Yesterday at the Ledenon circuit in the south of France, finally saw the first debut on a race track of Tech3’s Moto2 bike. The chassis was designed and built by chief engineer Guy Coulon who switched from Yamaha Tech3 MotoGP team to Moto2.

Instead of the official riders, Yuki Takahashi and Raffaele de Rosa doing the shakedown, the bike was ridden by French rider Florian Marino. The shakedown didn’t last very long because the bike suffered an elettrical problem that will be resolved before the official tests on December 9th at Valencia.

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Daniele Romagnoli, Jorge Lorenzo’s ex-team manager has found a home in Herve Poncharal’s Moto2 team, Tech3.

Romagnoli made the shock announcement at the Sepang GP citing that he wanted to return to the more technical aspects in a team.

The French Manager has hired 250cc rider Raffaele DeRosa (and Marco Simoncelli’s close friend) and will see the return to racing of Yuki Takahashi, who was axed from Scot Racing’s MotoGP team in favour of Gabor Talmacsi.

Romagnoli will crew chief for DeRosa, while Gary Reynders, the apple of discord between Colin Edwards and James Toseland has been moved to the Moto2 team to make room for Ben Spies crew chief, Tom Houseword.

Houseworth has been with Spies since his days in Yoshimura Suzuki (AMA) and followed the Amercian rider to WSBK’s and now in MotoGP. Spies has also brought to Tech3 his mechanic Gregory Wood.

Photo by Motogp.com

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