World Wide Race (Dalam Bahasa Inggris)

 

Picture :Roberto Locatelli ride in Diesel Vasco Rossi team

World Wide Race is a motorcycle team based in Luxembourg with a logistics and organizational base in Switzerland.

 

The team was founded in 1997 thanks to the funding of the singer Vasco Rossi, with the name that becomes "Vasco Rossi Racing" by virtue of this commercial agreement. The debut on the track took place in the 125 class of the 1998 World Championship with Ivan Goi as rider, the bikes were Aprilia and the technical department headed by Italo Fontana while the team manager of the team was Fiorenzo Caponera. [

In 1999 the team expanded his participation in the 250 class with Roberto Rolfo as a rider, while they continued in the 125 class by hiring Roberto Locatelli, with the latter taking the first victories in a team GP. In the 2000 world championship the team wins the title of world champion in the 125 class with Roberto Locatelli. They also participates with Simone Sanna as second rider in the 125 class and Luca Boscoscuro in 250.

After the partnership with Vasco Rossi at the end of 2000, in 2001 the team found new financiers by taking the name of "Safilo Oxydo Race", confirming Sanna in 125 and taking Rolfo back for the 250 class.

 

In the 2002 season it changed its name again becoming "Imola Circuit Exalt Cycle Race", winning for the second time in its history the world title in the 125 class, on this occasion with the French rider Arnaud Vincent. Franco Battaini is deployed in the 250 class who finishes sixth in the general classification.

Winning the world title, Vincent leaves the team, replacing him with Steve Jenkner, the German rider wins his first race in the world championship this year at the Dutch GP. 

 

Together with Jenkner, Hungarian Gábor Talmácsi runs in the same class. 

Yet another name change in 2004, with the team becoming "Rauch Bravo"; confirmed Jenkner, Marco Simoncelli is hired as the new rider, obtaining his first victory in the world championship at the Spanish GP.

In 2005 the team confirmed Simoncelli in the 125 class, alongside the Spanish rider Joan Olivé, while Jenkner was reconfirmed but was moved to the 250 class. To report the results of Simoncelli, who won the Spanish GP for the second consecutive year, also obtaining other five podium finishes over the course of the championship.

 

The team enters the 2006 world championship as "Multimedia Racing", fielding three new riders in the 125 class who are: Pablo Nieto, Raffaele De Rosa and Vincent Braillard. Nieto and De Rosa get some points finishes, with Braillard not getting championship points.

 

There are still three riders also in 2007, with De Rosa reconfirmed to which two new riders are added, Dominique Aegerter and Simone Grotzkyj. Also in this year some points were obtained, without obtaining podium finishes. 

 

The 2008 MotoGP World Championship takes part as "I.C. Team", replacing all three riders from last season and engaging in their place: Andrea Iannone, Michael Ranseder and Takaaki Nakagami. Iannone himself won his first race in the world championship at the Chinese GP, bringing the team back to victory (an event that had not occurred since 2005).

In 2009, raced as "Ongetta Team I.S.P.A", the riders entered in the 125 class of the world championship rise to four, Iannone and Nakagami are reconfirmed, while Jonas Folger and Lorenzo Zanetti are hired this season. 

 

Iannone confirms himself as the best rider of the team, with seventh place in the general classification, winning three races, another podium finish and two pole positions. A podium placement also for Folger, while Nakagami and Zanetti get some placements in the points.

Five riders entered the team in 2010, with Folger (the only confirmed driver compared to 2009), Alexis Masbou and Luca Marconi racing with "Ongetta Team". 

 

While two other riders, Sturla Fagerhaug and Zulfahmi Khairuddin registered as team riders " AirAsia - Sepang Int. Circuit ". None of the five, however, manages to get a podium finish, managing on some occasions to get points for the riders' classification.

 

Three motorcycles lined up for the 2011 world championship are back, entrusted to the returning Simone Grotzkyj, Taylor Mackenzie and Giulian Pedone; with the change of sponsorship the team becomes "Phonica Racing". Also in this year the results see the three riders obtain some points, without significant placements.

 

In 2012 the 125 class was suppressed from the world championship, therefore the team, which this season became "Ambrogio Racing", enrolled in the Moto3 class. 

 

Initially confirming two of the three riders lined up the previous season, Simone Grotzkyj and Giulian Pedone, to then replace, after the Italian Grand Prix, Grotzkyj with Álex Márquez. 

 

Given the change in class, the supplier of the motorcycle also changes, after 13 years the collaboration with Aprilia ends, the team decides to rely on Oral motorcycles for the first three races of the season, to then complete the season with Suter MMX3.

Change of both riders for the 2013 season, with the signing of Brad Binder and Danny Webb, although the latter was replaced after the first seven races of the championship first by Jules Danilo and then by Luca Amato. Also as regards the motorcycle used there was a change during the season, with the first twelve GPs raced with Suter motorcycles, and then in the last six GPs passed to Mahindra MGP3O motorcycles.

 

For 2014 Brad Binder is confirmed and Jules Danilo (who had already raced as a replacement rider last year) is called to race as a starting rider. The South African Binder gets the second place at the GP of Germany, for him this is the first podium in his career in the context of the world championship. 

 

A South African rider had not achieved a podium finish in the world championship for 29 years, since Mario Rademeyer finished third in the 1985 South African GP raced at Kyalami in the 250 class. Binder also gets another podium at the Japanese GP, placing eleventh in the world championship standings with 109 points.

