Barcelona: important stop for Intact GP Juniors
The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya hosts the JuniorGP™ series this weekend with Moto3 Junior World Championship, Moto2™ European Championship and the European Talent Cup on the grid.
Just one week after the Gran Premi de Catalunya, the young talents of arguably the world's most important junior series will be competing at the same track. The Grand Prix team from Germany’s LIQUI MOLY Intact GP achieved strong results last weekend and provided good reference data.
Lukas Tulovic is once again the biggest hope for the LIQUI MOLY Intact GP Junior Team from Allgäu. The 21-year-old Moto2 European Championship rider will travel to the third stop of the series with the maximum points after his third win of the season recently in Valencia. Tulovic is therefore once again a top contender for the race wins on Sunday.
In the JuniorGP™ Moto3 class, the circuit just outside Barcelona is uncharted territory for Jakob Rosenthaler. However, the 16-year-old from Upper Austria comes to Spain in strong form, as he showed the weekend before last at the third event of this year's Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup in Mugello, Italy. His teammate Phillip Tonn, on the other hand, can build on good track knowledge. In the European Talent Cup, young Tyrolean Niklas Kitzbichler will again try to qualify for the main race on Sunday.
The series' race calendar comprises eight events, all at modern circuits in southern Europe. The format of a race weekend remains unchanged with free practice on Thursday and Friday, followed by two 40-minute qualifying sessions per class on Saturday and the races on Sunday. On race day, as usual, there will be a live stream via the series' YouTube channel.
Time Table Barcelona (CET, Live-Timing):
Saturday 11 June: 09:00 - 09:40 QP1 ETC Grp A
Saturday 11 June: 09:50 - 10:30 QP1 ETC Grp B
Saturday 11 June: 10:40 - 11:20 QP1 JuniorGP™
Saturday 11 June: 11:30 - 12:10 QP1 Moto2™ ECh
Saturday 11 June: 12:40 - 13:20 QP2 ETC Grp A
Saturday 11 June: 13:30 - 14:10 QP2 ETC Grp B
Saturday 11 June: 14:20 - 15:00 QP2 JuniorGP™
Saturday 11 June: 15:10 - 15:50 QP2 Moto2™ ECh
Saturday 11 June: 16:20 Last Chance Race ETC (8 Laps)
Sunday 12 June: 09:00 - 09:10 Warm-Up JuniorGP™
Sunday 12 June: 09:20 - 09:30 Warm-Up ETC
Sunday 12 June: 09:50 - 10:00 Warm-Up Moto2™ ECh
Sunday 12 June: 11:00 Race 1 JuniorGP™ (16 Laps)
Sunday 12 June: 12:00 Race 1 Moto2™ ECh (17 Laps)
Sunday 12 June: 13:00 Race ETC (15 Laps)
Sunday 12 June: 14:00 Race 2 JuniorGP™ (16 Laps)
Sunday 12 June: 15:00 Race 2 Moto2™ ECh (17 Laps)
Barcelona Facts:
Length: 4.657 metres
Width: 12 metres
Longest straight: 1.047 metres
Left corners: 6
Right corners: 8
Moto3™ JuniorGP best Pole-Position: 1´48.224 (2021)
Moto3™ JuniorGP Lap record: 1´49.450 (2021)
Moto3™ JuniorGP Alltime record: 1´48.224 (2021)
Moto2™ ECh best Pole-Position: 1´44.492 (2021)
Moto2™ ECh Lap record: 1´44.980 (2021)
Moto2™ Alltime record: 1´44.492 (2021)
ETC best Pole-Position: 1´51.269 (2021)
ETC Lap record: 1´51.644 (2021)
ETC Alltime record: 1´51.269 (2021)
JuniorGP Calendar 2022:
07./08. Mai: Circuito do Estoril (Portugal, JuniorGP, Moto2™ und ETC je zwei Rennen)
21./22. Mai: Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana (Spanien, JuniorGP zwei Rennen, Moto2™ ein Rennen / ETC zwei Rennen)
11./12. Juni: Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya (Spanien, JuniorGP zwei Rennen, Moto2™ zwei Rennen / ETC ein Rennen)
02./03. Juli: Circuito de Jerez - Ángel Nieto (Spanien, JuniorGP zwei Rennen, Moto2™ ein Rennen / ETC zwei Rennen)
16./17. Juli: Autódromo Internacional do Algarve (Portugal, JuniorGP ein Rennen, Moto2™ zwei Rennen / ETC ein Rennen)
02./03. September: Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli (Italien, JuniorGP ein Rennen)
08./09. Oktober: MotorLand Aragón (Spanien, JuniorGP ein Rennen, Moto2™ zwei Rennen, ETC zwei Rennen)
29./30. Oktober: Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana (Spanien, JuniorGP zwei Rennen, Moto2™ ein Rennen / ETC zwei Rennen)