RW Racing GP is a motorcycle racing team founded by businessman Roelof Waninge from The Netherlands. The team competes in the Moto2 World Championship and since 2026 in the FIM Moto2 European Championship under the Momoven Racing name.
History
Roelof Waninge, was owner of a Dutch network of commercial vehicle dealerships and workshops headquartered in Assen, originally invested in motorcycle racing in 1993 as a personal sponsor of Dutch rider Jarno Janssen, who would go on to become RW's team principal after his riding career. In 2011, the long-standing Dutch 125 cc and 250 cc team owned by Arie Molenaar experienced financial trouble, prompting Waninge to purchase the remaining assets of the team and rename it RW Racing GP.
125 cc/Moto3
The team began competing in 2011, taking over the existing 125 cc programme from Molenaar, using Aprilia machinery and retaining upcoming Spanish rider Luis Salom. In 2012 with the replacement of the 125 cc class by the new four-stroke Moto3 regulations, the team switched to Kalex-KTM machines, retaining Salom and adding South African rider Brad Binder. Salom finished the season in 2nd place with 2 wins and 8 podiums. In 2013, former Molenaar team rider Jarno Janssen, who had continued with the team and subsequently with RW in various technical roles after retirement as a racer, was named general team manager. 2014 would prove to be the team's worst season to date, with both riders Scott Deroue and Ana Carrasco failing to score a single point. 2015 saw a major change for the team, with a switch to Honda machinery and a reduction to a single rider, Livio Loi. Loi managed a win in 2015 at Indianapolis that season, but managed only one other top 10 finish with a 5th place at Silverstone Circuit. For the 2016 season, RW continued with Loi with similar overall results.
Moto2
2017 saw another major step for the RW Racing GP team, as they moved up to Moto2 with Spanish rider Axel Pons on Kalex machinery.
For the 2018 season, RW joined forces with Japanese chassis manufacturer NTS to operate their factory programme as the sole users of the NTS chassis, expanding their programme to two riders. Despite NTS's relatively quick success in the previous two seasons of the CEV Moto2 European Championship, the challenge of the Moto2 World Championship proved difficult with RW finishing 16th and 15th from 18 teams in 2018 and 2019. Fortunes did not improve in 2020, finishing 14th of 15 teams on 22 points. For 2021, the team signed former Tech3 MotoGP rider Hafizh Syahrin and young Belgian rider Barry Baltus. The team scored just 11 points and finished last of all teams.
For 2022, the team ended their difficult partnership with NTS after four seasons, and returned to the series-dominant Kalex machines. They kept Barry Baltus onboard, with the Belgian now being paired up with the 16 year old Dutchman Zonta van den Goorbergh.
Since 2023, Fieten Olie is the main sponsor of this team.
In 2025 the team started a collaboration with Momoven to found the Momoven Idrofoglia RW Racing Team, a junior team made to compete in the FIM Moto2 European Championship.
In 2026 the Momoven Idrofoglia RW Racing Team hired Unai Orradre as a rider for their junior team.
Results
Year Class Team name Motorcycle No. Riders Races Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points Pos. 125cc RW Racing GP Aprilia RSA 125 39 Luis Salom 15 0 2 0 0 116 8th 14 Brad Binder 1 (5) 0 0 0 0 0 NC Moto3 RW Racing GP Kalex-KTM 39 Luis Salom 17 2 8 0 1 214 2nd 41 Brad Binder 17 0 0 0 0 24 21st Moto3 RW Racing GPRedox RW Racing GP Kalex-KTM 53 Jasper Iwema 17 0 0 0 0 8 24th 84 Jakub Kornfeil 17 0 0 0 0 68 11th Moto3 RW Racing GP Kalex-KTM 9 Scott Deroue 18 0 0 0 0 0 NC 22 Ana Carrasco 14 0 0 0 0 0 NC Moto3 RW Racing GP Honda NSF250RW 11 Livio Loi 18 1 1 0 0 56 16th Moto3 RW Racing GP Honda NSF250RW 11 Livio Loi 18 0 0 0 1 63 18th Moto2 RW Racing GP Kalex Moto2 49 Axel Pons 18 0 0 0 0 27 19th Moto2 NTS RW Racing GP NTS NH6 4 Steven Odendaal 18 0 0 0 0 4 28th 16 Joe Roberts 18 0 0 0 0 5 27th Moto2 NTS RW Racing GP NTS NH7 4 Steven Odendaal 9 0 0 0 0 0 31st 64 Bo Bendsneyder 19 0 0 0 0 7 26th 2 Jesko Raffin 7 (8) 0 0 0 0 6 27th 24 Simone Corsi 2 (11) 0 0 0 0 0 (10) 24th 70 Tommaso Marcon 1 0 0 0 0 0 40th Moto2 NTS RW Racing GP NTS NH7 2 Jesko Raffin 3 0 0 0 0 0 33rd 64 Bo Bendsneyder 15 0 0 0 0 18 23rd 77 Dominique Aegerter 4 (5) 0 0 0 0 4 28th 74 Piotr Biesiekirski 7 0 0 0 0 0 32nd Moto2 NTS RW Racing GP NTS NH7 55 Hafizh Syahrin 17 0 0 0 0 9 28th 70 Barry Baltus 14 0 0 0 0 2 32nd 89 Fraser Rogers 1 0 0 0 0 0 38th 32 Taiga Hada 1 (2) 0 0 0 0 0 39th 10 Tommaso Marcon 1 (5) 0 0 0 0 0 35th Moto2 RW Racing GP Kalex Moto2 7 Barry Baltus 16 0 0 0 0 30 21st 84 Zonta van den Goorbergh 18 0 0 0 0 0 34th 11 Mattia Pasini 1 (3) 0 0 0 0 0 (1) 33rd Moto2 Fieten Olie Racing GP Kalex Moto2 7 Barry Baltus 19 0 0 0 0 55 17th 84 Zonta van den Goorbergh 20 0 0 0 0 17 23rd 34 Mattia Pasini 2 0 0 0 0 11 25th NTS NH7 45 Héctor Garzó 1 0 0 0 0 0 NC Moto2 RW-Idrofoglia Racing GP Kalex Moto2 7 Barry Baltus 20 0 1 0 0 40 21st 84 Zonta van den Goorbergh 20 0 0 0 0 31 22nd Moto2 RW-Idrofoglia Racing GP Kalex Moto2 71 Ayumu Sasaki 21 0 0 0 0 24 23rd 84 Zonta van den Goorbergh 22 0 0 0 0 19 25th RW NTS Idrofoglia NTS NH7 22 Héctor Garzó 1 0 0 0 0 0 NC Moto2 RW-Idrofoglia Racing GP Kalex Moto2 71 Ayumu Sasaki 6 0 0 0 0 8* 19th* 84 Zonta van den Goorbergh 7 0 0 0 0 5* 23rd*
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