Britain’s Danny Kent and Kiefer Racing Moto2 stable-mate Dominique Aegerter have unveiled their team colours for the 2017 season with a new title sponsor, AirGrinder which replaces energy drink Leopard.

The squad have gone against the tide and will race with Suter machinery this season which Kent says is an added motivation for him.

"After the long winter break I’m really happy that things will start seriously with our completely new project. Of course, today’s team launch is part of it but foremost I already look forward to start our work on track next week in Valencia. Kiefer Racing will show up in new colours this year and frankly, I like this two-colour design, I’m sure that it will be a unique spot of colour on the grid,” he said.

“The 2017 season will be a new challenge for me though I’m in the team for some years meanwhile. Since we started our collaboration back at the end of 2014, I’ve a great relationship with Stefan and Jochen (Kiefer). And now we made the switch to Suter bikes which is an additional motivation for me. So, we’ll start with a new package even if we had already a two-day test last November with it.

“This first roll-out with the Suter prototype went really well, bringing promising findings. I had a good feeling with the bike from the beginning and I’m sure that the engineers in Suter did a great job during the winter month to bring a competitive package this year. I’m also proud to have an experienced team mate such as Domi is.

“He can count on a lot of experience with this machine and together we’ll develop this bike quickly. However, I won’t speak about expectations and targets ahead of the season but foremost I’m very keen to work hard with my new crew during pre-season testing’s in order to prepare in the possible way for this season. Then we’ll see what happen."