Aspar Racing Team

Aspar Racing Team
2017 name	MotoGP – Pull & Bear Aspar Team Moto3 – Pull & Bear Aspar Mahindra Team
Base	Spain
Principal	Jorge Martínez
Rider(s)	MotoGP: 17. Karel Abraham 19. Àlvaro Bautista Moto3: 12. Albert Arenas 48. Lorenzo Dalla Porta
Motorcycle	MotoGP – Ducati Moto3 – Mahindra
Riders' Championships	4 125 cc – Álvaro Bautista (2006) 125 cc – Gábor Talmácsi (2007) 125 cc – Julián Simón (2009) 125 cc – Nicolás Terol (2011)

Aspar Racing Team is a Grand Prix motorcycle racing team from Spain, currently competing in the MotoGP and Moto3 World Championships.

History

The team was created by former world champion Jorge Martínez in 1992, when he was still riding a Honda RS125R. For 1993 Martínez expanded his operations into the 250cc class debuting with Juan Borja. For the next two seasons the Aspar team switched to Yamaha TZ125 bikes leaving the 250cc division. In 1996 Aspar started an 18-year relationship with Aprilia; in those years he fielded riders like Fonsi Nieto and Arnaud Vincent before entering the 250cc class again, in 2000 with Alex Debón. Between 2006 and 2011 the Aspar team won four World Championship titles in the 125cc class with Álvaro Bautista, Gábor Talmácsi, Julián Simón and Nicolás Terol. Riders that competed with the team in the 250cc class included Toni Elías, Alex de Angelis, Sebastián Porto and Randy de Puniet.

In the 2010 season the Aspar team entered the MotoGP class with Héctor Barberá, who finished in twelfth place aboard a Ducati Desmosedici GP10. Simón finished in second place in the inaugural Moto2 campaign, with teammate Mike Di Meglio finishing in twentieth place. Both riders started the season on Honda-powered RSV Motors frames, switching to a Suter chassis after two races. Nicolás Terol finished in second place in the 125cc class while his teammate Bradley Smith finished fourth, both riding Aprilia RSA 125 motorcycles.

Barberá remained with the team for 2011, recording a best result of 6th at the Spanish Grand Prix. The team expanded to two bikes in 2012, switching from Ducati to ART. Aleix Espargaró and Randy de Puniet dominated the recently created CRT (Claiming Rule Teams) class for two straight years. In 2014, Aspar entered two Honda bikes, after hiring former World Champion Nicky Hayden to partner Hiroshi Aoyama. The duo scored points regularly, but Espargaró claimed a 3rd straight title in the CRT class with Forward Racing. Irishman Eugene Laverty joined the team in 2015, the last year for Hayden in the World Championship before switching to the Superbike World Championship.

MotoGP results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Bike	Tyres	Riders	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Points	Pos.
2010	Ducati Desmosedici GP10	B		QAT	ESP	FRA	ITA	GBR	NED	CAT	GER	USA	CZE	IND	SMR	ARA	JPN	MAL	AUS	POR	VAL	90	9th
2010	Ducati Desmosedici GP10	B	Héctor Barberá	12	13	8	12	11	12	10	9	Ret	9	10	9	11	13	11	14	10	8	90	9th
2011	Ducati Desmosedici GP11	B		QAT	ESP	POR	FRA	CAT	GBR	NED	ITA	GER	USA	CZE	IND	SMR	ARA	JPN	AUS	MAL	VAL	82	7th
			Héctor Barberá	12	6	Ret	9	11	11	12	7	11	9	10	Ret	9	8	Ret		C	11
			Damian Cudlin																DNS
2012	ART GP12	B		QAT	ESP	POR	FRA	CAT	GBR	NED	GER	ITA	USA	IND	CZE	SMR	ARA	JPN	MAL	AUS	VAL	136	6th
			Randy de Puniet	13	Ret	13	Ret	15	12	8	11	12	11	Ret	8	9	11	Ret	Ret	11	12
			Aleix Espargaró	15	12	12	13	13	11	Ret	13	13	9	10	10	Ret	10	12	8	10	11
2013	ART GP13	B		QAT	AME	ESP	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GER	USA	IND	CZE	GBR	SMR	ARA	MAL	AUS	JPN	VAL	129	7th
			Randy de Puniet	12	14	Ret	Ret	11	Ret	12	12	Ret	Ret	15	16	17	13	12	10	13	Ret
			Aleix Espargaró	11	11	9	13	8	8	8	8	Ret	12	10	10	13	11	9	11	Ret	11
2014	Honda RCV1000R	B		QAT	AME	ARG	ESP	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GER	IND	CZE	GBR	SMR	ARA	JPN	AUS	MAL	VAL	116	9th
			Leon Camier										Ret	15	16	16
			Nicky Hayden	8	11	11	11	Ret	DNS	12	17	14					9	14	10	Ret	13
			Hiroshi Aoyama	11	12	10	12	14	14	15	16	12	10	13	14	12	8	13	8	11
	Honda RC213V-S		Hiroshi Aoyama																		15
2015	Honda RC213V-S	B		QAT	AME	ARG	ESP	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GER	IND	CZE	GBR	SMR	ARA	JPN	AUS	MAL	VAL	25	12th
			Eugene Laverty	18	16	17	18	14	15	12	Ret	17	19	Ret	17	19	14	17	19	19	Ret
			Nicky Hayden	17	13	16	17	11	Ret	Ret	16	16	16	17	12	17	15	13	Ret	16	17
2016	Ducati Desmosedici GP14	M		QAT	ARG	AME	ESP	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GER	AUT	CZE	GBR	SMR	ARA	JPN	AUS	MAL	VAL	97	10th
			Eugene Laverty	12	4	12	9	11	13	13	7	11	18	6	12	14	14	Ret	14	12	16
			Yonny Hernández	Ret	Ret	14	15	Ret	16	17	Ret	18	17	11	11	16	16	12	13	Ret	Ret

* Season still in progress.

External links

Official website

Teams and riders competing in the 2016 MotoGP World Championship

Ducati Team	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Avintia Racing	Octo Pramac Yakhnich	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Repsol Honda Team

04 Dovizioso 29 Iannone	6 Bradl 19 Bautista	8 Barberá 51 Pirro	45 Redding 9 Petrucci	25 Viñales 41 A. Espargaró	26 Pedrosa 93 Márquez

LCR Honda	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Aspar Team MotoGP

35 Crutchlow	38 Smith 44 P. Espargaró	43 Miller 53 Rabat	46 Rossi 99 Lorenzo	50 Laverty 68 Hernández

Other riders who have competed: 76 Baz (Avintia Racing)

Aspar Racing Team

MotoGP: Eugene Laverty (50) Yonny Hernández (68)

Moto3: Francesco Bagnaia (21) Jorge Martín (88)

Grand Prix motorcycles : Ducati Desmosedici (MotoGP) Mahindra MGP3O (Moto3)

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