Mahindra Racing has announced that their Moto3 team will be taken over by Aspar Team for the 2015 season. Owned by one of the most successful Grand Prix Racers, Jorge ‘Aspar’ Martinez, Aspar Team will be responsible for running the team and developing the riders, while Mahindra will concentrate on developing the motorcycle.
Mahindra Racing became the first Indian team to participate in a FIM MotoGP World Motorcycle Racing Championship when it joined Moto3 racing, back in 2012. For the 2013 season, the team developed a new four-stroke single-cylinder 250cc Mahindra MGP3O motorcycle in coordination with Swiss firm Suter Racing Technology. Mahindra Racing scored one podium finish in 2013 and three in 2014. With this new arrangement in place, Mahindra Racing is confident that they can achieve better results in the 2015 season.
Mahindra Racing has also opened a new European technical base at Besozzo, near Varese in Northern Italy. Aspar Team and Mahindra Racing started testing together right after the end of the 2014 season. The Aspar Team will field three riders in the 2015 season and with this partnership, both the teams are confident of achieving good results.
Speaking about the association with Aspar team, Mr SP Shukla, chairman, Mahindra Racing and Mahindra Group President – Group Strategy, Defence Sector, said, “The 2013 Moto3 grid will feature four teams and nine Mahindra MGP3O machines, one more than last season. However the main change is that we shall not run our own team, instead we have bolstered our line-up of partner teams with the important addition of the Aspar Team. Jorge Martinez – known as Aspar – is a legend of the sport having achieved multiple World Championships as a rider first and then as a team owner. Working closely with Jorge’s team should help us develop and deliver even better results in 2015.”
