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2016 British Motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2016 British motorcycle Grand Prix was the twelfth round of the 2016 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone on 4 September 2016. MotoGP race report Maverick Viñales took his first victory in MotoGP and the first since the 2014 Malaysian Moto2 round. This race marked Suzuki's first victory since the 2007 French Grand Prix. Classification MotoGP The race was red-flagged on the first lap due to an accident involving Loris Baz and Pol Espargaró; for the subsequent restart, the race distance was shortened from 20 to 19 laps. Moto2 Moto3 Championship standings after the race (MotoGP) Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round twelve has concluded. ;Riders' Championship standings ;Constructors' Championship standings * Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. Notes References {{MotoGP 2010–19 British Motorcycle Grand Prix British motorcycl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Octo Telematics
Octo Group S.p.A., operating as Octo Telematics and corporately styled as OCTO, is an Italian multinational technology company. Founded in Italy in 2002, OCTO is most known for providing telematics and Internet of things (IoT) analytics to the auto insurance industry. This is commonly known as Usage-based insurance (UBI) or pay-as-you-drive insurance. Today, the company is one of the largest telematics and data analytics service provider for the car insurance industry. With their advanced analytical services, OCTO also serves the fleet management industry and provides IoT solutions to a number of other markets. The company is headquartered in Rome, with offices in Boston, London, Madrid, Stuttgart, Sao Paulo and Shanghai. OCTO's big data set is enriched by data collected by connected users around the world. Drivers automatically provide data relating to the car, their driving behavior, localization, context, possible accidents, along with other complex data. This is stored an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Bendsneyder
Bo Bendsneyder (born 4 March 1999) is a Dutch motorcycle racer. He was the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup champion in 2015. Career Moto3 World Championship Red Bull KTM Ajo (2016–2017) In 2016 he made his debut in the Moto3 class, Riding for the Red Bull KTM Ajo team. He got two podiums (Great Britain and Malaysia) and closed the season in fourteenth place in the riders' championship standings with 78 points. In 2017 he stayed with the same team. His best result was a fourth place in the Czech Republic and ended the season in fifteenth place in the riders' championship standings with 65 points. Moto2 World Championship Tech 3 Racing (2018) In 2018 he moved to Moto2 with Tech 3. He concluded the season in 29th place with 2 points, his best finish was fourteenth place in Thailand. During the 2018 Japanese Grand Prix he suffered a broken tibia due to flying shrapnel from an engine explosion on the last lap of the race. NTS RW Racing GP (2019–2020) In 2019 he moved to NTS. He got ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álvaro Bautista
Álvaro Bautista Arce (born 21 November 1984) is a Spanish motorcycle road racer. He won the 2022 Superbike World Championship, with Ducati factory team. After the 2019 World Superbike season with the factory Ducati team, for 2020 and 2021 he was contracted to ride the Honda Fireblade in World Superbikes, with the team being run under full HRC control. He was the 2006 125 cc World Champion and runner-up in 250 cc, Superbike World Championship and finished in the top six in MotoGP in and . He competed in the MotoGP class from 2010 to 2018. Bautista competed for the Suzuki team in his first two years after moving to the MotoGP class in . He moved to the Honda-equipped Gresini Racing team in , and continued with the team using Aprilia machinery when the factory returned to MotoGP for the season. Bautista then rode a Ducati with the Aspar (then Ángel Nieto) MotoGP team in 2017 and 2018, before moving to the Superbike World Championship for 2019. Career Early ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danilo Petrucci
Danilo Carlo Petrucci (born 24 October 1990) is an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle racer who has competed in the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship with Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati New York. After losing his KTM ride in MotoGP at the end of the 2021 season, he entered the 2022 Dakar Rally with a Tech3 KTM rally raid 450 cc machine in January 2022. For most of 2022, Petrucci was based in Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S., riding a Ducati Panigale V4R in the AMA Superbike Championship series, finishing second at the last event in September. In November of that same year it was announced that Petrucci would return to the Barni Ducati team, this time in the Superbike World Championship. He won two races in the MotoGP World Championship, and also won the Italian Superbike Championship (CIV) in 2011. Career Early career Born in Terni, Petrucci began racing in 1998 with mini-trial and mini-cross bikes, achieving some national trophies. In 2006 he switched to road racing entering t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Lorenzo
Jorge Lorenzo Guerrero (; born 4 May 1987) is a Spanish former professional motorcycle racer. He is a five-time World Champion, with three MotoGP World Championships (, and ) and two 250cc World Championships ( and ). After winning the 2006 and 2007 250 cc World Championships, Lorenzo moved to MotoGP in 2008 with the factory Yamaha team. In his first season, he won rookie of the year honours after finishing 4th place in the championship, including a win at Portugal. The nine seasons he spent with Yamaha from 2008 to 2016 proved to be very successful, as he won the championship on three occasions in , and , finishing as championship runner-up in , and . His win tally of eight in the 2013 MotoGP season remains the most by any rider in the premier class in a single season not to win the title, as he finished just four points behind Marc Marquez in the final standings. Lorenzo moved to the Ducati factory team in 2017. He struggled at Ducati in his first season, getting onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleix Espargaró
Aleix Espargaró Villà (born 30 July 1989) is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He was thSpanish 2004 FIM CEV 125cc International Champion and currently competes in the MotoGP class for Aprilia Racing team. Career Espargaró was born in Granollers, Spain. Espargaró had his breakthrough in the MotoGP season with Forward Yamaha finishing 7th in the championship with the highlight being a 2nd place finish in Aragon. This earned him a move to Factory Suzuki Team in 2015. In 2017 he switched to Aprilia Racing Team Gresini. 125cc International Championship In 2004, he won the Spanish FIM CEV International Championship 125 cc class with one win, two podiums at Circuito del Jarama and 88 total points. 250cc World Championship In 2006, Espargaró moved to the 250cc class of Grand Prix Motorcycle World Championship racing mid-season, from the 125cc class. After Sebastian Porto ended his career, Martin Cardenas replaced Porto, and Espargaró took Cardenas' spot. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ducati
Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A. () is the motorcycle-manufacturing division of Italian company Ducati, headquartered in Bologna, Italy. The company is directly owned by Italian automotive manufacturer Lamborghini, whose German parent company is Audi, itself owned by the Volkswagen Group. History In 1926 Antonio Cavalieri Ducati and his three sons, Adriano, Marcello, and Bruno, founded ''Società Scientifica Radiobrevetti Ducati'' (SSR Ducati) in Bologna to produce vacuum tubes, condensers and other radio components. In 1935 they had become successful enough to enable construction of a new factory in the Borgo Panigale area of the city. Production was maintained during World War II, despite the Ducati factory being a repeated target of Allied bombing. It was finally destroyed by around 40 Consolidated B-24 Liberators on 12 October 1944 as part of the United States Army Air Forces's Operation Pancake, which involved some 700 aircraft flying from airfields in the Province of Foggia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Dovizioso
Andrea Dovizioso (born 23 March 1986) is an Italian former professional motorcycle racer. He raced with WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team for the 2022 season but announced his intended-retirement after the Misano round in September. Dovizioso was the 125cc World Champion, but is best known for his time with the Ducati Team in the MotoGP class, finishing championship runner-up to Marc Márquez for three consecutive seasons in , and . Dovizioso is one of the most successful modern MotoGP riders with 15 victories and 62 podiums. Dovizioso first came to prominence by winning the 125 cc World Championship in . He then finished third in the 250 cc World Championship in and was twice a runner-up to Jorge Lorenzo in and . He made his debut in MotoGP in 2008 and immediately finished 5th in the standings as the top satellite rider earning a move to the Factory Honda team in 2009. In his three seasons with Repsol Honda, he scored 15 podiums, including a maiden MotoGP win at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dani Pedrosa
Daniel Pedrosa Ramal (born 29 September 1985) is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Grand Prix motorcycle racer who retired from regular competition after the season. He grew up in Castellar del Vallès, a village near Sabadell. He is a three-time World Champion being the List of 125cc/Moto3 Motorcycle World Champions, 125cc world champion in 2003 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, 2003, List of 250cc/Moto2 Motorcycle World Champions, 250cc world champion in 2004 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, 2004, the youngest ever to win it and repeated it in 2005 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, 2005. Pedrosa is a test and development rider for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing. In 2021, he returned to race for KTM as a Wild card (sports)#Motorcycle racing, wildcard rider in Austria at the 2021 Styrian motorcycle Grand Prix, Styrian Grand Prix. In addition to his testing duties with KTM, Pedrosa also competes in Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe, driving for FFF Racing Team. Pedr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Márquez
Marc Márquez Alentà (born 17 February 1993) is a Spanish professional Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Grand Prix motorcycle road racing, road racer, who has raced for Honda Racing Corporation, Honda's Repsol Honda, factory team since his MotoGP debut in 2013. Born in Cervera, Catalonia, Spain, he is nicknamed the 'Ant of Cervera' worldwide (due to his height of 1.68m), and 'el tro de Cervera' in his hometown, meaning the 'Thunder of Cervera'. He is one of four riders to have won world championship titles in three different categories, after Mike Hailwood, Phil Read and Valentino Rossi, and is one of the most successful List of Grand Prix motorcycle racers: R, motorcycle racers of all time, with eight List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World champions, Grand Prix World Championships to his name, six of which are in the premier class. Márquez became the third Spaniard after Àlex Crivillé and Jorge Lorenzo to win the premier class title, and is the most successful Spanish rider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pol Espargaró
Pol Espargaró Villà (born 10 June 1991) is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer who for 2023 will ride in the MotoGP class for the newly named GasGas Factory Racing team, a development of Tech3. He previously spent two years with Repsol Honda. Pol is the younger brother of fellow MotoGP rider Aleix Espargaró, and is best known for winning the 2013 Moto2 World Championship. This earned him a move to Monster Yamaha Tech3 in 2014 but had 3 largely unsuccessful seasons failing to score a single podium. He won the Suzuka 8 Hours in 2015 with Bradley Smith and Katsuyuki Nakasuga, and in 2016 with Nakasuga and Alex Lowes. He is the first rider to finish on the podium riding a KTM motorcycle in MotoGP. Career 125cc World Championship Youngest rider to score a championship point (2006) Born in Granollers, Barcelona, Espargaró, arrived in the 125cc World Championship in participating in the last six races of the year. This rider from replaced the injured Andrea Iannone at Cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loris Baz
Loris Baz (born 1 February 1993) is a French motorcycle racer. He is competing for satellite BMW team Bonovo in the 2022 Superbike World Championship, together with Eugene Laverty. Baz has previously competed in World Superbikes for Ten Kate Racing, the MotoGP series, the FIM Superstock 1000 Championship, the British Superbike Championship and the European Superstock 600 Championship, where he won in 2008. Career Superbike World Championship (2012–2014) Kawasaki Racing Team confirmed Baz for the 2013 Superbike World Championship season. MotoGP World Championship (2015–2018) On 4 October 2014, it was announced that Baz would move into MotoGP, with Forward Racing. At Misano in September, Baz achieved his best result with 4th place in changeable conditions. Baz finished his début season with 28 points, and was 17th in the final championship standings. For the and seasons, Baz rode with the Avintia Racing team. He made a one-off appearance at the 2018 British GP, repl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
