Speed Up is an Italian motorcycle racing team and constructor founded in 2010 and based in Vicenza, Italy. In 2012 the company started building its own branded chassis under the Speed Up Factory name. Beginning with the 2021 season, the company re-branded their factory-entered machines under the name Boscoscuro to better differentiate between their own racing team and chassis kits supplied to other teams.
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| Company type | Private company |
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| Industry | Mechanical engineering, Motorcycles |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Founder | Luca Boscoscuro |
| Headquarters | , Italy |
| Products | Chassis, Frames |
| Brands | Boscoscuro |
| Website | www |
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| Base | Vicenza, Italy |
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| Principal | Luca Boscoscuro |
| Rider(s) | Moto2: 21. Alonso López 54. Fermín Aldeguer |
| Motorcycle | Boscoscuro B-24 |
| Tyres | Pirelli |
| Riders' Championships | – |
History edit
The team was founded in 2010 by the former Grand Prix motorcyclist Luca Boscoscuro and entered the newly formed Moto2 class of the world championship. In the team's first year they achieved three wins with their S10 motorcycle, based on a FTR Moto M210 frame,[1] ridden by Andrea Iannone and Gábor Talmácsi. In 2011 the Speed Up team elected to enter an FTR M211 chassis ridden by Pol Espargaró and Valentin Debise.
In 2012 Speed Up started building its own chassis[2] named the S12. Boscoscuro entered into partnership with Andrea Iannone's Speed Master team supplying him with the new frames and fielding a bike for Mike Di Meglio; the best results were achieved by Iannone thanks to two victories. During the season, the QMMF Racing Team switched from Moriwaki to Speed Up frames.
In 2013 saw the debut of the SF13 chassis, fielded by three teams – Forward Racing, AGR and QMMF Racing Team, no factory team raced this year, achieving only a podium with Simone Corsi as a best result.
In 2014 Speed Up debuted the new SF14 frame, entering its own team with Sam Lowes and again supplying the QMMF Racing Team, who won the Dutch TT with Anthony West.
In 2015 followed a similar pattern with Sam Lowes and Anthony West remaining with their respective teams; West being joined in the QMMF team by Julián Simón. Lowes finished the season as the only non-Kalex rider in the top 14 of the final championship standings, in 4th place in the year-end table, having won at the Circuit of the Americas.
In 2016 saw Speed Up's own team line up with a new rider in Simone Corsi, with Lowes having left to join Gresini Racing in 2016 with a following MotoGP contract for 2017. The QMMF team raced with West and Simón.
In 2021, with a view to differentiating the racing team from the chassis production, the motorcycle prototype frames produced were renamed under the brand Boscoscuro.[3][4][5]
Results edit
| Year | Class | Team name | Motorcycle | No. | Riders | Races | Wins | Podiums | Poles | F. laps | Points | Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Moto2 | Fimmco Speed Up | Speed Up S10 | 2 |  Gábor Talmácsi
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17 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 109 | 6th |
| 29 |  Andrea Iannone
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17 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 199 | 3rd | ||||
| 2011 | Moto2 | Speed Master | Suter MMXI | 29 | Andrea Iannone
|
17 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 177 | 3rd |
| HP Tuenti Speed Up
Speed Up |
FTR Moto M211 | 44 |  Pol Espargaró
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17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 75 | 13th | ||
| 53 |  Valentin Debise
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17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | ||||
| 2012 | Moto2 | Speed Master
S/Master Speed Up |
Speed Up S12 | 29 | Andrea Iannone
|
17 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 194 | 3rd |
| 63 | Mike Di Meglio
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7 (16)[a] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 (17)[a] | 22nd | ||||
| 22 | Alessandro Andreozzi
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10 (11)[a] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34th | ||||
| 2014 | Moto2 | Speed Up | Speed Up SF14 | 22 |  Sam Lowes
|
18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 13th |
| 2015 | Moto2 | Speed Up Racing | Speed Up SF15 | 22 | Sam Lowes
|
18 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 186 | 4th |
| 2016 | Moto2 | Speed Up Racing | Speed Up SF16 | 24 | Simone Corsi
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18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 103 | 10th |
| 2017 | Moto2 | Speed Up Racing | Speed Up SF7[6] | 24 | Simone Corsi
