Lorenzo Lanzi
Lorenzo Lanzi ( born October 26, 1981 in Cesena, Emilia -Romagna, Italy ) is an Italian motorcycle racer.
In memory of his father Lanzi with the start number 57, since that was the year of birth. Lanzi was in the Superbike scene as a great talent, did not make the final breakthrough in the Ducati factory team in 2006 and 2007 but.
Career
Lorenzo Lanzi was the enthusiasm for motor sport from his father Piercarlo "Regina" Lanzi, the kart driver was inherited. At the age of eight, he won the Italian Mini Cross Championship. In 1996 he went into the Italian 125cc Sport Production Championship, which he 1998 - won on Aprilia - at the age of 16 years.
In the 1999 season Lanzi debuted as a wildcard rider in the class up to 125 cc Grand Prix of Italy at Mugello in the Motorcycle World Championship. The 125cc class of motorcycle Championship, he finished in twelfth place.
In the 2000 season, Lorenzo Lanzi finished second in the 250cc European Championship in seventh place overall in the Italian 250 cc Championship, he finished ninth.
In 2001 Lorenzo Lanzi denied the world championship in the 250 cc class on an Aprilia Campetella the team. His best results were two places eleventh in Mugello and Phillip in Iceland, he finished the season with 23 points rather unremarkable ranked 20 overall rating.
After a year break, he was finally obliged by Ducati 2003. Lanzi was with three wins and 137 points, second in the Superstock 1000 class of motorcycle championship, just three points behind his teammate Michel Fabrizio. In the Italian Superstock 1000 Championship he immediately won the title.
During the 2004 season, he played with a Ducati 749 R in the factory Ducati team Breil the Supersport World Championship. His best results have been four fourth places. Lanzi finished the season in fifth place overall. In the final round of the AMA Superbike Championship, the U.S. Superbike Championship at Virginia International Raceway started Lanzi with a wildcard for the Ducati factory team, Parts Unlimited Ducati Austin and was able to occupy the fourth place in the first race.
For the 2005 season, he switched to the Superbike World Championship and went for the private team Caracchi a Ducati 999 customers machine. When the Ducati factory rider Régis Laconi was sidelined due to injury, Lanzi jumped in the official Ducati Xerox factory team and was able to immediately retract at the Lausitzring a race win. After that, he was equipped with a factory Ducati machine and won again starting Caracchi for the last race of the season at Magny -Cours. At the end of the season, he finished with 150 points in ninth place in the final table.
For the 2006 season, he was obliged by the Ducati factory team as a regular driver. However, he could not fulfill all the expectations placed in him. Lorenzo Lanzi finished with 169 points ranked eighth in the championship, which was won by his team-mate Troy Bayliss. The cause of his stagnant performance some believed to see the death of his father, who died suddenly during a joint motorcycle trip in October 2005.
In 2007 Lorenzo Lanzi denied the Ducati factory team in the World Superbike Championship. Already in the first round at Losail he could celebrate the first, but also single podium of the year with third place. After constant lines in the upper middle he finished seventh the championship. With his performance, however Lanzi again remained behind expectations, therefore expiring contract was not renewed at the end of the season in the factory team.
In the Superbike World Championship 2008 Lorenzo Lanzi piloted in private Italian team RG Ducati, which still competed in the Supersport World Championship last season, one of the 1200 cm newly developed ³ Ducati 1098 RS 08 After the Italians already at the tests on his favorite track Qatar positively noticed, he succeeded in the first round in Valencia, Spain, an unexpected victory. Local hero Carlos Checa had started against the leader Max Neukirchen in the last turn a daring overtaking maneuvers, after which both came to fall. Lanzi overhauled in the last lap Troy Bayliss and " inherited " as the race win. In the rest of the season but the man from Cesena was unable to match these successes, he took ranks in midfield and was 14th overall.
After the RG team withdrew in late 2008 from the World Cup, Lorenzo Lanzi found for the 2009 season, no place in the Superbike World Championship. Also, efforts to find a place in another championship had no success. In May 2009, has been committed as a substitute driver for the injured Régis Laconi Lorenzo Lanzi by the Italian team DFX Corse, who fell in Kyalami. Lanzi starts on Ducati 1098R and finished his first two races at Miller Motorsports Park (USA) with ranks 17 and 14 in the overall standings, he finished with 15 points from ten races to 26th place.
In 2010 Lorenzo Lanzi will compete for the DFX team on Ducati 1098 in the Superbike World Championship.
Achievements
- Runner-up in the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup on Ducati: 2003
- Italian Superstock 1000 champion on Ducati: 2003