Ever day and in the next few weeksI will post every day about 2 riders, one from MotoGP and one from WSBK.
About each rider I will go over his raiding career, successes and failures, facts and rumors, to help you all to get to know the grid better.
I will go by teams
And the first team is Ducati
WSBK
Michel Fabrizio #84
(from Ducati.com)
Name Michel
Surname Fabrizio
Date of birth 17 September 1984
Place of birth Frascati Rm
Nattionallity Italian
Age 23
Hair Dark brown
Occhi Brown
Hobbies Motorcycles, Cinema
Race class Superbike
Number 84
Team Ducati Xerox Team
Bike Ducati 1098
Year Championship Races Wins Podium Position
2007 Superbike 25 - 1 11°
2006 Superbike 24 - 3 11°
2005 SuperSport 12 - 5 5°
2004 SuperSport 2 - - 27°
2004 SuperStock - - - -
2003 SuperStock 9 5 4 1°
2002 Motomondiale 125 Gp - - -
From Wiki
Early years
Born in Rome, Fabrizio first raced in Minimoto at the age of 6, winning several titles before reaching his teens. He won the Aprilia Challenge in 2001, and raced in the 125 cc World Championship for Gilera in 2002, with little success.
In 2004 he made his first appearance in MotoGP, with the WCM team, failing to complete the season and finishing the season 22nd cc-gp.htm.
In 2005 he raced in the Supersport World Championship, on a factory Honda. He was 5th overall, with 9 top 5 results in the 12 races, although without a win.
Superbike World Championship
For 2006 Fabrizio was teamed with the veteran Pierfrancesco Chili on privateer Honda machinery. He started his career with 5th and 8th at Qatar. He stood in for Toni Elías on MotoGP Fortuna Honda at Donington Park, but crashed in practice and broke his collarbone. He replaced the injured Elias again for the same team in the 2007 German Grand Prix at Sachsenring on July 15, 2007.
At Brno in the 2006 Superbike World Championship, he started 10th, but chose hard-compound tyres, which remained on the pace as other riders faded. In the first race he passed a fading Andrew Pitt as well as Fonsi Nieto, Troy Corser and Noriyuki Haga in the closing laps to score his first Superbike World Championship podium finish. In race 2 he fared even better - after passing James Toseland for 4th towards the end, he caught the battle for 2nd between Haga and Corser. As Corser attempted a move, Fabrizio dived down the inside of both, slithering and nearly hitting Haga, before edging ahead of them both to the line, immediately improving on his career-best result with a 2nd. His best results of 2007 were two third places, at Assen and Brno. In both seasons he was 11th overall.
In 2008 he raced alongside Troy Bayliss for Ducati Xerox Team on the new Ducati 1098. He came third in race 1 at Philip Island, Australia, despite a huge crash at the original start. At Miller Motorsports Park (on his first ever visit to the USA for any reason) he qualified on the front row and took a pair of 3rd places, despite dropping to 11th on lap 1 of race 1. He had a double-DNF at Assen, shortly before an arm operation, and lay 8th overall after 6 rounds.
For 2009, he'll stay on Ducati Xerox partnering Noriyuki Haga after Bayliss' retirement.
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