Avintia Racing

Avintia Racing is a motorcycle racing team currently competing in the MotoGP and Moto3 World Championships under the name Hublot Reale Avintia Racing and a Spanish license, as well as in the MotoE World Cup under the name Avintia Esponsorama Racing and an Andorran license.

Avintia Racing
2020 nameHublot Reale Avintia Racing
BaseMadrid, Spain
PrincipalRaúl Romero
Rider(s)MotoGP:
5. Johann Zarco
53. Tito Rabat
Moto3:
99. Carlos Tatay
MotoE:
20. Xavier Cardelus
51. Eric Granado
MotorcycleMotoE – Energica
MotoGP – Ducati
Moto3 – KTM
TyresMotoE – Michelin
MotoGP – Michelin
Moto3 – Dunlop

History

Domestic racing

The team was set up in 1994 by Raul Romero and Josep Oliva as By Queroseno Racing, also known as Team BQR. Competing in the Spanish Road Racing Championship (Campeonato de España de Velocidad), BQR won three Fórmula Extreme and two 125GP class titles with riders José David de Gea, Stefan Bradl and Efrén Vázquez.

Grand Prix racing

125cc and 250cc classes

After many wild card appearances in the World Championship, BQR became a full entry in the 2001 season using Honda bikes in the 250cc class. In 2007 the team switched to Aprilia machinery. BQR won its first World Championship race with Scott Redding riding an Aprilia 125 at the 2008 British Grand Prix.

Moto3

In 2017, Avintia entered Vicente Pérez in 2 races as a wildcard. For 2018 the team entered a single full-season entry, beginning the season with Livio Loi for the first seven rounds and replacing him with Pérez for the remainder of the season. In 2019 the team began with Pérez for the first seven rounds, but replacing him with Stefano Nepa for the remaining races, and addition to a number of wildcard entries for Nepa, Meikon Kawakami, and Carlos Tatay. In 2020, Avintia entered Tatay as their sole full-season entry.

Moto2

The team unveiled the first Moto2 bike in February 2009 and fielded a prototype in the 2009 Spanish Road Racing Championship. In 2010, they participated in the new Moto2 World Championship, with Yonny Hernández and Mashel Al Naimi as riders. The team continued in Moto2 until the conclusion of the 2013 season. In 2018, the team made a significant number of wildcard entries with rider Xavi Cardelús.

MotoGP

In 2012 the team changed its name to Avintia Racing, following an alliance between BQR and the Grupo Avintia. The team debuted in the MotoGP class as a Claiming Rule Team using both FTR Moto and Inmotec frames badged as BQR, powered by Kawasaki engines. The riders were Iván Silva and Yonny Hernández. In 2013 Avintia entered the MotoGP class with Kawasaki-engined FTR frames, fielding two bikes for Hiroshi Aoyama and Héctor Barberá.

For the 2014 season Aoyama was replaced by Mike Di Meglio and the team fielded a new bike badged as the Avintia GP14, reportedly based on the 2007-2009 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-RR with some input from Kawasaki.[1][2] Following a mid-season agreement between Avintia and Ducati, Barberá received an Open-specification Ducati Desmosedici for the last five rounds.[3]

In 2015 the team entered two Open class Desmosedici GP14 motorcycles, for Barberá and Di Meglio. For 2016 Di Meglio was replaced by Loris Baz. In 2017 the team changed its name to Reale Esponsorama Racing.

In 2018, Tito Rabat and Xavier Siméon joined the team. At the British Grand Prix, Rabat's major crash with Franco Morbidelli at Stowe corner was a contributing factor in the decision to cancel the race due to unsafe conditions. As a result of the triple fracture he sustained to his right leg, Rabat missed the remaining 7 races of the 2018 season, and was replaced by Christophe Ponsson and Jordi Torres. For 2019, Rabat returned and was partnered by Czech rider Karel Abraham. In 2020, Rabat was retained, this time paired with Johann Zarco.

MotoE

As a satellite team in MotoGP, Avintia was given an entry in the inaugural MotoE World Cup in 2019. The team achieved 2 wins with Eric Granado and 2 podiums with their former MotoGP rider Xavier Siméon, good for 3rd and 6th place in the championship, respectively. For the 2020 season, the team retained Granado and partnered him with their former Moto2 rider, Andorran Xavier Cardelús. Subsequently and combined with title sponsorship from Andorran firm Esponsorama, the team decided from 2020 to enter the MotoE team under an Andorran license as opposed to the Spanish license used in all other categories.