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18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 117 | 9th |
| 47 | Axel Bassani
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4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43rd | ||||
| 88 | Ricard Cardús
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1 (5) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (7) | 29th | ||||
| 37 | Augusto Fernández
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13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 31st | ||||
| 2018 | Moto2 | Beta Tools - Speed Up
MB Conveyors - Speed Up HDR Heidrun - Speed Up Lightech - Speed Up Boost - Speed Up (+)Ego - Speed Up |
Speed Up SF8 | 20 | Fabio Quartararo
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18 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 138 | 10th |
| 52 | Danny Kent
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13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 25th | ||||
| 57 | Edgar Pons
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4 (6) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 31st | ||||
| 70 | Tommaso Marcon
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1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42nd | ||||
| 2019 | Moto2 | +Ego Speed Up
Beta Tools Speed Up HDR Heidrun Speed Up Lightech Speed Up MB Conveyors Speed Up Campetella Speed Up |
Speed Up SF19T | 9 | Jorge Navarro
|
19 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 226 | 4th |
| 21 | Fabio Di Giannantonio
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19 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 108 | 9th | ||||
| 2020 | Moto2 | Beta Tools Speed Up
HDR Heidrun Speed Up MB Conveyors Speed Up +Ego Speed Up Termozeta Speed Up |
Speed Up SF20T | 9 | Jorge Navarro
|
15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 17th |
| 21 | Fabio Di Giannantonio
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15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 15th | ||||
| 2021 | Moto2 | MB Conveyors Speed Up
Lightech Speed Up +Ego Speed Up Termozeta Speed Up |
Boscoscuro B-21 | 5 | Yari Montella
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7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34th |
| 9 | Jorge Navarro
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18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 106 | 9th | ||||
| 2 | Alonso López
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3 (4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (4) | 30th | ||||
| 54 | Fermín Aldeguer
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4 (8) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 25th | ||||
| 4 (8) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| 2022 | Moto2 | Speed Up Racing | Boscoscuro B-22 | 5 | Romano Fenati
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6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 27th |
| 54 | Fermín Aldeguer
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20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 80 | 15th | ||||
| 21 | Alonso López
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14 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 155.5 | 8th | ||||
| 2023 | Moto2 | Speed Up Racing | Boscoscuro B-23 | 21 | Alonso López
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20 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 150 | 7th |
| 54 | Fermín Aldeguer
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20 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 212 | 3rd | ||||
| 2024 | Moto2 | Speed Up Racing | Boscoscuro B-24 | 21 | Alonso López
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0* | — |
| 54 | Fermín Aldeguer
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0* | — |
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- Notes
* Season still in progress.
References edit
- ^ "FTR and Speed Up continue for 2011". Crash.net. 27 January 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ Emmi, Ernesto (29 February 2012). "SpeedMaster e SpeedUp con Iannone" [SpeedMaster and SpeedUp with Iannone]. GpOne.com (in Italian). Buffer Overflow srl. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
- ^ Zunino, Serena (12 March 2021). "Moto2, diamo il benvenuto alla Boscoscuro B-21". Motosprint.it (in Italian). Corriere dello Sport – Stadio. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ Wiesinger, Günther (3 August 2021). "Überraschung: Speed Up-Bikes heißen jetzt Boscoscuro / Moto2". speedweek.com (in German). Retrieved 19 May 2021.
- ^ 'We wanted to give the bike an identity independent of the team' – Luca Boscoscuro motorcyclesports.net, January 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2022
- ^ "Jerez Test 27–28–01 March". speedupfactory.com. Speed Up. 27 February 2017. Archived from the original on 24 May 2021. Retrieved 28 February 2017.