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Siméon joins Rabat at Avintia Ducati | MotoGP 2018

Trev by Trev
September 22, 2017
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Xavier Siméon joins Avintia Ducati alongside Tito Rabat for MotoGP season 2018
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Xavi Siméon completes 2018 Reale Avintia Racing rider line up
Xavier Siméon joins Avintia Ducati alongside Tito Rabat for MotoGP season 2018
Xavier Siméon joins Avintia Ducati alongside Tito Rabat for MotoGP season 2018

Reale Avintia Racing has announced a two-year agreement reached with Xavier Siméon that will see the 28 year-old Belgian rider step up to MotoGP with the team and Ducati in 2018.

Xavi Siméon’s debut in the World Championship was in 2010, the same year the Moto2 class started as the new intermediate category, after clinching the World FIM Superstock 1000 Championship with Ducati. He also won the European Superstock 600 championship back in 2006, so he does have  ‘four stroke experience’.

Since then, he has been racing in Moto2 with different bikes and teams. In 2013 he was on the podium for the first time at Le Mans, and it was the first time for a Belgian rider since Didier de Radiguès back in 1990.

Two years later he got his first Moto2 World Championship win at the German Grand Prix, and he wrote his name in the Belgian rider winners list alongside Didier de Radiguès and Julien Vanzeebroeck.

Xavier Simeon (BEL) - The Belgian rider claimed his first ever victory in his sixth Moto2 season, 2015
Xavier Simeon (BEL) – The Belgian rider claimed his first ever victory in his sixth Moto2 season, 2015

Together with Reale Avintia Racing, Siméon will make history once again in 2018, when he moves up to the premier class as only the second Belgian rider after De Radiguès in the premier class, and when he will give his debut as the first ever Belgian rider in the MotoGP class.

Xavier Siméon signs with Avintia Ducati for MotoGP 2018
Xavier Siméon signs with Avintia Ducati for MotoGP 2018

Xavier Siméon

“This is a fantastic opportunity and I have been working hard for it for a lot of years. I’m really happy to realize this dream that has followed me since my childhood. Day after day, I have done everything I can to get up there. My efforts, combined with those of Freddy Tacheny and Zelos’ crew ended up paying and I have to thank each of them. I conquered my world title in Superstock with a Ducati and I am delighted to find again the Bologna brand with the team Reale Avintia Racing. I’m really looking forward to discover the Ducati. Once again I would like to thank all of my partners and fans for believing in me and the support they are bringing in this new challenge!”

Xavier Simeon in 2015
Xavier Simeon in 2015

Raul Romero – Esponsorama

“I’m really happy to announce that Xavi Siméon will be riding for our team next season. He is a hard worker and he has won in Moto2, a very competitive and hard-fought category. After several seasons in the middle class, he will step up to MotoGP with high motivation, looking forward to learn everything. I think he will form a great team with Tito Rabat, who is going into his third season in MotoGP and will be the reference inside the team. But the 2017 season is still running and in the last five races I’m confident that we can celebrate a great result with our current riders Hector Barbera and Loris Baz. Both have contributed to making our team bigger and better. I wish both of them the very best in the future.”

Here Xavier Simeon stands alongside his 2018 teammate and race winner Tito Rabat when the pair were on the Moto2 podium in Argentina in 2014
Here Xavier Simeon stands alongside his 2018 teammate and race winner Tito Rabat when the pair were on the Moto2 podium in Argentina in 2014

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