The agreement between the GIVI brand and Lucio Cecchinello's team had been signed since last January 27th at the international circuit of Sepang (Malaysia) during MOTOGP pre-championship tests.
GIVI confirms their interest for the most important expression of motorcycle sports, giving their brand to the LCR team from the first race in Qatar on April 7th .
GIVI brand will fill the principal spaces of the suit and of Stefan Bradl 's RCV213V factory spec Honda. The talented LCR team rider who in the last two years has constantly gained the respect of both the media and the world wide audience, Stefan won the title "Rookie of the year 2012" at just 22 years of age. With the excellent chrono times posted in the Sepang tests in January (fifth and seventh respectively) we will be expecting a huge start to the championship.
In preparation for the first race, Bradl will be training from March 12th to 14th, further tests in Austin (Texas) with the Factory Team HRC and additionally the 23rd to 25th at Jerez de la Frontera, before flying to Qatar for the first championship race.
GIVI WILL BE THE TEAM LCR TITLE SPONSOR IN THIS RACES:
QATAR Doha/Losail 07/04/13
SPAIN Jerez de la Frontera 05/05/13
CATALUNYA Circuit de Catalunya 16/06/13
GERMANY Sachsenring 14/07/13
CZECH REPUBLIC Brno 25/08/13
MALAYSIA Sepang 13/10/13
JAPAN Motegi 27/10/13
VALENCIA Ricardo Tormo-Valencia 10/11/13