it
Roberto Rolfo reveals 2011 Pedercini livery
Roberto Rolfo through his official website has revealed the livery that Pedercini SBK team will be using to contest in the 2011 championship.
The livery on the ZX-10R is the classic Kawasaki green, with some black and white detailing in this fourth year that Pedercini has been using the Ninja.
Next week the team will be at Phillip Island for official testing before the season opener with Rolfo, and Australian stars Mark Aitchson and wild card rider Bryan Staring, who is under contract with the Italian team in the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup.
Roberto Rolfo to ride with Pedercini WSBK team
After spending half of 2009 riding a Moto2 in the Spanish CEV with Siemens Gigaset Laglisse team and taking part in the inaugural Moto2 championship with S.T.R, Italtrans team, Roberto Rolfo is returning to the big bikes and the World Superbike Championship with the Pedercini team.
Roberto Rolfo will ride the new ZX-10R in 2011 and it looks like Kawasaki believes in their new machine and it will finally make a difference on the grid.
Roberto Rolfo :“I’m really very happy to return to the Superbike championship. My three years’ experience in this fascinating and competitive championship was unforgettable and I will try my best to improve my preceding results. I immediately established a good feeling with the entire Pedercini family. They are reputable professionals and we are on the same wavelength concerning next year’s targets. I decided to leave Moto2 because I’m eager to ride the new Kawasaki ZX10R and take advantage of all its great power. It feels grand to be back in Superbike and I’m determined to put a good season together next year. I’m looking forward to testing the new bike very soon and getting familiar with it while also getting to better know my new team. This will be my very first time on a Kawasaki bike”.
Moto2 Sepang: Roberto Rolfo wins, Toni Elias takes Championship Title
An all Italian speaking podium saw Roberto Rolfo win his first race in Moto2 and Toni Elias nab the the first ever Moto2 championship title with a fourth place finish after title rival Julian Simon made two huge mistakes and definitely handing the title to Elias in Sepang.
Rolfo, who won his last race in 2004 was able to take the win for his S.T.R, Italtrans team (and not included in next year’s Moto2 entry list) after battling it out with Alex de Angelis who took the second spot on the podium after just four races with the JiR racing team.
Elias also battled it out for the third spot on the podium with Andrea Iannone finally prevailing, but the Spanish rider was already the world champion with seven race wins and a second place podium and giving Fausto Gresini his second title after Daijiro Kato’s 2001 title in 250cc.
Continue reading: Moto2 Sepang: Roberto Rolfo wins, Toni Elias takes Championship Title
Moto2: Shoya Tomizawa on Top at Montmelò
After the first day of Moto2 testing at Montmelò that was virtually a washout due to bad weather, today it was sunny and cold, and full of spills.
The morning session saw several riders fall including Roberto Rolfo who dislocated his left shoulder and was shipped off to the Dexeus Clinic where it was put back into place and received a prognosis of 4 weeks, which will cut his testing short and he could also miss the upcoming tests in Valencia.
Alex Debon also crashed and may have fractured his left collarbone and Julian Simon (Mapfre Aspar), Thomas Luthi (Interwetten Moriwaki Racing), Fonsi Nieto (G22 HolidayGym), Raffaele De Rosa (Tech3) also went through crashes, but fortunately with no serious consequences.
It was Shoya Tomizawa (Technomag-CIP ) who set the fastest lap of the day, posting a best time of 1’49.4 followed by Jules Cluzel (Forward Racing) and Yonny Hérnandez (Blusens-STX), who both posted a 1’49.6.
Moto2 Valencia Test
While WSBK was testing in Valencia, six Moto2 teams were also on track, however their test times are more difficult to interpret as all the teams had different kitted and tuned Honda engines.
Anthony West posted the fastest times on both days of testing, but even if the bike was branded MZ, West was riding the same Honda SS that he used during 2009 season because MZ bought the bike directly from Stiggy Racing.
Italtrans’ Robert Rolfo was second fastest also on both days, taking advantage of the fact he has already used the Suter bike, but with a Yamaha engine in the Spanish CEV.
Julian Simon rode the Spanish BQR with a best time this morning of 1’37”8, while this afternoon he tried the Pons Kalex with lap time of 1’38”2 which will probably give Aspar Martinez, who is still hoping of getting Aprilia to give him their abandoned chassis, a better idea of what chassis he could eventually use.
