Moto3: Fenati Back for 2017
Michael Scott | September 10, 2016
Fenati will be back in Moto3 next year.
Another chance for temperamental Italian
Moto3 bad boy Romano Fenati has been thrown a lifeline after his sacking from the SKY VR46 team halfway through the Austrian GP, and has signed to join the Italian Ongetta Rivacold team next year.
It will put the hot-tempered Latin back on a Honda, the marque on which he won the first of his six GP victories in his debut season of 2012.
With the MotoGP contracts all in place for 2017, the focus switched to the smaller classes, with a number of riders moving from Moto3 to Moto2, including champion elect Brad Binder, who will replace Johann Zarco in the Ajo Moto2 squad.
Another going up is Andrea Locatelli, from Leopard’s team to Italtrans in Moto2, putting veteran current incumbent Mattia Pasini’s future in doubt.
No move up for erratic race-winner Niccolo Antonelli, who vacates the Ongetta team to take the departing Binder’s seat at Red Bull KTM.
A vaguer rumour linked the underperforming Fabio Quartararo with a move to replace Rins in Sito Pons’s Paginas Amarillas Moto2 squad, and Livio Loi to replace him in the Leopard Moto3 team.
