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ETG Racing’s successful model shines on the circuits

Third place in the Spanish Superbike Championship with Marc Alcoba, who, at 19, has been the best rookie in a category full of veteran riders with experience in the World Championship such as Jordi Torres, Carmelo Morales or the final winner Román Ramos. Runners-up in the Open 1000 category, also in the state championship, with the veteran Joan Zamorano. Runner-up of Spain in Junior Superbikes with Francesc Fernández fighting for the title until the last appointment of the calendar in the circuit of Jerez, where he arrived leader and ended up falling. The successes of Alcoba, Zamorano and Fernández are not just three good, or great, results of one more team that participates in the Spanish Speed ​​Championship. They are the demonstration of one successful model that, after setting foot for the first time in the statewide races of 2013, he wins races without ever stopping combining training with competition. And is that the three pilots ofETG Racing have competed all season with motorcycles prepared by the students of competition mechanics of the Girona Technical School, who has also been in charge of doing all the team work in the championship races in Jerez, Cheste, Montmeló …

In its seven years competing in the Spanish Championship, ETG Racing had already won a title (the 2015 Stock600 with Porqueres rider Xavi Pinsach) and finished second in the final Superbikes classification (in 2018 also with Pinsach), but this 2020 has been the roundest year with two runners-up and a third place. “The valuation is very good for good results in all categories in a very complicated year; the pandemic arrived and races were canceled, we had to do virtual classes … and when the calendar started again in September we had the races very often without a margin of error “, explains the head of the team, Albert Torras, who is increasingly clear about the respect with which the motor world looks at its students when they work in the paddocks.

“Obviously any rider would like to have professional technicians and mechanics with 10 years of experience working on their bike, but these mechanics have to be trained by someone,” says Torras, who does not hide that “it fills me up a lot.” see alumni of the school working in teams or in companies in the world of competition. “I’m one of the two teachers who accompany students in the races and there I supervise the telemetry and electronics part; and when you see that, fighting for a championship, the head of telemetry of the other team is a former student, you think: well, maybe we are doing a good job “, explains Albert Torras, who ends it with another example of human capital that has left in recent years the facilities of the Technical Escolta Girona at the southern entrance of the city. “When we have a problem with telemetry programs, the technician who is now sent to us by our supply company turns out to be another alumnus of the school.”

And all in one course marked by the pandemic. “It has been complicated, but I think the school responded well, because one Friday we were confined and the following Tuesday the students were already doing the theoretical classes on-line and then in July we offered to extend the course to make it more practical “, recalls Torras in a line that is also supported by the director of the Girona Technical School, Jordi Moncanut:” We have to train technically, but we also have to pass on some values ​​and professionalism because they are young people, aged 18, 19 or 20, and the truth is that the commitment they have had to the pandemic has been very high and this also highlights the training they give in school, to band that I think has been noticed in the performance of the team ».

The Promotion Cups

The mixture of training with competition that comes from the Girona Technical School and the ETG Racing is valued in the world of motoring and, for example, the Girona team is also in charge of the technical organization of the different Copas de Promotion carried out in Catalonia. Where all the pilots start. First, ETG Racing started with the Catalan Promotion Cup with Ohvale motorcycles (110 cc and 160 cc) for boys and girls from 7 to 13 years old; and then the Yamaha Cup (180 cc) for over 12s and the RACC3 Promo with Polini bikes from 6 to 9 years old were added.

“We take care of the organization, and for the assistance in race we have our first year students so that they get used to the competition little by little starting with smaller karting circuits and so not to be the first day in Montmeló, where everything looks huge », details Torras on the contribution of ETG Racing to the Promotion Cups. In the same way, the Girona team will be in charge of doing the training part of the ambitious project of the Campus Circuit Parcmotor de Castellolí that promotes the Igualada circuit, Dorna and the Dexeus Clinic with the aim of training the pilots of the future.

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