Paddock Grand Prix was a

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team from Switzerland who competed in the F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship since until , before being acquired by team Technomag. In , Paddock's rider

Thomas Lüthi Thomas Lüthi (born 6 September 1986) is a Swiss sporting director at Prüstel GP, and former Grand Prix motorcycle racer. He spent 19 years in Grand Prix world championships, becoming one of only six riders to reach 300 race starts, spending m ...

won the 125cc title.

History

The team began racing as Elit Grand Prix in the season with Czech rider

Jakub Smrž Jakub 'Kuba' Smrž (born 7 April 1983 in České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia) is a professional motorcycle road racer. He currently competes in the Superbike World Championship, aboard a Yamaha YZF-R1. For 2017 and 2018 he rode a BMW S1000RR ...

on a

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. At the 2005 French Grand Prix the Paddock team achieved its first victory thanks to

who won the 125cc race. At the end of the season he secured the world championship title in the 125cc class. In the season the team, known as Emmi - Caffè Latte Racing Team, switched to Aprilia bikes with rider

Sandro Cortese Alessandro "Sandro" Cortese (born 6 January 1990) is a former German motorcycle racer, who last competed in 2020 World Superbike Championship for Team Pedercini. Cortese won his first world title in the Moto3 class, in ., and his second in the Su ...

on an

Aprilia RS 125 R The Aprilia RS 125 is a race motorcycle manufactured by Aprilia to race in the Grand Prix motorcycle World Championship, built to replace the old Aprilia AF1. It was debuted in , and it had many upgrades since. The bike won ten World Champions ...

in the 125 class and

on an Aprilia RSV 250 in the 250 division. For the season, the team was renamed Interwetten Racing. Lüthi finished the season in fourth place in the inaugural Moto2 campaign, riding a Honda-powered Moriwaki chassis. The Interwetten team also fielded a bike in the MotoGP class for the first time with former 250cc

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finishing in 15th place aboard a

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. Interwetten rider Marcel Schrötter finished 18th in the 125cc class on a

. Between and the Interwetten Paddock team fielded a Suter bike for Thomas Lüthi in the Moto2 class. Since the team expanded its activities to the Moto3 class with a Kalex-KTM bike for

Philipp Öttl Philipp Öttl (born 3 May 1996 in Bad Reichenhall) is a German motorcycle racer who is living in Salzburg. He is the son of a former motorcycle racer, Peter Öttl. He is a former runner-up in the ADAC Junior Cup (2009), and has previously compet ...

. For the Paddock team was acquired by the Technomag team and its base was relocated in

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on the CGBM Evolution premises, near the

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Results

Summary

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References

External links

Interwetten Racing

Paddock - Grand Prix team management
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