Niccolò Canepa (born 14 May 1988 in
Genoa
Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of ...
) is an Italian professional
motorcycle road racer contracted from 2022 to RNF Racing in the
MotoE World Cup aboard an
Energica Ego Corsa. Canepa won the 2007
European Superstock 1000 Championship on a
Ducati, and spent 2008 as a tester of their
MotoGP and
World Superbike machines.
Career
Canepa at the 2009 Italian Grand Prix
Canepa previously competed in the Italian Superstock Championship, the Italian Supersport Championship, and the Superstock 600 UEM European Championship, where he finished runner-up in 2006. He was given three World Superbike
wild card rides in the second half of the season,
[ ] qualifying on the second row for his debut at
Brno, on his first experience of the one-shot "Superpole" system. He raced in MotoGP full-time for Pramac Ducati in 2009 with little success, and made an uncompetitive start in Moto2. He moved back to the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup in 2011, and after a season in the
Superbike World Championship
Superbike World Championship (also known as WorldSBK, SBK, World Superbike, WSB, or WSBK) is a silhouette-class road racing series based on heavily modified production motorcycles, also known as superbike racing.
The championship was founded i ...
in , returned to Superstock 1000 in 2013 and became runner up behind Sylvain Barrier.
Canepa moved in 2016 to the World Endurance Championship riding the Factory GMT94 Yamaha R1. He ended the season in second place.
In 2017 Canepa won the
FIM Endurance World Championship
The Endurance World Championship ( FIM EWC) is the premier worldwide endurance championship in motorcycle road racing. The championship season consists of a series of endurance races (with a duration of six, eight, twelve or twenty-four hours) h ...
(EWC). He is the first Italian in history to win an Endurance World Championship. He is also the Yamaha Superbike Factory Team test rider and replacement rider. He is also coaching Alex Lowes and Michael Van Der Mark during the Superbike World Championship.
Career statistics
Supersport World Championship
By season
Races by year
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
Superbike World Championship
By season
Races by year
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
By season
By class
Races by year
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
Half points awarded as less than two thirds of the race distance (but at least three full laps) was completed.
References
External links
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1988 births
Living people
Italian motorcycle racers
Superbike World Championship riders
Pramac Racing MotoGP riders
Moto2 World Championship riders
FIM Superstock 1000 Cup riders
Sportspeople from Genoa
MotoGP World Championship riders
MotoE World Cup riders
