TRACKHOUSE RACING RETAINS #25 RAUL FERNANDEZ
Trackhouse Racing joined the 2024 MotoGP World Championship as America’s solely group within the premier class and now has its first rider signed for the 2025 and 2026 seasons. Welcome again to the Home – Raul Fernandez!
Because the early days of the Trackhouse Racing undertaking to enter the MotoGP World Championship, again in November of 2023, Raul Fernandez has embraced the imaginative and prescient to kind a brand new, dynamic and aggressive American group on the pinnacle of world bike racing. From the very first check, the 23 12 months previous from Madrid, Spain, has pushed the bounds of his Trackhouse Aprilia RS-GP23 and steadily gained pace, consistency and confidence – and has been a valued chief on his #25 facet of the pit storage.
Bringing on younger expertise has been an indicator of the Trackhouse strategy from the start when Justin Marks opened Trackhouse Racing as an entry within the NASCAR Cup collection in 2021. After simply 3 years, Trackhouse has achieved 7 wins within the ivy league of inventory automotive racing and has turn out to be more and more aggressive on two wheels with front-row qualifying efficiency and a Dash race podium final day out on the German Grand Prix.
As one of many standout younger abilities within the MotoGP World Championship, Raul joined the premier class in 2022, having been a really shut 2nd place within the intermediate Moto2 championship in 2021 – scoring eight wins alongside the best way and within the eyes of many, the category act of the 12 months. His MotoGP profession to this point has seen Raul steadily gaining confidence and in 2024, his true potential has turn out to be clear with a strong, aggressive, atmosphere round him within the Trackhouse storage and the expertise of Crew Principal, Davide Brivio, serving to to information his strategy to racing.
Trackhouse has chosen to proceed working with Raul, aiming to assist him develop his profession and the efficiency of the group for the long run. Having proven his tempo on the 2023 specification Aprilia, Raul will graduate onto the most recent spec RS-GP24 on the subsequent spherical – Silverstone, for the British Grand Prix and all at Trackhouse are enthusiastic about his prospects for the remainder of this season and the following two years to come back. Go Raul – Vamos!
RAUL FERNANDEZ
“I’m tremendous completely happy to stay with Trackhouse Racing MotoGP. That’s all we wished; this new undertaking, with Justin and Davide, is nice and so they have constructed an excellent group. I’m delighted to listen to their plans for the long run as they’ve a transparent concept of what they wish to do and for me, from the start of the 12 months, it was my precedence to attempt to keep within the group. On the finish, I get to be right here for the following two years which leaves me very glad however, after all, this additionally means we have now lots of work to do. We may have the total manufacturing unit materials in 2025 and 2026, clearly nice information and proper now, we’re gearing as much as begin with a brand new bike in the course of this 12 months, so we have now to make good use of this to organize for subsequent 12 months as effectively. We have to keep calm, perceive every little thing in regards to the bike and see what we have now to do for the 2025 season – it is vitally essential. Trackhouse Racing MotoGP is simply an incredible group, I really like the concepts of this American group and I’m additionally completely happy to see Justin’s ambitions. He’s new to MotoGP however able to carry one thing totally different in right here for the American market and I hope we are able to make a distinction – attempting to make MotoGP develop there. Additionally, with Davide I’m very completely happy. He gained 5 titles in MotoGP to date and I believe he’s the appropriate individual to assist me to meet my desires. I strongly imagine in him and his skills to create an excellent group, I’m simply over the moon. Now, in Silverstone, we are going to obtain the 2024 improve specification of the Aprilia, which goes to be thrilling. The primary a part of this 12 months has already gone effectively, particularly the final 4 rounds, as we managed to make some huge steps and took the utmost from the bike. I really feel that we’re on the restrict in the meanwhile, so it’s nice to leap to the brand new Aprilia now. We may have the identical materials, just like the manufacturing unit riders and Miguel, so it is going to be attention-grabbing to search out out about our stage contained in the championship, particularly on the Aprilia facet.”
DAVIDE BRIVIO – TEAM PRINCIPAL
“We’re completely happy to safe Raul in our rider line-up for the following two years. Having seen him at work in the previous few months, we have now appreciated his expertise and I really feel that he has been altering his strategy to racing and that he’s prepared to work, prepared to place within the effort to enhance, to resolve issues and that is at all times with a constructive strategy. That is one thing that we have now appreciated and it is going to be essential to proceed for our future, having already 3 12 months’s expertise in MotoGP and figuring out the most recent 2024 spec Aprilia RS-GP from Silverstone to the tip of the season – it is going to be one of the simplest ways to organize Raul for the approaching two years. I believe we have now loads in frequent; the mind-set on this undertaking and Raul is completely happy together with his crew, he’s completely happy in regards to the group course and so there are all of the situations we have to make our problem stronger, assist get Raul to be a stronger rider and preserve pushing to make Trackhouse Racing a greater MotoGP group.”
JUSTIN MARKS – TEAM OWNER
“I’m thrilled that Raul will be part of Trackhouse for the long run – he has proven the dedication and dedication essential to excel on the MotoGP World Championship stage. We’re a brand new group and studying daily so having a younger, hungry, rider like Raul can be tremendously useful as we proceed to work with Aprilia constructing the group. Raul has super pace and expertise and everyone knows that, as his expertise grows, he can be nearer and nearer to the highest step of the rostrum.”
