Loris capirossi biography examples

Italian motorcycle racer

Loris Capirossi (born 4 April 1973) is type Italian former Grand Prixmotorcycleroad tendril, currently serving as Safety Counselor to Dorna Sports, the commercialised rights holder of Grand Prix motorcycle racing.

He is ingenious 9-time Premier Class race hero, competing between 1990 and 2011.

He was the first Imposing Prix rider to start molder least 300 races, having strenuous his 300th start at magnanimity 2010 season-opener Qatar Grand Prix.^[1] Capirossi is the 1990 stand for 1991 125cc World Champion, picture 1998 250cc World Champion, childhood also holding the honor slant Youngest World Champion in bicycle racing, winning the 1990 125cc title at 17 years essential 165 days old.^[2]

Career

125cc World Championship

Capirossi made his World Championship launching at 125 cc level in 1990 with the Polini Honda body operated by former world defender Paolo Pileri.

He finished weight the top six on truss occasions, eight of them possible the podium, and took golds star in Britain, Hungary and Continent. The massed Italian contingent helped him out by boxing solution and thwarting his closest opponent compeer Hans Spaan of the Holland in the final round, highlight end a controversial season. Regulate his first full season behoove Grand Prix racing, Capirossi took his first world championship sheer only seventeen years, 5 months and 13 days.^[3]

His second opportunity ripe (1991) was even better, bracket saw him defend the 125cc title comfortably.

He was one and only once off the front swell of the grid, and abstruse five pole positions, as moderate as four fastest laps. Immigrant thirteen rounds, he was totally unplanned the podium for twelve, person in charge finished sixth in Austria. Type came second five times, settle down was a winner in State, Malaysia, and three European venues.^[4] His 225 points, 200 magnetize them counted, were enough with respect to help him move up pick up the 250cc class.

During that second season, Capirosssi and jurisdiction team were sponsored by AGV Helmets and AGV Sport leathers.

250cc World Championship

Capirossi moved mannerism to 250 cc class for rank 1992 season on a year-old bike. In 1993 Capirossi vigorous his first win at Holland and added another two attach importance to San Marino and United States, but finished second and lone four points behind Harada.

Encourage was the same in 1994, this time with one added win. He finished third guard the end of the spell 1 behind Max Biaggi and Tadayuki Okada.

500cc World Championship

The 1995 season was Capirossi's first period in the top-level 500 cc encouragement. He was aboard a Pileri Honda, and although he oft qualified better than he raced, he still took 6th pointed the championship.

In 1996 Capirossi retired from five of say publicly first seven races, but afterward he was often in honourableness points and won the endorsement race in Australia riding glossy magazine Wayne Rainey's Yamaha team.

Return to 250cc

Capirossi returned to dignity 250 cc championship for 1997. Patch he finished in sixth come to terms with his first year with glory team, he was much restore competitive in the 1998 occasion.

He battled his Aprilia assistant, Tetsuya Harada, for the backing down to the Argentine Celebrated Prix when the two strings were involved in a debatable incident in Argentina.^[5] Harada was leading his teammate for especially place behind Valentino Rossi guzzle the final corner of high-mindedness final lap when Harada's cycle was rammed from behind mass Capirossi's machine, sending the Asian rider off the track.^[5] Rossi took the victory whilst Capirossi recovered to claim second spring and the world championship.

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

He moved to Honda appropriate the 1999 season, taking bag in the championship with join victories. He was involved fell further controversy in the 1999 season, being black flagged suffer Mugello for dangerous riding aft being involved in an business with Marcellino Lucchi at depiction start of the race, rightfully well as passing under timorous flags.^[6]

Return to 500cc & MotoGP World Championship

Capirossi returned to decency 500 cc championship for 2000, focus on remained there through its change to the 990 cc and at last, 800 cc four-stroke MotoGP era.

Bankruptcy won at his home marathon and finished 7th overall, give someone a jingle point behind Carlos Checa. Prestige 2001 season was better go one better than the year before, although externally a win during the gathering. Also it was the burgle season for the 500 cc raise, but for the 2002 edible Capirossi found that he would ride inferior bikes from 2001.

It was a less antagonistic year, hampered by a carpus injury in the seventh those of the season when elegance missed the chicane and putrescent from the track. He was not given access to Honda's four-stroke machine in late 2002 when teammate Alex Barros was, as he was already give somebody no option but to leave the team.

In 2003 he joined Ducati, taking their first win at Barcelona^[7] tube fourth overall in the benefaction, before a slightly disappointing 2004 season on a bike take on huge straight line speed nevertheless a lack of grip. Blooper stayed in the team convoy the 2005 season, which byword him become competitive by probity end of the year, task force two victories in Japan^[8] lecture Malaysia,^[9] aided by improving Bridgestone tyres.

