Triumph Motorcycle’s Moto2 Pre-Race Briefing 2021 Round 5, French Grand Prix, Le Mans, 14-16 May

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Spanish Grand Prix recap

Steve Sargent, Chief Product Officer, Triumph Motorcycles:

“The Gresini team have had an emotional start to the season and after taking a podium in Qatar to start the season, it was wonderful to see Fabio Di Giannantonio take his first Moto2 victory in Spain with an excellent ride. It was a remarkably fast weekend too; we saw a new lap record and new outright set, and the total race time was 16 seconds faster than in 2020, which continues to demonstrate the gains the teams and riders are making as they become more and more familiar with and able to extract more of the performance potential from our 765cc engines and the ECU package which let’s not forget is still relatively new to Moto2 as we’re in just our third season.”

• In Jerez we saw the first clean sweep of 2021 of records – a new fastest top speed, new lap record and new outright record. Notwithstanding new tracks, this is the first clean sweep since Aragon last season
• Fabio Di Giannantonio took his first Triumph-powered win to become the 14^th different Moto2 winner in the Triumph era (since 2019)
• After a perfect score from the first two rounds, his rivals have overhauled the gap to Sam Lowes and the championship top three are now separated by just 6 points

Upcoming race

• For three out of the last four years, the eventual Moto2 Championship winner has won at Le Mans with the exception of 2020 when Sam Lowes won the race (he finished tied on points for second in the World Championship)
• After being rescheduled in October last year when it was a chilly and damp 12 degrees Celsius, this year the French Grand Prix returns to its usual May slot on the calendar

Triumph Triple Trophy #PoweredbyTriumph

• Fastest lap in Jerez means Lowes is the only rider to score points at every race so far in 2021, and has a commanding lead. Hector Garzo enters the standings with fastest top speed in Spain

About the Triumph Triple Trophy #PoweredbyTriumph

• The Triumph Triple Trophy #PoweredbyTriumph runs alongside the Moto2 World Championship in 2021, recognising that there are more stories of success from a GP than simply the race win, and will award one rider with a Street Triple RS at the end of the season
• Points will be awarded to the rider (or multiple riders in the case of a tie):
• Fastest top speed: 7 points for the fastest rider / riders in case of a tie
• Pole position: 6 points for the rider starting from pole
• Fastest race lap: 5 points for the fastest rider / riders in case of a tie

The Triumph Moto2 765cc race engine is a development of the class-leading Street Triple RS 765cc road motorcycle and produces more than 140PS and the same visceral soundtrack.

2021 Moto2 World Championship top ten:

Pos	Race #	Rider	Chassis	Engine	Nation	Points
1	87	R. Gardner	Kalex	Triumph 765cc	AUS	69
2	22	S. Lowes	Kalex	Triumph 765cc	GBR	66
3	25	R. Fernandez	Kalex	Triumph 765cc	SPA	63
4	72	M. Bezzecchi	Kalex	Triumph 765cc	ITA	56
5	21	F. Di Giannantonio	Kalex	Triumph 765cc	ITA	52
6	16	J. Roberts	Kalex	Triumph 765cc	USA	31
7	44	A. Canet	Boscoscuro	Triumph 765cc	SPA	30
8	97	X. Vierge	Kalex	Triumph 765cc	SPA	26
9	37	A. Fernandez	Kalex	Triumph 765cc	SPA	23
10	79	A. Ogura	Kalex	Triumph 765cc	JPN	20

2021 standings – Triumph Triple Trophy #PoweredbyTriumph:

Pos	Race #	Rider	Nation	Points	Team
1	22	S. Lowes	GBR	28	Elf Marc VDS Racing Team
2	19	L. Dalla Porta	ITA	14	Italtrans Racing Team
3	87	R. Gardner	AUS	11	Red Bull KTM Ajo
4	42	M. Ramirez	SPA	7	American Racing
–	6	C. Beaubier	USA	7	American Racing
–	40	H. Garzo	SPA	7	Flexbox HP40
7	25	R. Fernandez	SPA	5	Red Bull KTM Ajo

2021 Moto2 calendar:

	Date	Race		Date	Race
1	28 Mar	GP of Qatar, Losail	11	15 Aug	GP of Austria, Red Bull Ring
2	4 Apr	GP of Doha, Losail	12	29 Aug	GP of Britain, Silverstone
3	18 Apr	GP of Portugal, Algarve	13	12 Sept	GP of Aragon, Aragon
4	2 May	GP of Spain, Jerez	14	19 Sept	GP of San Marino, Misano
5	16 May	GP of France, Le Mans	15	3 Oct	GP of Japan, Motegi
6	30 May	GP of Italy, Mugello	16	10 Oct	GP of Thailand, Chang
7	6 Jun	GP of Catalunya, Barcelona	17	24 Oct	GP of Australia, Phillip Island
8	20 Jun	GP of Germany, Sachsenring	18	31 Oct	GP of Malaysia, Sepang
9	27 Jun	TT Assen, Assen	19	14 Nov	GP of Valencia, Valencia
10	11 Jul	GP of Finland, Kymirng

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