Intact GP Juniors continue their programme in Valencia
This weekend, Valencia Grand Prix circuit will host the JuniorGP™ series for the first time this year, with Moto3 Junior World Championship, Moto2™ European Championship and the European Talent Cup on the grid.
After a relatively late start to the season, the most important junior series continues every two weeks. The second stop is the circuit just outside Spain's third-largest city, to where the junior championship also will return for its season finale at the end of October.
The LIQUI MOLY Intact GP Junior Team, based in the Allgäu region of Germany, will once again have its full line-up on the grid. The main hope for another strong performance is 21-year-old Moto2 rider Lukas Tulovic, who made a brilliant start to the new championship at the first meeting of the season two weeks ago in Estoril, Portugal, and is coming to Valencia with maximum points.
His teammates in the JuniorGP™ Moto3 class, Phillip Tonn and Jakob Rosenthaler, are also secretly speculating with their first points of the year, while Niklas Kitzbichler's first test will be to qualify for the main races in European Talent Cup.
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.
The Weekend’s Time Schedule for Valencia I Round in CET (Live-Timing):
Saturday, 21 May: 09:00 - 09:40 QP1 Moto2™ ECh
Saturday, 21 May: 09:50 - 10:30 QP1 ETC Grp A
Saturday, 21 May: 10:40 - 11:20 QP1 ETC Grp B
Saturday, 21 May: 11:30 - 12:10 QP1 JuniorGP™
Saturday, 21 Mai: 12:20 - 13:00 QP2 Moto2™ ECh
Saturday, 21 May: 13:10 - 13:50 QP2 ETC Grp A
Saturday, 21 May: 14:00 - 14:40 QP2 ETC Grp B
Saturday, 21 May: 14:50 - 15:30 QP2 JuniorGP™
Saturday, 21 May: 16:00 Last Chance Race ETC (8 Laps)
Sunday, 22 May: 09:00 - 09:10 Warm-Up JuniorGP™
Sunday, 22 May: 09:20 - 09:30 Warm-Up ETC
Sunday, 22 May: 09:50 - 10:00 Warm-Up Moto2™ ECh
Sunday, 22 May: 11:00 Race 1 JuniorGP™ (18 Laps)
Sunday, 22 May: 12:00 Race 1 ETC (17 Laps)
Sunday, 22 May: 13:00 Race Moto2™ ECh (19 Laps)
Sunday, 22 May: 14:00 Race 2 JuniorGP™ (18 Laps)
Sunday, 22 May: 15:00 Race 2 ETC (17 Laps)
Valencia Facts:
Length: 4.005 metres
Width: 12 metres
Longest Straight: 876 metres
Left corners: 9
Right corners: 5
Moto3™ JuniorGP best Pole-Position: 1´38.768 (2020)
Moto3™ JuniorGP Lap record: 1´39.212 (2020)
Moto3™ JuniorGP All-time record: 1´38.768 (2020)
Moto2™ ECh best Pole-Position: 1´35.207 (2015)
Moto2™ ECh Lap record: 1´35.805 (2015)
Moto2™ All-time record: 1´35.207 (2015)
ETC best Pole-Position: 1´42.560 (2020)
ETC Lap record: 1´42.281 (2020)
ETC All-time record: 1´42.281 (2020)
JuniorGP Calendar 2022:
07/08 May: Circuito do Estoril (Portugal, JuniorGP, Moto2™ and ETC je zwei Rennen)
21/22 May: Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana (Spanien, JuniorGP zwei Rennen, Moto2™ ein Rennen / ETC zwei Rennen)
11/12 June: Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya (Spanien, JuniorGP zwei Rennen, Moto2™ zwei Rennen / ETC ein Rennen)
02/03 July: Circuito de Jerez - Ángel Nieto (Spanien, JuniorGP zwei Rennen, Moto2™ ein Rennen / ETC zwei Rennen)
16/17 July: 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 October: MotorLand Aragón (Spanien, JuniorGP ein Rennen, Moto2™ zwei Rennen, ETC zwei Rennen)
29/30 October: Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana (Spanien, JuniorGP zwei Rennen, Moto2™ ein Rennen / ETC zwei Rennen)