In a situation where there is a lot of talk about the Avintia team in MotoGP, between the end of Abraham's contract and the still-awaited formalization of Johann Zarco, he would have a lot to say by recalling his sad experience with the Spanish team Ducati customer. But Christophe Ponsson moved on to better find the Superbike machines. The 23-year-old Frenchman will even be seen on three occasions in WSBK, and on an Aprilia.
His misadventure with Avintia in MotoGP last year as a freelancerEsteve Rabat so injured was not easy to digest. But the past is now the past. The future for Christophe Ponsson is called Aprilia RSV4 and team Nuova M2. The young Frenchman will compete in the CIV, the Italian Superbike championship, with three wildcards in WSBK.
According to information relayed by GPOne, the team worked in Jerez during two days of testing, Ponsson testing Noale's V4 on the track for the first time. It will be recalled that Christophe Ponsson already has a long experience, notably with the European Superstock 600 Championship in 2011 and the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup in 2013. In 2015 he made his debut in the Superbike World Championship. He then competed in the French and Spanish Superbike championships. In 2018 he made his MotoGP debut at the San Marino Grand Prix replacingEsteve Rabat. In 2019 he rode in the Spanish Superbike Championship.
