Aspar has linked up with the MIR Racing Cup in Spain to additional its involvement within the growth of younger riders.
The MIR Racing Cup will now be renamed to the MIR Racing Aspar Cup because of the merge, which additionally has involvement from the Circuit Ricardo Tormo, the house of the Valencian MotoGP.
The MIR Racing Cup is a championship for younger riders that options a number of classes: Minimoto, Alevin 90, GP10, GP12, Moto5, and Promo3. It’s structured in a method that’s supposed for riders to progress from Minimoto to the Promo3 class earlier than shifting onto a category like Moto4 within the ESBK sequence on full-size tracks.
Aspar’s intention is to strengthen the construction that exists inside MIR already, and it says it would keep the prevailing scholarship system to scale back the price of shifting via the sequence’ classes for championship-winning riders.
Aspar additionally says it would “strengthen” MIR’s “expertise identification and promotion programme” in order that riders are judged based mostly not solely on their on-track efficiency but in addition “their technical progress, bodily preparation, and aggressive mindset”.
With Aspar’s present groups within the European Expertise Cup, JuniorGP, and within the Moto3 and Moto2 World Championships, younger riders who go to MIR and excel there now, theoretically, have a transparent pathway to the World Championship with Aspar.
“Grassroots motorcycling is the guts of our sport,” stated Jorge Martínez ‘Aspar’, Aspar Staff CEO.
“If we wish to see new champions sooner or later, we should spend money on their growth from the bottom.
“With the MIR Racing Cup and the Circuit Ricardo Tormo, we share the identical imaginative and prescient: to create an actual and accessible pathway from minibikes to the World Championship. This partnership will enable younger riders to develop with construction, values, and clear targets, inside knowledgeable surroundings that prepares them to achieve the highest.”
Daniel Antón, Normal Supervisor of the MIR Racing Cup, added: “Our purpose has all the time been to supply actual alternatives to riders. With this partnership, the dream of reaching MotoGP from the grassroots stage is extra alive than ever: this alliance with the Aspar Staff and the Circuit Ricardo Tormo is the definitive step in the direction of making that dream a actuality.
“Collectively, we are going to construct the most important grassroots bike racing venture in historical past, a platform that connects expertise, coaching, and the longer term.
“We wish each little one who will get on a minibike to have the ability to think about themselves in the future on the MotoGP grid, and for that journey to be with us.”
