Nicolás Terol
Nicolás Terol Peidro ( born September 27, 1988 in Alcoy, Valencia region, Spain ) is a Spanish motorcycle racer and was in season 2011 last 125cc World Champion at Aprilia in the history of the motorcycle world championship.
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Career
Nicolás Terol began his career in 1999 on pocket bikes, he was runner-up in the Spanish Formula Bancaja series 2002. The following year, he finished 16th overall in the 125 cc class of the Spanish Motorcycle Championships. In 2004 he graduated from this fourth. In the same year, the Spaniard gave an Aprilia as a substitute driver for Mike Di Meglio at the eighth -liter Grand Prix of Valencia made his debut in the MotoGP World Championship.
Began in 2005 Terol for Caja Madrid - Derbi Racing on a Derbi first time as a permanent starter in the 125cc World Championship. However, the Spaniard only one championship point and was 35th overall. The following year, Terol increased in the second half of the season at constant locations in the championship points and thus ranked 14th in the world championship. In the 2007 season, his third on Derbi, Nicolas Terol was formed together with the Czechs Lukáš Pešek the Valsir Seedorf Derbi team, which was supported by the Dutch soccer star Clarence Seedorf. However, he no longer was able to constantly reach the points and finished with 19 points 22 of the World Cup.
For the 2008 season Terol switched to Team Jack & Jones WRB, where he went to the side of the Italian Simone Corsi on Aprilia at the start. At the Grand Prix of Spain at Jerez he succeeded with second place behind his teammate his first podium in the 125cc World Championship. Later, the Grand Prix of Indianapolis in the U.S. even the first Grand Prix victory. With 176 points, Terol finished 2008 fifth world ranking. 2009 won the Spanish in the same team in the Grand Prix of Czech Republic at Brno and celebrated three second places. In the overall standings, he rose to third place. His residue on the World Champion Julián Simón nevertheless was 99.5 points at the end of the season.
For the 2010 season Nicolás Terol moved to the Aspar team of four -time world champion Jorge Martínez, had won in the previous year Simón in the title. The Spaniard won on Aprilia the opening Grand Prix of Qatar, and again in the Czech Republic and Indianapolis, not only drove twice after the previous 16 races, of which he denied because of an injury only 14 on the podium and delivers himself with his countrymen Marc Marquez and Pol Espargaró a head-to- head race for the world title.
Statistics
Achievements
- 2010 - 125 cc World Championship runner on Aprilia
- 2011 - 125 cc World Champion on Aprilia
- 15 Grand Prix wins
In the World Motorcycle Championship
( Stand: Grand Prix of San Marino, September 16, 2012)