Jordi Torres will compete with Jorge Martínez “Aspar” team in the next MotoE World Championship
The Catalan, double world champion in the electric series, returns to the team, with whom he competed in Moto2 two years ago
Jordi Torres will compete with Jorge Martínez ‘Aspar’ team in the next electric motorcycle world championship MotoE. The team thus reinforces its commitment to the electric category with the signing of the two-time champion, who He returns in 2023 to what was his home years ago in Moto2 and with which he will face his second stage in the teamin a season full of challenges for both, with the extension of the calendar to eight appointments in seven different European countries, and a total of 16 races and the arrival of a new manufacturer, Ducati.
Torres reaches his fourth season in the electric category of the World Cup, which will acquire World Championship rank in 2023, with a record of two victories, eight podiums and three pole positions in the last three seasons. His regularity allowed him to win the title in his debut in 2020 and revalidate it in 2021, although an injury in France 2022 prevented him from fighting for the third crown, something he will fight for next year.
“The objective of the team is to fight for podiums and wins in the MotoE World Championship and we believe that with Jordi Torres we will be able to achieve it in 2023”, he assures Jorge Martinez ‘reel’who recalled in the team’s press release that “it is a joy to join our paths again after a stage in Moto2 in which we managed to climb to the top together”.
The Catalan rider, for his part, said he was “very happy to return to the team that gave me the opportunity to compete in Moto2 in 2011 and that trusted me to take the big leap and be able to develop as a rider by going from competing for national championships to do it in the World Cup”.
“I am returning to the team and I am happy to be able to do it hand in hand with Aspar, with whom I share values and objectives, although it will be a transition season, with a new bike, which is closer to a competition bike, and with which we will have I have to work hard to improve. It is a great motivation, besides, having by my side Nico Terol as sports director since together we have fought side by side, we know each other perfectly and I know that he works great,” he added towers.