Loris Reggiani

Loris Reggiani ( born October 7, 1959 in Forli, Emilia -Romagna, Italy ) is an Italian former motorcycle racer.

Career

After several successful years in the amateur racing Loris Reggiani debuted at the Grand Prix of Nations in 1980 on a Bimota in the 350 cc class in the motorcycle world championship. That same season he was able to celebrate on Minarelli in the 125 cc class his first Grand Prix victory at the Grand Prix of Great Britain, in the overall standings in this displacement category, he finished the season in sixth place.

In the 1981 season Reggiani won on the Minarelli 125cc race in Yugoslavia and San Marino and was behind the Spaniard Ángel Nieto, who won superior to the World Cup, World Championship runner. He also won the title in the 125cc category of the Italian championship.

1982 and 1983 launched Loris Reggiani on Suzuki in the 500cc World Championship. However, it did little was successful, the third place in the Grand Prix of Germany in 1983 on the Hockenheim ring represents his best result in these two years dar. In the 1984 season took Reggiani on Kawasaki to the 250cc World Championship in part, but only came to the 22 overall.

For the 1985 season Loris Reggiani then switched to Aprilia in the 250 cc class made ​​their debut this year. The Italian manufacturer put for the time being a self-made chassis with Rotax engines. In Yugoslavia and San Marino he could with third places celebrate its best season and finished third in the final classification results a strong sixth. The following year, he could only compete in six races due to injury.

In the 1987 season Reggiani made ​​then with his victory at the Grand Prix of San Marino at Misano for the first Grand Prix victory for Aprilia at all and at the same time the first success of an Italian in a 250cc race since Graziano Rossi 1979. With four other podium finishes Reggiani was eventually turn WM- sixth.

After a disappointing 13th World Cup ranking 1988 Loris Reggiani contested the 1989 season in the 250 cc class on Honda, but returned to the eleventh place overall again Aprilia back, which now also developed their own engines and built.

In the following years he had then prevailing as a works driver role in the development of the Aprilia RSV250, which became the most successful 250 - cc racing motorcycle 1990s later. Reggiani won six 250cc Grand Prix between 1991 and 1993 and in 1992 was behind his compatriot Luca Cadalora Vice World Champion. The fruits of his hard work then harvested but Max Biaggi, Loris Capirossi and Valentino Rossi, the manufacturer of Noale bestowed a total of six Drivers' World Championship titles between 1994 and 1999.

For the 1994 season, Loris Reggiani rose with Aprilia in the 500cc class. The Italians had developed a completely new, very light and agile V2 engine with 400 cc displacement with which they wanted to try to beat the Japanese competition and their four-cylinder motorcycles. However, it soon became clear that the performance penalty compared to the Aprilia 500 cc machines too large and thus the bike was not competitive. After the tenth World Cup ranking Loris Reggiani finished at the end of the 1995 season finally his active career.

In his 158 starts in the Motorcycle World Championship Loris Reggiani reach eight wins, 41 podiums, five pole positions and eight fastest laps

Today Loris Reggiani comments on the transfers of the Motorcycle World Championship for the Italian television channel Italia 1

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