Johann Zarco Third in Italian GP on the Podium of Mugello

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A beautiful day, for the CAME Iodaracing Team at Mugello, with a third place finish in the Moto2 race by Johann Zarco. The French rider who started from the second row in the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, with the fourth qualifying time, was well served by the acceleration of his Suter keeping the position of the first corner.

Remained in the group of fugitives, composed by Scott Redding, Nico Terol and Takaaki Nakagami, Zarco is successful, after the crash of the Japanese, to join in the fight for victory with Redding and Terol. With the passing of laps Zarco waited, remaining in close with Terol,  waiting the best moment to make an overtake made him closed to the victory. With Redding solidly in the lead and Terol ahead of him by a small margin, Johann Zarco has decided to consolidate his third place for the championship.

On the podium, with Johann Zarco third, even Nico Terol, second and Scott Redding, who won his second race of the season have celebrated the day. Now in the Riders Championship, Johann Zarco occupies the seventh position with 44 championship points. The third place of Johann Zarco is a great result for the CAME Iodaracing Team, which closes a positive home race at Mugello, after the great performances of the past few days.

Johann Zarco

”I am very happy with this podium. It’s a great result for the CAME team and in the home Grand Prix. Then I’m happy to have won here my first podium of the category for me is very important. This weekend I felt more and more comfortable on the bike and I was able to do some good practices and set ups. Leaving front was a good help, then in the group I saw that I could keep Terol and attack, but when I saw Redding go away and Nico take a little gap of the end of the race, I thought the third place I would have been fine.’m very satisfied with the last two races, beginning of year. My performances have gone to progression and for this I can not wait to arrive in Barcelona, ​​to do even better. “

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Petrucci Scores Points at Mugello, Pesek Ends His First Race of the Season

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The Italian GP closes in a very positive shape for the CAME Iodaracing Team. After the podium in Moto2 by Johann Zarco, a good performance is arrived from the MotoGP riders, Danilo Petrucci and Lukas Pesek. Petrucci closed the home race in 12th place overall, fourth among the CRT riders. This is the second good result for Petrucci after the 14th place overall in Le Mans.

The performances of Danilo Petrucci are growing along his Ioda Suter BMW, which continues to benefit from continuous upgrades and staff work Magneti Marelli, which, along with the CAME Iodaracing Team, is contributing to the development of new control unit for the MotoGP. Petrucci, who started with the sixteenth time from the sixth row of the starting grid, was able to fit behind Andrea Iannone. After a failure of the Ducati rider, Petrucci was able to pass him  finishing the race in front of a motorcycle prototype.

Good race also for Lukas Pesek, who finish in nineteenth position, his first race of the season. Even for Pesek, the weekend of Mugello has helped to increase the confidence in the Ioda Suter BMW.

Danilo Petrucci 

“I am very happy with my 12th place, which is very encouraging. At the beginning I tried to stay with Barbera and De Puniet but they had a step better than mine. Spite all I was amazed by my race pace, it is the first time that I can be so fast over a GP. Eventually I managed to contain the return of Andrea Iannone who had made a long and for this I managed to finish the race in front of a motorcycle prototype. I’m very satisfied because we are putting to good use the experience of the past year. With the team we are working very well and we were able to find this a great set up. Even the electronics is working really well and this makes me optimistic for the next races. “

Lukas Pesek

“My goal for the Mugello was to get to the finish and finally I done it. The fact that I have not ended the previous races I was a bit penalized and are back again for this. With the team we were able to find a good set-up and this makes me optimistic for the next races. But I must improve in many parts of my riding style, especially when I’m fighting with someone, because I can not be as effective as I am alone. “

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Lukas Pesek 18th on Debut, Technical Problem Danilo Petrucci

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In the MotoGP race, won by Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha) with Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) second and Marc Marquez (Honda) third, the two Came Iodaracing riders were not able to achieve quite positive results. Lukas Pesek, who started from the fifth row with the fifteenth time, finished 18th in the race. Bad luck for Danilo Petrucci that had some mechanical problems on his Ioda-Suter-BMW when he was in the CRT’s lead group looking to reach some points.

