The FIM and Dorna Sports published on Thursday the team lists Moto2 et Moto3 selected for 2022.
In this last category, no less than three new teams will join the field next year: MT Helmets – MSI Race Tech, Team MTA and Vision Track Honda.
The story of Team MTA is interesting because it is actually a return to the World Championship Moto3with at its head Alessandro Tonucci as a team manager.
The MTA team, which belongs to Emanuele Ventura (20 years of technical experience in GP, including the 250cc title with Hiroshi Aoyama in 2009) and Stefano Tonucci (father of Alessandro Tonucci), was born in 2013 and was appointed by the Italian Motorcycle Federation (FMI) to manage the Italian team in the world championship Moto3 for the following three world seasons, from 2014 to 2016.
2014 sees Andrea Locatelli et Matteo Ferrari, on the Moto3 Mahindra, with the team called San Carlo Team Italia.
Stefano manzi et Matteo Ferrari succeeded them in 2015, but as Manzi had not turned 16 during the first race in Qatar, MTA made his debut to another promising youngster in Qatar, Marco BezzecchiThe championship always takes place with Moto3 Mahindra, in a structure renamed 3570 Team Italia.
In 2016, MTA competed in the World Championship Moto3 with Stefano Valtulini et Lorenzo Petrarca, always with Moto3 Mahindra and a team called 3570 Team Italia.
In 2017, without the help of the IMF, it was decided to stop the World Cup to focus on the CIV. From the start of this season Alessandro Tonucci, who raced in Grand Prix from 2009 to 2016, becomes Team Manager of the structure for the coming years. MTA participates in the CIV Moto3with 3 riders on Mahindras. The Italian team achieved 2 pole positions, 1 victory and 4 podium finishes.
In 2018, MTA abandoned the Mahindras and strengthened its CIV team. Moto3, with 7 riders, three of whom are co-managed in the TM Racing Factory 3570 MTA team with TM motorcycles, and the other four riders directly by the 3570 MTA team on KTMs. Kevin Zannoni then wins the CIV Moto3 on TM.
At the same time, MTA is also participating in the Junior World Championship Moto3 with the co-managed TM Racing 3570 MTA team which fields Kevin Zannoni et Anthony Groppi, and with its own Team 3570 MTA structure for the Japanese driver (former Red Bull Rookies Cup) Ryusei Yamanaka on KTM in the last three races of the calendar.
In 2019, the MTA structure was chosen by Leopard Racing to entrust it with the management of CIV Moto 3 as Team Leopard Junior Italia on Hondas. The two pilots, Joel Kelso et Matteo Ripamonti, obtained 2 podiums and 2 pole positions.
She also participates in the CIV Moto3, in a team co-managed under the name Team M&M, fielding three drivers during the season, Francesco Prioli, Nikolas Marfurt et Maximilian kofler. This team wins a victory at Mugello with Maximilian kofler.
In parallel, MTA participates permanently in the European Talent Cup as part of the FIM CEV. The two riders are Noah Dettwiler and Tommaso Cacadini , competing under the name Team MTA Dinoil.
In 2020, MTA signed a direct collaboration with Reale Avintia Team, a collaboration that involves MTA of the Moto3 de Carlos Tatay at the MotoGP of Johan zarco.
But the structure directly managed by MTA is mainly present in the FIM CEV, in the Junior World Championship Moto3 with two riders on KTMs Nicholas Spinelli et Raffaele Fusco, and in the European Talent Cup with the Swiss Noah Dettwiler and the Canadian Torin Collins, under the name Reale Avintia MTA Junior Team.
Finally, this year, MTA is present in the Junior World Championship Moto3 FIM CEV with Ivan Ortola, Josh Whatley, and Noah Dettwiler, respectively 3rd, 19th and 25th, and in the European Talent Cup with Torin Collins (28e).
Next year, a return to the big leagues under its own colors… The Moto3 They will be KTMs, the riders have not yet been announced.
