Régis Laconi
Régis Laconi ( born July 8, 1975 in Saint- Dizier, Haute -Marne, France ) is a French motorcycle racer.
Régis Laconi is the son of an Italian father and a French mother. He starts his few years in the Superbike World Championship since the 2009 season, he starts to Ducati.
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Career
Régis Laconi began his career in 1991 in the French 125cc Championship. The following year, he won the title in the 250cc class. In 1994 Laconi European champion in the 250 cc class.
World Motorcycle Championship
Laconi completed his first Grand Prix in the motorcycle world championship in the year 1992 as a wildcard rider in the race in France in the 125 cc class. In the seasons 1995 and 1996, he launched permanently in the 250 cc class on Honda without achieve presentable results.
In 1997 Laconi moved to the 500cc World Championship, where he drove a V2 Honda team Tecmas Honda ELF. Due to an injury he attended only 11 of the 15 races in the overall classification, he finished with 52 points 14th place between 1998 and 2000 drove Régis Laconi in Team Red Bull Yamaha WCM by Peter Clifford, a Yamaha. At the Grand Prix of Valencia in 1999, he was able to celebrate the victory of his career so far only in the Motorcycle World Championship. During these years he occupied the ranks ten, eleven and twelve in the World Cup standings.
In the 2002 season, the Frenchman denied his most recent season in the Motorcycle World Championship. He drove in the newly created MotoGP class in the Aprilia factory team an Aprilia RS ³ four-stroke engine. With two eighth places as the best results, he finished with 33 points Rank 19 World Cup
Superbike World Championship
In the 2001 season Laconi made the first trip to the World Superbike Championship, where he drove an Aprilia RSV 1000 factory bike. He finished with 152 points in eleventh World Cup. Despite a run victory in Imola he could not keep up with the performance of team -mate Troy Corser.
For the 2003 season, Régis Laconi returned to the World Superbike Championship and drove the Ducati customer team Caracchi NCR Nortel Networks. With five podiums, 267 points and ranked fourth overall he recommended for a place on the factory bike next year.
In 2004 and 2005 he made then, with Briton James Toseland, the factory Ducati team. In the first year the Ducati were superior to 999, the World Cup was decided in the last race at Magny -Cours between the two in favor of Toseland. Laconi playful title, especially in the first half of the season by some downfalls. In the second season, the Japanese four-cylinder Suzuki and Honda had caught up. The Frenchman crashed again several times and hurt himself so badly that he could not take part in several races and was replaced by Italian Lorenzo Lanzi. In the World Cup, he finished only sixth and his contract was not renewed. Overall, Régis Laconi reached in the two years as a Ducati factory rider in 38 races ten wins, 22 podiums and six pole positions.
For the 2006 season Laconi joined the team Kawasaki PSG -1 Kawasaki Corse. With 103 points, he was ranked 15 in the World Cup overall standings. In 2007 started Laconi for Kawasaki in the Superbike World Championship. After numerous racing falls on the beginning of the season he fought in the overall course of the season only to placements in midfield. The Frenchman managed not a single place on the podium, with 137 meters he was WM- tenth. 2008 was no more successful than the previous two years for Régis Laconi, the Kawasaki ZX -10R was still inferior to the work of competitive machines, which is why the Frenchman had to fight hard even to placements in the top ten. Laconi was 61 meters World Cup 16th, presented his Japanese team mate Makoto Tamada, after all, two-time Grand Prix winner, but so clear in the shade.
For the 2009 season changed Régis Laconi for private Italian team DFX Corse, where he piloted a Ducati 1098R. Already during the first season event in the Australian Phillip Iceland showed the bald Frenchman with the ranks seven and five a clear upward trend. In Valencia, the Frenchman qualified for the second place and finished both races in fourth.
On 15 May 2009 Laconi crashed in the first practice session for the South Africa race in Kyalami hard and hit his head hard on the ground. The Frenchman broke his third and fifth cervical vertebrae and suffered a lung contusion and severe bruising. However, he could move his limbs after the fall and suffered no neurological damage. Régis Laconi was flown to the Sunninghill Hospital in Johannesburg, for an operation was initially omitted. On 19 May 2009 he underwent successful surgery in Johannesburg. Régis Laconi should remain until the end of May in South Africa, after which he was placed in a Speziaklinik to Paris. According to the doctors, the Frenchman will carry no lasting damage. Since the 5th of June, Laconi recovering at home in Aix -en- Provence and has already resumed light swimming and motorcycle training.