Lukas Pesek

”I’m not entirely happy with my race, but I’m not even disappointed. For me, this was the first race in MotoGP and it was important to finish it. So my target was to do it, but I yet to experience many things. Certainly this is not the position that suits me, I would get the goal is to get them to take some points. “

Danilo Petrucci

”What a shame I made a pretty good start and managed to engage the group of the best CRT’s. Then I was Struggling with Barberà, then trying to overtake Edwards I made a straight. When back in track, I started to push to recover, but the bike is turned off. I left the track, but the engine is not turned on. A real bad luck in the first race of the season. “

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Johann Zarco Ends 12th in Losail Moto2

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The Qatar’s evening races for the Came Iodaracing Team began with the Moto2 challenge. The Frenchman Johann Zarco, made a good start to recover some positions from the fourteenth starting place. 

On the first lap, Zarco managed to take the chase, managing to get into the top ten. Towards mid-race battle with the other drivers, some difficulties feeling his Suter, Zarco did not allow to remain in the top ten. With lap passing, due to lost of the the confidence with the bike, the French rider of the Team Came Iodaracing began to suffer severe pain in the arms that limited his performance in the final part of the race. 

Under the checkered flag, Zarco finished his first race of the 2013 season with the 12th place, which is worth 4 points in the Championship. The Moto2 race in Qatar was won by Pol Espargaro (Kalex), with Scott Redding (Kalex) and Takaaki Nakagami (Kalex) second and third respectively.

Johann Zarco

”I’m pretty disappointed to have finished the race out of ten. I made a good start and was immediately in the second group, but towards the end I did not have the right feeling with the bike and so I started doing more force on the handlebar. At this point my arms began to ache and I couldn’t be able to stayin the middle of the other riders to race for the podium. Unfortunately, we still have to fix something in our bike, but I am sure that with the team we can solve everything. “

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Lukas Pesek Has Got a Good Result in the Last Jerez Test

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Lukas Pesek has closed the day in 15th position with 1.41.719, his best time of the test with the 20th place overall, at 2.280 from Crutchlow. The Came Iodaracing Czech rider has worked a lot on the new Ioda-Suter BMW 2013 with which he has done 49 laps both on the dry and on the wet.

Danilo Petrucci has finished in 18th place with 1.42.428 at 2.917 from Crutchlow’s best time. The rider from Terni, on track only from 4.30 PM, has not improved his 1.41.529 of yesterday, 17th position in the overall standings, beacause of some little problems to his bike solved faster by Came Iodaracing staff.

Lukas Pesek

"Today was a very usefull day for us, we have worked a lot on the new Ioda-Suter chassis testing also different eletronics solutions. We did many laps both on the wet and on the dry track and now we have many informations that will be very important for the incoming season. In the last minutes of the practice we decided to use a new set of tyres and I got a good lap time very close to the other CRTs and this is very good looking forward to Qatar race. I have to say thank you to my team for the great job that they have done"

Danilo Petrucci

"Unfortunately, as happened in the others tests, on the third day we didn’t improve what we have done in the two days before. The bad weather has conditioned the track, and we have also lost some time for some little problems to my bikes with the dry track. I’m disappointed for that because yesterday everything was ok, but I’m also very confident for the first race in Qatar"

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Danilo Petrucci Has Continued to Develope the New ECU for IodaRacing at Sepang Day 3

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Came Iodaracing Team development plan continued this morning with Lukas Pesek that has got the 24th position with 2’05.321, after 40 laps, at 5.221 from Pedrosa. The Czech rider has begun to work on the set up of his IODA-SUTER BMW showing to start to find a good feeling with it and with the new class, improving his lap time of almost two seconds.

In the afternoon Danilo Petrucci did 34 laps before it started to rain, finishing in 20th position with 2’04.531 at 4.431 from Pedrosa’s best lap. The young rider from Terni has continued to develope the new Magneti Marelli ECU, but because of the rain he couldn’t improve his 2’04.284 got yesterday that is his best lap during these three days.

Next MotoGP Official Test will take place from February 26th to 28th again on Sepang Circuit.

Danilo Petrucci

“Today we have focused our work on the development of the new ECU, but the rain has ruined in part our plans. At the end of this five days I’m quite happy, the new arrival was the Magneti Marelli ECU that, after some little problem at the beginning, showed to have a good potential and from the next test we will see great improvements. In two weeks we will come here again and we will have the IODA-SUTER 2013 with a new chassis developed also with datas collected in these days”.

