While the official MotoGP season begins Tuesday at Sepang with official teams in the premier class, will start the season Monday morning 'low cost' CRT equipment in the Spanish track of Chester, in Valencia.
Following the philosophy of low cost of the new category of bikes competing series derived from the MotoGP prototypes, at least during the 2012 season, teams will compete in this subdivision have scheduled a preseason parallel circuits will be developed entirely in Spanish
Initially some of these teams CRT, as the Forward Racing or BQR, plan to train officers in the Sepang test, while the rest will be scheduled in parallel sessions.
This is the case of teams that have opted for CRT developed by Aprilia motorcycle and is called ART. Specifically, the Aspar team and Speed Master will release the new ART morning at Valencia with race drivers, Aleix Espargaró and Randy de Puniet with Aspar bikes, and Italian Mattia Pasini, who yesterday announced that the new Pilot Speed Master, after dismounting the bike Anthony West team after failing to meet with sponsors part of the cost of the project. The other teams are waiting to have new bikes will have to wait until tomorrow to see which of them can start the season since the first day.
Preseason CRT:
Cheste January 30-31
February 20-22 Jerez
Motorland March 8-9
March 23-25 Jerez *
* (official IRTA Test all MotoGP teams)
source: motocuatro
