Miguel Oliveira returns for Trackhouse farewell at Barcelona MotoGP

Miguel Oliveira and team manager Wilc෴o Zeelenberg set for their final MotoGP weekend with Trackhouse.

Wilco Zeelenberg, Miguel Oliveira
Wilco Zeelenberg, Miguel Oliveira

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Miguel Oliveira will return to MotoGP action for his Trackhouse Aprilia farewell at this weekend𒀰’s Solidarit🍸y Barcelona season finale.

The Portimao has missed the last five rounds due to wrist fractures caused ജby a traction control glitch during practice in Mandalika.

Oliveira, who made history for Trackhou💎se with its first top-three finish in the Sachsenring Sprint,𒈔 will complete his final laps on an RS-GP before a debut with Pramac Yamaha in the Tuesday test.

“I’m really excited to come back to racing MotoGP,” Oliveira�🔥� said.

“My expectations ar🅰e not very high because I don’t know how limited my wrist is until I get back on the bike and it’s a Grand Prix with mixed feelings for sure, but my aim is to leave the Trackhouse team on a high.

“We, obviously, will be racing to gather some hope and also fund𒐪s for those affected by the catastrophic events in Valencia so overall - I’m looking forward to it!”

Oliveira’s departure, plus an all-new factory line-up of Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi, means 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Raul Fernandez is the only rider rema✨ining with Aprilia in 2025.

Fernandez turned heads in on May’s Barcelona round by qualifying his then 2023-spec bike on the front row a𒐪nd sensationally leading the Sprint, before falling.

The Spaniard, since promoted to the RS-GP24, then claimed sixth place iᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚn the grand 𝓡prix.

“First of all, we will race for all the people affected in Valencia,” said Fernandez. “What happe♈ned there is still a shock, so we will compete for them.

“Barcel🦹ona is a good track for us and although we will keep working for next year mainly, I would li꧑ke to finish the last round of the season well.

“The result we had here, in Barcelona, last time makes me really optimistic. I would still like to stay calm, take it session by 𒀰session and try to do my best.”

Oliveira’s replacement, reigning Moto2 champion Ai Ogura, will make his Trackhouse debut on Tuesday﷽.

The Portuguese isn’t the only key Trackhouse figure departi🎀ng this weekend, with team manager Wilco Zeelenberg also bi🌳dding farewell.

“Of course, let’s hope Barcelona is going to be a very special event, first of all, for the reason we go there, which is not the best. Let’s try to do everything for the people in Valencia to 🤡help them in whatever 🎶way we can,” Zeelenberg said.

“As the MotoGP organisation says, we don’t race in Valencia, but we race for Valen൩cia - I think this is very nicely said and makes this second round in Barcelona very special.

“For our team, it will also be a special one because Miguel is coming back fr♋om injury and Raul led the Sprint race, at this home event here, early in summer.

“Our bike worked quite well there before so we will see if we can achieve the ra💟ce results of the past.

“I’m looking for🦩ward to going there, the last MotoGP race of this season and mayb🧔e also, the final one of my career.”

A former grand prix rider - and winner of the 1990 West German 250GP - Zeelenberg first major success as a team manager came when Cal Crutchlow won the 2009 World Supers꧂port title for Yamaha.

Zeelenberg then moved to MotoGP the following season, as team managꦇer to new signing Jorge Lorenzo in a (literally) divided garage alongside Valentino Rossi.

The factory Yamaha team continued to employ a team manager for each rider until 2015, when Zeelenberg's official role became 'Ridಌer Performance Analyst', to reflect his increasing focus on rider coaching.

Lorenzo and Ze🧔elenberg won three world titles and 43 races by the time the Spaniard left for Ducati in 2017.

The Dutchman chose to remain at Yamaha and work with new signing Maverick Vinales, who wonౠ three of his opening five races on the M1. But over a year lat🦋er and Vinales was yet to win again, causing obvious tension.

Zeelenberg and crew𝓀 chief Ramon Forcada - another key member of Lorenzo's success - switched to the new Petronas Yamaha project for 2019, with the Dutchman returning to a team manager role.

The Sepang project discovered future champion Fabio Quartararo, celebrated six wins, the first victories for a satellite Yamaha team in MotoGP, and was 2020 tit𒀰le runner-up 🌌with Franco Morbidelli.

After running Valentino Rossi in his final MotoGP s🌠eason, the exit of Petronas saw a slimmed-down version of the team reborn under Razl൩an Razali as RNF, with Yamaha and then Aprilia machinery.

Zee🃏lenberg helped steer the team through those choppy waters, including a doomed CryptoDATA partnership and he remained as team man꧃ager for the start of this year’s new Trackhouse era.

It is not thought that Zeelenberg will be replaced, suggesting team director Davide Brivio w🏅ill take on more of the team manager role.

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