Results
Year Class Team name Bike Riders Races Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points Pos.
2009 250cc Aeropuerto-Castello-Blusens Aprilia RSA 250 Alex Debón 15012110110th
125cc Blusens-Aprilia Aprilia RSA 125 Esteve Rabat 1700003718th
Scott Redding 17010050.515th
Johnny Rosell 200000NC
2010 Moto2 Blusens-STX BQR-Moto2 Dani Rivas 1 (2)[lower-alpha 1]00000NC
Yonny Hernández 1700003221st
Mashel Al Naimi 1500000NC
Anthony Delhalle 2 (3)[lower-alpha 1]00000NC
125cc Blusens-STX Aprilia RSA 125 Esteve Rabat 1702001476th
2011 Moto2 Blusens-STX FTR M211 Joan Olivé 1 (6)[lower-alpha 1]00000NC
Kenny Noyes 1700001128th
Martín Cárdenas 100000NC
Esteve Rabat 1701007910th
Yonny Hernández 1400014319th
125cc Blusens by Paris Hilton Racing Aprilia RSA 125 Maverick Viñales 1749332483rd
Josep Rodríguez 5 (8)[lower-alpha 1]00002 (3)[lower-alpha 1]32nd
Sergio Gadea 1202001039th
2012 MotoGP Avintia Blusens BQR-Kawasaki Iván Silva 1600001223rd
Yonny Hernández 1500002817th
David Salom 20000127th
Kris McLaren 000000NC
Hiroshi Aoyama 10000325th
Inmotec-Kawasaki Claudio Corti 100000NC
Moto2 Avintia Blusens FTR Moto M212
Suter MMX2		 Julián Simón 1702008113th
2013 MotoGP Avintia Blusens FTR MGP13 Hiroshi Aoyama 1600001320th
Héctor Barberá 1800003516th
Iván Silva 100000NC
Javier del Amor 10000127th
Moto2 Avintia Blusens Kalex Kyle Smith 900000NC
Toni Elías 1100002218th
Dani Rivas 1 (3)[lower-alpha 1]00000NC
Ezequiel Iturrioz 600000NC
Álex Mariñelarena 4 (6)[lower-alpha 1]0000227th
2014 MotoGP Avintia Racing Ducati Desmosedici GP14 Héctor Barberá 1800002618th
Mike Di Meglio 180000925th
2015 MotoGP Avintia Racing Ducati Desmosedici GP14 Héctor Barberá 1800003315th
Mike Di Meglio 180000824th
2016 MotoGP Avintia Racing Ducati Desmosedici GP14 Héctor Barberá 16 (18)000010210th
Loris Baz 1500003520th
Michele Pirro 2 (7)[lower-alpha 1]00001 (36) [lower-alpha 1]19th
Javier Forés 100000NC
Mike Jones 20000127th
2017 MotoGP Reale Avintia Racing Ducati Desmosedici GP16 Héctor Barberá 1800002822nd
Ducati Desmosedici GP15 Loris Baz 1800004518th
Moto3 Reale Avintia Academy KTM RC250GP Vicente Pérez 200000NC
2018 MotoGP Reale Avintia Racing Ducati Desmosedici GP16
Ducati Desmosedici GP17		 Xavier Siméon 180000126th
Ducati Desmosedici GP16 Christophe Ponsson 100000NC
Ducati Desmosedici GP17 Tito Rabat 1200003517th
Ducati Desmosedici GP16 Jordi Torres 500000NC
Moto2 Reale Avintia Stylobike Kalex Moto2 Xavier Cardelús 1200000NC
Moto3 Reale Avintia Academy 77 KTM RC250GP Livio Loi 80000830th
Vicente Pérez 900002616th
2019 MotoGP Reale Avintia Racing Ducati Desmosedici GP18 Karel Abraham 19 0 0 0 0 9 24th
Tito Rabat 18 0 0 0 0 23 20th
Moto3 Reale Avintia Arizona 77

Fundacion Andreas Perez 77

 KTM RC250GP Vicente Pérez 7 0 0 0 0 0 NC
Stefano Nepa 13 0 0 0 0 24 25th
Meikon Kawakami 2 0 0 0 0 0 NC
Carlos Tatay 3 0 0 0 0 8 30th
MotoE Avintia Esponsorama Racing Energica Ego Corsa Xavier Siméon 6 0 2 0 0 58 6th
Eric Granado 6 2 2 2 2 71 3rd
2020 MotoGP Hublot Reale Avintia Racing Ducati Desmosedici GP19 Tito Rabat
Johann Zarco 1* 1*
Moto3 KTM RC250GP Carlos Tatay 1* 0* 0* 0* 0* 0* NC
MotoE Avintia Esponsorama Racing Energica Ego Corsa Xavier Cardelús
Eric Granado

*on-going season

Notes
  1. Non-bracketed number refers to the number accumulated with team, with number in brackets referring to the total accumulated for the season.
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References
  1. Emmett, David (16 July 2014). "The Comprehensive Midsummer MotoGP Silly Season Update". MotoMatters.com. David Emmett. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  2. Birt, Matthew (21 July 2014). "Ducati to expand to six bike effort in MotoGP". MotorcycleNews.com. Bauer Consumer Media. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  3. "Avintia Ducati unveiled at Aragon". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. 25 September 2014. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
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