Guadix, near Granada in southern Spain, is the place to be this week for the Red Bull Rookies Cup Selection for 2024 and a Kiwi contingent could possibly feature.
Invercargill teenager Cormac Buchanan has raced successfully in the Red Bull Rookies Cup, although he will now move on to concentrate on racing in the JuniorGP World Championship competition next season.
However, fellow Kiwis Tyler King, Ryan Larkin and Keiran Mair are hoping to follow in Buchanan’s wheel tracks and signed up to take part in this week’s Red Bull Rookies Cup selection process at Guadix.
The Red Bull Rookies Cup competition is the way that such current superstars as Brad Binder, Jorge Martín and Pedro Acosta, alongside more than 200 other riders, began their international careers.
It’s that very special time of year, no not Christmas yet, but for young racers around the world it is even bigger, it’s time for the Selection Event for the 2024 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup.
As many as 112 Rookies Cup riders have started in GPs, 30 of whom have won 179 GPs and 10 World Championships.
Currently, they lead the Moto3 and Moto2 World Championships and Martín is three points off the lead in MotoGP after winning the Japanese Grand Prix at the weekend.
A total of 111 riders from across the globe, from 30 different nations, are expected to attend this year’s Selection event in Guadix, near Granada in southern Spain for three days of track action this week.
Roughly half the assembled riders take to the track on Day 1, the other half on Day 2.
Those who are considered to have the best chance of being invited to join the Cup are offered the possibility of riding again on Day 3.
At the end of Day 3, the Selection Committee will draw up a list of 10 riders invited to join the Cup for 2024.
Riders expected at the Selection Event this week:
Leonardo Abruzzo (Italy)
Luca Agostinelli (Vietnam)
Julius Ahrenkiel-Frellsen (Denmark)
Pedro Alomar Bover (Spain)
Hamad Khamis Alsahouti (Qatar)
Pau Alsina Sanchez (Spain)
Emanuele Andrenacci (Italy)
Evan Belford (Great Britain)
Enzo Bellon-Hoarau (France)
Edoardo Bertola (Italy)
Mohammed Abdalaziz Binladin (Saudi Arabia)
Lucie Boudesseul (France)
Amanuel Brinton (Great Britain)
Lucas Brown (Great Britain)
Josephine Bruno (Italy)
Benjamin Caillet (France)
Lorenzo Cavalletto (Italy)
Yvonne Cerpa (Spain)
Julian Correa (United States)
Adrian Covarrubias (Spain)
Adrian Cruces Serrano (Spain)
David Da costa (Portugal)
Enzo Dahmani (France)
Kristian Daniel Jr (United States)
Diego-Troy de Ponte (Portugal)
Kadir Erbay (Turkey)
Or Farhi (Israel)
Beñat Fernandez (Spain)
Alejandra Fernandez Garcia (Spain)
Ryan Frost (Great Britain)
Juan Pablo Galvis Quintero (Colombia)
Luana Giuliani (Italy)
Quentin Godefroy (France)
Nazareno Leonel Gomez Arrieta (Argentina)
David Gonzalez Perez (Spain)
Angus Grenfell (Australia)
Tony Guerrero (France)
Eduardo Gutierrez Cobo (Spain)
Valentino Herrlich (Germany)
Uriel Hidalgo Mimbrero (Spain)
Elliot Kassigian (France)
Denis Kiesewetter (Austria)
Tyler King (New Zealand)
Daniel Krabacher (Austria)
Ryan Larkin (New Zealand)
Edoardo Liguori (Italy)
Marco Ludeña Navarro (Spain)
Keiran Mair (New Zealand)
Quentin Mandine (France)
Carolina Manzano Afonso (Spain)
Hodei Martinez (Spain)
Gabriele Masarati (Italy)
Harley McCabe (Great Britain)
Valdemar Mellgren (Sweden)
Erik Michielon (Italy)
Gun Mie (Japan)
Henri Mignot Kokora (France)
Kevin Milani (Italy)
Livio Mirabel (France)
Lucas Mohedano Hernandez (Spain)
Lorenzo Mohedano Hernandez (Spain)
Mateusz Molik (Poland)
Kgomotso Mononyane (South Africa)
Sullivan Mounsey (Great Britain)
Marianos Nikolis (Australia)
Filip Novotny (Czech Republic)
Pablo Olivares Rodriguez (Spain)
Francisco Javier Palomera Ibañez (Spain)
Vasilis Panteleakis (Greece)
Milan Pawelec (Poland)
Justine Pedemonte (France)
Tobias Pedersen (Denmark)
Gonzalo Perez Alvarez (Spain)
Valentin Perrone Canton (Argentina)
Levin Quentin Phommara (Switzerland)
Ilnoxx Phommara (Switzerland)
Joel Pons Llubes (Spain)
Guillem Planques (France)
Giulio Pugliese (Italy)
Leandro Quintans Sans (France)
Martim Marco Ramos Reis (Portugal)
Geoffrey Reviven (India)
Jesus Rios Maldonado (Spain)
Natalia Rivera Resel (Spain)
Cayden Robert (South Africa)
Matteo Roman (France)
Matthias Rostagni (France)
Mario Salles (Brazil)
Max Sanchez Quesada (Spain)
Rémy Sanjuan (France)
Dustin Schneider (Germany)
Jesse James Shedden (United States)
Valentino Sponga (Italy)
Filip Surowiak (Poland)
Gabriel Tesini (San Marino)
Jesús Torres (Spain)
Antonio Torres Dominguez (Spain)
Owen Trigt (Netherlands)
Jean Turner (Japan)
Kotaro Uchiumi (Japan)
Brian Uriarte (Spain)
Jurrien Van Crugten (Netherlands)
Tibor Varga (Hungary)
Kiyano Veijer (Netherlands)
Pierfrancesco Venturini (Italy)
Ollie Walker (Great Britain)
Niklas Wannenmacher (Austria)
Alexander Weizel (Germany)
Finnan Wherity (Ireland)
Jeremiasz Wojciechowski (Poland)
Leonardo Alessandro Zanni (Italy)
© Photo courtesy Red Bull Rookies
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