The contract for 2020 has been signed. Marc Moser, who lives in the Frankfurt area, didn’t even have to travel all the way up north to meet with team manager Michael Galinski. “These days, it’s all done by email,” laughs the 26-year-old, who finished last season at MGM Racing Performance as the top Yamaha rider in the IDM Superbike 1000 class. He secured four podium finishes and finished sixth overall in the premier class.
Moser will join Team Bonovo action by MGM Racing. His teammates in the Superbike class are Jonas Folger and Max Weihe. Moser has known the prominent former Grand Prix rider for more than half his life. As children, Folger and Moser raced against each other in the ADAC Mini Bike Championship, and even back then it was clear that Folger was an exceptional talent.
Like his teammates, Moser will be racing on the new Yamaha YZF-R1. Its key features include an aggressive front fairing, improved aerodynamics, enhanced electronics, a more powerful engine, newly developed rocker arms and cam profiles for optimized valve lift, and a modified intake system with a redesigned cylinder head. “I think the bike is competitive,” says Moser, adding: “Marvin Fritz has already ridden it, and as a guest rider at the season finale in Hockenheim, he showed us what it’s capable of even with the old model.”
The Bonovo action by MGM Racing team had actually already announced its lineup at the end of November, but despite his absence, Moser was never out of the running. Not least because he had wanted to keep his previous IDM mechanic, whom he has now secured.