The Aspar Team was in MotoGP World Championship until the 2018 season. At that time, there were financial difficulties triggered by the sudden departure of a main sponsor – Drive M7 – at the beginning of 2015 before the second year of a three-year contract.
Now, the Spanish team is focused on developing riders, focusing on the lower classes, but also on an academy in Spain. The owner, Jorge Martínez Aspar, highlighted to the website SPEEDWEEK.com that there have been noticeable improvements since closing the MotoGP project:
– Since I closed my MotoGP team at the end of 2018, everything has changed for the better. Now we focus on Moto3 and Moto2 classes. We are building young riders for the future. That’s why we are investing a lot of money in our youth school in Spain.
According to the Spaniard, there are over 100 young riders under the Aspar’s wing, with the best ones being further developed for the future. And Aspar emphasized: ‘Our goal is to continue investing a lot of money in these youth programs over the next few years’.
Currently, the team is in Moto2 and Moto3, but also in MotoE, FIM JuniorGP, Moto2 European Championship, and European Talent Cup. In recent seasons, talents like Raúl Fernández, Daniel Holgado, or David Alonso have passed through their ranks – with Alonso being the Moto3 rookie of the year in 2023.