Roberto Rolfo Back on Track
Wondering what happened to Roberto Rolfo after he got axed by WSBK team Stiggy Honda to make room for John Hopkins?
The Italian rider is going to be back on track with the Siemens Gigaset Laglisse team to take part in the remaining rounds of CEV, the Spanish championship. Rolfo will be riding the new Moto 2.
The motorcycle mounts a Swiss chassis, built by the specialist Suter; the engine is a Yamaha, but the team is waiting to mount the official Honda engine, the sole supplier for the new Moto2 championship that will be part of the next World Motorcycle Championship 2010.
This is the same motorcycle that Rolfo has been developing in these last months. Rolfo has also been choosen by Dunlop to develop a tyre for this new racing class. A series of tests are already scheduled on the Dunlop private circuit, at Miraval, in the South of France.
News about Roberto Rolfo
What’s Roberto Rolfo former WSBK rider doing after he got the axe from Stiggy Honda who dropped him for John Hopkins? He’s got a new manager and is thinking of competing in the Moto 2 CEV championship next year.
Fabio Barchitta, former 250cc World Championship rider and owner of Fastback, an agency that has been working in MotoGP for many years, has taken under his management the Vice World Class 250cc Roberto Rolfo.
Fabio is going to follow Roberto as a manager for the next two years and has already started working in order to give the pilot the possibility to return as soon as possible on track.
Roberto, after the anticipated completion of the 2009 Superbike season, due to sponsors reasons, is now fully confident about the competence and expertise of Fabio.
The path, recommended by Barchitta and shared by the pilot, passes through the Moto2 Spanish Championship (CEV) this year, up to the new category of MotoGP, the MOTO2, which is at its debut next year.
Roberto Rolfo after the Stiggy Honda Axe
Roberto Rolfo who was axed by Stiggy Honda to make room for ex MotoGP rider John Hopkins has finally decided to talk and gave this interview to Italian website SBK Point with his side of the story:
Roby, this has really been a big and terrible surprise for all your fans and all Italian Superbike fans. We’d like to know if you knew that the team was negotiating with John Hopkins or was it a surprise?
“It was a horrible surprise, a really horrible surprise, like a lightning bolt in a clear sky”.
“Before the begining of the season, during the tests in Portimao, I was having problems with my shoulder and I couldn’t ride. Dr. Porcellini, who is a shoulder specialist and operates riders gave me some good news, he told me that I didn’t need an operation and that he could guarantee that with proper therapy, I’d be back in 100% shape.”
In John Hopkins, Out Roberto Rolfo
After the official announcement that John Hopkins would be joining the Stiggy Racing Honda Team from the third round of the Superbike Championship at Valencia, many fans were wondering if the team would put another bike on the grid or if Hopkins would take Roberto Rolfo’s place as past rumors had been saying.
Even this rumor has turned out to be true, because Roberto Rolfo has been fired to make room for Hopkins, the reason being a conflict of sponsorship contracts.
Roberto Rolfo:
“With great sadness I have taken notice of the fact that the team and its sponsors have expressed their wishes for another rider to support the team. Based on this outcome, I have decided to end my collaboration with the team.”
“I would like to thank my mechanics who have supported me in this short season. I would also like to emphasise the decision, as to prevent any miscommunication, has nothing to do with my physical condition, which is perfect at the moment, but is entirely based on reasons beyond my influence.”
Confirmed: John Hopkins to ride for Stiggy Honda
The rumors that were having John Hopkins in Stiggy Honda’s WSBK team after Kawasaki’s pullout from MotoGP have finally been confirmed today, when Hopper’s agent Bob Moore confirmed to Roadracing World that the 25 year old Anglo-Californian will riding a Stiggy Honda CBR1000RR in the World Superbike Championship and will begin with the next round in Valencia, the weekend of April 3-5.
Hopkins will make his World Superbike debut alongside new teammates Leon Haslam and Roberto Rolfo and will test prior to the first race at Almeria in Spain that the Anglo-Californian will riding a Stiggy Honda CBR1000RR in the World Superbike Championship and will begin with the next round in Valencia the weekend of April 3-5.
Source | roadracingworld
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