The Gresini Racing team has increased its commitment to Spanish motorcycling by hiring a Moto2 rider for 2024 Manuel Gonzalez Therefore, the two structures in the World Championship led by Nadia Padovani will be completely Spanish with the brothers Marc and Àlex Márquez in MotoGP and Albert Arenas and ‘Manugas’ González in Moto2.
The continuation of Alex Marquezwho joined the MotoGP team last year from LCR Honda, was confirmed on August 10 once the team exercised its retention clause and also confirmed the extension of its agreement to remain a Ducati team until 2025. On October 12 accepted they have what, without a doubt, will be the big hit of 2023 by acquiring the services of the eight-time world champion for 2024 Marc Márquez.
This Thursday at Phillip Island the pre-contract for the Moto2 team was closed with the young 21-year-old rider from Madrid. Manu Gonzalez, who became the Supersport 300 world champion in 2019 and this year completes his second season in the World Championship aboard the Correos Prepago Yamaha VR46 where he got five top-5s and barely missed the first podium in the World Championship. On September 14 they announced the signing of the 2020 Moto3 world champion Albert Arenas who just finished his first Moto2 podium at the Catalunya GP.
“For the 2024 season, we want a strong lineup, which will return QJMOTOR GRESINI Moto2 to the top positions: that’s why we decided to support an experienced rider like Arenas with a young athlete with a great desire to grow. We saw all the qualities in Manuel González, Spaniard, born in 2002. In Moto2 he has already shown that he has potential and we are sure that in Gresini he will find the right environment to express it better. Welcome to the Manu family!”, Nadia Padovani welcomed him.
“After two years with the same team it will be a big change for me, a new experience. We will try to find good feelings as soon as possible, it will be important to immediately have an excellent performance on the track, which is my goal: give everything and bring home the best result,” explained Manu.
Fausto Gresini’s Spanish track
After the sad death on February 23, 2021 of Fausto Gresini, one of the victims of the Covid-19 pandemic, his widow Nadia Padovani and who is his right hand Carlo Merlini They follow the ‘way’ of the former driver and former team manager when it comes to running the team. And one of them is betting on Spanish pilots. So, riders like Sete Gibernau, two-time MotoGP runner-up, Toni Elías, Álvaro Bautista, Aleix Espargaró, Emilio Alzamora, David García, Jorge Martín, Jeremy Alcoba, José Antonio Rueda, Edgar Pons and Jorge Navarro passed in Gresini’s teams.
There are also many mechanics and engineers in their teams and the team coordinator is a Catalan, Sandra Vilchez.
Source: La Verdad
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