RW Racing GP

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RW Racing GP

2024 name	RW-Idrofoglia Racing GP
Base	Dwingeloo, Netherlands
Principal	Jarno Janssen
Rider(s)	Moto2: 7. Barry Baltus 84. Zonta van den Goorbergh
Motorcycle	Kalex Moto2
Tyres	Pirelli
Riders' Championships	–

RW Racing GP is a motorcycle racing team founded by businessman Roelof Waninge from The Netherlands. The team competes in the Moto2 World Championship.

Roelof Waninge, was owner of a Dutch network of commercial vehicle dealerships and workshops headquartered in Assen, originally invested in motorcycle racing in 1993 as a personal sponsor of Dutch rider Jarno Janssen,^[1] who would go on to become RW's team principal after his riding career. In 2011, the long-standing Dutch 125 cc and 250 cc team owned by Arie Molenaar experienced financial trouble, prompting Waninge to purchase the remaining assets of the team and rename it RW Racing GP.^[2]

The team began competing in 2011, taking over the existing 125 cc programme from Molenaar, using Aprilia machinery and retaining upcoming Spanish rider Luis Salom. In 2012 with the replacement of the 125 cc class by the new four-stroke Moto3 regulations, the team switched to Kalex-KTM machines, retaining Salom and adding South African rider Brad Binder. Salom finished the season in 2nd place with 2 wins and 8 podiums. In 2013, former Molenaar team rider Jarno Janssen, who had continued with the team and subsequently with RW in various technical roles after retirement as a racer, was named general team manager. 2014 would prove to be the team's worst season to date, with both riders Scott Deroue and Ana Carrasco failing to score a single point. 2015 saw a major change for the team, with a switch to Honda machinery and a reduction to a single rider, Livio Loi. Loi managed a win in 2015 at Indianapolis that season, but managed only one other top 10 finish with a 5th place at Silverstone Circuit. For the 2016 season, RW continued with Loi with similar overall results.^[2]

2017 saw another major step for the RW Racing GP team, as they moved up to Moto2 with Spanish rider Axel Pons on Kalex machinery.^[2]

For the 2018 season, RW joined forces with Japanese chassis manufacturer NTS to operate their factory programme as the sole users of the NTS chassis, expanding their programme to two riders. Despite NTS's relatively quick success in the previous two seasons of the CEV Moto2 European Championship, the challenge of the Moto2 World Championship proved difficult with RW finishing 16th and 15th from 18 teams in 2018 and 2019.^[2] Fortunes did not improve in 2020, finishing 14th of 15 teams on 22 points. For 2021, the team signed former Tech3 MotoGP rider Hafizh Syahrin and young Belgian rider Barry Baltus. The team scored just 11 points and finished last of all teams.

For 2022, the team ended their difficult partnership with NTS after four seasons, and returned to the series-dominant Kalex machines.^[3] They kept Barry Baltus onboard, with the Belgian now being paired up with the 16 year old Dutchman Zonta van den Goorbergh.

In 2023, Fieten Olie is the main sponsor of this team.^[4]

Year	Class	Team name	Motorcycle	No.	Riders	Races	Wins	Podiums	Poles	F. laps	Points	Pos.
2011	125cc	RW Racing GP	Aprilia RSA 125	39	Luis Salom	15	0	2	0	0	116	8th
				14	Brad Binder	1 (5)	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2012	Moto3	RW Racing GP	Kalex-KTM	39	Luis Salom	17	2	8	0	1	214	2nd
				41	Brad Binder	17	0	0	0	0	24	21st
2013	Moto3	RW Racing GP Redox RW Racing GP	Kalex-KTM	53	Jasper Iwema	17	0	0	0	0	8	24th
				84	Jakub Kornfeil	17	0	0	0	0	68	11th
2014	Moto3	RW Racing GP	Kalex-KTM	9	Scott Deroue	18	0	0	0	0	0	NC
				22	Ana Carrasco	14	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2015	Moto3	RW Racing GP	Honda NSF250RW	11	Livio Loi	18	1	1	0	0	56	16th
2016	Moto3	RW Racing GP	Honda NSF250RW	11	Livio Loi	18	0	0	0	1	63	18th
2017	Moto2	RW Racing GP	Kalex Moto2	49	Axel Pons	18	0	0	0	0	27	19th
2018	Moto2	NTS RW Racing GP	NTS NH6	4	Steven Odendaal	18	0	0	0	0	4	28th
				16	Joe Roberts	18	0	0	0	0	5	27th
2019	Moto2	NTS RW Racing GP	NTS NH7	4	Steven Odendaal	9	0	0	0	0	0	31st
				64	Bo Bendsneyder	19	0	0	0	0	7	26th
				2	Jesko Raffin	7 (8)	0	0	0	0	6	27th
				24	Simone Corsi	2 (11)	0	0	0	0	0 (10)	24th
				70	Tommaso Marcon	1	0	0	0	0	0	40th
2020	Moto2	NTS RW Racing GP	NTS NH7	2	Jesko Raffin	3	0	0	0	0	0	33rd
				64	Bo Bendsneyder	15	0	0	0	0	18	23rd
				77	Dominique Aegerter	4 (5)	0	0	0	0	4	28th
				74	Piotr Biesiekirski	7	0	0	0	0	0	32nd
2021	Moto2	NTS RW Racing GP	NTS NH7	55	Hafizh Syahrin	17	0	0	0	0	9	28th
				70	Barry Baltus	14	0	0	0	0	2	32nd
				89	Fraser Rogers	1	0	0	0	0	0	38th
				32	Taiga Hada	1 (2)	0	0	0	0	0	39th
				10	Tommaso Marcon	1 (5)	0	0	0	0	0	35th
2022	Moto2	RW Racing GP	Kalex Moto2	7	Barry Baltus	16	0	0	0	0	30	21st
				84	Zonta van den Goorbergh	18	0	0	0	0	0	34th
				11	Mattia Pasini	1 (3)	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	33rd
2023	Moto2	Fieten Olie Racing GP	Kalex Moto2	7	Barry Baltus	19	0	0	0	0	55	17th
				84	Zonta van den Goorbergh	20	0	0	0	0	17	23rd
				34	Mattia Pasini	2	0	0	0	0	11	25th
			NTS NH7	45	Héctor Garzó	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2024	Moto2	RW-Idrofoglia Racing GP	Kalex Moto2	7	Barry Baltus	19	0	1	0	0	40*	21st*
				84	Zonta van den Goorbergh	19	0	0	0	0	31*	22nd*

Notes

* Season still in progress.

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