The rumor has been circulating for a while and here it is official: Sito Pons and his eponymous team, which has been in all the battles of Moto2 since the advent of the category in 2010, will no longer be in the Grand Prix landscape once this season 2023 will be completed. But it is also a structure that has appeared in the paddock since 1992 which is saying goodbye. In 2024, the MT MSi team will take its place, led by Teo Martin, and which is currently shining in Moto3 with Moreira and Azman.
It's a page that is turning for the former double World Champion in 1988 and 1989 in the late 250 category. Sito Pons. A year where the Spaniard will not have lost everything since, in terms of his private life, the heavy penalties that the Spanish tax authorities wanted him to incur were dismissed by the courts. The Pons team is currently rolling Aron canet et Sergio Garcia Dols in Moto2.
Big names have passed through the Pons team
The greatest achievement of this century for the structure was the world title of Pol Espargaro in Moto2 at the end of the 2013 vintage. But there was also the premier category, first in 500 with Alex Criville, who celebrated his first podium in these colors. Without forgetting Max Biaggi, John Kocinski, Carlos Checa, Alex Barros ou Alberto puig. A podium was also won in MotoGP with Loris Capirossi in 2002, on a Honda. There was finally the status of vice-champion among the teams in 2003 with biaggi et You became.
An adventure among the elite ended in 2005 with the loss of his tobacco support. We will not forget the MotoE title in 2021 with Jordi Torres, a success that Pons can repeat again this year since its pilot Mattia Casadei is currently second ranked in this championship. For the future, if Aron canet is negotiating to join the ranks of Fantic, plans remain to be defined for Sergio Garcia.
