First 600cc Four-Stroke “Moto2” Racebike Unveiled In Spain

First 600cc Four-Stroke “Moto2” Racebike Unveiled In Spain

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BLUSENS BQR INTRODUCES THE HONDA-BQR MOTO2 IN MADRID Madrid, 3rd of February 2009. The hotel “Puerta de América” in Madrid was the location where the team Blusens BQR presented this morning the new Honda-BQR Moto2. This 600cc motorbike of 4 strokes will be substituting, from 2011, the 250cc of 2 strokes in the MotoGP World Championship. It will also participate in the Campeonato de España de Velocidad (CEV) this season, which will be a great tryout for the motorbike. Raúl Romero, owner of the Blusens BQR team, emphasized this morning, during the presentation, the historical value and relevance of this moment for the team; Carmelo Ezpeleta, (CEO of Dorna, the company organizing the GP World Championship and the CEV), compared this event with the introduction of GP motorbikes when they took over the 500. Joan Moreta (president of Real Federación Española de Motociclismo and vicepresident of FIM), José Ramón García (president of Blusens) and Daniel Rivas, the rider who will be driving the Honda-BQR Moto2 in the CEV. These five men removed the cover from the prototype in an act that was called by Ernest Riveras, TVE’s commentator of the GP World Championship, the “baptism of a new category”. Over 60 people, many personalities of the motor world and the main sponsors of Blusens BQR, as well as 24 journalists from the most important specialized mass media, were present in this very important occasion. The Moto2 project of Blusens BQR started to become real at the end of 2006, and after 2 years of hard work and development, the team from Cardedeu (Barcelona) has become the first team to finish and present its prototype, which is ready to start its race and compete in the CEV 2009.

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