Facing difficulties. For 2023 the Evan Bros. WorldSSP Yamaha Team bets on Andrea Mantovani, fresh from a positive growth between CIV and MotoE. Unfortunately the pairing's progress is not as hoped, and after 7 rounds - also due to an injury - the team and rider part ways. For the remaining rounds of the season the team relies on Lorenzo Dalla Porta, the 2019 Moto3 World Champion eager to make his debut in the WorldSBK paddock. Despite the short time available and the inexperience at some tracks Dalla Porta manages to achieve positive results, hitting the top ten in 6 out of 10 races, with a 6th place in Race 2 Magny - Cours as his best finish, confirming the team's potential.
Relaunching talent. In the 2022 season the Evan Bros. WorldSSP Yamaha fielded two riders, achieving a perfect mix of new and confirmed: Peter Sebestyen, in his first full season with the Ravenna-based team, was joined by former Moto2 rider Lorenzo Baldassarri, eager to find new life in a new category. Ready to go and "Balda" put on a show in the first round at Aragon, where he took victory in Race 1 and 2nd place in Race 2, immediately proving himself a candidate for the title. In the first seven rounds Baldassarri obtained 12 of the 14 podiums available, signing at Most his first one-two in the category. He ends his exciting season with the title of vice world champion, the result of four victories and a total of 16 podiums. Sebestyen experienced a complicated but growing season, hitting the points zone on several occasions.
Remaining protagonists. After winning the world title for two years in a row, the Evan Bros. team got a makeover. After saying goodbye to Locatelli, the Ravenna-based team welcomed another former Moto2 rider, Steven Odendaal: the South African rider took three victories in the first three races of the year, and then scored two more. At the end of the season, Odendaal became Vice World Champion, with a total of eleven podiums. From the fourth round in Assen onwards, the team also welcomed Hungarian Peter Sebestyen to the team. Race after race he showed his potential, finishing fifth in race 2 in San Juan, his best result of the season.
The season of records. After having touched the sky with a finger for the first time, the team decides to embrace a more familiar dimension, without affecting the professionalism and seriousness that distinguish them. From two riders back to just one, welcoming the Italian talent Andrea Locatelli to the team, eager to relaunch himself after his experiences in Moto3 and Moto2. The combination proved to be perfect already in the first tests, and from the first race of the season it annihilated the opponents. Locatelli triumphed in the first nine races of the season, becoming the rider with the most successes in a single season, as well as the most successful Italian rider in the history of the category. In the Barcelona round, the third last leg of the season, Locatelli and the Evan Bros. team crowned their dream by winning the World Title, the second consecutive one for the team from Ravenna. At the end of the year the victories of the Evan Bros. - Locatelli duo will be 12 out of 15 races disputed, with 7 pole positions out of 8 attempts: a real domination that goes down in history.
New year, new milestone. For the first time in its history the Evan Bros. team presents itself at the starting line of the World Supersport Championship with two riders: the confirmed Randy Krummenacher is in fact joined by Federico Caricasulo, who is back in the team that launched him on the world stage forming a very high level couple. The season is simply perfect: Krummenacher wins four races, Caricasulo three, for a total of eight double podiums of which five doubles. The team is able to place both its riders on the podium in the first seven races of the season, establishing a record that will remain in the motorcycle history books. In Portimao (with three races to go) the team wins the team title, while in the last round in Qatar Krummenacher wins the riders' title, just six points ahead of his teammate in the overall standings. An unprecedented cavalcade, which writes an indelible and magical page in the history of the team.
2018 began with an important change. The team bade farewell to Honda and made an agreement with Yamaha Switzerland, which came with the added advantage of Swiss rider Randy Krummenacher, ready to embark on a new adventure after his experiences in 125, Moto2, Superbike and Supersport. The year got off to an amazing start when Randy crossed the line second in the inaugural race at Phillip Island before winning at Buriram. Race four, at Assen, brought an extraordinary result that saw Randy, forced to start from last position due to a problem on the grid, fight back furiously to cross the line in second place, just a few milliseconds behind the winner. As the season went on, the team and rider remained a reference in the category, closing the championship in fourth position overall.
Having definitively launched Caricasulo, the team reflected on its future and decided to remain in Supersport welcoming Italian rider Christian Gamarino, a Genoa native in his third year in the category. The season gave both team and rider a lot of experience, the team finishing the year in eleventh place, having enjoyed the satisfaction of scoring the fastest lap in the Buriram race, and scoring a best race result of sixth, at Portimao.
The year of the big jump. In 2016 team Evan Bros. competed in the Supersport World Championship, continuing its fruitful relationship with Caricasulo and intensifying the relationship with Bardahl, which became the team’s main sponsor. The year got off to a dream start, with Federico reaching the second step of the podium in the inaugural race of Phillip Island. He did it again in Misano, but an unfair penalty from Race Direction denied team and rider the prestigious result. The season came to a positive end anyway, the squad finishing in ninth place in the standings.
The adventures of team Evan Bros. in Stock600 continued in 2015 with Caricasulo and Spanish rider Augusto Fernandez, both of whom quickly became protagonists in the category. “Carica” scored one win and a total of four podiums to close third in the championship, while Fernandez took a win and a second-place finish, ending the season fourth, just few points behind his team-mate.
In 2014 it was time for a new challenge. With the departure of Faccani, the team bets on another talented man from Ravenna, or rather Federico Caricasulo. The new pairing competed in both the European Stock600 championship and the CIV Supersport, obtaining some incredible results. Federico became Italian champion, with a victory and a total of podiums scored over ten races, while in the European championship he finished fifth, two second-place race finishes his best results.
The first challenge for team Evan Bros. came in the shape of the Italian CIV Supersport series, with young rider Marco Faccani. The season proved exciting, bringing three wins, two seconds and one third place, the Italian coming very close to the title but just missing out at the last round. The icing on the cake was the chance to participate as a wildcard in two World Supersport rounds, namely Imola and Jerez, the rider scoring his first well-deserved point in Spain when he crossed the line in fifteenth place.
The history of team Evan Bros. has deep roots. It all began in 1959 in a small car spares workshop in Ravenna, where father Umberto passed his passion for engines on to his sons Fabio and Paolo. In 1985, the two thus decided to create a team (the first team Evan Bros), following their first love, or rather motocross, collecting a 4th place in the 1990 European 125 Championship and going on to compete in the World 125 Championship up until 1994. Despite a subsequent break, the brothers’ passion for two wheels (and especially for asphalt) was rekindled during a Honda Day at Imola. This prompted Fabio to participate in the Honda CBR 600 Trophy for several years, followed by the Mototemporada, the Premier Cup and one round of the Italian Supersport Championship. During these years he also cultivated a wonderful friendship with Mauro Pellegrini, first a rider and then his trusty mechanic and collaborator. Here began the story of the current team Evan Bros, that took the decision to invest in young talents, and particularly riders from the Ravenna area, in late 2012.
