It was always a gamble introducing 7 new privateer teams into next seasons moto gp. They were mainly introduced to add more riders and teams into the campaign as they felt last season lacked in depth of riders.
So seven more teams and riders have been introduced to the fray with a majority of them having been promoted from the moto 2 class. Teams such as Keifer racing, Marc VDS, Interwitten, BQR Blusens, Forward racing and Speed master have all been promoted with a completely new brand called Paul Bird Motoracing making the 7th team. A majority of them have already signed on riders for the oncoming campaign with experienced faces such as Anthony West, James Ellison and Colin Edwards joining this new and extraordinary project thats aiming to blow Moto GP completely out of the water.
But however these new teams are already well off the pace in practice test times at Jerez. Edwards spoke out about its lack of power and needs major development as he was only allowed to ride it at 60%, therefore not allowing it to reach its full potential. He blasted saying at this rate he's going to finish dead last in the condition the bike is in, but he did go on to say the bike's got alot of potential to do well towards the end of the season even if he's predicting one way traffic for the season starters. His best test lap was a whole 4 seconds off the pace from leader Dani Pedrosa and it was even slower than the fastest Moto 2 rider which was Brit Scott Redding. Which clearly signals that the Forward team still have a mountain to climb in terms of development and ironically take massive steps forward.
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