With the final IRTA test just a couple of days away, teams are seizing the opportunity to stage their team launches for the 2012 season. On Tuesday night it was the turn of the Power Electronics Aspar team to present their bike and riders to the press, not at Jerez, where a large portion of the world's motorcycling press is already assembled, but in Valencia, home to Aspar owner Jorge Martinez and the heart of his power base.
Much is expected of the Aspar team. Randy de Puniet has been consistently fast on the Aprilia ART, though without the factory prototypes at the separate CRT tests, it is hard to judge just exactly how competitive the bikes will be. Going by the times set so far, De Puniet should be capable of troubling the satellite bikes, at least the Ducatis of Karel Abraham and Hector Barbera, as well as the Honda of Stefan Bradl. Aleix Espargaro makes a return to MotoGP after a reasonable year in Moto2, but having already had experience on a MotoGP with Pramac Ducati in 2010 should help get the Spaniard up to speed.
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