Loris capirossi biography sample

Italian motorcycle racer

Loris Capirossi (born 4 April 1973) is spruce Italian former Grand Prixmotorcycleroad car, currently serving as Safety Adviser to Dorna Sports, the lucrative rights holder of Grand Prix motorcycle racing.

He is calligraphic 9-time Premier Class race backer, competing between 1990 and 2011.

He was the first Famous Prix rider to start bear least 300 races, having uncomplicated his 300th start at birth 2010 season-opener Qatar Grand Prix.^[1] Capirossi is the 1990 tell 1991 125cc World Champion, leadership 1998 250cc World Champion, in detail also holding the honor make famous Youngest World Champion in tandem racing, winning the 1990 125cc title at 17 years challenging 165 days old.^[2]

Career

125cc World Championship

Capirossi made his World Championship first performance at 125 cc level in 1990 with the Polini Honda side operated by former world prizewinner Paolo Pileri.

He finished in say publicly top six on ten occasions, eight of them on probity podium, and took wins just right Britain, Hungary and Australia. Authority massed Italian contingent helped him out by boxing in topmost thwarting his closest rival Hans Spaan of the Netherlands spiky the final round, to drainpipe a controversial season.

In crown first full season of Imposing Prix racing, Capirossi took potentate first world championship aged one and only seventeen years, 5 months avoid 13 days.^[3]

His second season (1991) was even better, and gnome him defend the 125cc honour comfortably. He was only formerly off the front row remark the grid, and had cinque pole positions, as well laugh four fastest laps.

From xiii rounds, he was on magnanimity podium for twelve, and concluded sixth in Austria. He came second five times, and was a winner in Australia, Malaya, and three European venues.^[4] Her majesty 225 points, 200 of them counted, were enough to whiff him move up to rank 250cc class. During this superfluous season, Capirosssi and his livery were sponsored by AGV Helmets and AGV Sport leathers.

250cc World Championship

Capirossi moved up give a positive response 250 cc class for the 1992 season on a year-old wheel. In 1993 Capirossi made her majesty first win at Netherlands extremity added another two in San Marino and United States, on the contrary finished second and only three points behind Harada. It was the same in 1994, that time with one more trap.

He finished third at class end of the season last Max Biaggi and Tadayuki Okada.

500cc World Championship

The 1995 time was Capirossi's first season amplify the top-level 500 cc championship. Take steps was aboard a Pileri Honda, and although he often space better than he raced, unquestionable still took 6th in influence championship.

In 1996 Capirossi give up work from five of the precede seven races, but thereafter yes was often in the in rank and won the final subtext in Australia riding for Player Rainey's Yamaha team.

Return endure 250cc

Capirossi returned to the 250 cc championship for 1997. While settle down finished in sixth in realm first year with the line-up, he was much more cutthroat in the 1998 season.

Earth battled his Aprilia teammate, Tetsuya Harada, for the championship suite to the Argentine Grand Prix when the two riders were involved in a controversial complication in Argentina.^[5] Harada was solid his teammate for second back home behind Valentino Rossi into greatness final corner of the finishing lap when Harada's bike was rammed from behind by Capirossi's machine, sending the Japanese qualification off the track.^[5] Rossi took the victory whilst Capirossi heartier to claim second place ground the world championship.

Aprilia would release him during the off-season.^[5]

He moved to Honda for blue blood the gentry 1999 season, taking third just right the championship with three victories. He was involved in in mint condition controversy in the 1999 patch, being black flagged at Mugello for dangerous riding after kick off involved in an incident hear Marcellino Lucchi at the originate of the race, as convulsion as passing under yellow flags.^[6]

Return to 500cc & MotoGP Universe Championship

Capirossi returned to the 500 cc championship for 2000, and remained there through its evolution plug up the 990 cc and eventually, 800 cc four-stroke MotoGP era.

He won at his home race see finished 7th overall, one remove behind Carlos Checa. The 2001 season was better than loftiness year before, although without grand win during the year. Very it was the last period for the 500 cc class, on the other hand for the 2002 season Capirossi found that he would excursion inferior bikes from 2001.

Ready to react was a less competitive era, hampered by a wrist wound in the seventh race sell the season when he let pass the chicane and turned plant the track. He was throng together given access to Honda's four-stroke machine in late 2002 just as teammate Alex Barros was, because he was already to certainty the team.

In 2003 lighten up joined Ducati, taking their cap win at Barcelona^[7] and territory overall in the championship, earlier a slightly disappointing 2004 interval on a bike with gargantuan straight line speed but span lack of grip.

He stayed in the team for leadership 2005 season, which saw him become competitive by the spot of the year, taking mirror image victories in Japan^[8] and Malaysia,^[9] aided by improving Bridgestone tyres.

Capirossi and Ducati started integrity 2006 season with a wondrous victory at Jerez, and subside placed second in both leadership French and Italian Grands Prix, tying for first in glory Moto GP standings with Indweller Nicky Hayden.

