Speed Up

Team Speed Up
Base	Vicenza, Italy
Principal	Luca Boscoscuro
Rider(s)	Moto2:; 21. Alonso López ; 54. Fermín Aldeguer
Motorcycle	Boscoscuro B-24
Tyres	Pirelli
Riders' Championships	–

Speed Up Srl
Company type	Private company
Industry	Mechanical engineering, Motorcycles
Founded	2010
Founder	Luca Boscoscuro
Headquarters	Lugo di Vicenza , Italy
Products	Chassis, Frames
Brands	Boscoscuro
Website	www.teamspeedup.it/en/

Last updated April 23, 2024

Speed Up is an Italian motorcycle racing team and constructor founded in 2010 and based in Vicenza, Italy. In 2012 the company started building its own branded chassis under the Speed Up Factory name. Beginning with the 2021 season, the company re-branded their factory-entered machines under the name Boscoscuro to better differentiate between their own racing team and chassis kits supplied to other teams.

History

The team was founded in 2010 by the former Grand Prix motorcyclist Luca Boscoscuro and entered the newly formed Moto2 class of the world championship. In the team's first year they achieved three wins with their S10 motorcycle, based on a FTR Moto M210 frame,^[1] ridden by Andrea Iannone and Gábor Talmácsi. In 2011 the Speed Up team elected to enter an FTR M211 chassis ridden by Pol Espargaró and Valentin Debise.

In 2012 Speed Up started building its own chassis^[2] named the S12. Boscoscuro entered into partnership with Andrea Iannone's Speed Master team supplying him with the new frames and fielding a bike for Mike Di Meglio; the best results were achieved by Iannone thanks to two victories. During the season, the QMMF Racing Team switched from Moriwaki to Speed Up frames.

In 2013 saw the debut of the SF13 chassis, fielded by three teams – Forward Racing, AGR and QMMF Racing Team, no factory team raced this year, achieving only a podium with Simone Corsi as a best result.

In 2014 Speed Up debuted the new SF14 frame, entering its own team with Sam Lowes and again supplying the QMMF Racing Team, who won the Dutch TT with Anthony West.

In 2015 followed a similar pattern with Sam Lowes and Anthony West remaining with their respective teams; West being joined in the QMMF team by Julián Simón. Lowes finished the season as the only non-Kalex rider in the top 14 of the final championship standings, in 4th place in the year-end table, having won at the Circuit of the Americas.

In 2016 saw Speed Up's own team line up with a new rider in Simone Corsi, with Lowes having left to join Gresini Racing in 2016 with a following MotoGP contract for 2017. The QMMF team raced with West and Simón.

In 2021, with a view to differentiating the racing team from the chassis production, the motorcycle prototype frames produced were renamed under the brand Boscoscuro.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Results

