Three MotoE riders will be competing in the 2023 Moto2 GP of Valencia. This is Mattia Casadei, 2023 MotoE champion, Matteo Ferrari and Hector Garzò. After 16 races with the V21L electric Ducati, these three protagonists of the MotoE will compete on the Moto2 bikes on the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia.
At the start of the 2023 Valencia GP, in the Moto2 category, there will be three riders who participated in the MotoE World Championship. This is the new World Champion of MotoE, Mattia Casadei, and the third and fourth in the general classification, Matteo Ferrari and Hector Garzò.
Mattia Casadei has been participating in the Moto2 World Championship for a few races already, immediately after winning the MotoE title in the San Marino GP last September. Casadei was hired by the Fantic Racing team starting from the Japanese GP until the season's end. The Italian rider has, therefore, already taken part in five races this year: Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Thailand and Malaysia. Before Valencia, Casadei will also take to the track in Qatar, for the penultimate round of the 2 season of Moto2023. At the moment, his best result was 21st place, obtained both in Thailand and Malaysia, while he had the opportunity to score points in Australia when he crashed while he was tenth. It must be said that the team and rider use these races to understand whether or not to race in Moto2 next year, certainly not to achieve immediate results.
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Together with Casadei, Matteo Ferrari and Hector Garzò will also start the Moto2 race in Valencia. The first will be riding a Kalex that the Gresini team will prepare specifically for him, in addition to the two that regularly took part in the World Championship with Filip Salac and Jeremy Alcoba. The second, who has already participated in the Moto2 World Championship in 2020 and 2021 with the Pons Racing team, will face his home circuit astride a Moto2 from the Japanese chassis manufacturer NTS this time. NTS's last participation in the Moto2 World Championship dates back to 2021, but this wild card with Garzò suggests a return to the world championship after two years of absence. Precisely in Valencia, Garzò had achieved his best results in his two years in Moto2, finishing second in 2020, behind Jorge Martin and ahead of Marco Bezzecchi.
Also for Ferrari, it will be a return to Ricardo Tormo Circuit in Valencia, after winning the MotoE title on this track in 2019, the debut season of the electric class of MotoGP.
As regards the riders' market for MotoE 2024, after the reconfirmation of Ferrari and Finello with the FELO Gresini team and Granado with LCR, all the other pieces on the chessboard are still waiting for Casadei's decision between moving to Moto2 or staying another year in MotoE as reigning champion. All the problems should be resolved after the Valencia GP on November 26th.
MotoE World Championship
The standings of the 2023 championship
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