The Zaeta Corse Tricolore team will contest the 2024 FIM Flat Track World Championship powered by Anlas, Kineo, HKC Koopmann and Blackburst with former champion Gerard Bailo from Spain and Japan’s Masatoshi Ohmori making their debuts on the single-cylinder Italian machine.

Bailo won the title in 2022 and was second last season while Ohmori, Japan’s leading rider in this highly-specialised discipline, last contested the series in 2022 when he finished fifth in the final championship standings.

The pair will debut Zaeta’s 2024 DT450RS, the only four-stroke single-cylinder machine built specifically for Flat Track competition, at the opening round that takes place tomorrow (20 July) at Bisalta Motor Park at Boves-Cuneo in north-west Italy.

Giulio Bernardelle, In-Motion Group Company Founder and CEO and Zaeta Corse Tricolore Team Director, said: “In our company we can’t wait for the start of the 2024 FIM Flat Track World Championship. This year we will compete with a comprehensively revised bike and a very competitive team with Gerard Bailo and Masatoshi Ohmori. We believe in the growth potential of Flat Track and personally, after all the years spent in MotoGP, I’m very pleased with the international flavour to our sporting adventure.”
Gerard Bailo, Zaeta Corse Tricolore factory rider, stated: “I want to thank Zaeta for the opportunity to participate in the 2024 FIM Flat Track World Championship with such a professional team. I’m looking forward to starting this new project in my sporting career. I’ll always do my best and I’m sure we will achieve great results with my team-mate Masa.”

Masatoshi Ohmori, Zaeta Corse Tricolore factory rider, said: “I am truly delighted to once again challenge for the FIM Flat Track World Championship with a fantastic team and I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to the team for welcoming me. While there may be difficulties in taking on the challenge of a new team and a new bike, I am currently more excited than anything else. I’ve had a connection with Bailo for a long time and when I heard that we would be team-mates I knew this would be an interesting year. Inspired by him I want to finish every race, steadily step up with the team and aim for the podium.”

Armando Castagna, Director of the FIM Track Racing Commission, added: “Zaeta has been in the FIM Flat Track Championship project since the beginning, more than ten years ago, when it was created as an FIM World Cup. When the championship evolved to a World Championship in 2020, Zaeta put in even more effort and entered more riders and we’re happy to see that they just signed two riders who can contend for the world title. We wish all the best to all the riders competing this season – it promises to be a very exciting one!”