Intact Juniors with a new addition to its line-up in Aragón
After an almost three-month summer break from the series, the young talents of the Germany based LIQUI MOLY Husqvarna Intact GP Junior Team return to the race track this weekend. New to the European Talent Cup, the freshly crowned overall winner of the Northern Talent Cup, Rocco Sessler.
The second last stop of FIM JuniorGP™ World Championship, Moto2™ European Championship and the European Talent Cup brings the young riders and their teams to the Spanish circuit MotorLand Aragón, located in the outback of the country's east coast.
LIQUI MOLY Husqvarna Intact GP Junior Team shortened the long break with a test at the same track two and a half weeks ago and is now complete again following the absence of Senna Agius due to injury at the previous event in Barcelona in mid-July. It is also the 18-year-old Australian who will take the centre stage this weekend from the perspective of the team based in Memmingen, Germany. Agius has a cushion of 20 points over Xavier Cardelus from Andorra before the last three races of the season and must have collected five more points than his rival on Sunday to be crowned champion ahead of schedule.
In JuniorGP™ Moto3™ class, it is once again the two Upper Austrians Jakob Rosenthaler and rookie Leo Rammerstorfer who are flying the colours of LIQUI MOLY Husqvarna Intact GP. While Rosenthaler will try to improve on his current 14th place overall, the slightly older of the two, Leo Rammerstorfer, is flirting with more points to his tally in Sunday's race at the demanding 5-kilometres long circuit.
In European Talent Cup, Mohammed Abdalaziz Binladin from Saudi Arabia gets a team mate for the first time in Rocco Sessler. Sessler, who was born in Franconia, won this year's Northern Talent Cup in impressive fashion and is expected to take his time this weekend and also at the season’s finale in Valencia to get used to the rough air in the entry-level class of the series, as well as the talent, who is only in the age of 14 years, will sit on a real racing machine for the first time.
On race day, as usual, there will be a live stream via the series' YouTube channel, as well as live timing starting Friday.
Time Schedule (CEST, Live-Timing):
Saturday 7 October: 09:00 - 09:40 QP1 ETC Gr A
Saturday 7 October: 09:50 - 10:30 QP1 ETC Gr B
Saturday 7 October: 10:40 - 11:20 Practice JuniorGP™ Moto3™
Saturday 7 October: 11:30 - 12:10 QP1 Moto2™ ECh
Saturday 7 October: 12:20 - 13:00 QP1 Stock ECh
Saturday 7 October: 13:10 - 13:25 Q1 JuniorGP™ Moto3™
Saturday 7 October: 13:35 - 14:15 QP2 ETC Gr A
Saturday 7 October: 14:25 - 15:05 QP2 ETC Gr B
Saturday 7 October: 15:15 - 15:30 Q2 JuniorGP™ Moto3™
Saturday 7 October: 15:40 - 16:20 QP2 Moto2™ ECh
Saturday 7 October: 16:30 - 17:10 QP2 Stock ECh
Sunday 8 October: 09:15 ETC Last-Chance-Race (7 Laps)
Sunday 8 October: 11:00 Race 1 Moto2™ ECh (15 Laps)
Sunday 8 October: 12:00 Race 1 ETC (13 Laps)
Sunday 8 October: 13:00 Race JuniorGP™ Moto3™ (14 Laps)
Sunday 8 October: 14:00 Race 2 Moto2™ ECh (15 Laps)
Sunday 8 October: 15:00 Race ETC (13 Laps)
Sunday 8 October: 16:00 Race Stock ECh (15 Laps)
Facts Aragón:
Length: 5,007 metres
Width: 15 metres
Longest straight: 1,211 metres
Left corners: 10
Right corners: 7
JuniorGP™ Calendar 2023:
06/07 May: Circuito do Estoril (Estoril, Portugal)
20/21 May: Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana (Valencia, Spain)
03/04 June: Circuito de Jerez - Ángel Nieto (Jerez de la Frontera, Spain)
01/02 July: Autódromo Internacional do Algarve (Portimao, Portugal)
15/16 July: Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya (Montmeló, Spain)
07/08 October: MotorLand Aragón (Alcaniz, Spain)
04/05 November: Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana (Valencia, Spain)