Lukas Pesek, 

“I’m quite happy today because we have improved a lot our lap time. I like very much my IODA-SUTER, I have a good feeling with it but I need to do more kilometres to understand it in a better way. I’m very happy to work again with my chief crew, the same of 125cc years, we have a good feeling and in this way it’s easy to work and improving faster. I want to say thank you to all the team for their great job and also to Giampiero Sacchi and Came for the great opportunity that they gave to me”.

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Ioda Racing Sepang MotoGP Test Review Day 1

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After two ECU-CRT Test days, Today start a three days of MotoGP Offical Test with all the riders and bikes that will take part at MotoGP World Championship 2013.

Dani Pedrosa, Honda, has got the best time with 2’01.157, followed by Lorenzo at just 0.004 and by his teammate Marquez at 0.044.

The Came Iodaracing Team work plan today was focused on Lukas Pesek that with his IODA-SUTER BMW has done 46 laps getting the 26th position with 2’07.015 at 5.858 from Pedrosa.

In the last two hours of practice also Danilo Petrucci was on track finishing, after 29 laps, at the 22nd place with 2’05.753 at 4.596 from the best lap.

Danilo Petrucci

“Today I practiced just the last two hours according our plan. We have worked on the suspension and on the chassis because the new ECU has a problem to the firmware of the traction control, but the Magneti Marelli staff is working hard to solve this probelm as soon as possible. Tomorrow will be my day and if the traction contol will be ok, we will start to develope the new ECU”.

Lukas Pesek

“It was a good day, I did many laps and I’m getting the first feeling with my new bike. There is still a lot of work to do but for being the first real day of test it was not so bad”.

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Not Much Action for CRT at Sepang

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Extra two days for CRT team at Sepang wasn't going well. After some technical problem at day one, today (local time) at Sepang, the test was interrupted by rain. Only Danilo Petrucci did more action on the track than the other riders

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Danilo Petrucci did 27 laps on day one for Came IodaRacing. Petrucci tested the new ECU. Meanwhile his new teammate Lukas Pesek only stayed at the pit. On the day two, Lukas Pesek did a few laps and share the ECU with Petrucci.

Avintia Racing

Both Hector Barbera and Hiroshi Aoyama made some laps on the day one after they got a wiring loom issue. Unfortunately Hiroshi Aoyama still felt some pain, so he couldn't continue and decided to enter pit. Hiroshi Aoyama doesn't take the day two test due to fitness problem. While Hector Barbera managed 20 laps once the rain settled down, finishing the day second quickest behind Petrucci.

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NGM Forward Racing was slowed by a late delivery of parts on day one. Colin Edwards and Claudio Corti could only stand around and watch as the team finished their work throughout the day. On the day two, both riders made a few laps to gather information from the ECU

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Came IodaRacing 2013 Line Up Presentation

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Came IodaRacing Project has unveiled its team to take part in the MotoGP and Moto2 World Championship this year at its factory in Dosson di Casier on Januart 30th. Danilo Petrucci and Lukas Pesek will ride the Ioda-Suter BMW, while Johann Zarco on Moto2 class with a Suter machine.

Paolo Menuzzo, President of Camegroup S.p.A.

"Sponsoring sport with large audiences at an international level like MotoGP, as well as our partnership with Dorna, have turned out to be the right strategy for our business. Once again MotoGP will be the perfect international stage to promote our products and our services.”

Giampiero Sacchi, CEO, Iodaracing Project srl

"Our great challenge in MotoGP goes on. Last year’s results have lead us to field a second bike in this class. Lukas will team up with Danilo, while we have hired Johann Zarco, a young and talented rider, for our Moto2 team. I take this opportunity to welcome our two new sponsors, B-Pure and Anonimo Orologi, who have also joined us for this adventure. A very special thanks goes to Came and BMW, for their support and confidence.”

Danilo Petrucci

"I am very happy to be here again. I am glad that Giampiero Sacchi has put his confidence in me for two years. This is my second season in MotoGP, after a very hard year for everybody. But it was very useful too. I wish to thank IodaRacing, Suter and BMW for their support and their hard work. I wish to say that I am doing my very best and I will keep on doing it, and hope we will be rewarded with the results we all deserve.”

