Speed Up Explained

Speed Up Srl
Type:Private company
Foundation:2010
Founder:Luca Boscoscuro
Location City:Lugo di Vicenza
Location Country:Italy
Industry:Mechanical engineering, Motorcycles
Products:Chassis, Frames
Brands:Boscoscuro
Short Name:Team Speed Up
Last Season:2023
Base:Vicenza, Italy
Principal:Luca Boscoscuro
Riders:Moto2:
21. Alonso López
54. Fermín Aldeguer
Motorcycle:Boscoscuro B-24
Tyres:Pirelli
Riders Champ:

Speed Up is an Italian motorcycle racing team and constructor founded in 2010 and based in Vicenza, Italy. In 2012 the company started building its own branded chassis under the Speed Up Factory name. Beginning with the 2021 season, the company re-branded their factory-entered machines under the name Boscoscuro to better differentiate between their own racing team and chassis kits supplied to other teams.

History

The team was founded in 2010 by the former Grand Prix motorcyclist Luca Boscoscuro and entered the newly formed Moto2 class of the world championship. In the team's first year they achieved three wins with their S10 motorcycle, based on a FTR Moto M210 frame,[1] ridden by Andrea Iannone and Gábor Talmácsi. In 2011 the Speed Up team elected to enter an FTR M211 chassis ridden by Pol Espargaró and Valentin Debise.

In 2012 Speed Up started building its own chassis[2] named the S12. Boscoscuro entered into partnership with Andrea Iannone's Speed Master team supplying him with the new frames and fielding a bike for Mike Di Meglio; the best results were achieved by Iannone thanks to two victories. During the season, the QMMF Racing Team switched from Moriwaki to Speed Up frames.

In 2013 saw the debut of the SF13 chassis, fielded by three teams – Forward Racing, AGR and QMMF Racing Team, no factory team raced this year, achieving only a podium with Simone Corsi as a best result.

In 2014 Speed Up debuted the new SF14 frame, entering its own team with Sam Lowes and again supplying the QMMF Racing Team, who won the Dutch TT with Anthony West.

In 2015 followed a similar pattern with Sam Lowes and Anthony West remaining with their respective teams; West being joined in the QMMF team by Julián Simón. Lowes finished the season as the only non-Kalex rider in the top 14 of the final championship standings, in 4th place in the year-end table, having won at the Circuit of the Americas.

In 2016 saw Speed Up's own team line up with a new rider in Simone Corsi, with Lowes having left to join Gresini Racing in 2016 with a following MotoGP contract for 2017. The QMMF team raced with West and Simón.

In 2021, with a view to differentiating the racing team from the chassis production, the motorcycle prototype frames produced were renamed under the brand Boscoscuro.[3] [4] [5]

Results

YearClassTeam nameMotorcycleNo.RidersRacesWinsPodiumsPolesF. lapsPointsPos.
Moto2Fimmco Speed UpSpeed Up S102 Gábor Talmácsi17 0 1 1 0 109 6th
29 Andrea Iannone17 3 8 5 6 199 3rd
Moto2Speed MasterSuter MMXI29 Andrea Iannone17 3 6 0 7 177 3rd
HP Tuenti Speed Up

Speed Up

FTR Moto M21144 Pol Espargaró17 0 2 0 1 75 13th
53 Valentin Debise17 0 0 0 0 0 NC
2012Moto2Speed Master

S/Master Speed Up

Speed Up S1229 Andrea Iannone17 2 5 0 0 194 3rd
63 Mike Di Meglio7 (16) 0 0 0 0 10 (17) 22nd
22 Alessandro Andreozzi10 (11) 0 0 0 0 0 34th
2014Moto2Speed UpSpeed Up SF1422 Sam Lowes18 0 0 0 0 69 13th
2015Moto2Speed Up RacingSpeed Up SF1522 Sam Lowes1815311864th
2016Moto2Speed Up RacingSpeed Up SF1624 Simone Corsi18020010310th
2017Moto2Speed Up RacingSpeed Up SF7[6] 24 Simone Corsi1800001179th
47 Axel Bassani40000043rd
style=background:#ccccff; align=center88 Ricard Cardús1 (5)00000 (7)29th
style=background:#ccccff; align=center37 Augusto Fernández130000631st
2018Moto2Beta Tools - Speed Up

MB Conveyors - Speed Up

HDR Heidrun - Speed Up

Lightech - Speed Up

Boost - Speed Up

(+)Ego - Speed Up

Speed Up SF820 Fabio Quartararo18121113810th
52 Danny Kent130000825th
style=background:#ccccff; align=center57 Edgar Pons4 (6)0000131st
style=background:#ccccff; align=center70 Tommaso Marcon10000042nd
2019Moto2+Ego Speed Up

Beta Tools Speed Up

HDR Heidrun Speed Up

Lightech Speed Up

MB Conveyors Speed Up

Campetella Speed Up

Speed Up SF19T9 Jorge Navarro1908422264th
21 Fabio Di Giannantonio1902101089th
2020Moto2Beta Tools Speed Up

HDR Heidrun Speed Up

MB Conveyors Speed Up

+Ego Speed Up

Termozeta Speed Up

Speed Up SF20T9 Jorge Navarro1500005817th
21 Fabio Di Giannantonio1502006515th
2021Moto2MB Conveyors Speed Up

Lightech Speed Up

+Ego Speed Up

Termozeta Speed Up

Boscoscuro B-21 5 Yari Montella70 0 0 0 0 34th
9 Jorge Navarro180 1 0 1 106 9th
style=background:#ccccff; align=center2 Alonso López3 (4)0 0 0 0 0 (4) 30th
54 Fermín Aldeguer4 (8)0 0 0 0 13 25th
align=right rowspan="1"4 (8)0 0 0 0 0
2022Moto2Speed Up RacingBoscoscuro B-225 Romano Fenati60 0 0 0 7 27th
54 Fermín Aldeguer200 0 2 0 80 15th
21 Alonso López142 5 1 1 155.5 8th
2023Moto2Speed Up RacingBoscoscuro B-23 21 Alonso López200 52 11507th
54 Fermín Aldeguer205 7 34 2123rd
2024Moto2Speed Up RacingBoscoscuro B-24 21 Alonso López00 00 00*
54 Fermín Aldeguer00 0 00 0*
Key
Regular rider
Wildcard rider
Notes* Season still in progress.

Notes and References

  1. News: FTR and Speed Up continue for 2011 . Crash.net . 27 January 2011 . 29 September 2014.
  2. News: SpeedMaster e SpeedUp con Iannone. SpeedMaster and SpeedUp with Iannone. Ernesto. Emmi. it . GpOne.com. Buffer Overflow srl. 29 February 2012 . 27 March 2015.
  3. News: Zunino. Serena. 12 March 2021. Moto2, diamo il benvenuto alla Boscoscuro B-21. Italian. Motosprint.it. Corriere dello Sport – Stadio. 3 April 2021.
  4. Web site: Wiesinger. Günther. 2021-08-03. Überraschung: Speed Up-Bikes heißen jetzt Boscoscuro / Moto2 . 2021-05-19. speedweek.com. de.
  5. https://www.motorcyclesports.net/articles/we-wanted-to-give-the-bike-an-identity-independent-of-the-team-luca-boscoscuro 'We wanted to give the bike an identity independent of the team' – Luca Boscoscuro
  6. News: Jerez Test 27–28–01 March. speedupfactory.com. Speed Up. 27 February 2017. 28 February 2017. 24 May 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210524113633/http://www.speedupfactory.com/en/jerez-test-27-28-01-march/. dead.