Steve Martin (motorcycle racer)

Steve ( n ) Martin ( born December 2, 1968 in Adelaide ) is an Australian motorcycle racer.

Career

Steve Martin played 1989-2009 183 races in the Superbike World Championship. His most successful year was 2004, when he started for the Italian team DFXtreme sterile Garda on Ducati 999 RS and get him five podiums, three pole positions, two fastest laps and the seventh World Cup ranking. In the 2005 season and the 2006 season Steve Martin was on the side of Garry McCoy and Craig Jones factory rider Carl Fogarty's Foggy Petronas team.

At the end of the 2007 season Martin ended his World Cup career for the time being, worked as a television commentator and has been involved as a test driver in the development of the BMW Superbike S 1000 RR. His last appearance to date in the World Superbike Championship had the Australians in the 2009 season when he replaced at the races in the South African Kyalami the injured Troy Corser on the BMW works team.

In 2007 he moved into the FIM Endurance World Championship for the Yamaha Austria Racing Team ( YART ), where he actually only one race that should stand in 8 hours of Suzuka for the injured Sebastien Scarnato. However, the chemistry in the team fit so perfectly that he got a place as a regular driver since then. After two podium finishes in 2007 followed in 2008 already the first race victory at the 8- hour race in Doha and the Vice World Champion title. 2009 should be the year of the 40 -year-old Steve Martin. He won jointly with Igor Jerman and Gwen Giabbani on Yamaha the 24 Hours of Le Mans for motorcycles. Then the trio still won in three other World Endurance Championship races and was superior to World Endurance Champion in 2009.

Steve Martin won today five Endurance World Championship races, all of them for the Austrian Yamaha Austria Racing Team.

Achievements

Statistics

(As of end of season 2009)