Niccolò Canepa (born 14 May 1988 in

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) is a former 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

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and

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machines.

Career

Canepa at the 2009 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix, 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 (sports), wild card rides in the second half of the season, qualifying on the second row for his debut at

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, 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

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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 (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. Canepa retired from racing after the Italian Round of the 2024 Superbike World Championship. He initially announced his retirement before the 2024 Bol d'Or race, however he was called to race for the factory Yamaha team in Cremona, substituting for Jonathan Rea.

Career statistics

Career highlights

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

- NC, Superstock European Championship, Kawasaki ZX-10R *

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

- 4th, European Superstock 600 Championship, Kawasaki ZX-6R * 2006 - 2nd, European Superstock 600 Championship, Ducati 749R * 2007 - 1st, FIM Superstock 1000 Cup, Ducati 1098 S *

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

- 5th, FIM Superstock 1000 Cup, Kawasaki ZX-10R, Ducati 1098R *

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

- 2nd, FIM Superstock 1000 Cup, Ducati 1098 *

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

- 19th, FIM Superstock 1000 Cup, Yamaha YZF-R1

Supersport World Championship

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Superbike World Championship

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Grand Prix motorcycle racing

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FIM EWC

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Spa 24 Hours Motos results

CIV National Championship

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Canepa, Niccolo 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