Indian MotoGP teams successfully complete pre-season tests

Indian teams have successfully completed the pre-season Jerez test on the first day with the Mahindra rider Danny Webb finishing in 13th position

The two Indian teams, Mahindra Racing and Ten10-WTR Racing have just completed their first day at the pre-season tests for the 2011 MotoGP season and both the teams have shown respectable performance. Mahindra Racing rider, Danny Webb finished in 13th place during the opening day of the two-day long official Dorna MotoGP test session being held at the Jerez circuit in Spain. The 19-year old Danny Webb has shown consistent performance throughout his debut in MotoGP since he was 15 and this will be his fifth full season in the 125cc class of MotoGP. In the 2010 125 World Championship Danny Webb had a strong finish in tenth place in the championship standings astride an Aprilia RSA 125 riding for Andalucía Cajasol team. Twelfth place finish in the pre-season tests for the 2011 MotoGP season is a good start for team Mahindra Racing and with more track time as well as more development there is a good chance that Webb can post good results in the upcoming season.


Webb’s team-mate, 18-year old Marcel Schrotter from Germany was placed in 21st place in the tests. Schrotter is young and less experienced of the two Mahindra riders but has experience racing in German as well as European championships to his credits and only time can tell how quickly this German-lad can match the pace of the front-runners. Webb’s 12th place shows that Mahindra Racing’s 125 race bike has potential as well as the pace and with more involvement in the sport, it can only get better in the time to come.

The other Indian outfit which successfully completed the pre-season tests is the WTR-Ten10 Racing coalition as their rider, Sarath Kumar, 2010 Indian National Road Racing Champion finished in 27th position by the end of today’s tests. Considering the fact that Sarath has more or less no racing experience internationally and this is his first real outing on a true-blue 125cc GP prototype Aprilia machine, it is a respectable placing for the first Indian MotoGP rider who is doing everything right from fitness to practice in order to get on the pace with fellow world championship riders.


ZigWheels wishes both the Indian teams all the very best for the 2011 MotoGP season which kick-starts from17th March 2011 in Qatar and we will be tracking their progress throughout the season. So stay tuned for regular MotoGP updates!

125cc Jerez Test Results

Result Courtesy: Official MotoGP website

Session 1 as of 12:00 - 04/03/11

Pos	Rider	Team	Fastest lap	Prev. Gap	Lead. Gap	Laps
1	Nicolas TEROL	Aspar Team	1:49.168	-	-	12
2	Maverick VIALES	PEV-Blusens-SMX-Paris Hilton	1:49.413	+0.245	+0.245	19
3	Johan ZARCO	Ajo Motorsport	1:49.971	+0.558	+0.803	20
4	Jonas FOLGER	Red Bull Ajo Motorsport	1:50.153	+0.182	+0.985	13
5	Efren VAZQUEZ	Ajo Motorsport	1:50.167	+0.014	+0.999	14
6	Alberto MONCAYO	Andalucia Banca Civica	1:50.469	+0.302	+1.301	12
7	Sandro CORTESE	Intact-Racing Team Germany	1:50.865	+0.396	+1.697	17
8	Louis ROSSI	Matteoni Racing	1:51.402	+0.537	+2.234	18
9	Tylor MACKENZIE	Phonica Racing	1:52.155	+0.753	+2.987	17
10	Danny KENT	Red Bull Ajo Motorsport	1:52.404	+0.249	+3.236	10
11	Niklas AJO	TT Motion Events Racing	1:52.449	+0.045	+3.281	20
12	Simone GROTZKYJ	Phonica Racing	1:52.586	+0.137	+3.418	13
13	Danny WEBB	Mahindra Racing	1:52.588	+0.002	+3.420	20
14	Hiroki ONO	Caretta Technology Forward T	1:53.335	+0.747	+4.167	10
15	Hector FAUBEL	Aspar Team	1:53.630	+0.295	+4.462	4
16	Zulfahmi KHAIRUDDIN	Air Asia-SIC-Ajo	1:53.800	+0.170	+4.632	13
17	Alessandro TONUCCI	Team Italia FMI	1:54.298	+0.498	+5.130	9
18	Giulian PEDONE	Phonica Racing	1:54.447	+0.149	+5.279	18
19	Harry STAFFORD	Ongetta-Centro Seta	1:54.459	+0.012	+5.291	8
20	Joan PERELLO	Matteoni Racing	1:55.561	+1.102	+6.393	10
21	Marcel SCHROTTER	Mahindra Racing	1:55.619	+0.058	+6.451	5
22	Daniel KARTHEININGER	Caretta Technology Forward T	1:55.710	+0.091	+6.542	13
23	Francesco MAURIELLO	WTR-Ten10 Racing	1:56.136	+0.426	+6.968	13
24	Jakub KORNFEIL	Ongetta-Centro Seta	1:56.504	+0.368	+7.336	7
25	Jasper IWEMA	Team Ongetta	1:56.627	+0.123	+7.459	5
26	Luigi MORCIANO	Team Italia FMI	2:02.274	+5.647	+13.106	3
27	Sarath KUMAR	WTR-Ten10 Racing	2:09.618	+7.344	+20.450	14
28	Sergio GADEA	PEV-Blusens-SMX-Paris Hilton	2:28.084	+18.466	+38.916	3
29	Ratthapark WILAIROT	Thai Honda Singha SAG	1:48.560	+0.210	+4.758	7
30	Esteve RABAT	Blusens-STX	1:48.633	+0.073	+4.831	8
31	Valentin DEBISE	Speed Up	1:49.467	+0.834	+5.665	7
32	Simone CORSI	Ioda Racing Project	-.---	-	-	0