La Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup is undoubtedly the best springboard to reach the Grand Prix (a certain Johann Zarco won the first edition, in 2007), with the FIM CEV championship.
This year, it is dominated by the Japanese Kazuki Masaki in front of the Spaniard Alex Viu and Turkish twin brothers Can and Deniz Öncü, and today, the selections begin to select some of next year's participants.
It takes place over three days on the Almeria circuit, in Spain, and no less than 109 drivers from 31 different nationalities will compete in two groups.
One will take to the track on Tuesday 17th, the other on Wednesday 18th, and those who are selected at the end of the first two days will still have to fight during the final on Thursday 19th October to be among the ten drivers selected for , in 2018, join the “repeaters” of the 2017 season.
Compared to 2017 selections, more French-speaking pilots will try their luck, with Vincent Falcone, Matthieu Gregorio, Guillaume Jucha, Bartholomé Perrin, Paul Robert et Clement Rougé representing the French colors, Barry Baltus for Belgium and Jason dupasquier for Switzerland.
Note that after having had some success with his CIP team during the Japanese Grand Prix (see here),
Alain Bronec skipped Australia and returned to Europe to put on his hat as Sports Speed Manager for the French Motorcycling Federation in order to advise young French riders on site. We wish them the best!
List of participants :
Petr Akimov (Russia)Adael Alarcon (Guatemala)
Pasquale Alfano (Italy)
Joaquin Allivellatore (Argentina)
Tomás Alonso (Portugal)
Victor Alonso Rodilla (Spain)
Kaywan Alves Freira Da Costa (Brazil)
Davide Baldini (Italy)
Luca Balona (South Africa)
Barry Baltus (Belgium)
Elia Bartolini (Italy)
Joshua Bauer (Germany)
Till Benedikt Belczykowski (Germany)
Matteo Bertelle (Italy)
Ruben Bijman (Netherlands)
Jackson Blackmon (United States)
Daniel Blin (Poland)
Daan Alexander Booij (Netherlands)
Thomas Brianti (Italy)
Guilherme Brito (Brazil)
Jeffrey Buis (Netherlands)
Javier Castro (Guatemala)
Luca Correia Coccioni (South Africa)
Max Cook (Britain)
Nicolas Czyba (Germany)
Nicholas D'addorio Spinelli (Italy)
Gabriel Da Silva (United States)
Liam Dafors (Sweden)
Jamie Davis (Britain)
Luca De Vleeschauwer (Belgium)
Alvaro Diaz Cebrian (Spain)
Rick Dunnik (Netherlands)
Jason Philippe Dupasquier (Switzerland)
Pablo Echeverry (Colombia)
Toni Erhard (Germany)
Guillem Erill Trallero (Spain)
Alex Escrig Reche (Spain)
Vincent Falcone (France)
Ned Faulkhead (Australia)
Raffaele Fusco (Italy)
Aaron Garcia (Spain)
Dirk Geiger (Germany)
Julian Giral (Spain)
Mauro Gonzalez Rojas (Spain)
Diego Goretti (Italy)
Matthieu Gregorio (France)
Marco Gronmayer (Austria)
Izan Guevara Bonnin (Spain)
Aaron Gunawardena (Sri Lanka)
Jaden Gunawardena (Sri Lanka)
Brian David Hart (Britain)
Jack Hart (Britain)
Jake Hayes (Canada)
Freddie Heinrich (Germany)
Nicolas Hernandez (Colombia)
Ferran Hernandez Moyano (Spain)
Adrian Huertas Del Olmo (Spain)
Iñigo Iglesias Bravo (Spain)
Dino Iozzo (South Africa)
Simon Jespersen (Denmark)
Damian Jigalov (United States)
Guillaume Jucha (France)
Joel Kelso (Australia)
Brenden Ketelsen (United States)
Toby Khamsouk (Laos)
Oliver König (Czech Republic)
David Kubáň (Czech Republic)
Jake LeClair (Canada)
Aidan Liebenberg (South Africa)
Artem Maraev (Russia)
Nikols Marfurt (Italy)
Alex Millan Gomez (Spain)
István Molnár (Hungary)
Stefano Nepa (Italy)
Jack Nixon (Britain)
Oscar Nuñez Roldán (Spain)
Scott Ogden (Britain)
Leon Orgis (Germany)
Dion Otten (Netherlands)
Ricardo Otto (South Africa)
Xavier Paradis (Canada)
Miguel Parra Martínez (Spain)
Matteo Patacca (Italy)
Lewis Paterson (Britain)
Ionnis-Konstantinos Peristeras (Greece)
Bartholomé Perrin (France)
Wildan Putra (Indonesia)
Paul Robert (France)
Nil Roig (Spain)
Clément Rougé (France)
Jenny Ruokolainen (Finland)
David Salvador Gómez (Spain)
Patrick Santos Costa (Portugal)
Galip Satici (Netherlands)
Aaron Schaefer (Germany)
Max Schmidt (Germany)
Fenton Seabright (Britain)
Max Smith (South Africa)
Bahattin Sofuoğlu (Turkey)
Leonardo Taccini (Italy)
Carlos Tatay (Spain)
Carlos Torrecilla Urban (Spain)
Lennart Ulbel (Austria)
Taric Van Der Merwe (South Africa)
Billy Van Eerde (Australia)
Israel Vanlalhruaizela (India)
Colin Velthuizen (Netherlands)
Tristan Walch (Austria)
Micky Winkler (Germany)
