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If only Tom Lüthi (34) were as fast on the track as he was when he divorced his racing team! The Emmentaler and their German team IntactGP have become completely estranged in a few weeks, now the split from the former dream couple is official at the end of the season. Lüthi will drive a Moto2 Kalex for the Spanish SAG racing team in 2021 and 2022.
The former world champion is moving from the second best team in 2019 to the seventh best, where he once again hopes to find the family atmosphere that speeds him up. Everyone involved strives to make it look like a normal process. Also because you have to endure seven GP together.
Still on track with best test times
Lüthis Noch team leader Jürgen Lingg to BLICK: “It’s a tough business. We fought for a long time, but now we wanted to reorient ourselves. ”Newcomer Tony Arbolino (It, 20) arrives. The flash divorce is the admission by both parties that the eternal quest for a good vote on a motorcycle has failed.
It’s an accident in record time – in 2019 Tom is closer than ever to the Moto2 title in terms of points on the Intact motorcycle. Lüthi set the best test time this February, but now the Emmentaler has been gurgling well behind the top since the restart, the ninth World Cup faces the first podium-free Moto2 season in ten years.
Now it was the team that was pulling the tightrope, although a verbal agreement had long been reached for 2021. According to information from VIEW, there was a gap due to unexpectedly poor results. The opinion matured in the team that Lüthi would have to accelerate even with a less than ideal motorcycle. Team boss Lingg doesn’t confirm it, just says, “Tom just doesn’t feel comfortable on the motorcycle. We try everything. But we are not magicians. “
Fast break
The fatal blow continues far from the racetrack. Articles appear in the Swiss AZ media discrediting Lüthi’s chief mechanic and criticizing technical support as an amateur. The heads of the racing team suspect that the surroundings of Lüthi are a secret source. Daniel Epp, Lüthi manager: “It was assumed that I was the source. But I had nothing to do with it. “
A few weak races later, the rapid separation follows, just a year and a half after IntactGP Lüthi made the Moto2 comeback possible despite his disaster year in MotoGP.
