Intact juniors reunited in Jerez
LIQUI MOLY Husqvarna Intact GP Junior Team will start an extended summer which is to be an expected heat race this weekend in Jerez de la Frontera in southern Spain.
After an almost three-month break from in FIM JuniorGP™ World Championship with the JuniorGP™ Moto3™ class and European Talent Cup, the series returns this weekend with its fifth event of the season. Teams and riders have travelled to the all well-known Circuito de Jerez in Andalusia for this occasion.
In the top-class JuniorGP™ Moto3™ class, the Memmingen-based LIQUI MOLY Husqvarna Intact GP Junior Team will be at the start with a full line-up. The trio of riders consisting of the two Upper Austrians Jakob Rosenthaler and Leo Rammerstorfer as well as Rico Salmela from Finland has collected a lot of race kilometers despite the long break since the last event in Portugal in mid-June. 18-year-old Jakob Rosenthaler from Linz even raced at the highest level in two-wheels racing, participating at the Grand Prix in Spielberg mid of August and in Misano as a wildcard entry, which is a truly further confirmation of the German team’s first-class work being done with young talents.
Ahead of the third-last stop of the season, the three young talents are in a promising position with a small points gap to finish in the top ten of the overall standings at the end of the year, which is also the goal of the ambitious squad.
In European Talent Cup, the team will be expanded to two riders in the foreseeable future. In addition to Alex Longarela from Madrid, 14-year-old Fynn Kratochwil is joining LIQUI MOLY Husqvarna Intact GP Team. The young Thuringian rider should have made his debut in ETC this weekend, but a recently suffered injury to his foot has forced him to postpone it.
The championship comprises seven race weekends. There will be live timing from Friday and, as usual, a live stream via the series' YouTube channel on Sunday, where all races will be shown.
Time Schedule (MESZ):
Saturday 14 September: 09:00 - 09:40 ETC Grp A Practice
Saturday 14 September: 09:50 - 10:30 ETC Grp B Practice
Saturday 14 September: 10:40 - 11:20 JuniorGP™ Moto3™ Practice
Saturday 14 September: 11:30 - 12:10 Moto2™ ECh Practice
Saturday 14 September: 12:20 - 13:00 Stock ECh Practice
Saturday 14 September: 13:10 - 13:25 ETC Grp A Qualifying 1
Saturday 14 September: 13:35 - 13:50 ETC Grp B Qualifying 1
Saturday 14. September: 14:00 - 14:15 JuniorGP™ Moto3™ Qualifying 1
Saturday 14 September: 14:25 - 14:40 Moto2™ ECh Qualifying 1
Saturday 14 September: 14:50 - 15:05 Stock ECh Qualifying 1
Saturday 14 September: 15:15 - 15:30 ETC Grp A Qualifying 2
Saturday 14 September: 15:40 - 15:55 ETC Grp B Qualifying 2
Saturday 14 September: 16:05 - 16:20 JuniorGP™ Moto3™ Qualifying 2
Saturday 14 September: 16:30 - 16:45 Moto2™ ECh Qualifying 2
Saturday 14 September: 16:55 - 17:10 Stock ECh Qualifying 2
Sunday 15 September: 09:15 ETC Last Chance Race (7 Laps)
Sunday 15 September: 11:00 JuniorGP Moto3™ Race 1 (15 Laps)
Sunday 15 September: 12:00 ETC Race 1 (14 Laps)
Sunday 15 September: 13:00 Moto2™ ECh Race (16 Laps)
Sunday 15 September: 14:00 JuniorGP Moto3™ Race 2 (15 Laps)
Sunday 15 September: 15:00 ETC Race 2 (14 Laps)
Sunday 15 September: 16:00 Stock ECh Race (16 Laps)
Facts Jerez:
Length: 4,423 meters
Width: 11 meters
Longest straight: 607 meters
Right corners: 8
Left corners: 5
JuniorGP™ Moto3 World Standing:
1 Alvaro CARPE / SPA / Husqvarna / 90
2 Jesús RIOS / SPA / KTM / 88
3 Marcos URIARTE / SPA / CFMOTO / 88
…
10 #27 Rico SALMELA / FIN / Husqvarna / 36
14 #78 Jakob ROSENTHALER / AUT / Husqvarna / 33
16 #5 Leo RAMMERSTORFER / AUT / Husqvarna / 22
ETC Standing:
1 Marco MORELLI / ARG / 99
2 Carlos CANO / SPA / 95
3 Giulio PUGLIESE / ITA / 77
…
12 #45 Alex LONGARELA / SPA / 26
JuniorGP™ Calendar 2024:
20/21 April: Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli (Misano Adriatico, Italy)
04/05 May: Circuito do Estoril (Estoril, Portugal)
18/19 May: Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya (Montmeló, Spain)
22/23 June: Autódromo Internacional do Algarve (Portimao, Portugal)
14/15 September: Circuito de Jerez - Ángel Nieto (Jere de la Frontera, Spain)
12/13 October: MotorLand Aragón (Alcaniz, Spain)
23/24 November: Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana (Valencia, Spain)