Year	Class	Team name	Motorcycle	No.	Riders	Races	Wins	Podiums	Poles	F. laps	Points	Pos.
2010	Moto2	Fimmco Speed Up	Speed Up S10	2	Gábor Talmácsi	17	0	1	1	0	109	6th
2010	Moto2	Fimmco Speed Up	Speed Up S10	29	Andrea Iannone	17	3	8	5	6	199	3rd
2011	Moto2	Speed Master	Suter MMXI	29	Andrea Iannone	17	3	6	0	7	177	3rd
		HP Tuenti Speed Up Speed Up	FTR Moto M211	44	Pol Espargaró	17	0	2	0	1	75	13th
		HP Tuenti Speed Up Speed Up	FTR Moto M211	53	Valentin Debise	17	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2012	Moto2	Speed Master S/Master Speed Up	Speed Up S12	29	Andrea Iannone	17	2	5	0	0	194	3rd
				63	Mike Di Meglio	7 (16)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0	0	0	0	10 (17)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	22nd
				22	Alessandro Andreozzi	10 (11)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0	0	0	0	0	34th
2014	Moto2	Speed Up	Speed Up SF14	22	Sam Lowes	18	0	0	0	0	69	13th
2015	Moto2	Speed Up Racing	Speed Up SF15	22	Sam Lowes	18	1	5	3	1	186	4th
2016	Moto2	Speed Up Racing	Speed Up SF16	24	Simone Corsi	18	0	2	0	0	103	10th
2017	Moto2	Speed Up Racing	Speed Up SF7^[6]	24	Simone Corsi	18	0	0	0	0	117	9th
				47	Axel Bassani	4	0	0	0	0	0	43rd
				88	Ricard Cardús	1 (5)	0	0	0	0	0 (7)	29th
				37	Augusto Fernández	13	0	0	0	0	6	31st
2018	Moto2	Beta Tools - Speed Up MB Conveyors - Speed Up HDR Heidrun - Speed Up Lightech - Speed Up Boost - Speed Up (+)Ego - Speed Up	Speed Up SF8	20	Fabio Quartararo	18	1	2	1	1	138	10th
				52	Danny Kent	13	0	0	0	0	8	25th
				57	Edgar Pons	4 (6)	0	0	0	0	1	31st
				70	Tommaso Marcon	1	0	0	0	0	0	42nd
2019	Moto2	+Ego Speed Up Beta Tools Speed Up HDR Heidrun Speed Up Lightech Speed Up MB Conveyors Speed Up Campetella Speed Up	Speed Up SF19T	9	Jorge Navarro	19	0	8	4	2	226	4th
2019	Moto2		Speed Up SF19T	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	19	0	2	1	0	108	9th
2020	Moto2	Beta Tools Speed Up HDR Heidrun Speed Up MB Conveyors Speed Up +Ego Speed Up Termozeta Speed Up	Speed Up SF20T	9	Jorge Navarro	15	0	0	0	0	58	17th
2020	Moto2		Speed Up SF20T	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	15	0	2	0	0	65	15th
2021	Moto2	MB Conveyors Speed Up Lightech Speed Up +Ego Speed Up Termozeta Speed Up	Boscoscuro B-21	5	Yari Montella	7	0	0	0	0	0	34th
				9	Jorge Navarro	18	0	1	0	1	106	9th
				2	Alonso López	3 (4)	0	0	0	0	0 (4)	30th
				54	Fermín Aldeguer	4 (8)	0	0	0	0	13	25th
				54	Fermín Aldeguer	4 (8)	0	0	0	0	0	25th
2022	Moto2	Speed Up Racing	Boscoscuro B-22	5	Romano Fenati	6	0	0	0	0	7	27th
				54	Fermín Aldeguer	20	0	0	2	0	80	15th
				21	Alonso López	14	2	5	1	1	155.5	8th
2023	Moto2	Speed Up Racing	Boscoscuro B-23	21	Alonso López	20	0	5	2	1	150	7th
2023	Moto2	Speed Up Racing	Boscoscuro B-23	54	Fermín Aldeguer	20	5	7	3	4	212	3rd
2024	Moto2	Speed Up Racing	Boscoscuro B-24	21	Alonso López	0	0	0	0	0	0*	—
2024	Moto2	Speed Up Racing	Boscoscuro B-24	54	Fermín Aldeguer	0	0	0	0	0	0*	—

Key
Regular rider
Replacement rider
Wildcard rider
Replacement/wildcard rider

Notes

* Season still in progress.

1 2 3 Non-bracketed number refers to the number accumulated with team, with number in brackets referring to the total accumulated for the season.

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References

↑ "FTR and Speed Up continue for 2011". Crash.net. 27 January 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
↑ Emmi, Ernesto (29 February 2012). "SpeedMaster e SpeedUp con Iannone" [SpeedMaster and SpeedUp with Iannone]. GpOne.com (in Italian). Buffer Overflow srl. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
↑ Zunino, Serena (12 March 2021). "Moto2, diamo il benvenuto alla Boscoscuro B-21". Motosprint.it (in Italian). Corriere dello Sport – Stadio . Retrieved 3 April 2021.
↑ Wiesinger, Günther (3 August 2021). "Überraschung: Speed Up-Bikes heißen jetzt Boscoscuro / Moto2". speedweek.com (in German). Retrieved 19 May 2021.
↑ 'We wanted to give the bike an identity independent of the team' – Luca Boscoscuro motorcyclesports.net, January 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2022
↑ "Jerez Test 27–28–01 March". speedupfactory.com. Speed Up. 27 February 2017. Archived from the original on 24 May 2021. Retrieved 28 February 2017.

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[Total-6] 1 2 3 Non-bracketed number refers to the number accumulated with team, with number in brackets referring to the total accumulated for the season.

[1] "FTR and Speed Up continue for 2011". Crash.net. 27 January 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2014.

[2] Emmi, Ernesto (29 February 2012). "SpeedMaster e SpeedUp con Iannone" [SpeedMaster and SpeedUp with Iannone]. GpOne.com (in Italian). Buffer Overflow srl. Retrieved 27 March 2015.

[3] Zunino, Serena (12 March 2021). "Moto2, diamo il benvenuto alla Boscoscuro B-21". Motosprint.it (in Italian). Corriere dello Sport – Stadio . Retrieved 3 April 2021.

[4] Wiesinger, Günther (3 August 2021). "Überraschung: Speed Up-Bikes heißen jetzt Boscoscuro / Moto2". speedweek.com (in German). Retrieved 19 May 2021.

[5] 'We wanted to give the bike an identity independent of the team' – Luca Boscoscuro motorcyclesports.net, January 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2022

[7] "Jerez Test 27–28–01 March". speedupfactory.com. Speed Up. 27 February 2017. Archived from the original on 24 May 2021. Retrieved 28 February 2017.

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