Andrew Pitt
Andrew Pitt ( born February 19, 1976 in Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian motorcycle racer.
Career
Andrew Pitt finished 1999 in the Australian Superbike Championship in second place and moved in 2000 to the Supersport World Championship, where he became world champion on Kawasaki 2001. In 2003 he moved to a less than successful year as part of Kawasaki's MotoGP project in the Motorcycle World Championship. He brought the first championship points for his team and finished the season at the 26th World Cup place. After another year in the Supersport class, he finished 2005 Yamaha in his first Superbike World Championship season in seventh place. 2006 could retract his first victory in this class and occupy the fifth world space Pitt in Misano. However, he lost his place after the season at Yamaha to Troy Corser. Season 2007 joined Pitt as a driver of the new Ilmor SRT X ³ in the MotoGP class, but the team withdrew after the first race of the season because of financial problems back.
In 2008 he drove in the Dutch Ten Kate Honda team a CBR 600 RR in the Supersport World Championship. On August 3, 2008, there was the World Championship race at Brands Hatch in a tragic accident. The 23- year-old Briton Craig Jones crashed right in front of Andrew Pitt and was struck by the front of the Australian, who could no longer dodge the head. Jones withdrew doing a craniocerebral trauma and died in a London hospital a few hours later. This season, Pitt won for the second time the world title in the Supersport World Championship.
The 2010 season contests Andrew Pitt on a BMW S 1000 RR BMW customer team team riding car BMW in the World Superbike Championship. His teammate was the Austrian Roland Resch. However, the project " riding car - BMW " and Pitt failed changed mid- season in the British Superbike Yamaha.