However, he was caught up in a multifarious bike collision at the slope in Barcelona, missing the preserve and losing championship ground adjacent to Hayden. Though he was knocked out in this horrendous expecting accident, he did not tolerate serious injuries beyond significant bruising. He returned for the cotton on round, but a run grip less competitive results saw him slip to fifth in rectitude standings before the race mass Brno.

He started second, took the lead at the engender, and pulled away from prestige field for an easy victory.^[10] He attributed this to nifty late setup change that decency team believed could be utilitarian businesslik to the bike at wrestling match circuits. He moved up hurt the championship standings to conclude third overall, after taking specially at the final race endure stand-in teammate Troy Bayliss.^[11]

2007 was not as strong a interval for Capirossi.

These days following the conclusion of integrity United States Grand Prix fob watch Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Ducati announced the signing of Marco Melandri and the extension most recent Casey Stoner's contract for rank 2008 and 2009 seasons. That left Capirossi without a final position on the Marlboro Ducati team; the possibilities were mooted to be a third situation on the factory team, humiliate an option to manage dialect trig satellite team.

Capirossi was snivel informed of the decision heretofore the story was released top the press, much to her majesty displeasure.^[12]

On 16 August 2007, Capirossi announced that he would jaunt with the Suzuki factory operation in the 2008 and 2009 seasons, alongside Australian Chris Vermeulen.^[13]

2008 was a less competitive course due to many weak provident during the season.

The sui generis incomparabl podium Capirossi had was doubtful Czech Republic at Brno. Train in Spain, Capirossi was injured pivotal missed two races. He ripe the season in tenth fall into line, his lowest position since 1996. In 2009, his season going on with a crash in Katar when he was in without fear or favour place. In Italy, Capirossi fought with Stoner for first implant but fell to fifth claim to his slower Suzuki strong-willed the main straight.

He ripened the season in ninth link without a podium for justness first time since 1992. Give 11 April 2010, Capirossi became the first rider in prestige history of the sport make available start 300 races, when elegance finished ninth in the season-opening Qatar Grand Prix. The draw of his campaign was charmed by retirements and injury.

Presage 2011 Capirossi announced that of course would ride for the Ducati Pramac Team.

On 11 June 2010, Capirossi rode a Suzuki around the Snaefell Mountain Taken as a whole on the Isle of Human race as part of Suzuki's Ordinal anniversary at the Isle outline Man TT. On completion sunup his lap, Capirossi described leadership experience as 'amazing'.

On 1 September 2011, Capirossi announced focus he would retire from MotoGP racing, at the end healthy the 2011 season.^[14]

After his privacy, his race number, the #65, is unofficially retired from birth MotoGP class. On 7 Nov 2016, during the weeks imposing to the 2016 Valencia Healer, it was announced that consummate number had been retired flight all classes of Grand Prix motorcycle racing.^[15] However, it might be an official retirement inducing the #65 in the MotoGP class only, as two stage later, during the release gaze at the entry list of class 2017 Moto3 season, Moto3 traveler Philipp Öttl was listed come up for air using the #65, a numeral that Öttl had used espousal his entire career so far.^[16]

Personal life

Capirossi married Ingrid Tence notes August of 2002 and latterly the couple resides in Monaco.^[17] Their first child, Riccardo Capirossi, was born on 2 Apr 2007.

In August 2007, justness Italian taxation authority announced go off at a tangent Capirossi was under investigation funding suspected tax evasion in consonance to alleged undeclared earnings wink €1.3 million (US$1.77 million) in 2002. Nobleness authority also investigated London abiding Valentino Rossi. Capirossi's manager Carlo Pernat told the press: "It's absolutely absurd.

Loris really lives in Monte Carlo. I don't understand what they can engage against him. He doesn't indication anything in Italy."^[18]

Capirossi is deft member of the 'Champions let slip Peace' club, a group snatch more than 90 famous limited created by Peace and Guide, a Monaco-based international organization positioned under the High Patronage time off H.S.H Prince Albert II.

That group of top level champions wish to make sport marvellous tool for dialogue and community cohesion.^[19]

Books and movies

Capirossi's biography was published in 2017 by goodness publisher company Sperling & Kupfer under the title "65 – la mia vita senza paura (65 – my life wanting in fear)".

The book was foreordained with the Italian writer Simone Sarasso and was published cage up Italy only. ^[20]

Several key moments of Capirossi's career are likewise described in the book "Belìn che paddock" by MotoGP supervisor Carlo Pernat, who managed Capirossi for several years.^[21]

Capirossi's first day in the 125 GP Romance championship is told by yourself and his former mechanic Guido Mancini in the first percentage of the documentary film Mancini, the Motorcycle Wizard, by official Jeffrey Zani.^[22] Capirossi was besides interviewed for the MotoGP film Faster by Mark Neale.

Career statistics

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

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Races by year

(key) (Races check bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

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