Italian Rider Minim, Who's The Next Rossi?

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MotoGp - With age continues to grow dusk, Valentino Rossi had a potential successor should be able to continue the great names in Italian MotoGP event. In fact, the Italian rider-rider actually shrinking in number in the 2012 season.

Based on the entry list that has been released for three classes of the FIM Grand Prix (MotoGP, GP2 and GP3) 2012 season, there are 13 total recorded just rider from Italy who will berparisipasi. The amount is even already included Alex de Angelis of San Marino is the original, a small state in Italy.

For the MotoGP class, Italy will be represented four racers. They are Andrea Dovizioso (Monster Yamaha Tech 3), Valentino Rossi (Ducati Team), Michele Pirro (San Carlo Honda Gresini) and Danilo Petrucci (Ioda Racing). Two Italian racer who participated in 2011 but disappeared this season is Loris Capirossi who decided to retire and Marco Simoncelli who died in the crash in Sepang.

Italy counted lucky to have four drivers in this most prestigious class, because the latter two names (Michele Pirro and Danilo Petrucci) will appear as a representative team of CRT (Claiming Rule Teams) are newly introduced this season. Since 2000, Italy only sent at least three drivers in a single season in 500cc/MotoGP class (2006 and 2007), while most are six-rider (2005 and 2009).

From the Moto2 class, the decline in the number of Italian racer was more drastic. If the last two seasons in a row the numbers were nine and eight riders, then settled down in the 2012 season is only five riders. They are Roberto Rolfo, Raffaele De Rosa, Alex Baldolini and Mattia Pasini and Alex De Angelis.

The seeds of the young Italian who competed in the class Moto3 currently also not really a lot. For the season which will start soon there's only four namely the Italian Luigi Morciano, Fenati Romano, Alessandro Tonucci and Niccolo Antonelli.

The number of 13 riders who competed in the Italian Grand Prix class was out of Spain who had a total of 24 riders. Successively from the highest to the lowest grade class, Spain is represented by six, ten and eight racers.