Olivier Jacque

Olivier Jacque ( born August 29, 1973 in Villerupt, Meurthe -et -Moselle, France ) is a French motorcycle racer.

His greatest achievement is winning the world championship in the 250 cc class of the motorcycle world championship in the 2000 season.

Career

Jacque was in 1994, second in the 250 cc championship, the 1995 season he moved up to the 250cc class of the World Championship, in which he first started up in 2000 to Honda and later on Yamaha and each year amongst the top 10 Appreciation was driving. His first win was the French Grand Prix of Brazil in the season 1996.

In the 2000 season, Olivier Jacque eventually won the 250 cc World Championship. He sat down with 279 points through against the two Japanese Shin'ya Nakano and Daijiro Katō. The title decision was very close. Jacque sat down on the final stretch of last season's run at Phillip Iceland in a wind shadow duel against his teammates by Nakano and won the race by 0.014 seconds ahead of the Japanese, as with the 272 points was championship runner-up.

For the 2001 season, he moved to the Tech 3 team in the 500cc class of the World Championship, and again entering on a Yamaha, but without retracting outstanding results. Until the 2003 season, Jacque regular driver stayed with Yamaha in the premier class. 2004 The Frenchman joined two MotoGP races as a wildcard rider on the losing Moriwaki.

In the 2005 season Olivier Jacque started again without a fixed place in a MotoGP team. When the German Alex Hofmann but injured during a demonstration ride, Jacque jumped in as reserve driver in the Kawasaki team and won in his first race, the marked by heavy rain Grand Prix of China, went straight to second place behind Valentino Rossi. Jacque was then test driver.

After Shin'ya Nakano had decided to leave the Kawasaki team at the end of the 2006 season in the direction of Honda, it was decided, after the cancellation of the Spaniard Sete Gibernau to award the vacant place in the team for 2007, Olivier Jacque. After many falls and injuries Jacque gave on 21 June 2007 announced his immediate resignation. He felt " tired and no longer physically on the level ". Since then he has worked as a test driver for the Kawasaki MotoGP team.

In his 136 starts in the Motorcycle World Championship arrive Olivier Jacque seven wins, 35 podiums, 17 pole positions and nine fastest laps.