Xavier Simeon has had a wild ride in Moto2 so far. The 21-year-old Belgian spent the 2010 season as a substitute rider for the HolidayGym team, replacing both Fonsi Nieto and Yannick Guerra when they were injured. Those replacement rides turned out very well indeed: Simeon had a couple of very impressive outings on the Moriwaki, scoring an 8th place at Silverstone, and a couple more points at the end of the season. His results secured him a contract with HolidayGym for the 2011 season, but that deal fell through when HolidayGym was only given a single seat, and decided to pull out altogether. Simeon was without a ride once more.
But no longer: Today, the Tech 3 team announced that they had signed a deal with Belgian TV channel RTL Sport to run Simeon aboard one of their Mistral M610 Moto2 machines. Under the agreement, Simeon will run in a separate structure, under the auspices of the Tech 3 squad: in effect, the RTL Sport team will be a satellite team of the main Tech 3 squad. RTL Sport will manage the team, and have stepped up to finance the team along with the Belgian Mettet circuit, home of the annual Mettet Superbikers event, an event which sees top class riders from all disciplines pitted against one another in a Supermoto race.
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