Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS has finalized its line-up for the 2 Moto2018 world championship after reaching an agreement with Alex Marquez. The latter will thus play his fourth season with the same team.
Alongside Alex Marquez, Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS will field Joan Mir, the current leader of the Moto3 world championship.
Marquez arrived at Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS in 2015 as the reigning Moto3 world champion and is now one of the title contenders in the intermediate Grand Prix class.
This 2017 season will have seen the Spaniard take on a new dimension as a Moto2 rider. Aged 21, Marquez took his first victory at Jerez, during the last Spanish Grand Prix. The Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS driver added to this a second victory, once again in front of his home crowd, at the Catalan Grand Prix held in Barcelona.
Marquez currently occupies third place in the general classification after eight of the eighteen races in the championship, twenty-three points behind Thomas Lüthi and thirty-five points behind the leader, Franco Moribelli, who is none other than his teammate.
Alex Marquez:
“I am happy to announce that I will continue racing next year in Moto2 with Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS. I would like to thank the team for their confidence and I hope to be able to achieve new victories by the end of the season and if possible do even better in 2018. For me, there was no better opportunity possible, it's the best team and I feel like family there. Stability is also something very important, and I am happy to be able to continue working with the same technicians. Knowing what I'm going to do next year at this time of the season will also allow me to finish the season with confidence and we will now be able to concentrate on the races to come to try to reduce our delay on the two drivers who precedes me in the general classification. »
Michael Bartholemy: Team Principal
“I'm happy that we were able to reach an agreement with Alex Marquez so that he can stay with us next year. To be honest, this wasn't very difficult to achieve. Alex wanted to stay and we wanted to keep him to go for the Moto2 world champion title next year. We have always believed in Alex's potential and his ability to become one of the best drivers in the category. That’s what he’s become this season. He showed that he could fight at the front and that he could win races and cross swords every weekend to get on the podium. This will be very important next year when we will have a rookie alongside him, Joan Mir, who will have to adapt to his new category. »
