All three Pierer Mobility Group teams made a significant chไange for the 2024 Moto2ꩲ World Championship, as the CFMoto Aspar Team, Red Bull KTM Ajo, and Liqui Moly Intact Husqvarna switched suspension brands.

Ohlins, the Swedish suspension manufacturer, has won every Moto2 world title since the class’ inception in 2010 when it replaced the old 250cc Worᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚld Championship.

However, Aspar, Ajo, and 🃏Intact all switched to WP for this season, the suspension brand which is a part of the same Pierer Mobility Group (PMG) as the respective motorcycle brands to which the teams are asso🗹ciated.

The switch hasn’t proven a straightforward one, with CFMoto Aspar’s Jak꧑e Dixon achieving the only podium from the teams’ six Moto2 riders in the first half of the season, that coming at the Catalan Grand Prix where the #96 was 9.186 seconds off the victorious Ai Ogura, on Ohlins.

Improvements were apparent for the WP-shod bikes in the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring, as KTM Ajo’s Celestino Vietti qualified on pole and༺ Dꦐixon joined him on the front row in second place. Fermin Aldeguer, who qualified third, won the Grand Prix, two seconds ahead of Dixon, while Vietti hung onto third until the final lap, when he dropped to fifth having run out of rear grip.

Despite Aldeguer’s win and Vietti’s slide backwards at the end, the German race showed promising signs for WP, which last weekend took its f🌟irst win in Moto2 since Brad Binder took the final victory for the KTM chassis in the intermedia💦te class at the 2019 Valencia Grand Prix as Jake Dixon beat Aron Canet on the final lap of the 2024 British Grand Prix.

Joining Dixon and Canet on the podiu🥃m was Vietti, who took his first podium of the year having switched to KTM Ajo from Fantic over the winter.

Despite the apparent progress in recent races, and a test over the summer break for ♕WP in which all of the riding was completed by MotoGP rider and reigning Moto2 World Champion Pedro Acosta, the victorious Dixon said nothing materially had changed suspension-wise.

“They’ve not brought anything,” Dixon said of WP following his Silverstone win. Inst𓆏ead, he put his improvements down to his Aspar team, and their understanding of both the new suspension and the things Dixon himself🦩 needs from the motorcycle.

“They [WP] do a fantasti♊c job doing what they do, and help us as much as they can,” Dixon said. “But, honestly, my team have just been able to find my situation and solutions to what I need to be where I am right now.”

Comments from Celestino Viett🌌i in the Moto2 post-race press conference in Silverstone somewhat backed up what Dixon had said.

About Acosta’s test, which took place at the Red Bull Ring, Vietti said that “What I know is that maybe he [Acosta] doesn’t test a lot of things — he dﷺoes one day to rღide the bike, and he explained what he felt.

“I do🎀n’t know if he had something new to try or something different, but I think he explained something similar to what I feel, so they have one more rider that feels what we are feeling from the beginning.”

🗹Vietti said that, despite the lack of hardware updates from WP, having a rider like Acosta testing for them was beneficial. “We know the direction, but having comments from a world champion💟 and a good rider like Pedro will help us to grow and to go forward,” the Italian said.

Dixon agreed, saying “I think all the commenꩲts that we’ve said were highlighted by him. So, if it needs to take h𓄧im to highlight the comments then we’ll welcome it.”

After his Silverstone victory, Dixon moved up to seventh in the championship, 82 points behind championship leader Sergio Garcia, while Vietti’s t🍌hird place leaves him ninth💝, a further seven points behind Dixon.