{"id":3489,"date":"2019-02-25T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2019-03-05T09:01:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T09:01:07","slug":"new-sponsorship-orelac-racing-verdnatura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/2019\/02\/new-sponsorship-orelac-racing-verdnatura\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW SPONSORSHIP: ORELAC RACING VERDNATURA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3489 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/2019\/02\/new-sponsorship-orelac-racing-verdnatura\/wsbk-phillip-island-superpole-038-2\/'><img width=\"849\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-Superpole-038-849x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-Superpole-038-849x1024.jpg 849w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-Superpole-038-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-Superpole-038-768x927.jpg 768w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-Superpole-038.jpg 1906w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">FREN TUBO is\u00a0pleased to be <strong>technical sponsor<\/strong> of the Team\u00a0Orelac Racing VerdNatura.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Team\u00a0Orelac Racing VerdNatura is concentrating this year on the World Supersport Championship and World Superbikes Championship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Spanish-based team is owned by Jose Calero and managed by Giulio Bardi. This year, Argentinian rider Tati Mercado joins Spaniard Nacho Calero in a two-rider line-up.\u00a0The team are based in a superb workshop facility in\u00a0Algemesi, near Valencia in Spain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><u>LEANDRO MERCADO #36<br \/>\n<\/u><\/h3>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-3489 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wsbk-race-2-294.jpg'><img width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wsbk-race-2-294-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wsbk-race-2-294-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wsbk-race-2-294-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wsbk-race-2-294-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-warm-up-ned-153.jpg'><img width=\"300\" height=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-warm-up-ned-153-300x208.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-warm-up-ned-153-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-warm-up-ned-153-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-warm-up-ned-153-1024x710.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wsbk-race-2-084.jpg'><img width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wsbk-race-2-084-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wsbk-race-2-084-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wsbk-race-2-084-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wsbk-race-2-084-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>\u2018<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2018Tati\u2019 Mercado began his racing career in the 2008 Red Bull AMA US Rookies Cup, and was quickly able to progress to be crowned AMA Supersport Champion in 2009. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Breaking across to Europe, Mercado then moved into the Italian Superstock Championships. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Spending a season in the STK600 Championship and the Superstock 1000 Championship respectively, he made steady progress and secured top seven finishes in both classes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2013 the now experienced South American competed in the Italian Superbike CIV Championship, alongside the STK1000 Cup and was fighting up front in both classes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He became a permanent rider in the STK1000 Cup for 2014 and took the title that season with Ducati. In 2015 he was promoted to the WorldSBK, Mercado finished the season in eighth position overall as he was able to take some solid top ten finishes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Moving back to the STK1000 Cup in 2016 the 24 year old faced a tough season and some strong battles with Raffale De Rosa, but ultimately lost out on his second title in the class as he suffered from mechanical issues at the final round in Jerez.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2017 he was back in the WorldSBK with the IODARacing team, riding an Aprilia RSV4 RF.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2018 he moved to the Orelac Racing Verdnatura team with a Kawasaki ZX-10R. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><u><span style=\"color: #000000;\">NACHO CALERO #10<\/span><br \/>\n<\/u><\/h3>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-3489 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wss-race-037.jpg'><img width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wss-race-037-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wss-race-037-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wss-race-037-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wss-race-037-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wss-race-174.jpg'><img width=\"300\" height=\"206\" src=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wss-race-174-300x206.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wss-race-174-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wss-race-174-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wss-race-174-1024x704.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wss-race-377.jpg'><img width=\"300\" height=\"193\" src=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wss-race-377-300x193.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wss-race-377-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wss-race-377-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/frentubo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WSBK-Phillip-Island-wss-race-377-1024x657.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nacho Calero is one of the most famous motorcyclists from Valencia in the last decade. He was born in Algemes\u00ed (Valencia, Spain) on July\u00a0 5th 1991 and became interested in the motorsport from a very young age.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At the age of thirteen, he had his first contact with motorcycle sport in the 80 and 125cc categories, before making the leap to the European Superstock 600 Championship in 2008. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since then he has been regarded as one of the most reliable riders in the paddock. Despite his youth he has the ability to get the most out of all the bikes he has ridden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2010 he took his first podium in the European Superstock 600 Championship at Misano and finished the season with a very creditable ninth position. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since then, his best results were in 2012 when he took runner-up spots in Imola and Assen and was knocking on the doors of the top teams in the series. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His consistency was rewarded with 59 points and ninth overall in the final standings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The jump to the World Supersport Championship meant that the whole team structure had to adapt to the new challenges and this took time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He gained experience with every race and his talent and way of working was noticed by the PTR organisation within the CIA Landlord Insurance Honda team. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He scored points for them in 2014, but had an accident in Donington Park and injured his shoulder, which curtailed his season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Despite this set-back, Nacho started 2015 with high expectations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cat Bike Exit Team were competing in two classes (World Superbike and World Supersport) and Nacho rode for them in the Supersport class on a Kawasaki ZX-6R. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The team had Ruben Xaus and Jordi Villares as part of their organisation but the project soon fell apart and so Nacho decided to finish the rest of the season with his own team \u2013 Orelac Racing VerdNatura.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2016, they became the first Spanish team to enter the World Supersport Championship and added Malaysian rider Fahmi Khairrudin to their line-up. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now with one season\u2019s experience under the belt, the team feel that 2017 will be the best to come.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREN TUBO is\u00a0pleased to be technical sponsor of the Team\u00a0Orelac Racing VerdNatura. Team\u00a0Orelac Racing VerdNatura is concentrating this year on the World Supersport Championship and World Superbikes Championship.\u00a0 The Spanish-based team is owned by Jose Calero and managed by Giulio Bardi. This year, Argentinian rider Tati Mercado joins Spaniard Nacho Calero in a two-rider line-up.\u00a0The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3715,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions\/3715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frentubo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}