Lukas Pesek 

"It will be a very a hard season, not only because I am returning to the World Championship after two years, but because it is my first year in MotoGP. I am doing my best to be in perfect shape for Sepang and am very excited to test my Ioda Suter. Anyhow I am facing this season with great enthusiasm and full commitment. I take this opportunity to thank Giampiero Sacchi and Came for this great opportunity, and all my fans in the Czech Republic for their affection and support.”

Johann Zarco, Moto2

"I am very happy to be part of one of the best teams in the World Championship. I have had the chance to confirm the proven skills of their technicians already in Valencia during the testing sessions right after the last race. I went to Terni a few weeks ago and have visited their impressive race department, and realized that everybody at IodaRacing works with total commitment to racing. I don’t deny that our main goal for this season is to fight for the top positions and for me to do my very best at all races. We will soon face the official tests where I will work hard to find a good feeling with my new Suter. I don’t know my bike in depth yet, but I felt a strong sensation when I first rode it in the tests in Valencia. Since I am here with the sole intention of fighting for victory, I want to be on a good shape from the very first race in Qatar.”

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Lukas Pesek Joins Came IodaRacing 2013

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Lukas Pesek will ride for Came IodaRacing along with Danilo Petrucci for 2013 season. This Czech rider will be reunited with his former manager at Derbi, Giampero Sacchi. Pesek will ride CRT's BMW-powered Suter for next season.

Lucas Pesek

"I'm very happy to get this opportunity. I have to thank Giampiero Sacchi, with whom I share some great memories of my 125cc years. Racing in MotoGP is definitely not an easy task, I'll be up against the best riders in the world - it's a big step for sure but I'll give my best!"

Giampero Sacchi

"Lukas's return is very welcome - he wrote some great pages of Derbi's history in 125cc working alongside some of our current team members. It's a tough challenge lying ahead of him but I'm sure he can do well in the premier class."

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Danilo Petruci Seventeenth with New Suter at Aragon

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The sun shines on Motorland Circuit for the races of the Grand Prix of Aragon, with the riders that have fougth for the victory untill the last lap.

Danilo Petrucci has finished in 17th position his second race with the new IODA-SUTER BMW. The Came Iodaracing Team rider was riding during the first laps for points but he couldn’t have the same pace of his opponents for some problem to the suspensions of his bike that he hadn’t tested on the dry track during the practice because of the rain.

Danilo Petrucci

“I hoped in a better race but we have choosen a wrong setting of the bike, but this is normal with just one dry practice in the past days, and this morning we didn’t the warm up for a problem to the front tyre sensor of the Traction Control. We are getting a lot of datas and that will be good for the next races”.

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Simone Corsi Gets the 7th Place in Aragon

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Simone Corsi has closed the Moto2 race in 7th position at 4.317 from the winner Pol Espargaro. He started well from the pole position leading the race for the first two laps. Then began a duel with Marquez, Espargaro and Iannone for the victory with many overtakes. At five laps to the end Espargaro force the pace and get a little gap that he has defended untill the end, while Corsi made a mistake at Turn 12 going down to the 9th position. He pushed hard trying to reach the podium group but he finished the race in 7th position.

Simone Corsi

“I’m very diasappointed my target was the podium instead I did a mistake at Turn 12 and I have lost the leading group. I want to say thank you to my team for their great job, we were very competitive for all the week end aslo if we have suffered less power during the rece than our opponents”.

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Petrucci Retired in Laguna Seca

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Also this morning the fog was on Laguna Seca Raceway and the Race Direction was forced to delay the warm up of one hour, while the race was sunny with 18 degrees.

Race to forget for Danilo Petrucci that ha sto retire during the 19th lap. The Came Iodaracing Team young rider after a bad start has rejoined fast the group of points. From the 9th lap Danilo began to feel that the front of his TR003 is closing and he risked to crash many times. When he has lost the contact also from Silva and Edwards he decided to retire at twelve laps to the end of the race.

Danilo Petrucci:

“I’m very disappointed. I didn’t a good start but I reached fast the group of points. At the begining of the race I had a good feeling with my TR003, but from the 10th lap the front of my bike began closing and I risked to crash many times, so I decided to retire. I’m very sad because is orrible to leave a race for problem like that and I’m also very sorry for my team that has worked very hard durning this week end”.

