Forward Racing

The team started competing in the MotoGP class as the Hayate Racing Team, a scaled down version of the Kawasaki factory team that withdrew from MotoGP for the 2009 championship due to the Great Recession.[1] The team took its name from the Japanese word Hayate meaning hurricane. The team ran one Kawasaki ZX-RR motorcycle that was ridden by Marco Melandri.

Kawasaki stopped developing new parts for the motorbike in March 2009, meaning Kawasaki's involvement was limited to servicing and maintaining the motorcycle for the rest of the 2009 season.[2] Despite this, Melandri achieved a remarkable result in coming second at the French Grand Prix at Le Mans in May.[3]

In 2010, they participated as Forward Racing in the new Moto2 class, with Jules Cluzel and Claudio Corti as their riders on Suter bikes. Cluzel won the British Grand Prix and finished 7th in the championship. Corti had a pole position for the same race, but his best result was ninth at Misano. In 2011 the team competed with Cluzel and Alex Baldolini, later replaced by Raffaele De Rosa. The best result was a fourth place clinched by Cluzel at the British Grand Prix.

The team returned to MotoGP in 2012 as one of the Claiming Rule Teams and signed Colin Edwards,[4] fielding a Suter chassis with a BMW engine.[5]

For the 2012 Moto2 Championship Forward Racing signed Alex de Angelis and Yuki Takahashi.[6][7] The team started the season with Suter bikes then switched to FTR after six rounds; with the new chassis de Angelis won the Malaysian Grand Prix.

For 2013, Forward Racing expanded its MotoGP involvement to a two-rider team, signing Claudio Corti alongside Colin Edwards with new FTR-Kawasaki bikes. The Moto2 effort was expanded to four riders with Simone Corsi, Mattia Pasini, Alex de Angelis and Ricard Cardús aboard Speed Up bikes.

In 2014 the team again entered the MotoGP class with two bikes for Colin Edwards and Aleix Espargaró. Taking advantage of the new Open category, Forward Racing intended to use Yamaha-leased YZR-M1 engines with FTR frames, however the team started the season with a complete Yamaha YZR-M1 engine-frame-swingarm package[8] with other parts supplied by FTR. At the Mugello round Edwards debuted the new Forward frame built by Harris Performance.[9] Espargaró, who stayed with the Yamaha frame, achieved a pole position at Assen and finished on the podium at Aragon with second place, finishing seventh in the championship.

In Moto2 Forward Racing stepped back to a two-rider team, retaining Pasini and Corsi. The team started the season with 2013-specification Kalex frames modified in-house and rebadged as Forward KLX.[10] At the fifth round the team switched to official Kalex bikes.[11] Riding the new frame Corsi scored two podiums, but a crash at Silverstone ended his season. He was then replaced by Supersport World Championship rider Florian Marino.

For the 2015 season, Forward Racing renewed their partnership with Yamaha, planning to run two bikes with YZR-M1 engine-frame-swingarm packages and abandoning the in-house chassis project.[12] New riders were Stefan Bradl and Loris Baz. Forward also renewed its commitment to the Moto2 class fielding two Kalex frames for Simone Corsi, returning from his injury, and new teammate Lorenzo Baldassarri.[13]

Shortly after the German round, littles problems afflict the team that than announced that they had released Stefan Bradl from his contract at his request.[14] The team returned on track at Brno in both the MotoGP and Moto2 classes with Bradl being replaced by Claudio Corti alongside Baz, Corsi and Baldassarri.[15]

