PRESS RELEASE
MOTOGP 2012
Brembo confirms leader status as supplier of brake systems to MotoGP teams
All the official teams competing in the 2012 season use Brembo brakes, and 75 of
the 86 riders registered to race have selected the Italian company’s products

Stezzano, April 2012 - The 2012 international motorcycle racing season sees Brembo well placed— as ever — for further success. The company will be supplier to the majority of teams competingin MotoGP and Moto2, and in the new Moto3 class, which replaces the former 125.
No less than 18 of the 21 riders entered for the MotoGP Championship have Brembo systems
fitted to their machines. These include the bikes of the three Manufacturers Association teams
involved, namely Honda, with reigning World Champion Casey Stoner, Ducati and Yamaha.
Elsewhere, 29 of the 33 riders in the Moto2 class have Brembo brakes, and 28 of the 32 riders
racing in Moto3 will also be relying on the performance of Brembo systems.
Looking to strengthen its leader status acquired in recent years, Brembo continued to research anddevelop components during the winter. In reality, this work has also been necessary in order toensure compliance with the new technical regulations introduced by the Federation: first andforemost the increased engine displacement, reverting from 800 cc to 1000 cc. The bikes are nowheavier, but with upgraded performance and a higher top speed, which means that Brembo has
had to come up with a brake system capable of meeting these new demands.
The design and testing program began during the 2011 championship and continued through thewinter, with the new regulations particularly in mind. Development of the system has been held up
to a degree by the severity of the new regulations, which impose a limit of 320 mm in disc
diameter; but Brembo engineers have made important progress nonetheless, with new calipers
offering even better rigidity and performance.
At the same time, a system has been developed and set up specifically for the “Claiming Rule
Team (CRT)” class, a new category added to the MotoGP calendar for privateers runningmachines equipped with race-modified standard production engines, rather than prototypes, hencewith typically lower operating costs.
The 2012 Championship starts 8 April at the Losail circuit in Qatar and will be contested over 18races, concluding 11 November in Spain at the Ricardo Tormo racetrack, Valencia.

Brembo will supply the following MotoGP teams and riders during 2012:

Repsol Honda TeamHonda RC213V
Casey Stoner (1)Monster Yamaha Tech 3

Yamaha YZR-M1
Andrea Dovizioso (4)Pramac Racing Team

Ducati Desmosedici GP12
Héctor Barberá (8)Yamaha Factory Racing

Yamaha YZR-M1
Ben Spies (11)

Cardion AB Motoracing

Ducati Desmosedici GP12
Karel Abraham (17)Ducati Team

Ducati Desmosedici GP12
Valentino Rossi (46)Dani Pedrosa (26)

Cal Crutchlow (35)Jorge Lorenzo (99)

Nicky Hayden (69)

NGM Mobile Forward Racing Suter (CRT*)
Colin Edwards (5)Came Ioda Racing Project Ioda (CRT*)
Danilo Petrucci (9)Power Electronics Aspar

Avintia Racing MotoGP

Art (CRT*)
Randy de Puniet (14)Aleix Espargaro (41)

Bqr-Frt (CRT*)
Ivan Silva (22)

Yonny Hernandez (68)

Speed MasterArt (CRT*)
Mattia Pasini (54)Paul Bird Motorsport

Art (CRT*)James Ellison (77)

Marchesini forged magnesium wheels on the bikes of World Champions
Brembo also owns the brand name of Marchesini, a company specializing in the design andproduction of hi-tech forged magnesium wheels fitted to many race-winning MotoGP bikes. Lastyear, Casey Stoner won the MotoGP Championship on a machine equipped with wheels made by
the Italian company.
Once again this year, Marchesini wheels will be fitted to bikes raced by the majority of teams
competing in MotoGP, including the Ducati and Honda factory machines. Eight of the riders will beusing forged magnesium wheels, designed and manufactured to adapt with maximum advantage
to the characteristics of their particular bikes. In effect, the wheels used by Honda, Ducati and ART
all have the same 7-spoke design, but with different and distinctive specifications for each model ofmachine.
The Moto2 category this year will see the introduction of engineering developments delivering
improved performance and reliability of the wheels.
And in the Moto3 class, five of the riders will be using Marchesini forged magnesium wheels of a
10-spoke design. This brand new product will be instrumental in achieving higher performance
thanks to a new flexible coupling system designed to optimize the power output of the Moto3 fourstroke engine.

Brembo SpABrembo SpA is an acknowledged world leader and innovator in the field of automotive disc brake technology.
The company supplies high performance braking systems to the premier makers of automobiles, motorbikes
and commercial vehicles worldwide, as well as clutches, seats, seat belts and other components for theracing sector only. The name of Brembo also has unrivalled prestige in motorsport, with 200 world
championship titles won to date in the role of OE supplier. The company operates currently in 15 countries
on 3 continents, with 35 production and business sites and a pool of human resources numbering over 6700.
Around 10% of the workforce is made up of engineering staff and product specialists working in R&D. Sales
turnover in 2011 amounted to 1.255 million euros. Brembo is owner of the Brembo, Breco, Bybre, Marchesiniand Sabelt brands, and operates also through the AP Racing brand.

For further information, please contact:
Massimo Arduini
Brembo MotoGP Media Relations Consultant
GSM: +39.348.3147680 - @: m.arduini@lpditalia.it

Monica Michelini
Brembo Media Relations@:monica_michelini@brembo.it