RW Racing GP

RW Racing GP is a motorcycle racing team founded by businessman Roelof Waninge from The Netherlands. The team currently competes in the Moto2 World Championship under the name NTS RW Racing GP, in a technical partnership running the factory team for Japanese motorcycle chassis builder NTS.

RW Racing GP
2022 nameNTS RW Racing GP
BaseDwingeloo, Netherlands
PrincipalJarno Janssen
Rider(s)Moto2:
7. Barry Baltus
84. Zonta Van Den Goorbergh
MotorcycleNTS NH7
TyresDunlop
Riders' Championships–

Team history

Roelof Waninge, owner of a Dutch network of commercial vehicle dealerships and workshops headquartered in Assen, originally invested in motorcycle racing in 1993 as a personal sponsor of Dutch rider Jarno Janssen,[1] who would go on to become RW's team principal after his riding career. In 2011, the long-standing Dutch 125 cc and 250 cc team owned by Arie Molenaar experienced financial trouble, prompting Waninge to purchase the remaining assets of the team and rename it RW Racing GP.[2]

125 cc/Moto3

The team began competing in 2011, taking over the existing 125 cc programme from Molenaar, using Aprilia machinery and retaining upcoming Spanish rider Luis Salom. In 2012 with the replacement of the 125 cc class by the new four-stroke Moto3 regulations, the team switched to Kalex-KTM machines, retaining Salom and adding South African rider Brad Binder. Salom finished the season in 2nd place with 2 wins and 8 podiums. In 2013, former Molenaar team rider Jarno Janssen, who had continued with the team and subsequently with RW in various technical roles after retirement as a racer, was named general team manager. 2014 would prove to be the team's worst season to date, with both riders Scott Deroue and Ana Carrasco failing to score a single point. 2015 saw a major change for the team, with a switch to Honda machinery and a reduction to a single rider, Livio Loi. Loi managed a win in 2015 at Indianapolis that season, but managed only one other top 10 finish with a 5th place at Silverstone Circuit. For the 2016 season, RW continued with Loi with similar overall results.[2]

Moto2

2017 saw another major step for the RW Racing GP team, as they moved up to Moto2 with Spanish rider Axel Pons on Kalex machinery.[2]

For the 2018 season, RW joined forces with Japanese chassis manufacturer NTS to operate their factory programme as the sole users of the NTS chassis, expanding their programme to two riders. Despite NTS's relatively quick success in the previous two seasons of the CEV Moto2 European Championship, the challenge of the Moto2 World Championship proved difficult with RW finishing 16th and 15th from 18 teams in 2018 and 2019 The teams best position was 8th respectively.[2]

Results
Year Class Team name Bike Riders Races Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points Pos.
2011 125cc RW Racing GP Aprilia RSA 125 Luis Salom 15 0 2 0 0 116 8th
Brad Binder 1 (5) 0 0 0 0 0 NC
2012 Moto3 RW Racing GP Kalex-KTM Luis Salom 17 2 8 0 1 214 2nd
Brad Binder 17 0 0 0 0 24 21st
2013 Moto3 RW Racing GP

Redox RW Racing GP

 Kalex-KTM Jasper Iwema 17 0 0 0 0 8 24th
Jakub Kornfeil 17 0 0 0 0 68 11th
2014 Moto3 RW Racing GP Kalex-KTM Scott Deroue 18 0 0 0 0 0 NC
Ana Carrasco 14 0 0 0 0 0 NC
2015 Moto3 RW Racing GP Honda NSF250RW Livio Loi 18 1 1 0 0 56 16th
2016 Moto3 RW Racing GP Honda NSF250RW Livio Loi 18 0 0 0 1 63 18th
2017 Moto2 RW Racing GP Kalex Moto2 Axel Pons 18 0 0 0 0 27 19th
2018 Moto2 NTS RW Racing GP NTS NH6 Steven Odendaal 18 0 0 0 0 4 28th
Joe Roberts 18 0 0 0 0 5 27th
2019 Moto2 NTS RW Racing GP NTS NH7 Steven Odendaal 9 0 0 0 0 0 31st
Bo Bendsneyder 19 0 0 0 0 7 26th
Jesko Raffin 7 (8) 0 0 0 0 6 27th
Simone Corsi 2 (11) 0 0 0 0 0 (10) 24th
Tommaso Marcon 1 0 0 0 0 0 40th
2020 Moto2 NTS RW Racing GP NTS NH7 Jesko Raffin 3 0 0 0 0 0 33rd
Bo Bendsneyder 15 0 0 0 0 18 23th
Dominique Aegerter 4 (5) 0 0 0 0 4 28th
Piotr Biesiekirski 7 0 0 0 0 0 32nd
2021 Moto2 NTS RW Racing GP NTS NH7 Hafizh Syahrin 15 0 0 0 0 8* 28th*
Barry Baltus 12 0 0 0 0 2* 31st*
Fraser Rogers 1 0 0 0 0 0* 38th*
Taiga Hada 1 0 0 0 0 0* 39th*
Tommaso Marcon 1 (5) 0 0 0 0 0* 35th*
Notes

* Season still in progress.

    References
    1. "Roelof Waninge - RW Racing GP". RWRacingGP.com. Retrieved 2019-12-02.
    2. "History - RW Racing GP". RWRacingGP.com. Retrieved 2019-12-02.
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