Andrea Bonacorsi and EMX125

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In case anyone is itching for some quality racing, the EMX125 class has been really fun to watch this season. Always is, really.

Bonacorsi, who is probably twice the size of any other rider in the class, just wrapped up the title on the "new" Fantic XX125 in Lommel. He'll be a force when he moves to MX2 or EM250, but he's big enough to just go straight to MX1.

If you want to see the last remaining factory 125s battle it out, it's worth watching the highlight vids on MXGPTV's YouTube channel.

Here's Lommel III


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Even more impressed about his speed at Italian rounds where he did get midpack starts and came to win motos.
Not sure what brand he will be riding because Fantic doesnt have bikes to race i believe.
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Bearuno 10/27/2020 12:51am
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His FanYam's colour scheme brings me back to the White and Red YZ / YZM era. Cool

He's a fairly big fella on that 125, but he certainly has got it done.

Maybe Fantic will be able to further their deal with Yamaha for 4ts? ***** I just watched that French video and the tester said that there was both the 250 2T and 250 4T coming*****

Though, if he goes to EMX250, he still could use a Fantic 250 2t. Not sure if his home country has decent rules in the 250 class, and I'd say that's a big factor on his bike use / brand near future.
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tek14 wrote:
Even more impressed about his speed at Italian rounds where he did get midpack starts and came to win motos. Not sure what brand he will...
Even more impressed about his speed at Italian rounds where he did get midpack starts and came to win motos.
Not sure what brand he will be riding because Fantic doesnt have bikes to race i believe.
He'll go straight in the Hutten Metal Yamaha team, the same Benistant was this year because of the agreements between Fantic and Yamaha. I met Andrea at the Fantic press launch, really nice and polite young (yet big) guy. He was riding and his bike was looking and sounding really good. Jan Witteveen, the motor tuner, knows his stuff, he has more than 40 world titles as a motorist beetween MX and RR.
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tek14 10/27/2020 1:27am
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Rad76 wrote:
And the bike is really good in stock form.

Here a French presentation with english subtitles :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyzIHtL_ebI&feature=emb_title&ab_channe…
So bike is pretty much white Yamaha but have their own ECU?
His race bike did pull pretty good even he is biggest guy to ride emx125 this year, motor guy sure knows how to tune 2-stroke.
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tek14 wrote:
So bike is pretty much white Yamaha but have their own ECU? His race bike did pull pretty good even he is biggest guy to ride...
So bike is pretty much white Yamaha but have their own ECU?
His race bike did pull pretty good even he is biggest guy to ride emx125 this year, motor guy sure knows how to tune 2-stroke.
Yes, it's more less a Yamaha with her own ECU, Arrow exhaust and different plastics.
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Bearuno 10/27/2020 1:42am
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Rad76 wrote:
He'll go straight in the Hutten Metal Yamaha team, the same Benistant was this year because of the agreements between Fantic and Yamaha. I met Andrea...
He'll go straight in the Hutten Metal Yamaha team, the same Benistant was this year because of the agreements between Fantic and Yamaha. I met Andrea at the Fantic press launch, really nice and polite young (yet big) guy. He was riding and his bike was looking and sounding really good. Jan Witteveen, the motor tuner, knows his stuff, he has more than 40 world titles as a motorist beetween MX and RR.
Jan Witteveen is the Engineer / Tuner of Bonacorsi's 125.Woohoo

No wonder you'd see that (relatively) Big Bloke motoring past others - well, that and his undoubted skills.

Not enough people know of Jan Witteveen - he's among the absolute Greats when it comes to ICE Engineering, especially 2Ts.
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Rad76 wrote:
He'll go straight in the Hutten Metal Yamaha team, the same Benistant was this year because of the agreements between Fantic and Yamaha. I met Andrea...
He'll go straight in the Hutten Metal Yamaha team, the same Benistant was this year because of the agreements between Fantic and Yamaha. I met Andrea at the Fantic press launch, really nice and polite young (yet big) guy. He was riding and his bike was looking and sounding really good. Jan Witteveen, the motor tuner, knows his stuff, he has more than 40 world titles as a motorist beetween MX and RR.
Bearuno wrote:
Jan Witteveen is the Engineer / Tuner of Bonacorsi's 125.:woohoo: No wonder you'd see that (relatively) Big Bloke motoring past others - well, that and his...
Jan Witteveen is the Engineer / Tuner of Bonacorsi's 125.Woohoo

No wonder you'd see that (relatively) Big Bloke motoring past others - well, that and his undoubted skills.

Not enough people know of Jan Witteveen - he's among the absolute Greats when it comes to ICE Engineering, especially 2Ts.
All of a sudden things make sense... Witteveen was a 250 road race tuning god, on Aprilias.
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Rad76 10/27/2020 2:39am
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Absolutely. He was already there with Dave Strijbos and his Cagiva en 1986. The guy knows his stuff.
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Press516? 10/27/2020 7:19am
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Solid season for Bonacorsi for sure... I think I was impressed by how well the 125's pulled at Lommel.
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Bramlett321 10/27/2020 8:29am
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Bearuno wrote:
His FanYam's colour scheme brings me back to the White and Red YZ / YZM era. B) He's a fairly big fella on that 125, but...
His FanYam's colour scheme brings me back to the White and Red YZ / YZM era. Cool

He's a fairly big fella on that 125, but he certainly has got it done.

Maybe Fantic will be able to further their deal with Yamaha for 4ts? ***** I just watched that French video and the tester said that there was both the 250 2T and 250 4T coming*****

Though, if he goes to EMX250, he still could use a Fantic 250 2t. Not sure if his home country has decent rules in the 250 class, and I'd say that's a big factor on his bike use / brand near future.
Yeah I like the hell out of his bike. I know it's technically a YZ but it's no different than the KTM game.

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