{"id":25607,"date":"2023-05-17T12:21:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T10:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/?p=25607"},"modified":"2023-05-17T17:13:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:13:20","slug":"el-circuit-ricardo-tormo-celebrates-fim-juniorgp-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/el-circuit-ricardo-tormo-celebrates-fim-juniorgp-second-round\/","title":{"rendered":"El Circuit Ricardo Tormo celebrates FIM JuniorGP second round"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the opening encounter in the history books, it\u2019s time to go again at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit. It was an electric start to the 2023 Finetwork FIM JuniorGP\u2122 World Championship at Estoril in Portugal, and the action continues as the stars of the show head to Spain for round two. The Ricardo Tormo Circuit in Cheste, Valencia has always sprinkled magic through the paddock and this year promises to be no different. With two JuniorGP\u2122 races, one Moto2\u2122 European Championship race, two European Talent Cup races and one Stock European Championship race, fierce battles are bookmarked once again.<\/p>\n

In the JuniorGP\u2122 <\/strong>class, a slipstream battle to the line saw Nico Carraro (Aspar Junior Team) pick up a career-first win, the 49th in the class since 2012, when Moto3\u2122 machinery was introduced. As there was only one race at Estoril, the 20-year-old Italian leads the charge to Valencia, where he\u2019s never previously scored points. He pipped Angel Piqueras (Team Estrella Galicia 0,0) to honours at Estoril but Piqueras has been touted as one of the riders to watch throughout 2023 and for good reason. A rookie last year with three podiums, the first of which came as a second in Valencia\u2019s Race 1, a first win does elude him but after being denied again last time out, he\u2019ll be hungry to stand on the top step. One rider who impressed at Estoril was Alvaro Carpe (STV Laglisse Racing), who crossed the line third but was later disqualified from what would\u2019ve been his first podium in JuniorGP\u2122. With two victories in ETC at Valencia, Carpe aims to become the 50th different winner in the class since 2012 and the 100th since the first year of the Championship, back in 1998.<\/p>\n

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Looking to the Moto2\u2122 ECh<\/strong> and it was a dominant start to 2023 for Senna Agius (Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP Junior Team), as he eased to two wins. Heading to Valencia, he crashed out of the lead as he came to prominence within the Championship in 2022. He\u2019ll be hoping to make it three from three at the start of 2023. Second overall ahead of Valencia, Niccolo Antonelli (Team MMR), who started with an eight place in Race 1 before taking third in Race 2 at Estoril. Antonelli is a veteran in the World Championship paddock and has experience in abundance at Valencia. A pole position in Moto3\u2122 back in 2014 is coupled with two top ten finishes, whilst he also has a pole in JuniorGP\u2122 in 2012 and two front rows in the two years previous, in the standings, Mattia Rato (AGR Team) was consistent at Estoril with fifth and fourth, with the 18-year-old aiming for a first podium of the 2023 season. After their clash and crash at Estoril in the podium fight, Carlos Tatay (Pertamina Mandalika SAG Team) and Harrison Voight (Yamaha Philippines Stylobike Racing Team) aim to make amends.<\/p>\n

The ETC<\/strong> saw familiar faces fend off the new stars, as Brian Uriate took a double victory in fine style, to lead the standings on his way to Valencia, where he was second last year. He hopes to continue his form from Portugal, but 2021 ETC title winner Max Quiles (Aspar Junior Team) will hope to have something to say about that. Valencia was the scene of his first win of 2022, although it was the only race he failed to finish in during his 2021 season, so it is a case of mixed memories. Third in the standings and so close to a first race win in Race 1 of the season at Estoril, Rico Salmela (Team Estrella Galicia 0,0), with the Finnish rider taking a third podium of his career. At Valencia last year, he achieved a best result of third in Race 1, whilst he\u2019s enjoyed a front row start in second back in 2021. Defending title holder Guido Pini (AC Racing Team) was second in the final race of 2022 in Valencia, where he clinched the title. After a tricky start to 2023, he\u2019ll hope to be back on form for round two<\/p>\n

In the Stock\u2122 ECh<\/strong>, their second round will be all about trying to tame Daniel Mu\u00f1oz, as the Spaniard stormed to victory at Estoril and he\u2019ll be keen to do the same again at his first home round. Marco Garcia (Easyrace Team) was second at Estoril, ahead of Alex Millan (Fifty Motorsport) and both will try and stop Mu\u00f1oz in the final race of the day.<\/p>\n

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With the opening encounter in the history books, it\u2019s time to go again at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit. It was an electric start to the 2023 Finetwork FIM JuniorGP\u2122 World Championship at Estoril in Portugal, and the action continues as the stars of the show head to Spain for round two. The Ricardo Tormo Circuit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[990],"class_list":["post-25607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fim-juniorgp-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}