Colin Edwards to ride for Forward Racing CRT team in 2012

Colin Edwards announced late this afternoon what many already suspected, he’s staying in MotoGP in 2012 and be riding for NGM Forward Racing’s CRT team making him the first rider to be officially confirmed as part of a CRT tea,.

The American will be the sole rider of the new MotoGP squad and should be riding a machine powered by a Yamaha R1 engine, but the chassis maker is still unknown, but Edwards would prefer it to be a Tech3 chassis.

While the team has been linked to a BMW/Suter set-up, it was confirmed during the press conference that the Italian team is in negotiations with Edward’s current boss Herve Poncharal and Guy Coulon, his current crew chief and designer of Tech 3’s Moto2 chassis.