One of Dorna’s key objectives is to create diverse platforms for the promotion of young riders in different countries, to ensure the development of future generations of new talented riders, who will eventually take the place of the current stars of MotoGP™ and WorldSBK. The basic idea is the organisation of competitions on the same machinery for all the riders, with that machinery sharing characteristics with the bikes used in MotoGP. These are motorcycles which combine some basic mechanical, riding style and set-up features, but also allow young riders to compete at a high level.
One of these projects for Asia and Australia is the Road Racing FIM Asia Talent Cup, which in 2017 will be called the Idemitsu Asia Talent Cup. The participating riders come from countries such as Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia and Turkey.
The competition sees Asia's stars of the future participate in a ten race championship held over five rounds throughout the year, with all of the riders on homogenised Honda NSF250R Moto3™ bikes.
