A girl from India and a guy from Venezuela. What they have in common is a love of motorcycles and a desire to race in MotoGP. Along with over a hundred other teenagers from around the world, they will meet in Guadix, Spain, on October 15, 16 and 17, to show their skills during the Red Bull MotoGP Cup selection.
Three days on a circuit in Spain is their first step towards competition stardom, the same step taken by world champions like Brad Binder, Jorge Martín and Joan Mir who have since exercised their talents in Moto3, Moto2 and MotoGP and who, with other ex-rookies, are heading towards the 100th Grand Prix victory.
How does it work.
These are therefore three decisive days for these young drivers. The total number of participants is divided into 2 groups, the first half of which will ride divided into seven groups on the first day, each on identical 250cc PreMoto3 machines. Each group will have a morning session of around fifteen minutes and will be monitored by four judges who have been involved in Grand Prix racing for several decades.
A second session in the afternoon will give the young people a new opportunity and, at the end of the day, the selection committee will review their observations and draw up the list of drivers who will be invited to return for the third day. Day 2 will see the second half take to the track and the schedule will be repeated.
On the third day, the selected riders will be back on the track for the third and fourth sessions, observed in a similar manner. Then, the Final Selection Committee will establish the list of 10 to 12 riders who will be invited to participate in the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup for 2020. They will join the riders who will continue after this season.
Even if it doesn't work.
It's an important moment for these young talents and tensions are high. It's also a fantastic experience in itself, a celebration of fun and speed. Those who fail to be selected will be able to reapply next year. No matter what happens, they will learn more about themselves and they will have had the opportunity to meet 100 other people from around the world who share the same dreams.
There's still time to vote for your driver to wear the golden bib.
Participants in the selection:
Tomás Acevedo (Argentina)
Senna Agius (Australia)
Fermín Aldeguer Mengual (Spain)
Boudin Alexis (France)
Oscar Almonacil (Spain)
David Alonso (Colombia)
Raquel Ananda Nogueira Vaz (Brazil)
Facundo Andrés Llambias Rosas (Uruguay)
Felipe Arredondo (Colombia)
Julen Avila Cortes (Spain)
Levi Badie (Belgium)
Cristian Basso (Italy)
Pedro Enrique Benito Fraga (Spain)
Dean Berta Vinales (Spain)
Dinis Borges (Portugal)
Franco Reub Bourne (Great Britain)
Cormac Buchanan (New Zealand)
Michal Búlik (Slovakia)
Unai Calatayud Pascual (Spain)
Maxime Cappelle (France)
Ido Chen (Israel)
Torin Collins (Canada)
Davide Conte (Italy)
Rafael Damásio (Portugal)
Adon Davie (Great Britain)
Bryan-Kim Dupasquier (Switzerland)
Fazlı Ercelik (Turkey)
Jorke Erwig (Germany)
Vincent Falcone (France)
Mattia Falzone (Italy)
Filippo Farioli (Italy)
Adrian Fernandez Gonzalez (Spain)
Cros Francis (Australia)
Tetsuya Fujita (Japan)
Leungo Gaorekwe (South Africa)
Drew Gates (South Africa)
George Gerakianakis (Greece)
Clement Giabbani (France)
Sergio Gómez-Caro López-Hermoso (Spain)
Soma Görbe (Hungary)
Luca Göttlicher (Germany)
Angus Grenfell (Australia)
Izan Guevara Bonnin (Spain)
Aryan Gurav (India)
Jack Hart (Great Britain)
Daniel Holgado Miralles (Spain)
Jacopo Adriano Hosciuc (Romania)
Muhammad Izam Ikmal (Malaysia)
Gábor Bence Kecskés (Hungary)
Toby Khamsouk (United States)
Lenni Klemetti (Finland)
Andreas Kofler (Austria)
Maksym Kovalov (Ukraine)
Aditi Krishnan (India)
Raphael Kuberesky Ramos (Brazil)
Rocco Landers (United States)
Caique Lanna de Menezes (Brazil)
Lennox Lehmann (Germany)
Alfonso Gustavo Linares Ochoa (Venezuela)
Linus Lundin (Denmark)
Luca Lunetta (Italy)
Jamie Lyons (Ireland)
Ross Maguire (Great Britain)
Humberto Cezar Maier Neto (Brazil)
Kiko Maria (Portugal)
Juan Andres Marin Arango (Colombia)
Valentina Martinez Trujillo (Colombia)
Gabriele Mastroluca (Italy)
Mario Mayor Frances (Spain)
Mateo Jesus Mayorga Salazar (Argentina)
Ido Menaged (Israel)
Alex Millan Gomez (Spain)
Facundo Martin Mora Allis (Argentina)
Guillermo Marcel Moreno Crail (Mexico)
Alessandro Morosi (Italy)
Max Muckle (Germany)
Daniel Munoz Fernandez (Spain)
David Muñoz Rodriguez (Spain)
Scott Ogden (Great Britain)
Barnabas Olah (Hungary)
Unai Orradre Abad (Spain)
Ivan Ortolá Díez (Spain)
Milan Pawelec (Poland)
Victor Pérez de León Fermann (Mexico)
Ioannis-Konstantinos Peristeras (Greece)
Bartholomé Perrin (France)
João Pedro Pires Campos Arratia (Brazil)
Mattia Rato (Italy)
David Real Perez (Spain)
Maxim Repák (Slovakia)
Oriol Rodriguez Vives (Spain)
Nick Roelfsema (Netherlands)
Marcos Rol Alvarez (Spain)
Elie Rousselot (France)
Marcos Ruda (Spain)
Galip Satici (Turkey)
Errol Sullivan (United States)
Angelo Tagliarini (Switzerland)
Jesus Torres Cabrera (Spain)
Maxwell Toth (United States)
Blai Trias Molas (Spain)
Enzo Valentim Garcia (Brazil)
Ilya Vasilevsky (Russia)
Collin Veijer (Netherlands)
Bastiaan Visser (Netherlands)
Ondrej Vostatek (Czech Republic)
Noel Willemsen (Germany)
Chris Wright (South Africa)
Štěpán Zuda (Czech Republic)
