Second in the Moto3 World Championship, Ivan Ortolá is one of the main riders of the class and is already looking at the intermediate category as he himself releaved, explaining that the decision to get into MT Helmets – MSI is part of his desire to continue to climb up the ladder into MotoGP.
Speaking to Mundo Deportivo, the 19 year old rider clarified why he accepted why he decided to take the opportunity to get into the new team, confessing he is already looking ahead to what may be coming: ‘MT Helmets – MSI is a team with a very large and ambitious project, with a very good structure. The main reason was the jump to Moto2, since they have created a team in the category. We chose a structure with a Moto3 team that gives you the opportunity to move up to Moto2’.
Given his current category, a very chaotic one mostly in the races, the rider said that it is different from Moto2 and MotoGP, specially when it comes to the qualification:
– Moto3 is a category in which Saturday’s classification, the time trial, does not matter so much. It is a category in which there is not much power in the motorcycles, the slipstream matters a lot and it is easier to get there. You have to overtake, but it is easier to get there because they are group races. Lap by lap you can reach the leading group. However, in Moto2 or MotoGP, with motorcycles with more power and with which it is more difficult to overtake, it is more difficult to win a race if you do not qualify in the first positions.
