Spanish motorcycle manufacturer GASGAS join Moto3 in 2021 with the new team managed by the Aspar Team of Jorge Martinez and riders Sergio Garcia and Izan Guevara.
The brand was founded in 1985 and has found success in off-road trials and enduro motorcycles. It was purchased by KTM in 2019, and now moves into international road racing for the first time. Garcia and Guevara will be riding the GASGAS RC 250 GP bikes, and the firm has released a computer generated concept image to show what they will hopefully be racing next season.
Hubert Trunkenpolz – CMO KTM AG:“GASGAS are a legendary brand that is built on a passion for competition, with a proud Spanish personality that is daring and vibrant. GASGAS today also stand for high-performance, allowing riders to enjoy joining the action with the best machinery. Considering all of these points, it is absolutely fitting that GASGAS look to the Moto3™ World Championship as an exciting new series in which to go racing and also in which to promote the brand, outside of the offroad disciplines it is well known for. This is an exciting, and fitting, new chapter for GASGAS Motorcycles.”
Pit Beirer, GASGAS Motorsports Director:“We’re really excited to introduce GASGAS Motorcycles into international road racing and firmly believe it will both strengthen the brand and open it up to a worldwide audience. There is also no better place than the Moto3™ World Championship, as the category represents the first step on the MotoGP™ ladder – it’s the perfect proving ground when it comes to selecting and nurturing new rider talent. With the extremely successful Aspar Team managing the brand’s arrival, we’re really looking forward to seeing our distinctive GASGAS bikes out on track at the first race of the 2021 season.”
Jorge Martinez – Aspar Team manager:“To carry the GASGAS name into the Moto3™ World Championship is a very important moment, both for myself personally and for this team. As a proud Spanish team, to be the first to work with a brand with such strong Spanish roots, to take it into the highest level of international road racing, is very, very special. 2021 is looking to be an extremely exciting season for us! Of course, we hope to continue the exceptional run of form we have enjoyed during the 2020 season and together with our two strong riders, Sergio Garcia and Izan Guevara, we are focused on immediately fighting for podiums and taking the GASGAS brand onto the world stage.”
Garcia is a teenage Spanish rider who has ridden a Honda for the Estrella Galicia team in 2019 and 2020, achieving one win in Valencia and four podiums. Fellow Spaniard Guevara moves up as the recently crowned Moto3 Junior world champion.
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