MV Agusta will return to Grand Prix racing next
season in collaboration with Forward Racing in the Moto2 category. The Italian
motorcycle brand returns to the world championship after 42 years and is the
most successful European motorcycle manufacturer of all time, with 75 world
titles (38 rider and 37 manufacture titles) from 1952 to 1974. In recent
months, MV Agusta President Giovanni Castiglioni and Forward Racing Team CEO
Giovanni Cuzari have worked long and hard on the bike, and have a lot of hopes
on the 2019 campaign.
In 2019, Triumph will provide the engines for the
Moto2 class, and the first prototype that will run in the Moto2 World
Championship is reportedly in an advanced stage of development, with the track
debut set for next month. Forward Racing's current chassis partner Suter is
reportedly helping with design work behind the scenes. Suter won the Moto2
constructors' titles in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Forward is the only team currently
using the Suter chassis. In 2019, Moto2 will switch from the Honda CBR600R
sourced in-line four, 600 cc engine to the bigger in-line three, 765 cc Triumph
engines and a new Magneti Marelli ECU in 2019.
