MotoGP: Tech3 sign Smith for MotoGP ride
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Your support makes all the difference.The British rider Bradley Smith will move up to MotoGP from Moto2 in 2013 after agreeing a three-year deal with his French-based Yamaha Tech3 team, it was announced yesterday.
"To think I'll be riding a Yamaha 1,000cc MotoGP bike just over a year from now is hard to believe," said the 20-year-old from Oxford. "I've worked so hard for many years to earn the chance to be given an opportunity like this, and now it has come I intend to grab it with both hands."
Tech3 currently have another British rider, Cal Crutchlow, as one of their riders in MotoGP.
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