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The 2025 season of the S1GP World Championship opens on the Albaida track in Spain, now a regular event for the opening of the world championship, the first official outing for the TSV RACING FACTORY TEAM TM MOTO which fields a team of young riders, Steve Bonnal, Romain Kaivers and Tom Bessieres who in the free practice on Friday suffered a bad bruise to his hand after a disastrous fall.

The riders of Team Manager Vladimiro Leone were immediately ready and from the first free practice they managed to find the right feeling with the track.

Qualifying, with the new format that includes Q1-Q2 and Super Pole with only three riders fighting for the first spot, saw TM Moto riders among the protagonists, with Romain Kaivers who in Q1 set an excellent fourth time, Steve Bonnal did not find a clean lap and had to settle for seventh time, unfortunately Bessieres not in his best condition did not pass the cut closing in 14th place.

In Q2 Steve Bonnal managed to make the difference and thanks to an excellent speed on the dirt section he finished in fourth place just 3 tenths from third place, Kaivers finished eighth.

At the start of race 1 Bonnal managed to get into third position but during the first lap a small mistake made him lose two positions, Steve kept an excellent race pace setting record times on the off-road section but struggling to find the right rhythm on the asphalt section going on to finish in fourth position. Romain Kaivers with a solid performance finishes in seventh place, Bessieres after a difficult start recovers going to occupy 13th place under the checkered flag.

During the warm up on Sunday morning Romain Kaivers fell and broke his thumb and was unable to go out on the track for the two heats.

In the Fast Race bad start for Steve Bonnal and at the first corner he was unable to find the right gap to recover positions, the young Frenchman unfortunately did not find a good pace and had to settle for seventh place, Tom Bessieres with a regular race where he did not make any mistakes finished in twelfth place.

In the super final Steve was able to show off a good start and join the group of the best, Bonnal was fighting for fourth place but in completing the Joker Lane he made a mistake that cost him a position going to close his race in sixth place. Bessieres was the victim of a fall in the first part of the race that excluded him from the fight for a good position going to end up in the back.

Steve Bonnal finishes in sixth place overall, the next race of the World Championship will be the Sardinia GP on the weekend of May 10-11.

Vladimiro Leone: “For us it was the first race and we showed up to gain experience also having a lineup of very young riders, Tom suffered a small injury in the Friday tests that limited him for the whole weekend, Romain broke a finger in the warm-up and it’s a real shame because he was going very fast, Steve just needs to gain more conviction because he has the means to stay with the leaders, we return home knowing where to work in view of the next races, I would like to thank TM Moto and all the guys on the team for the great work done in this first world race.”

We are now at the gates of the first round of the S1GP World Championship that will take place next weekend on the Albaida track, the TSV RACING FACTORY TEAM TM CORSE is ready to take to the track for this opening race of a very long season that will see Vladimiro Leone’s team engaged on different fronts.

The team in the World Championship will field three riders, Steve Bonnal, who will have at his side the legend of this sport Thomas Chareyre who will follow him as a coach, Chareyre has recently returned to the TM Moto family and with his structure will bring the Pesaro bikes to the track in the French Championship, Romain Kaivers and another young transalpine rider Tom Bessieres.

TSV RACING FACTORY TEAM TM CORSE and the three riders have worked hard during the winter months to best prepare for the season and refine the feeling with the new SMK 450.

A season opens with some new features in the race program, the three heats are confirmed but the qualifications have been revolutionized, we will start with Q2 with all the riders on the track to then have an initial screening for the passage to Q1 and finally the best three riders will compete for the super pole, a long season with many riders who will be able to aim for the title and the TSV RACING FACTORY TEAM TM CORSE ready to do battle.

Vladimiro Leone Team Manager: “We’re finally here! This weekend we’ll get on the track to understand the real potential of our riders, for my team it’s a new experience and it certainly won’t be easy but together with TM Moto we’ve worked hard to be ready for this first appointment. I want to thank all my guys who have worked tirelessly to be ready and also TM Moto who is supporting us greatly to be competitive in this 2025.”

TM moto is pleased to announce its partnership with Team 11, which will be our sponsored team for the 2025 S1GP World Championship.

The Italian team presents itself with an impressive line-up for this year. Starting with four-time S1GP 2024 World Champion Marc Schmidt, the strong German rider will have the task of defending the title he won last year.
The other rider in the premier class will be Czech rider Jan Ulman, who finished in the top ten in the championship in 2024. Obviously, the focus will be on improving again in order to move up in the standings compared to last year.

The line-up is completed by the re-confirmed Leonardo Lapadula, who finished just outside the top ten in the SM Junior Championship in 2024 despite missing a few rounds, moving up to S2 on the TM 250.

The first round of the 2025 World Championship will take place in Spain at the end of March.

We wish them all the best in their work and hope that our collaboration will bring many satisfactions at a sporting level.

Good luck to the team and the riders!

TM MOTO AND TEAM TSV TOGETHER FOR THE 2025 SEASON

TM Moto is pleased to present the new structure that will bring the bikes prepared by the Pesaro company to the Supermoto World Championship and the Italian International Championships, it will be Vladimiro Leone’s team that will take the name of TSV RACING FACTORY TEAM TM CORSE.

The team that has been racing on tracks all over Europe for years will have the official bikes at its disposal, the SMK 450s that will take to the track with the factory riders in the S1GP World Championship with Steve Bonnal, the young Frenchman who is trained by multiple World Champion Thomas Chareyre, already winner of the Rookie Cup in 2023 and fourth overall in the 2024 world championship and Mattia Rato who we will see him engaged in the SM4 Italian International Championship, the asphalt-only category, the young Italian rider came close to the 2024 European title and second at the 2024 International Championships having skipped the first two races and winning the remaining 4 championship rounds.

The commitment of the TSV RACING FACTORY TEAM TM CORSE is limited to just the two top riders but will have several supported riders involved in many competitions, in the world championship two young talents will have the opportunity to shine, the Belgian Roman Kaivers and the French Tom Bessieres, the commitment in the Internazionali d’Italia will see Rato Manuel Bastianelli and Flavio Casadio alongside each other in the SM4.

Another interesting novelty for TM Moto and the TSV RACING FACTORY TEAM TM CORSE that will see them engaged alongside the rider Chris Hodgson in the British Supermoto with the support of the Leeds Tm dealer, the English rider will also be present in the Internazionali d’Italia SM1.

The TSV RACING FACTORY TEAM TM CORSE will also be present in the most important regional championships in Italy to support the racing activity of TM Moto from below

The racing season will open on March 30th with the first round of the S1GP World Championship in Spain in Albaida.

Gastone Serafini: “We are very happy to announce this new partnership with Team TSV and Vladimiro Leone, who over the years has been a rider with our bikes and then decided to become a team manager and set up an excellent structure, in 2024 he achieved great results with Mattia Rato and we are sure we have found the right partner to continue to be the protagonists in Supermoto.”

Valdimiro Leone: “A new chapter opens for us, it is a great honor to be able to manage the official TM Moto bikes, it will be a great adventure, our team has decided to grow by making investments to become a reference team, the goals are ambitious but we know what we have to do and my team and I are ready to work to put our riders in a position to aim high. I want to thank the Serafini family for giving us this great opportunity:”