Sito Pons
Alfonso Pons i Ezquerra, known as Sito Pons ( born November 9, 1959 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain ) is a former Spanish motorcycle racer.
He denied 1981-1991 a total of 121 races in the MotoGP World Championship, won in 1988 and 1989 the title in the 250 cc class and was after his active career as a team owner successfully.
Driver
First success celebrated Pons in 1986 by winning the Spanish Championship 250 cc. Only two years later, in 1988, he brought the first Spanish rider the world title in the quarter-liter class. After a successful title defense in 1989 Pons moved to the 500cc class, where he was up to his injury at the Yugoslav Grand Prix at the fourth World Cup Ranking 1990. However, in the premier class, he could not pick up where his success in the smaller class and ended his active career in 1992.
Team boss
Sito Pons moved behind the pit wall as the head of his own race team, Honda Pons team. He obliged the former 125cc World Champion Àlex Crivillé as a driver, who won the first race in the premier class for the team in aces in 1992. More victories come in the following years with Alberto Puig, Carlos Checa, Alex Barros and Loris Capirossi.
In 2001, the team of Sito Pons with Capirossi and Barros at the world in third and fourth of the season was the most successful. 2002 showed Barros after the change of the 500 cc two-strokes on the MotoGP four-stroke during the current season, a significant increase in performance and finished with two wins and two additional podium finishes in the last four races still the fourth world rank.
In 2003, the team of Sito Pons team was renamed because of a new main sponsor in Camel Pramac Pons. As a rider Max Biaggi and Tōru Ukawa were committed. Biaggi took in 2003 with two wins and 2004 with a victory in each case the third world place.