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Ioda Racing Moto3 Review: Mugello to Forget

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Luigi Morciano has got the 27th place, while Jonas Folgers had to retire during the sixth lap because the engine of his TR002 suddenly has lost power.

Morciano

“I’m not happy for this result the only positive thing is that my engine has over 800 km and this is good for the TR002 evolution”.

Jonas Folger

“During the warm up my engine was very good but during the race after six laps it lost a lot of power and I decided to retire. Now there is a long pause of the championship and the Emir and Iodaracing technicians can work a lot on the TR002”.

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Very Hard Race for Simone Corsi

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Simone Corsi has finished in 18th position in Moto2 class. The Roman rider, with a broken rib for the crash during the practice of yesterday, did a good start and riding in the leading group since the tenth lap when he made a mistake in the first corner. From that moment Corsi decided to not push hard because of the pain, and has finished the race in 18th place.

Simone Corsi

“It was a very hard race my FTR was very good and we were very competitive for all the week end. In the first part of the race I was fighting in the leading group, then I did a mistake and I decided to not push because in every brake and change of direction I feel a strong pain”.

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Petrucci: We were quite competitive on Mugello

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It’s a wounderful sunny day in Mugello for the Italian Grand Prix, just the strong wind created some problems to the riders causing some crashes.

Danilo Petrucci has finished his race just after three laps for a crash. After a good start, the Came Iodaracing Team rider was fighting in the CRT’s leading group when at the beginning of the fourth lap he has lost the front of his bike finishing in the gravel.

Danilo Petrucci

“I did a good start and I was fighting in the CRTs’ leading group but during the fourth lap at Poggio Secco corner I lost the front of my TR003 and I crashed out. We were quite competitive on this track and this is very positive looking to Laguna Seca race”.

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Unlucky Race for Jonas Folger at Sachsenring

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Unlucky race for Jonas Folger in Moto3 forced to retire at nine laps to the end when he was in 8th position. The Iodarcing Project rider did a good start and was in the front group for the first half of the race. Durning the 18th lap when he was catching up again the front group his TR002 overheated and he had to retire. Luigi Morciano did a good race finishing in 22nd position, but he started from the pit lane 10 seconds after the green light for exceeding al location of engines.

Jonas Folger

“I’m very disappointed. I was doing a very good race in the front group, but my engine overheated. I tried to put off some tape from my radiator, it was right for the wet conditions, but I had to retire. I have to thank my team and Iodaracing for everything that they are doing, we are more competitive and I’m sure that we will get the right results in a short time”.

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Simonce Corsi Gets the Sixth Place in Sachsenring

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Simone Corsi has finished, in Moto2 class, in 6th position. The Roman rider has lost many position after the start, but he forced the pace getting the 5th position after eleven laps. He fighted for long with Espargarò, Luthi and Smith but in the last laps he has lost terrain from the first two riders finishing the race at the 6th place.

Simone Corsi

“Unfortunately i did a bad start and I lost the first group, I push hard getting many position but in the last laps my bike slides a lot  and i risket to crash several times. Now we will go to Mugello where I want to fight for the podium”.

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Danilo Petrucci 17th with a Lot of Pain at Sachsenring

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Danilo Petrucci has finished in 17th place in MotoGP class. The Came Iodaracing Team rider still suffers a lot of pain for the crash during yesterday practice and after a good start he couldn’t have the pace to fight for points. He stayed the firt half of the race with Battaini’s MotoGP and Silva and in the last lap he overtook the spanish rider finishing in 17th position.

Danilo Petrucci

“It was a very hard race. I feel a lot of pain to the breast and the back for the crash of yesterday, and for this reason it was very difficult to force the pace. Next week we will race in Mugello, my home track, and I will do my best to get a good result in front of my fans”.

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Ioda Racing Moto3 Assen Review

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Luigi Morciano has finished the race in 28th position. The Ioda team Italia rider has done a good race where he got in the first part the same lap times of the top riders. Jonas Folger was forced to retire for a crash during the fourth lap.

Luigi Morciano

“I’m very happy because in these days we have got many good result during the race I did many good laps and this in good for the next two race”.

Jonas Folger

“I try to push hard trying to do a good race after many problems but during the fourth lap the front of my TR002 close and I crashed out. I hope to do a good race next week in Germany in front of my fans”.

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