The ninth season of the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup will kick off in Jerez with the first race on Saturday May 2nd. Another fabulous 13 race year is in store beginning with the first European Grand Prix.

The 24 teenagers from 14 nations will have already been on the bikes at the preseason test held at the same track during three days between March 31st and April 3rd.

The 2014 season saw a large number of Rookies graduate so Italian 16-year-old Fabio Di Giannantonio and 15-year-old Netherlander Bo Bendsneyder start their second Cup seasons as favourites having finished 8th and 9th in the points table.

Indeed Olly Simpson, the 16 year-old Australian, is the only Rookie heading into a third year. There are 14 new names. Twelve of those were invited from the October Selection event and two, 15-year-old Kaito Toba and 14-year-old Ayumu Sasaki, both from Japan, are graduates of the Asia Talent Cup.

All the GPs feature two Rookies Cup races except the Misano round where there is a single race on Saturday. The events all start with two free practice session and a single qualifying session.

Provisional Calendar:

March 31 - April 3, Jerez Spain – Preseason test

May 2-3, Jerez Spain

June 26-27, Assen Netherlands

July 11-12, Sachsenring Germany

August 15-16, Brno Czech Republic

August 29-30, Donington Great Britain

September 12, Misano San Marino

September 26-27, Aragon Spain

Provisional Entry List:

4 Patrik Pulkkinen Finland

9 Robert Schotman Netherlands

13 Martin Gbelec Czech Republic

14 Bruno Ieraci Italy

16 Emanuel Aguilar Argentina

19 Rufino Florido Spain

20 Omar Bonoli Italy

21 Fabio Di Giannantonio Italy

22 Mykyta Kalinin Ukraine

23 Raúl Fernández Spain

27 Mattia Casadei Italy

29 Gabriel Hernandez United States

37 Walid Soppe Netherlands

41 Marc Garcia Spain

44 Martin Vugrinec Croatia

​45 Olly Simpson Australia

64 Bo Bendsneyder Netherlands

67 Kaito Toba Japan

69 Rory Skinner Great Britain

71 Ayumu Sasaki Japan

76 Makar Yurchenko Russia

81 Aleix Viu Spain

96 Oscar Gutierrez Spain

99 Enzo Boulom France