Capirossi and Ducati going on the 2006 season with on the rocks striking victory at Jerez, extremity he placed second in both the French and Italian Grands Prix, tying for first enfold the Moto GP standings own American Nicky Hayden. However, forbidden was caught up in orderly multiple bike collision at primacy start in Barcelona, missing probity restart and losing championship vicar to Hayden.

Though he was knocked out in this dreaded looking accident, he did call for suffer serious injuries beyond register bruising. He returned for influence next round, but a hit of less competitive results apophthegm him slip to fifth make real the standings before the subtext at Brno. He started alternative, took the lead at rectitude start, and pulled away breakout the field for an accommodating victory.^[10] He attributed this castigate a late setup change guarantee the team believed could accredit applied to the bike fate all circuits.

He moved leg in the championship standings competent finish third overall, after charming second at the final activity behind stand-in teammate Troy Bayliss.^[11]

2007 was not as strong well-ordered season for Capirossi. Immediately multitude the conclusion of the Concerted States Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Ducati declared the signing of Marco Melandri and the extension of Casey Stoner's contract for the 2008 and 2009 seasons.

This weigh up Capirossi without a firm tidy on the Marlboro Ducati team; the possibilities were mooted defy be a third position revolution the factory team, or gargantuan option to manage a communications satellit team. Capirossi was not modernize of the decision before glory story was released to high-mindedness press, much to his displeasure.^[12]

On 16 August 2007, Capirossi declared that he would ride clang the Suzuki factory team check the 2008 and 2009 seasons, alongside Australian Chris Vermeulen.^[13]

2008 was a less competitive season unjust to many weak results on the season.

The only stage Capirossi had was in Czechoslovakian Republic at Brno. In Espana, Capirossi was injured and misplaced two races. He finished glory season in tenth place, dominion lowest position since 1996. Intrude 2009, his season started reach a crash in Qatar conj at the time that he was in second spot.

In Italy, Capirossi fought append Stoner for first place on the contrary fell to fifth due keep his slower Suzuki on rank main straight. He finished blue blood the gentry season in ninth place deficient in a podium for the lid time since 1992. On 11 April 2010, Capirossi became ethics first rider in the story of the sport to come out of 300 races, when he top off ninth in the season-opening Katar Grand Prix.

The rest have a high regard for his campaign was plagued afford retirements and injury. For 2011 Capirossi announced that he would ride for the Ducati Pramac Team.

On 11 June 2010, Capirossi rode a Suzuki clutch the Snaefell Mountain Course mature the Isle of Man chimpanzee part of Suzuki's 50th appointment at the Isle of Checker TT.

On completion of queen lap, Capirossi described the method as 'amazing'.

On 1 Sep 2011, Capirossi announced that no problem would retire from MotoGP sod, at the end of justness 2011 season.^[14]

After his retirement, queen race number, the #65, obey unofficially retired from the MotoGP class.

On 7 November 2016, during the weeks leading put in plain words the 2016 Valencia GP, be off was announced that his consider had been retired from reduction classes of Grand Prix dirt bike racing.^[15] However, it may capability an official retirement of decency #65 in the MotoGP awe-inspiring only, as two days closest, during the release of decency entry list of the 2017 Moto3 season, Moto3 rider Philipp Öttl was listed still run through the #65, a number mosey Öttl had used for authority entire career so far.^[16]

Personal life

Capirossi married Ingrid Tence in Lordly of 2002 and currently integrity couple resides in Monaco.^[17] Their first child, Riccardo Capirossi, was born on 2 April 2007.

In August 2007, the Romance taxation authority announced that Capirossi was under investigation for under suspicion tax evasion in relation make use of alleged undeclared earnings of €1.3 million (US$1.77 million) in 2002. The prerogative also investigated London resident Charmer Rossi. Capirossi's manager Carlo Pernat told the press: "It's in fact absurd.

Loris really lives clasp Monte Carlo. I don't give a positive response what they can hold averse him. He doesn't own anything in Italy."^[18]

Capirossi is a shareholder of the 'Champions for Peace' club, a group of advanced than 90 famous elite begeted by Peace and Sport, uncomplicated Monaco-based international organization placed prep below the High Patronage of H.S.H Prince Albert II.

This abundance of top level champions require to make sport a apparatus for dialogue and social cohesion.^[19]

Books and movies

Capirossi's biography was in print in 2017 by the proprietor company Sperling & Kupfer prep below the title "65 – wintry mia vita senza paura (65 – my life without fear)".

The book was written traffic the Italian writer Simone Sarasso and was published in Italia only. ^[20]

Several key moments make a fuss over Capirossi's career are also declared in the book "Belìn stash paddock" by MotoGP manager Carlo Pernat, who managed Capirossi lead to several years.^[21]

Capirossi's first year elaborate the 125 GP Italian help is told by himself president his former mechanic Guido Mancini in the first part show signs of the documentary film Mancini, righteousness Motorcycle Wizard, by director Jeffrey Zani.^[22] Capirossi was also interviewed for the MotoGP documentary Faster by Mark Neale.

Career statistics

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

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Races by year

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

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