Gábor Talmácsi
Gabor Talmacsi (born 28 May 1981 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian motorcycle racer.
Talmacsi, called " Talma ", won in the 2007 season with Aprilia for the Bancaja Aspar team for the world title in the 125 cc class of the Motorcycle World Championship. His younger brother is also Gergo motorcycle racer.
Career
Gabor Talmacsi started at the age of four years on a mini bike to ride the motorcycle. Later, he was successful in the motorcycle championship.
The Hungarian made his debut at the Grand Prix of Czech Republic in 2000 in the 125 cc class as a wildcard rider in the MotoGP World Championship.
In the 2001 season was Talmacsi regular driver in the private Team Racing Service, where he drove a 125cc Honda. After a difficult start of the season he improved continuously and finally succeeded with 34 points the 18 World Cup ranking. His best result here was the sixth place at the Pacific Grand Prix in Motegi, Japan.
His strong performances brought Gabor Talmacsi for the following season a contract with an Italjet. However, for the Italian manufacturer, he was able to enter a single point in the first race, so he left the team after five World Championship races and started the rest of the season for the German team PEV Moto ADAC Saxony, where he again drove a Honda. At the Brazilian Grand Prix of Hungary achieved his best result of the season with fourth place. With 20 points, he reached the 22th place overall.
For the 2003 season Talmacsi moved to the Exalt Cycle team, in which the Frenchman Arnaud Vincent had won the year before the World Cup title. He felt but again probably not because he believed that his German team-mate Steve Jenkner get better material than he. At the end of the season Talmacsi finished in 14th place overall.
Since Gabor Talmacsi number 1 driver wanted to be, in 2004 he joined the Malaguti factory team. However, the motorcycle turned out to be not competitive. With the seventh place in Portugal as the best result he reached the 17th World Cup ranking. Nevertheless, he attracted the interest of several teams themselves, including Derbi, Gilera, Honda and KTM.
For season 2005 Talmacsi opted for the offer of the Austrian Red Bull KTM factory team. There he succeeded in the course of the season, the final breakthrough. At the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, he celebrated his first Grand Prix victory. Later, two more successes in the Netherlands and Qatar. When victory in Qatar, the fourth last race of the year, he passed just before the checkered flag his team-mate Mika Kallio, against the team order of team boss Harald Bartol. After the race, said Talmacsi that he would have thought the two were only on the penultimate lap. As Kallio at the end of the season in the title decider with five points behind against the Swiss Thomas Luthi was a laggard, Gabor Talmacsi was made and released the scapegoat. In the World Cup, he finished third.
Originally Talmacsi was scheduled for 2006 as a pilot of the new 250 cc KTM. After his release, he moved but the human Gest Racing Team, where he attended on a factory Honda machine in the 125cc World Championship. After Lüthi's title win in 2005, however, the development was almost silent at Honda, so wiggled the Japanese manufacturer, to rival Aprilia behind. Talmacsi finally was the best Honda Pilot the seventh world ranking. His best result of the season was about the third rank in the Czech Republic.
For the 2007 season, Gabor Talmacsi moved to the Spanish Bancaja Aspar Team Jorge Martínez, Álvaro Bautista in the was able to secure the 125cc world title in 2006. The Hungarian felt immediately at home, already showed in the pre-season testing strong performances and a good start to the season. Although he did not his teammates Héctor Faubel and Sergio Gadea drove like the latest model of 125cc Aprilia to Talmacsi secured after a thrilling finale in Valencia with three wins and ten podium finishes before Faubel the world title.
2008 Talmacsi, again in the Aspar team, trying to defend his 125cc world title.
In 2009 he drove for the first Balaton Ring Racing team and joined in the middle of the season in the MotoGP class, first on the side of Yūki Takahashi for two races and since then the only driver of the Scot Honda team.
In the 2012 season, Gabor Talmacsi compete in the Supersport World Championship on Honda.