Trackhouse Racing enters MotoGP next season, with Miguel Oliveira and Raúl Fernández as riders. Currently, they do not have any American riders under contract, but the goal is to have one in the future – as owner Justin Marks revealed. At this time, the closest American to MotoGP is Joe Roberts, who finished 13th in Moto2 this year.
The leader of the new MotoGP team told SPEEDWEEK.com: ‘It would be our dream to have an American rider in the MotoGP team one day. But we are many years away from that goal. In the meantime, we can collaborate with American sponsors and partners who are American personalities and we can tell the American story’.
Creating a junior team in the promotion classes is not off the radar for Trackhouse Racing in the future, as Marks admitted: ‘That is a possibility. First we have to understand how the American talent pool is today and how it is in America. If we can help build American riders at home in national youth championships so that the number of talents grows enough to ride a Moto3 or Moto2 bike, that is a task we can start soon. We would like to help and offer support. But I still have a lot to learn about the Moto3 and Moto2 business model. Right now, the priority is building the MotoGP team‘.
