The CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team riders will fight to say goodbye to the team from the podium
CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team riders Jake Dixon and Izan Guevara face this weekend at the Circuit de Barcelona – Catalunya their last GP with the Valencian team. The Catalan track will host the last GP of the season due to the serious situation that Valencia is going through after the heavy rains and flash floods that the region suffered two weeks ago. These difficult circumstances have forced the last race of the season to be moved from the Circuit Ricardo Tormo to Barcelona, where a GP will be held to help those affected by the floods in Valencia.
This will be Izan Guevara's last race with the CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team after five seasons with the structure. The Spanish first joined the Aspar Team Junior, in the Moto3 Junior World Championship, a category in which he was crowned champion in 2020. Just two years later he touched the sky winning the Moto3 World Championship. His in Moto2 has not been easy, but Guevara has never given up and has gradually progressed until two weeks ago, at the Malaysian GP, when he achieved a new goal: to get on the podium for the first time in the intermediate category. This weekend, the CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team rider closes a stage of 76 races with 8 victories and 14 podiums, as the fifth Aspar Team rider with most wins and one of the five who has been on the podium in two categories. Guevara arrives in Barcelona in very good shape and with the challenge of returning to the podium.
On the other side of the garage, Dixon also says goodbye to the CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team after four seasons in two different stages and does so as the team's most successful rider in Moto2. With his victory in Aragon this year he became the Aspar Team rider with most victories in the intermediate class, in which he also has 16 of the 39 podiums that the team has achieved. The British closes this chapter on a very special track. In Barcelona he won last season after a perfect weekend in which he also got pole position. This year, Dixon arrived in the Catalan GP, the sixth round of the season, with zero points. The Circuit de Barcelona – Catalunya was a turning point for him. The CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team rider completed a great comeback and his first points of the year came after climbing to the last step of the podium. That third position gave Dixon wings, as in the following six races he would take another four podiums, two of them victories. Now, Dixon returns to Barcelona after a difficult final stretch of the season for him, in which the results have not been the expected. The British will fight to get back on the podium and say goodbye to the CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team in the best possible way.
Jake Dixon: “It is going to be emotional. I will try to enjoy this last race as much as possible, because it will also be a sad weekend. We have been together for four years, including 2019. These last three years have been incredible, with victories, with podiums... The Aspar Team has put me on the map, even if the end of this year has not gone as we expected. This is life, this is racing, we couldn't have done more than we have done. The connection with my team, with Kike, Pippo, Stefano, Boris, Maikel... has been very important to me. I will give my 100% to try to make it my most memorable weekend with the CFMOTO Aspar Team and I will enjoy every moment before this chapter closes.”
Izan Guevara: “We should be heading to Valencia right now for the final GP as usual, but the situation there is very difficult and for the first time we will not be able to race at the Ricardo Tormo. We have to compete in Barcelona, where we will close a five-year period with the Aspar Team, the first three were really good and the last two have been a little more complicated. In the previous race we were able to get on the podium for the first time in Moto2 and now in Barcelona we will work on the same line again. When we competed there this year, I was not able to complete even the first lap, but this weekend I want to fight for the front positions and try to show our potential.”