The FIM and Dorna Sports published on Thursday the lists of Moto2 and Moto3 teams 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 in fact a return to the Moto3 World Championship, with 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 mandated by the Italian Motorcycle Federation (FMI) to manage the Italian team in the Moto3 world championship for the following three global seasons, from 2014 to 2016.
2014 sees Andrea Locatelli et Matteo Ferrari, on Moto3 Mahindras, 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 Bezzecchi. The championship still takes place with Moto3 Mahindras, in a structure renamed 3570 Team Italia.
In 2016, MTA is competing in the Moto3 World Championship with Stefano Valtulini et Lorenzo Petrarca, still with Moto3 Mahindras 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 Grands Prix from 2009 to 2016, becomes Team Manager of the structure for the years to come. MTA is participating in the CIV Moto3, with 3 drivers on Mahindras. The Italian team obtained 2 pole positions, 1 victory and 4 podiums.
In 2018, MTA abandons the Mahindras and strengthens itself in CIV Moto3, with 7 riders, three of which 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 won the CIV Moto3 on TM.
At the same time, MTA also participates in the Junior Moto3 World Championship with the co-managed team TM Racing 3570 MTA which lines up 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 CIV Moto3, in a team co-managed under the name Team M&M, fielding three riders during the season,
Francesco Prioli, Nikolas Marfurt
et Maximilian kofler. This team wins a victory at Mugello with
Maximilian kofler.
At the same time, MTA participates permanently in the European Talent Cup as part of the FIM CEV. The two pilots are Noah Dettwiler et Tommaso Cacadini, all under the name Team MTA Dinoil.
In 2020, MTA signs a direct collaboration with the Reale Avintia Team, a collaboration that involves MTA from Moto3 of
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 Moto3 World Championship with two riders on KTM, 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 FIM CEV Junior Moto3 World Championship 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, back in the deep end under his own colors... The Moto3 will be KTM, the drivers not yet announced.
