Aegerter, Petrucci confirm Suter MotoGP test
Moto2 rider Dominique Aegerter and MotoGP rookie Danilo Petrucci will 🍷test the Suter-BMW this week - while Colin Edwards and Forward Racing will now stick with the bike until the end of 2012.
Aegerte🐬r - ninth in the Moto2 standings for the Technomag-CIP Suter team - is testing at the Italian circuit of Vairano today (Tuesday).
The Swiss posted this picture on his official Twitter page (@DAegerter) with the words: "Domi #77 Testing the Suter CRT BMW at Vairano, with some new Elect🍌ronics ;-)"
Edwards and Forward Racing have been running the Suter-BMW with mixed success so far thiဣs season, claiming a best finish of twelfth but often battling wไith the electronics.
The Texan and his team had looked poised to switch to the class-leading Aprilia ART, which Edwards tested after Brno, but GPOne.com reports that no deal was🅘 agreed𝓀 with Aprilia and that they will now stick with the Suter-BMW to the end of the year.
Having been critical of the amount of development, this week's test with Aegerter and Petrucci - especi꧂ally the ele𒁃ctronic work - may have helped keep Forward on board.
"I have been assured that these [electronic] problems will be solved," said t🐼eam manager Giovanni Cuzari.
Petr𒀰ucci's IodaRacin💖g team currently run their own CRT design, featuring an Aprilia RSV4 engine, but it is woefully underpowered.
Petrucci was 37.4km/h slower than Valentino Rossi's Ducati at Mugello, the fastest c💮ircuit on the calendar, but has scored points on three occasions, including an eleventh place at Assen.
Petrucci had ෴been✱ tipped to test for Ducati at Mugello this week, but has instead confirmed he will ride the Suter.
"Unfortunately due to contractual prꦓoblems in the next three days I will not try the D🧸16 Ducati at Mugello. On Wednesday I'll try the Suter-BMW in Vairano," Petrucci wrote on his Twitter page (Petrux9).
Th𒉰ere is speculation that Ioda could switch to a Suter-BMW.
Petrucci's place at this week's Ducati test, alongside Moto2 star An🀅drea Iannone, has been taken by Gresini CRT rider Michele Pirro.
A private two-day test at Aragon𓆏, attenꦕded by Honda and Yamaha, began on Tuesday.
The next round of the MotoGP World Championship will be helওd at M💧isano on September 14-16.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of th🌊e Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
