MOTOR SPORT 69 AND FTR CONTINUE INTO 2011 FTR MOTO will supply its Moto2 machinery to Alex Debon and his Motor Sport 69 Team for a second successive year as the tough Spanish rider steps down from his racing career to take over management of the team in 2011. Debon will have young Scottish rider Kev Coghlan representing the team aboard the innovative M211 in this year’s Moto2 World Championship, starting in Qatar on March 20. FTR and Debon made an instant impact in the 2010 inaugural Moto2 Championship as the Spanish ace finished runner-up in last year’s opening round, also at the Losail circuit near Doha, Qatar. Debon went on to finish 16th in the Championship after two fifth places at Silverstone, GB and Sepang, Malaysia and four other top 10 finishes. A qualifying session crash at Assen in Holland led to a badly injured shoulder and ultimately prevented his progress and a repeat of his Qatar result. In Coghlan Debon has signed a rider who won the 2009 European and Spanish Supersport Championships and last year finished third in the Spanish Moto2 Championship. The 22-year-old is a Dorna MotoGP Academy graduate and put in some sensational displays during a wild card appearance at Aragon last September. He was second and fourth fastest in two of the practice sessions before a fuel starvation problem ruled him out of the race on the opening lap. “We’re really pleased to be continuing our association with Alex Debon,” said FTR’s Steve Bones. “He achieved out very first podium as a manufacturer and in our very first World Championship race. “Alex undoubtedly suffered a lot of bad luck last year and he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time for a couple of his big crashes and retirement did seem a sensible option for him. “With Kev, Alex has a really promising talent. We’ve watched Kev since our early days of negotiation with Miguel Gomez and the Joe Darcey Team in the Spanish Championship in 2009 and then worked with him last year in the CEV Spanish Championship.” Bones concluded: “It certainly won’t be easy for Kev in his first full World Championship year but he has a good mentor in Alex. Kev is really pleased with the M211 in the tests so far so I’m sure we’ve a good base to work from with him.”