The Budapest Times report that Aspar rider and former 125cc world champion Gábor Talmácsi has lost all but one of his sponsors, forcing the team to restructure the budget for the current year. “We are mostly trying to save money on travel costs”, Talmácsi’s manager Stefano Favaro told Inforádio last Thursday, adding that smaller companies [...]
Although the Aspar Team was not officially at the second two-day test in Valencia this week, Gabor Talmacsi was present nontheless to help out Rookie Johann Zarco who will start his first full 125cc season with the WTR San Marino Team on Aprilia.Balatonring Aspar rider Talmacsi said that he was there to support Frenchman Zarco [...]
Team Aspar is also a well-known brand outside MotoGP and therefore there will be an Aspar School of Supermoto taking place this year. It is an opportunity for riders under 18 to get more experience and compete with other riders in a professional surrounding. They will have eight races total which are part of the [...]
Today Mapfre Aspar rider Alvaro Bautista left the hospital in Madrid and is now back at home to rest for a week. The surgery on his right collarbone went very well and Alvaro already has full mobility of the arm again, only with some pain caused by swelling of the scar. He has now a [...]
Following his crash at the last day of testing in Valencia which resulted in a fractured right collarbone, Alvaro Bautista had surgery at the USP hospital San José de Madrid today and will stay there overnight. If everything goes as planned, he’ll be able to leave the hospital tomorrow morning and with check-ups and rehabilitation [...]
Alvaro Bautista 1.38.170 (40 laps)“Despite the weather conditions I was enjoying this test a lot. We came from Jerez very motivated, because things went very well when we left there. The truth is that I absolutely did not expect to crash, because I was riding very confident, but with the track so cold everything is [...]
Bad weather conditions made it difficult again for the 125cc and 250cc riders in Valencia to test properly. Several riders decided to go out without a transponder.Of the 250cc riders Alvaro Bautista was fastest for much of the day until Gabor Talmacsi went 0.081 seconds faster shortly before it started to rain again. In worsening [...]
