Troy Bayliss
Troy Bayliss ( born March 30, 1969 in Taree, New South Wales, Australia ) is a retired Australian motorcycle racer.
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Career
Troy Bayliss got a small motorcycle at the age of six from his father. When he was ten, he wanted to race. The next four years he was with his father on the road to motocross and dirt track competitions. 1992 and 1993 drove Bayliss with private motorcycles Australian race. From 1994, he contested national championships. In 1996 Bayliss in the Australian Superbike Championship. This he finished with Team Kawasaki Australia in third place.
In the following two years started Troy Bayliss in the Australian Superbike Championship Series. In addition, he drove a 1997 race in the Superbike World Championship at Phillip Iceland, where he also went into the motorcycle world championship in the class up to 250 cc at the start.
In the 1999 season, Bayliss drove in the British Superbike Championship ( BSB) and drove there for the first time a machine from the house of Ducati. In his first year he won with his team the title GSE Ducati in the Superbike class (then 750 cc 4 - cylinder, 1 000 cc 2- cylinder).
Superbike World Championship
2000 should Bayliss ride for Ducati in the U.S. Superbike Championship. As, however, in the Ducati factory rider Carl Fogarty World Superbike Championship for the second season meeting at Phillip Iceland crashed hard, whose team was looking a replacement and chose Bayliss. It was not until the fifth race of the season at Monza, the Australian took to the orphan work - Ducati, Fogarty place. Bayliss led several laps before his pursuers Colin Edwards, Pierfrancesco Chili, Akira Yanagawa and Noriyuki Haga. Both runs he finished fourth. After Monza, the Hockenheimring was on the calendar where Troy Bayliss won the first race with his Ducati 996. In Brands Hatch Bayliss still celebrated another victory and a total of nine podium finishes, he finished the 2000 season ranked sixth in total, even though he had played only 18 of 26 races and three of them remained by fall or technical defects with no points.
For the 2001 season the team got Bayliss Ducati Infostrada with Rubén Xaus a new teammates and with the Ducati 998, a new factory bike. The Australians won six of 24 races, but was also just as often second and third three times. At the end of the season Troy Bayliss could have the most points, which meant the world title and his greatest success to date. Bayliss is still only the second World Superbike champion Troy Corser next Australian origin.
In 2002 Bayliss won 14 of the first 17 races, including six in a row twice. But Colin Edwards rode his Honda VTR 1000 SP2 constant in the points made pressure on Bayliss and Ducati and took the last race at Imola in September 2002 his second world title.
MotoGP class
For the 2003 season, the top two finishers of the World Superbike Championship in 2002 rose in the MotoGP class. Bayliss remained true to its brand and launched with the new Desmosedici GP3 of the Ducati MotoGP team in the new season. At season's end Troy Bayliss had to have three podiums, and a second place and a total of six World Cup ranking.
The 2004 season was a setback for Troy Bayliss, Ducati and Bayliss ' team-mate Loris Capirossi. Against the claims of both drivers, the team developed a difficult to control motor ( with then unofficially over 245 hp ) and a 60% newly developed chassis. This Bayliss and Capirossi were about three quarters of the season not competitive. After clashes between Bayliss and team boss Livio Suppo because of poor results, it was decided to dismiss after the season finale at Ducati, Troy Bayliss.
For the 2005 season Bayliss signed with Sito Pons, the Camel Honda team with the Honda RC211V took. Bayliss was able to drive into Laguna Seca sixth place, where he played the season only to the Grand Prix of Germany at Sachsenring. During the summer break, the Australians injured when dirt track and had to refrain from further launches in that year for health reasons. Shane Byrne, Tōru Ukawa and Chris Vermeulen were hired by the team manager for each race as a replacement.
Return to Superbikes
In 2006, Troy Bayliss finally found no place in MotoGP. The Australians returned to Ducati back in the Superbike World Championship and in 24 races twelve wins, three second places and one third place. This Bayliss won in 2006 for the second time after 2001, the Superbike World Championship on the new Ducati 999 F06 for him. At the last race of the MotoGP, the Grand Prix of Valencia Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Bayliss for the injured Sete Gibernau in the factory Ducati team. In this race the Australians managed a start- to-finish victory ahead of team -mate Loris Capirossi. Bayliss gave himself so that his first and probably last MotoGP victory and Ducati at the same time the first two in this class at all.
Also in the 2007 season started Bayliss for Ducati Xerox factory team in the World Superbike Championship. However, his Ducati 999 F07 turned out to be not as superior as the previous model year. After a mediocre start to the season he fell in the first round of the third season event at Donington Park in the lead and was injured so badly on the little finger of the right hand, that the last two terms of this finger had to be amputated. Troy Bayliss recovered quickly and was in the middle of the season strong performances. However, after less good results in Brno and Brands Hatch he had no real world title chance more. With 43 points behind World Champion James Toseland Bayliss eventually finished fourth World Cup ranking. In December 2007, Troy Bayliss announced his resignation at the end of the 2008 season and stressed to want to win even before his third World Superbike title.
The 2008 season played Bayliss continue in the factory Ducati team. His weapon of choice was the all-new Ducati 1098 F08, which was the first motorcycle in the history of World Superbike equipped with a 1200 cc V-2 engine, new teammate was Italian Michel Fabrizio. Already at the first race of his farewell tour at Losail (Qatar ) of Australians celebrated their first win on the new machine and immediately sat down at the top of the standings, which he did not relinquish it throughout the course of the season. In the third last event at Vallelunga, Italy, Bayliss had the opportunity to secure the title, but crashed on the last lap of the second run and thus postponed the decision. At the following race at Magny -Cours, Troy Bayliss secured the third place in the first race then his third World Superbike title. In the last season event at the newly built track in Portimão, Portugal, the Australian then made his triumphant resignation from the World Cup stage celebrated. He won from the pole position superior to both races and placed in each case a new lap record.
Troy Bayliss finished in November 2008 at the age of 39 years after winning his third World Superbike Championship title his active career. Overall, the Australians won in this class 52 runs and drove a 26 pole positions and 35 fastest laps. In addition, he once won the British Superbike Championship and reached the Grand Prix of Valencia in 2006 the only Grand Prix win of his career in the MotoGP class.
Results
Private
Bayliss was born the only son of Warren and Lorraine Bayliss on a farm. He has a sister named Jana. At the age of 18, he met his wife Kim, with whom he has been married since 1993. The two have three children and now live back in Australia after they spent long years in Monaco.
In 2009 he received an award from the city of Imola for his life's work