He is Swiss, thirty years old, was World Champion in 125cc and he can boast of experience at the forefront that is quite rare on the market. And yet, no one thinks of him when it comes to MotoGP. This is how the career of a Tom Luthi, in the running for the Moto2 title this season, but which will see, again, next year, its direct rivals access the premier category. While he will do it again.
By finishing second at Assen, the CarXpert Interwetten driver scored his 42rd podium in Moto2. And until his unfortunate fall at the Sachsenring, he was the only one in the field to have scored points in every event since the opening of the season. Halfway through a season that is still open, he is second to a leader Morbidely who has already secured a future in MotoGP. However, his 34 points behind are not prohibitive with nine races still to go.
But that's how it is. Nobody seriously thinks about Lüthi when making choices in MotoGP. And if he were to be crowned at the end of the year, that wouldn’t change anything: “ contracts are decided before the end of the season, so the result of the championship will not change anything. The fact is that I do not receive any concrete offer from a team involved in MotoGP ».
And on his media Bernerzeitung, he admits that it weighs on him a little. And even a lot, because he always thinks about MotoGP. Since the creation of the Moto2 championship in 2010, he has only appeared outside the final top 5 once. He was furtively mentioned for the handlebars of the second Honda LCR and he was asked for a time by KTM to test an RC16 which was then in its infancy. And when we saw a Honda with the Interwetten logo racing in MotoGP, it was with the Japanese Aoyama...
« You can see that I'm not doing too bad at my job at the moment, but despite that, I don't have any proposals to study for MotoGP ". The Swiss seems to have missed the boat. Yet he still believes in it.
