Rins joins Paginas Amarillas HP 40 for the next two seasons

Spanish rider Alex Rins will move up to the Moto2™ class in 2015 to ride with the Paginas Amarillas HP 40 team for the next two years.

Rins will follow in the footsteps of his 2013 Moto3™ rivals Maverick Viñales and Luis Salom, by moving up from the smaller category to join the team run by former World Champion Sito Pons.

Rins has a strong record including seven wins, 12 pole positions and a total of 20 podium finishes in Grand Prix racing and he finished in second place in Moto3 World Championship last season. He currently sits third in the Moto3 standings 29 points behind the leader Jack Miller.

Rins commented, “I think the Moto2 category will be well suited to me, in terms of my riding style as my physical attributes. It is a category which I am sure I will enjoy very much. I’ve had several offers to make the move up but I’ve always been clear that this was where I wanted to go. Having the opportunity to work with Sito and his technical team is a great base. They have a lot of experience, they won the championship last season and this year they are fighting for it again. Now I have to be focused on my work in Moto3 where I hope to catch up with the leader of the standings, so I can go up to Moto2 as a World Champion.”

Pons added, “I am very pleased with the addition of Alex Rins to the team for the next two seasons. I’ve followed his career since he was a kid. I’ve always admired his smooth riding style, his ability to ride fast in a natural way and his control of space and speed. Alex has shown he has a huge talent, I am excited to work with him and help him develop the many qualities he has, to help him become a candidate for the Moto2 World Championship.”

Ducati and Avintia Racing join forces

Deal with Antonio Martin and Luigi Dall'Igna on 2015

Avintia Racing will run Ducati machinery in MotoGP™ for the next two years, further to an agreement announced on Friday at Misano.

During a presentation at the Gran Premio TIM di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini, Ducati Corse General Manager Luigi Dall'Igna explained that Avintia will run two Ducati Desmosedici GP14 bikes with Open class ECU software in 2015 and two GP15 machines in 2016 with the universal ECU software which will be introduced to the premier class.

Dall'Igna commented further, “We have a two year contract with Avintia and I think this contract is very important for us because it means that next year we will have bikes on the grid with Open software. This is really important because in my opinion this will be the future of MotoGP software. The target of Avintia and Ducati will be to try to win in the Open class.”

Antonio Martin, Avintia Racing CEO, explained that the team will start to run with Ducati machinery as soon as possible. He said, “In principle our agreement is for two years, 2015 and 2016. We will try to get Hector (Barbera) on the bike as soon as possible with the Open software, though we don’t know yet if that will be from Aragon or in the flyaway rounds. We will do a test and depending on how it goes we will run the bike at Aragon or in the first Asian race (Japan).”

Red Bull KTM Ajo to line up with Binder, Oliveira and Hanika in 2015

#41 Brad Binder born 11 August 1995 in Potchefstroom, South Africa

#44 Miguel Oliveira born 4 January 1995 in Almada, Portugal

#98 Karel Hanika born 14 April 1996 in Brno, Czech Republic

The Red Bull KTM team will next year on three riders beefed up again. Karel Hanika drives the second season, in addition to Brad Binder and Miguel Oliveira.

The Red Bull KTM Ajo factory team will include next again three season (like 2012 and 2013) for that, including the two new additions Brad Binder (of the team Ambrogio Mahindra) and Miguel Oliveira (Mahindra racing) will be.

Thus, team owner Aki Ajo has fulfilled the order by KTM Motorsport Director Pit Beirer, should lure away the new driver fails other KTM team, but rather by the competing teams.

The 19-year old South African Brad Binder comes originally from the Red Bull Rookies Cup and now returns to the Red Bull KTM family.

The Portuguese Miguel Oliveira had a contract for the Moto3 season in the Red Bull KTM Ajo team for 2012, but then chose a FTR-Honda-season in the Estrella Galicia team of Alzamora.

Team Manager Aki Ajo will reduce its inventory of Moto3 Championship riders, however, because he will employ only three pilots, 2014, there are still five: Miller and Hanika at Red Bull KTM, Danny Kent and Niklas Ajo on Husqvarna, this Hafiq Azmi on KTM in the SIC-Ajo team.

With the team’s current Moto3 championship leader Jack Miller ready to move up from the lightweight class at the end of 2014, report that manager Aki Ajo wants to recruit Binder from Ambrogio Racing and Oliveira from Mahindra Racing to ride alongside Hanika next year.