MotoGP is more a European sport now. After spending his first full Moto2 season with NTS, Joe Roberts joins the newly-branded 'American Racing KTM ' team for 2019.In this exclusive interview, the … Of course I’m sad to see him leave The American Racing Team but, together with Eitan Butbul, we’re still his personal manager’s and we fully support his decision. Lastly, although it’s bittersweet, it’s a great opportunity to fulfill our promise when starting The American Racing Academy earlier this year which was to get more Americans (successfully) back into the MotoGP paddock and utilizing The American Racing Moto2 Team as the perfect platform to do so. 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I wasn’t even alive when those guys were racing, but I’m quite good friends with all of them. n° 558 del 30/12/2003 c/o Tribunale di Roma, Buffer Overflow srl © Partita IVA: 09505981002 - Tutti i diritti Riservati, Fondatore e Direttore (Responsabile): Paolo Scalera, "The second tyre had no grip in qualifying. They came from dirt track. Crash.net:When did you start thinking ‘I’m good at this and I can take this a lot further?’. Roberts competes in the FIM Moto2 World Championship with American Racing aboard a Kalex chassis bike. Jerez: 2R Racing team caught without masks: out of the paddock! Petrucci: "Ducati dumped me so now I'm racing for myself. F1 video: The latest on the 2021 driver market - Who will land the final seats? . If he needs a tow next year, then I am happy to help!”, Contact Crash.Net Privacy Policy Get Crash RSS Newsfeeds About Crash.Net. The 23-year old made his Moto2 debut in 2017 but has flourished against expectations this season under the guidance of former MotoGP rider John Hopkins, scoring a maiden podium finish at Brno and notching up a trio of podiums. I want to do this. “I just want to start off by saying it’s been an absolute honor getting to work with The American Racing Team and Joe Roberts this season - said John Hopkins – Joe’s Manager and Riding Coach - getting to share all my years of experience and play a role in helping him achieve his true potential and see him finally secure his spot as a Moto2 Championship contender. With Eddie especially and Wayne. Sometimes I’d have to battle quite a lot. After two incredible years together, Joe Roberts and The American Racing Team will part ways at the end of the 2020 season. “John Hopkins and I originally partnered to start the American Racing Academy simply to get American riders ‘successfully’ back into the MotoGP paddock - said Eitan Butbul - Team Owner and Manager  - This could be achieved through the American Racing Moto2 Team as the perfect platform, with Joe as our first American rider taking on this new challenge. I wish the American racing team all the best and support their goal of bringing Americans to the world level. If you want to be a Superbike rider, I don't think there’s anything wrong with staying in MotoAmerica. Career. I didn't help Dovizioso, there was nothing planned, he was just behind me”. It’s nice to think back to it for sure. So that to me was a lot. So I always hear the stories about things. I'll... 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What if Nico Rosberg hadn't retired - would the 2020 F1 title fight be better? Sky Racing Team VR46’s quest for world title starts from the Ranch. So I always struggled the first point to get the qualifying right. If there’s a gap, they’ll go in there. I want to be a GP rider.’ I always was a huge fan of MotoGP and of course wanted to be there since I was a little kid. I started off with that and it slowly went through the stages of dirt to mini road racing and then to really getting on proper tracks. The name being batted about is Beaubier, a five-time MotoAmerica Champion, with his signing seeming logical given American Racing Team’s presence in the series with its own Academy. ", Miller: "For the race I'll cross my fingers and hope that something magical happens", Crutchlow: “Nakagami is favored, but I won’t help him win”, Beaubier on pole at Laguna Seca, Zanetti third, Canepa seventh, Vinales: “If the Hondas are ahead in the race, it’ll be a disaster”, Ben Bostrom and Herrin at Laguna in the Drag Specialties King of the Baggers race, Crutchlow: “If I were to stop racing now, I’d have no regrets”, Mir is leading the Championship with Suzuki without yet winning a race. Is that something you were aware of when you were growing up? 'I think this year you’ll see us make the next step' - new team, new bike for Joe Roberts in Moto2 for 2019. But we shouldn’t be that amazed: the real trick of this ‘great show’ has only been... 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The American Racing Team has confirmed Joe Roberts will exit the outfit at the end of the 2020 Moto2 World Championship season, with rumours tipping multiple MotoAmerica champ Cameron Beaubier to replace him. I think once I started getting good on the 125s and got the chance to go to the [Red Bull] Rookies Cup I was really like, ‘Yeah, this is where I need to be. I’d always start kind of near the back, but I always finished pretty much in the points and close to the top ten in every race. Joe Roberts of American Racing Author. I won all five of those races. The precautions only serve to protect the economic interests that motorcycling, like any other sport, represents. Maybe we can see the bikes.’ I was really excited to do it, and then as soon as it started I really realised these guys, even these Rookies Cup riders, when you’re surrounded by a championship that’s so many fast riders, you just have to be quick right away. But to me right now the competition is strongest in the CEV [Spanish Championship]. He will retain his ties with Eitan Butbul and John Hopkins as his career progresses. To me that’s the place where if you want to make the next step as a rider. At the same time a great opportunity to bring over a very strong American talent for the 2021 season has recently come into play, and with Joe Roberts at the end of his current contract with the Team and Marcos Ramirez on a two-year deal demonstrating constant improvement, the best option was to have Joe step into another Moto2 team that he personally feels is strong and competitive enough to further develop his career. Though it was expected he would remain under the American Racing banner - which was created to foster American talent in the GP paddock - Roberts will instead switch to another team, understood to be Italtrans, for 2021. I just loved racing. Joe Roberts:Oh yeah. The plan now is to continue the season strong. Joe Roberts:I started riding motorcycles just before my fourth birthday. At this point, Nakagami is also fighting... Thirteen riders will be present at the first race of the series designed by Rob Buydos, including Ben Bostrom and Josh Herrin. It was different. It’s a different mentality. Definitely when I went back to America I think people were a little bit… I even got comments in the press when I did, like five races in the Superstock class in 2013 with John Ulrich. Joe Roberts:If you look back to the time of them, it was a very different time, just for everything. In the coming weeks, The American Racing Team will announce who will partner Ramirez for the 2021 season. F1 VIDEO: Has Ricciardo made the right call leaving Renault for McLaren? 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