Change of sponsorship and consequent change of name for the 2015 season, with the team now becoming "Outox Reset Drink". 

I change also as regards the riders, Alessandro Tonucci and Darryn Binder (brother of Brad Binder, team rider in the two previous years) are signed, even if neither of them manages to get points for the riders' classification.

In 2016 he participates as "Platinum Bay Real Estate", confirming Darryn Binder for the second season, while Karel Hanika is initially hired as the second rider, even if the latter is replaced after the first seven races on the calendar by Danny Webb, who after two races is also replaced with Marcos Ramírez. This season the team gets world championship points with Binder and Ramírez.

Also confirmed in 2017 Binder and Ramírez, who had finished the 2016 championship, but the motorcycle used was changed, the team decided to switch to the KTM RC 250 GP.

 

In 2018 the starting riders are the Spaniards Jaume Masiá and Marcos Ramírez, the latter obtaining two podium finishes this season. At the end of this season the team is fifth in the team standings. In 2019 the riders are Andrea Migno and Jaume Masiá, who wins the Argentine Grand Prix. At the end of the season they are respectively thirteenth and not placed in the riders' standings and the seventh team in the team standings.

After 23 years of continuous participation in world championship competitions, in the 2020 season he does not register due to the lack of sponsorships.

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Technical Sports Racing (Dalam Bahasa Inggris)

Picture : Nobuatsu Aoki

Technical Sports Racing (also known by the acronym TSR) is a Japanese company that produces components for motorcycles.

Since 1991 the squad has participated, with various models of motorcycles, in various classes of the world championship. The first few seasons they raced only as a team, while from 1998 he entered the 250 class as a manufacturer, also expanding to the 500 class the following season.

 

TSR took part in the world championship in a double role, both as a team and as a manufacturer; in both cases the team has always had a close working relationship with Honda.

In 1991 the only rider of the team was Noboru Ueda, who won two wins this season, while in 1992, again in 125, Kazuto Sakata lined up.

In 1993 they entered the 125 class with Kazuto Sakata and Takeshi Tsujimura, who finished second and third in the standings with three victories in total.

In the following season Takeshi Tsujimura is confirmed in 125, who wins four times during the season, flanked by Tomoko Igata and for three races by Tomomi Manako.

In 1995 the team owner confirmed Tomoko Igata and Tomomi Manako for the 125 class and took Takeshi Tsujimura up to the 250 class.

The following year TSR squad lined up at the start of the only 250 class, with Takeshi Tsujimura and Yasumasa Hatakeyama.

In 1997 the team lined up a 1996 spec Honda NSR 500 in the 500 class entrusted to Nobuatsu Aoki, who finished third in the standings with four podiums, while in the 250 class the starting rider was Takeshi Tsujimura, who finished in seventh position.

In 1998 the riders of the FCC TSR team were Matt Wait in the 500 class on a Honda NSR 500 V2 and Haruchika Aoki in 250, equipped with Honda NSR 250, who also won a podium. TSR also participates as a manufacturer, supplying the TSR-Honda 250 in the middle class to other riders, such as Luca Boscoscuro, Jeremy McWilliams, Roberto Rolfo and Jason Vincent, finishing in 4th place in the constructors' classification.

 

In 1999 japanese blue squad presented at the start in 500 Haruchika Aoki, flanked by José Luis Cardoso, the latter with a team called Maxon TSR, being replaced in a grand prix by David de Gea; in the constructors' classification it is sixth. 

 

This season they participates with the TSR-Honda AC50M, a motorcycle equipped with a frame designed by TSR itself, with an engine supplied by Honda. In the 250 they limits his commitment to the role of constructor, equipping various teams and riders, obtaining the fourth position. The only direct presence as a team is that of Tekkyū Kayō, taking advantage of a wildcard in his home GP.

The following year the driver for the premier class is Yoshiteru Konishi, replaced for a grand prix by Tekkyū Kayō, and the final result in the constructors' classification is 5th place. In 250 the role of constructor prevails again and the fourth position in the standings is confirmed; once again Kayo runs in Japan as a wildcard.

In 2001 the blue squad only took part in the 125 class with Noboru Ueda, who obtained a victory in the Italian GP, ​​taking 5th place among the constructors.

 

In 2002 Andrea Ballerini was hired for the 125, who was replaced in the last few races by Dario Giuseppetti, in turn flanked twice by Joshua Waters.

In 2010, TSR returns to the start of the world championship in the Moto2 class by providing its TSR 6 to the JiR team which, for sponsorship reasons, enrolls it as a Motobi. The only TSR-branded participation takes place in the home match by fielding Yusuke Teshima.

In 2011 the relationship with JiR continues, with only Alex De Angelis; he also takes part directly in the home GP by running Tomoyoshi Koyama, the relationship will continue for 2012, 2013 and 2014.

 

Sponsor :

 

01. The main sponsor is consistently clutch maker F.C.C. The machine coloring with the company's logo on a white background in bright blue is called "F.C.C.blue" and is popular as a custom paint for Honda's sports bikes.

 

02. In the World Endurance Championship, from the 2017-2018 season, he has teamed up with the French Honda subsidiary "Honda France" to participate as "F.C.C. TSR Honda France". The team colors are the French flag and three colors of blue, white and red.

 

03. Previously, Nagoya's FM radio station ZIP-FM joined the Suzuka 8 Hours as a spot sponsor from 1995 to 2007. The number at that time was # 778 from the ZIP-FM frequency.