Valencia, the last round of the season for Avintia Racing

03/11/15 Avintia Racing MotoGP – Grand Prix of Valencia – PREVIEW

The Ricardo Tormo – Comunidad Valenciana circuit will host this weekend the last round of the 2015 MotoGP World Championship. After 17 Grand Prix races the Champions are to be decided at Valencia and the Avintia Racing rider, Hector Barbera, heads his home race at the top of the Open Class. The rider from Valencia has been fighting for the lead of his category during all the year and he is five points ahead of Loris Baz before the final race of the season.

This will be a special Grand Prix for Mike Di Meglio, as it will be the last one with Avintia Racing after two great seasons. The Frenchman aim for Valencia is to be fighting for the top places in the Open Class and finish the season with a good result.

The weather forecast is great and the circuit will be full of fans as all the tickets are sold out from one week ago, so all is set for the season finale.

HECTOR BARBERA #8 / @HectorBarbera

Valencia is always a special race for me as I grew up as a rider in that circuit and is my favourite track of the calendar. To race at home, with my home crowd so close to the tarmac is an unbelievable feeling. This year will be great for the MotoGP fans as two Championships are to be decided and I hope to do a good race and celebrate the Open Class title. This was a great season and we head to Valencia in good mood after three good races, so I’m looking forward to jump on my bike on Friday and start the last race weekend of the season.

MIKE DI MEGLIO #63 / @Mikejpp63

This is the last race of the season and for sure it will be very exciting. Valencia is a difficult and technical circuit, but I arrive with high motivation and aiming a good result in the last race of the season. I know that I wont be easy, but my target for this weekend is to be the best Open Class rider and I’ll give my best to archive it. We did some positive steps forward with the set up of the bike during the last three races and I hope this will help us at Valencia.

More, from a press release issued by Forward Racing:

Grand Final at Valencia for Forward Racing

After seventeen races the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia will host the 2015 season Grand Final. Loris Baz and Toni Elias will go hunting for the Open Class title, while Simone Corsi and Lorenzo Baldassarri are aiming once again for the Moto2 podium.

Baz, MotoGP rookie, is just five points off the lead of the Open class and will race to claim the Open class title. Elias is also confident to repeat himself on the Spanish track after the points gained at Sepang.

The Italian duo Corsi-Baldassarri in Moto2 is motivated as well. Corsi, after the good results obtained during the trip overseas is at his last race with Forward Racing after three seasons and cannot wait to go back on track. Good feeling for Lorenzo Baldassarri, who is growing up in this last part of the championship and he is confident he can round off nicely the 2015 season.

Toni Elias:

“After the points gained at Sepang obviously the goal is to repeat ourselves. It will be difficult, but I finally managed to find a good feeling with the Yamaha Forward. In Valencia I’ll do everything to hit the Top15 again in order to thank the team for this great opportunity”.

Loris Baz:

“I’m going to Valencia motivated to do well. The Open Championship is still open, I have to recover five points in just one race, it will be difficult but I will do my best to say goodbye to the team in the best way possible”.