very happy to return to the Aspar Team," said de Puniet, "Having already raced with them in 2005 during my 250cc career. I have very fond memories of that time and now we are taking on a new challenge together in the shape of CRT. I know that this is a

MAPFRE ASPAR Moto2 boss Jorge Martinez has today unveiled the squad's new Moto2 racer.A brace of the new 600cc bikes, complete in Mapfre's corporate red-white paint scheme, will be ridden in this year's inaugural Moto2 championship by Julian Simon

, cancelled his two-year deal with Jorge 'Aspar' Martinez over conflicts regarding a 'lack of a second bike' and the 'changing of one-sided media representation rights'. The 2007 125 World Champion himself stated: “My life is about racing. But we got

ASPAR TEAM supremo Jorge Martinez is reportedly in talks to take over the Kawasaki MotoGP team following revelations that the Japanese manufacturer was planning to pull out of the 2009 MotoGP championship.‘Negotiations to take over the two Kawasaki

-red motorcycles – most likely with 250cc weapon Alvaro Bautista as the rider.Speaking at a press conference, Aspar said: “At every Grand Prix we are working towards a solution and this weekend in Barcelona I hope to have some meetings to move things forward

BRADLEY SMITH was fastest at the end of the Valencia Aprilia test yesterday.The young Brit took to the track as part of a combined 125cc and 250cc test at the Spanish track on Monday riding with the Aspar squad for Jorge Martinez' 125cc squad

IT SOUNDS as though the deal to put Hector Faubel into Moto2 next year has been done, meaning that the Spanish rider will line-up for the Aspar team as 600cc team-mate in the new class alongside our own Bradley Smith.Faubel is reported to be going

NEWLY CROWNED 125cc World Champion Julian Simon has signed for team Aspar in the inaugural Moto2 championship.“I am happy to go to a new category again. Last year I came back to 125 and now I have the opportunity to go back up to Moto2. I hope I can

IT'S ALL go in MotoGP as the 2010 riders are decided. The latest to join the big league is GP250 stalwart Hector Barbera.Barbera, who is currently third in the GP250 championship, has signed for the new Ducati satellite squad, Aspar Ducati

out with a fracture to the tibula and fibula sustained in a crash with Kenan Sofuoglu at Catalunya. The Mapfre Aspar rider will be replaced at Assen by the first female to race in the Moto2 class, Elena Rosell.