The new Petronas Yamaha MotoGP team means the Sepang team will be competing in all three grand prix c♑lass🅘es in 2019.

But it is another new project that, on paper, has th💃e best chance of resulting in the team's first FIM world (cup) title.

Sepang has secured the services of Bradley Smith for the debut season of the electr☂ic MotoE World Cup, which will support MotoGP at five✅ events this year, beginning with Jerez on May 5th.

The Englishman - whoꦡ has 25 grand prix podiums to his credit across 125, Moto2 and MotoGP - is fired up to i𓆏mpress in MotoE and Aprilia test riding as he seeks a return to the premier-class in 2020.

Smith and Sepang's new 'One Energy Racing' team made a perfect start to the new electric era by being 168澳洲幸𝓰运5官方开奖结果历史:quickes🙈t during the debut MotoE test at Jerez in November.

"Of course!" Sepang CEO Razlan Razali told ltxcn.top, when asked if Smit💦h was their🍨 best chance of a championship title in 2019.

"In𒆙 any championship we are not there just to make up the numbers. We actually had the right to have two MotoE bikes, but sometimes we have to be realistic and not take everything.

"So we gave one slo🌠t up. Be✱cause if we are going to do it, we are doing it to win.

"Then Bradley came into the picture and we w🍰ere negotiating with him alongside other teams as well. So we were delighted he decided to come with us."

In addition to Smith in MotoE, Sepang will run Franco Morbidelli and Fabio Quartararo in MotoGP - whom Razali hopes will challenge for top indepen🥃dent and top rookie respecti🦩vely - plus Khairul Idham Pawi on Kalex machiꦚnery in Moto2.

ꦇJohn McPhee joins Ayumu Sasaki on Hondas in Moto3, with Adam Norrodin moving to the Sepang Junior team i⛎n CEV. Sepang will also have a presence in the European Talent Cup.

"We're every🎃where!" Razali said. "We have a strong development programme in place. But after the success of the Malaysian MotoGP the Government has seen that MotoGP is very important, hence a lot of focus in terms of development programmes.

"The budget was approved by the government towards the development of two-wheel riders. So the support from the government is there, which is🎉 very important because although we now ඣhave this structure in place for Moto3, Moto2 and MotoGP we also need the talent to fill up those positions for the future.

"So that's what we are doing."