Year	Class	Team name	Motorcycle	No.	Riders	Races	Wins	Podiums	Poles	F. laps	Points	Pos.
2009	MotoGP	Hayate Racing Team	Kawasaki Ninja ZX-RR	33	Marco Melandri	17	0	1	0	0	108	10th
2010	Moto2	Forward Racing	Suter MMX	16	Jules Cluzel	17	1	2	0	1	106	7th
				71	Claudio Corti	17	0	0	1	0	20	25th
				70	Ferruccio Lamborghini[lower-alpha 1]	1 (5)	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2011	Moto2	NGM Forward Racing	Suter MMXI	16	Jules Cluzel	17	0	0	0	0	41	21st
				25	Alex Baldolini[lower-alpha 2]	10 (14)	0	0	0	0	18	27th
				35	Raffaele De Rosa[lower-alpha 2]	7 (13)	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2012	MotoGP	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	BMW-Suter MMX1	5	Colin Edwards	17	0	0	0	0	27	20th
				7	Chris Vermeulen[lower-alpha 3]	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	Moto2		Suter MMX2 FTR Moto M212	15	Alex de Angelis	16	1	2	0	1	86	10th
				72	Yuki Takahashi	17	0	0	0	0	2	30th
			FTR Moto M212	54	Mattia Pasini[lower-alpha 4]	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2013	MotoGP	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	Kawasaki-FTR MGP13	5	Colin Edwards	18	0	0	0	0	41	14th
				71	Claudio Corti	18	0	0	0	0	14	19th
	Moto2	NGM Mobile Racing	Speed Up SF13	3	Simone Corsi	17	0	1	0	0	108	11th
				54	Mattia Pasini	17	0	0	0	0	58	15th
		NGM Mobile Forward Racing		15	Alex de Angelis	17	0	0	0	0	81	14th
				88	Ricard Cardús	17	0	0	0	0	9	23rd
2014	MotoGP	NGM Forward Racing	Forward-Yamaha	5	Colin Edwards	10	0	0	0	0	11	22nd
				41	Aleix Espargaró	18	0	1	1	0	126	7th
				15	Alex de Angelis[lower-alpha 5]	8	0	0	0	0	14	21st
	Moto2		Forward KLX-Kalex Kalex Moto2	3	Simone Corsi	12	0	2	0	0	100	7th
				54	Mattia Pasini	18	0	0	0	0	35	21st
			Kalex Moto2	20	Florian Marino[lower-alpha 6]	6	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2015	MotoGP	Athinà Forward Racing Forward Racing	Yamaha-Forward	6	Stefan Bradl	8 (17)	0	0	0	0	9 (17)	18th
				76	Loris Baz	17	0	0	0	0	28	17th
				71	Claudio Corti[lower-alpha 7]	4	0	0	0	0	0	NC
				24	Toni Elías[lower-alpha 8]	5 (6)	0	0	0	0	2	27th
	Moto2		Kalex Moto2	3	Simone Corsi	17	0	0	0	0	86	12th
				7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	17	0	1	0	0	96	9th
2016	Moto2	Forward Team	Kalex Moto2	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	17	1	2	0	1	127	8th
				10	Luca Marini	18	0	0	0	0	34	23rd
2017	Moto2	Forward Racing Team	Kalex Moto2	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	16	0	0	0	0	51	16th
				10	Luca Marini	16	0	0	0	0	59	15th
		Forward Junior Team		22	Federico Fuligni	4 (6)	0	0	0	0	1	38th
						1 (6)	0	0	0	0	0 (1)
2018	Moto2	Forward Racing Team	Suter MMX2	51	Eric Granado	10	0	0	0	0	0	NC
				62	Stefano Manzi	15	0	0	0	0	8	24th
				32	Isaac Viñales	9 (17)	0	0	0	0	0 (7)	26th
				50	Rafid Topan Sucipto	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
				3	Lukas Tulovic	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2019	Moto2	MV Agusta Idealavoro Forward Agusta Temporary Forward	MV Agusta F2	62	Stefano Manzi	18	0	0	0	0	39	19th
				77	Dominique Aegerter	19	0	0	0	0	19	22nd
				6	Gabriele Ruiu	1 (2)	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2020	Moto2	MV Agusta Forward Racing	MV Agusta F2	24	Simone Corsi	14	0	0	0	0	15	24th
				62	Stefano Manzi	15	0	0	1	0	21	22nd
2021	Moto2	MV Agusta Forward Racing	MV Agusta F2	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	14	0	0	0	0	3	31st
				24	Simone Corsi	14	0	0	1	0	16	24th
				10	Tommaso Marcon	1 (5)	0	0	0	0	0	35th
						3 (5)	0	0	0	0	0
				77	Miquel Pons	1	0	0	0	0	0	36th
				18	Manuel González	2	0	0	0	0	0	33rd
2022	Moto2	MV Agusta Forward Racing	MV Agusta F2	24	Simone Corsi	19	0	0	0	0	0	35th
				42	Marcos Ramírez	20	0	0	0	0	5	30th
				98	David Sanchis	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
				17	Álex Escrig	1	0	0	0	0	0	38th
2023	Moto2	Forward Team	Forward F2	17	Álex Escrig	0	0	0	0	0	0*	–
				42	Marcos Ramírez	2	0	0	0	0	0*	25th*
				98	David Sanchis	2	0	0	0	0	0*	NC*

Notes

* Season still in progress.

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