Avintia Racing

Avintia Racing

2017 name	Avintia Racing
Base	Madrid, Spain
Principal	Raúl Romero
Rider(s)	8. Héctor Barberá 76. Loris Baz
Motorcycle	Ducati Desmosedici GP15 Ducati Desmosedici GP16
Tyres	Michelin
Riders' Championships	–

Avintia Racing is a motorcycle racing team currently competing in the MotoGP World Championship.

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.

Moto2

The team unveiled the first Moto2 bike in February 2009 and fielded a prototype in the 2009 Spanish Road Racing Championship.^[1] In 2010, they participated in the new Moto2 World Championship, with Yonny Hernández and Mashel Al Naimi as riders.

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 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 and was reportedly based on the 2007–2009 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-RR with some input from Kawasaki.^[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.

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	15	0	1	2	1	101	10th
	125cc	Blusens-Aprilia	Aprilia RSA 125	Esteve Rabat	17	0	0	0	0	37	18th
				Scott Redding	17	0	1	0	0	50.5	15th
				Johnny Rosell	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2010	Moto2	Blusens-STX	BQR-Moto2	Dani Rivas	1 (2)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0	0	0	0	0	NC
				Yonny Hernández	17	0	0	0	0	32	21st
				Mashel Al Naimi	15	0	0	0	0	0	NC
				Anthony Delhalle	2 (3)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	125cc	Blusens-STX	Aprilia RSA 125	Esteve Rabat	17	0	2	0	0	147	6th
2011	Moto2	Blusens-STX	FTR M211	Joan Olivé	1 (6)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0	0	0	0	0	NC
				Kenny Noyes	17	0	0	0	0	11	28th
				Martín Cárdenas	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
				Esteve Rabat	17	0	1	0	0	79	10th
				Yonny Hernández	14	0	0	0	1	43	19th
	125cc	Blusens by Paris Hilton Racing	Aprilia RSA 125	Maverick Viñales	17	4	9	3	3	248	3rd
				Josep Rodríguez	5 (8)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0	0	0	0	2 (3)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	32nd
				Sergio Gadea	12	0	2	0	0	103	9th
2012	MotoGP	Avintia Blusens	BQR-Kawasaki	Iván Silva	16	0	0	0	0	12	23rd
				Yonny Hernández	15	0	0	0	0	28	17th
				David Salom	2	0	0	0	0	1	27th
				Kris McLaren	0	0	0	0	0	0	NC
				Hiroshi Aoyama	1	0	0	0	0	3	25th
			Inmotec-Kawasaki	Claudio Corti	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	Moto2	Avintia Blusens	FTR Moto M212 Suter MMXII	Julián Simón	17	0	2	0	0	81	13th
2013	MotoGP	Avintia Blusens	FTR MGP13	Hiroshi Aoyama	16	0	0	0	0	13	20th
				Héctor Barberá	18	0	0	0	0	35	16th
				Iván Silva	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
				Javier del Amor	1	0	0	0	0	1	27th
	Moto2	Avintia Blusens	Kalex	Kyle Smith	9	0	0	0	0	0	NC
				Toni Elías	11	0	0	0	0	22	18th
				Dani Rivas	1 (3)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0	0	0	0	0	NC
				Ezequiel Iturrioz	6	0	0	0	0	0	NC
				Álex Mariñelarena	4 (6)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0	0	0	0	2	27th
2014	MotoGP	Avintia Racing	Ducati Desmosedici GP14 Avintia GP14	Héctor Barberá	18	0	0	0	0	26	18th
2014	MotoGP	Avintia Racing	Ducati Desmosedici GP14 Avintia GP14	Mike Di Meglio	18	0	0	0	0	9	25th
2015	MotoGP	Avintia Racing	Ducati Desmosedici GP14	Héctor Barberá	18	0	0	0	0	33	15th
2015	MotoGP	Avintia Racing	Ducati Desmosedici GP14	Mike Di Meglio	18	0	0	0	0	8	24th
2016	MotoGP	Avintia Racing	Ducati Desmosedici GP14	Héctor Barberá	11	0	0	0	0	76*	9th*
				Loris Baz	9	0	0	0	0	24*	20th*
				Michele Pirro	2 (7)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0	0	0	0	1 (23)^{[lower-alpha 1]}*	21st*

* Season still in progress.

Notes

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Non-bracketed number refers to the number accumulated with team, with number in brackets referring to the total accumulated for the season.

References

↑ "Team Blusens by Queroseno Racing". Motourage. Motourage. 11 December 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
↑ Emmett, David (16 July 2014). "The Comprehensive Midsummer MotoGP Silly Season Update". MotoMatters.com. David Emmett. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ "Avintia Ducati unveiled at Aragon". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. 25 September 2014. Retrieved 25 September 2014.

External links

Official website

Teams and riders competing in the 2016 MotoGP World Championship

Ducati Team	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Avintia Racing	Octo Pramac Yakhnich	Team Suzuki Ecstar	Repsol Honda Team

04 Dovizioso 29 Iannone	6 Bradl 19 Bautista	8 Barberá 51 Pirro	45 Redding 9 Petrucci	25 Viñales 41 A. Espargaró	26 Pedrosa 93 Márquez

LCR Honda	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Aspar Team MotoGP

35 Crutchlow	38 Smith 44 P. Espargaró	43 Miller 53 Rabat	46 Rossi 99 Lorenzo	50 Laverty 68 Hernández

Other riders who have competed: 76 Baz (Avintia Racing)

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