Openbank and the Aspar Team present their candidacy for the MotoE world title

Openbank and the Aspar Team will fight again for the MotoE World Championship in 2024, in the sixth consecutive season of this successful alliance between the Santander Group’s 100% digital bank and the Spanish team. The Openbank Aspar Team welcomes the Italian in 2024 Kevin Zannonme, who will be the teammate of the current MotoE world runner-up, Jordi Torres.

In a presentation held this Thursday at the Openbank Building in Madrid, the team’s riders announced the colors of the Ducati they will compete in sixteen races on eight circuits from March to September. The team’s aim is to fight for the title again after the excellent campaign carried out in 2023, when it was runner-up in the world with Jordi Torres after leading the championship in six of the eight weekends of competition.

In 2023, Jordi Torres added two wins, six podiums and three poles en route to runner-up, and in 2024 he will once again compete for a triplet of titles in the electric category after previously being proclaimed champion in 2020 and 2021. when the competition It had a consideration of the World Cup. This year he has a new teammate with the arrival of the Italian Kevin Zannoniwho will make his debut with the Openbank Aspar Team after completing his best MotoE season in 2023.

Zannoni, 23 years old and two-time Italian Moto3 champion, made his debut on the podium last year, finishing third in both Austrian Grand Prix races, and added 130 points after finishing eleven times in the top ten of the category. .

Ruby’s pilot Jordi Torres said that: “after a great period together in 2023, it is a great joy to start the year again at the headquarters of Openbank, which, together with the Aspar Team, forms a great family in which I was very welcome from the first day. . We are back for another year to compete together and we want to continue working from where we left off. Last year we achieved podiums and victories and fought for the title until in the end and now that’s our goal again. We have sixteen races ahead of us, it’s a long championship, but disappointment is not allowed.

For your partner Kevin Zannoni: “It is an honor to be part of this team, one of the most important in the World Cup, which has won so many races and titles throughout its history. I have a lot to learn from all of them and I am happy to be with them on this path. In the first preseason tests, I found a very familiar environment and felt very comfortable with the team.

Patricia Benito, general director of Openbank, explained: “Openbank is proud to continue building the winning team that is now the Openbank Aspar Team. It’s been six years supporting and shaking this project where the whole Aspar team has been devoting so much love, work and perseverance. I’m sure great victories will come this year and we wish our pilots all the luck in the world.”
Jorge Martínez “Aspar”, CEO of the Openbank Aspar Team, gave the keys to his expectations for this season: “The project of the Aspar Team in the MotoE World Championship cannot be understood without the support of Openbank. Together we have worked hard these years, together we have touched the sky with victories and podiums and together we are on the verge of winning the title in 2023. Today we open the sixth era of cooperation if where we will continue to fight as before to return the trust deposited in us by Openbank with good results.”