If your name isn’t Valentino Rossi or Jorge Lorenzo, finding a personal sponsor to back you is tough going, especially if you think that many riders support their own rides living off their helmet, leather and boot money, and such is the case of French rider Valentine Debise.

Debise who’ll be racing for Moto2 SpeedUp team this season, needs support and is asking his fans to help him out, and since necessity is the mother of ingenuity, has come up with this pretty unique idea.

For the sum of 2053 euros you can see your own name stamped on the front of his leathers for one GP race, alongwith 2 tickets to one of the European GP races of your choice, paddock pass with a guided tour by Debise in the SpeedUp team garage and a year subscription to MotoGP.com (video and live timing) and the usual personalized T-shirts.

If 2053 euros is a little too steep for your pockets, Debise is offering other items at lesser prices to members of his I Love VD53 P’tit Gaz’ support club. Check out his website here.

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This isn’t the official FTR Moto M210 in the photo, but Hungarian rider Gabor Talmacsi who is posing with his new Spidi leathers that he’ll be wearing in this year’s Moto2 championship. If the leathers are black and gold, we can expect that Luca Boscoscuro’s Moto2 Speedup team will have the same coloured livery.

Talmacsi who will race with #2, will be on track with the other Moto2 teams for two days (February 11th and 12th) of testing at Valencia and then in Barcelona from February 15th to 17th.

Source | talma

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Apparently Honda is not happy seeing one of their MotoGP bikes always arrive last on the grid and Gabor Talmacsi lack of competitiveness so HRC has vetoed any contract renewal between Talmacsi and Scot Racing.

Talmacsi made a surprise move to MotoGP after splitting up with Aspar Martinez Balatonring 250cc team after just three threes over image rights. The Hungarian rider backed by MOL, a Hungarian oil company debuted with Scot Racing at the sixth round of championship riding Yuki Takahashi’s spare bike.

It took exactly two races before Takahashi got the axe from the team, who preferred Talmacsi with his petroleum money lined leathers. The rider is currently 17th in the standings with 17 points.

Talmacsi now seems to be headed lock, stock and sponsor to Moto2 with Luca Boscoscuro’s Speedup Team alongside 125cc rider Andrea Iannone who has already signed with the new squad.

This could leave the last remaining MotoGP ride open to Alex DeAngelis. The Sammarinese rider is still working on getting sponsorship money from his government and Dorna could have an all Republic of San Marino team on the grid, as Cirano Mularoni’s Scot Racing is based in the tiny country.

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