Niccolò Canepa
Niccolò Canepa (born 14 May 1988 in Genoa, Italy ) is an Italian motorcycle racer.
In the 2007 season he won on Ducati 1098 S the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup. 2010, the Italians will start for the Scot team in the Moto2 class of MotoGP World Championship.
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Career
Niccolò Canepa's career began in 1999 with the participation of a Mini Moto Championship. In 2000 he was fourth in the Italian Minimoto Series. In 2002, Canepa to the four-strokes and started including in the Italian Superstock 600 Championship and in the Trofeo Yamaha R6 Max As the youngest driver in the history of the Italian motorcycle championship he could make the first time attention. After two years in the 600cc Championships Niccolò Canepa rose in 2004 to the Italian Superstock 1000 Championship, where he again showed good results.
2005, the Genoese started regularly in the Superstock 600 European Championship, which he finished at the age of only 17 years, fourth. In addition, he also started in some races in the Supersport World Championship. In 2006, Canepa second in the Superstock 600 European Championship, although he could not participate due to an injury at the last two races.
FIM Superstock 1000 Cup
The 2007 season played Niccolò Canepa Junior for the Ducati Xerox Team on 1098 S in the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup, which he won as a complete surprise at first. The title was only decided in the last round of the last run in Magny Cours, as MV - Agusta - pilot Ayrton Badovini the erstwhile leader Claudio Corti still outdated and Canepa thus helped to win the title. After the season Canepa participated in MotoGP Test in Jerez and sat there another exclamation mark. On the completely unknown to him MotoGP Ducati he distanced the Vittoriano Guareschi -budgetary test pilots and Shin'ichi Ito clear on all three test days and was on his fastest lap, not only 0.4 seconds slower than regular driver Marco Melandri.
Test driver for Ducati
Because of its strong performance Ducati to Canepa decided in 2008 with a contract as a test driver for both the MotoGP project and for the Superbike World Championship 1098 R machine equip. In addition, there were three wildcard appearances in World Superbike Championship and possibly a provided in the MotoGP class for him. In July 2008, he arrived in MotoGP testing in the U.S. Indianapolis on both test days, the fastest time. A short time later, he succeeded in Superbike testing at Vallelunga similar lap times as his teammate, two-time world champion Troy Bayliss. Canepa was always faster than factory Ducati rider Michel Fabrizio and is therefore treated as a possible successor to Bayliss ' in the Superbike World Championship factory team, the Italian manufacturer for 2009. Beginning of September 2008 the Genoese crashed hard at Superbike testing at Mugello, pulling breaks a collarbone and a thumb, which is why he had to do without a start at Superbike World Championship race at Vallelunga.
MotoGP class
In the 2009 season was Niccolò Canepa team driver in the Pramac team in the MotoGP class of the Motorcycle World Championship, where he went to the start at Ducati Desmosedici GP9. His teammate was the Finn Mika Kallio, who rose from the 250 cc class in the premier class. In the first four races of the Italians occupied only rear ranks. At his home race, the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, Canepa was driving in the rain with ninth place for the first time in the top ten. After four more inconspicuous race, the Genovese also the rainy British Grand Prix at Donington Park rollercoaster, what his best season placement was represented. At the Grand Prix of Indianapolis Niccolò Canepa got Aleix Espargaró a new teammates, as Mika Kallio diseased replaced Casey Stoner at Ducati factory team. The Spaniard showed from the beginning a strong performance, which quickly led to speculation that Espargaró Canepa still could replace during the season as a regular driver in the Pramac team, as it was not quite satisfied with this. However, these rumors have not been realized. On 16 October 2009, Niccolò Canepa crashed in practice for the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Iceland at over 200 km / h by highside and retired in injury to the right arm, the skin grafts necessitated and forced him to pause two races long. Before the last race of the season in Valencia Canepa was not a scheduled medical check and also got for this race grounding. With 36 points of the Italians closed the season as the 16th overall.
Already on 6 October 2009, three races left in the season, and even before his fall in Australia, was officially that Niccolò Canepa 2010 must give up his place in the Pramac team to Aleix Espargaró.
Moto2 class
On 19 November 2009 Niccolò Canepa was his move into the Scot team in the newly created Moto2 class known where he will go along with Alex De Angelis of San Marino at the start. In Scot Hiroshi Aoyama had become last 250 cc World Champion World Cup history in 2009.
Statistics
- 2004 - FIM Superstock 1000 Cup - Kawasaki Bertocchi, 3 races, 0 points
- 2005 - Superstock 600 Championship - Kawasaki Bertocchi, 4th, 105 points (3 podiums, 3 pole positions, 1 fastest lap )
- 2005 - Supersport World Championship - Lightspeed Kawasaki, 3 races, 41, 1 point
- 2006 - Superstock 600 Championship - Ducati Xerox Junior, 8 races, 2nd, 151 points (3 wins, 7 podiums, 6 pole positions, 4 fastest laps )
- 2007 - FIM Superstock 1000 Cup - Ducati Xerox Junior Team, champions, 161 points (2 wins, 5 podiums, 4 pole positions, 1 fastest lap )
- 2008 - World Superbike - Ducati Xerox Team, 2 races, 32, 3 points
- 2009 - MotoGP, Pramac Racing, 14 races, 16, 38 points
- 2010 - Moto2, Scot Racing Team