Álvaro Bautista

Álvaro Bautista

Nation:	Spain
Motorcycle world championship
Status:	active ( MotoGP )
Start number:	19th
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR 274 16 18th 22nd
World title:	1
World Cup points:	2071
Podiums:	49
Status: end of season 2018
According to class (es): 125 cc class First start: 2002 Spanish Grand Prix Last start: 2006 Valencia Grand Prix Constructors 2002-2004, 2006  Aprilia  • 2005  Honda World Cup balance World Champion ( 2006 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 67 8th 8th 9 World Cup points: 545 Podiums: 18th 250 cc class First start: 2007 Qatar Grand Prix Last start: 2009 Valencia Grand Prix Constructors 2007-2009  Aprilia World Cup balance Vice World Champion ( 2008 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 49 8th 9 12 World Cup points: 643 Podiums: 28 MotoGP class First start: 2010 Qatar Grand Prix Constructors 2010–2011  Suzuki  • 2012–2014  Honda  • 2015–2016  Aprilia  • 2017  Ducati World Cup balance World Cup fifth ( 2012 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 158 - 1 1 World Cup points: 883 Podiums: 3

Álvaro Bautista Arce (born November 21, 1984 in Talavera de la Reina ) is a Spanish motorcycle racer .

In the 2006 season he was world champion in the 125 cc class of the motorcycle world championship . Bautista is currently competing in the Superbike World Championship .

Career

Bautista's start number 19

Early years

Álvaro Bautista gained his first experience on two wheels at the age of three on minibikes , with which he was also able to celebrate his first successes.

In 1997 he got into the Aprilia 50 cc -Cup to which he finished in sixth place overall. The following year he achieved third place in this racing series behind Jorge Lorenzo and Joan Olivé .

For 1999 he was selected from 400 pilots by Alberto Puig to contest the Copa Movistar , which he finished fifth.

In the following years he competed in the Spanish 125 cc championship . In 2002 he completed his first race in the motorcycle world championship as a wildcard rider in this class at the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez .

125 cc class

The 2003 season was his first as a regular rider in the motorcycle world championship. Bautista drove an Aprilia in the team of the football star Clarence Seedorf , but was able to achieve 20th place in the overall standings with 31 points from 16 races. In the Spanish 125 cc championship, which he contested in parallel, he was still able to celebrate the championship title.

In 2004 he continued to drive in the Seedorf team; his teammate this season was his compatriot Héctor Barberá . With a second place at the Grand Prix of Great Britain in Donington Park and three third places, he was able to achieve seventh place in the overall standings.

For the 2005 season , his team then switched from Aprilia to Honda . Although the Swiss Thomas Lüthi was able to celebrate the world championship title this season with this make, Bautista absolutely couldn't get on with the Honda and was unable to build on the successes of the previous season. With 47 points he was only 15th in the World Cup.

Therefore, Bautista decided to switch to the Master - MVA Aspar team of the former world champion Jorge Martínez for the 2006 season , where he could ride an Aprilia again. At the first race of the season in Jerez, he was able to celebrate his first victory immediately. Bautista dominated the entire season, finished on the podium in 14 of 16 races and scored points in every race. With eight wins and 338 points, he ultimately became the superior world champion in the 125 cc class. At the end of the season he was 76 points ahead of the World Cup runner-up, the Finn Mika Kallio .

Bautista 2008 on Aprilia

250 cc class

For the 2007 season, Álvaro Bautista joined Jorge Martínez's team in the 250 cc class, where he piloted an Aprilia factory machine. His teammate was Alex De Angelis from San Marino . He got used to the bigger machine very quickly and was able to take second place behind Jorge Lorenzo in the second race, his home Grand Prix in Jerez . With victories in Italy and Portugal and a total of seven podium finishes, Bautista achieved fourth place in the World Cup and was named Rookie of the Year in the 250cc class. The Spaniard went into the 2008 season as a favorite for the title. After a win in Estoril, he crashed while in the lead in China and Italy. After three more victories in the season, the Spaniard came in second behind Gilera pilot Marco Simoncelli in the final . After the 2009 season , which Bautista finished with two wins and fourth place, he was promoted to the MotoGP class.

Bautista at the Dutch TT 2010 on Suzuki

Bautista after winning Japan in 2009

MotoGP class

Bautista signed with the Rizla - Suzuki factory team for 2010 , where he competed with Loris Capirossi . He achieved his best result in fifth at his home race, the Grand Prix of Catalonia . At the end of the year he had 85 points and 13th place to book. In 2011 , Bautista stayed with Suzuki, where only one machine was used for financial reasons. The Spaniard missed the first two races due to an injury and had physical problems after that. So he did not get beyond two sixth places as the best placement. Bautista finished the year with 67 points and 13th place.

Since 2012 Alvaro Bautista starts for the team of Fausto Gresini at Honda RC213V . In the first year he was fifth overall, and in 2013 the Spaniard finished sixth in the World Cup. In 2014 Bautista competed for Gresini on a Honda in the MotoGP class, then in 2015 in the Aprilia factory team. His teammate in the first half of the season was Marco Melandri , who was replaced by German Stefan Bradl after his dismissal for the second half of the season .

statistics

title

• 2003 - Spanish 125cc champion on Aprilia
• 2006 - 125 cc world champion on Aprilia
• 16 Grand Prix victories

In the motorcycle world championship

(Status: end of season 2018)

season	class	motorcycle	run	Victories	Podiums	Poles	Points	Result
2002	125 cc	Aprilia	3	-	-	-	-	-
2003	125 cc	Aprilia	16	-	-	-	31	20th
2004	125 cc	Aprilia	16	-	4th	-	129	7th
2005	125 cc	Honda	16	-	-	-	47	15th
2006	125 cc	Aprilia	16	8th	14th	8th	338	World Champion
2007	250 cc	Aprilia	17th	2	7th	1	181	4th
2008	250 cc	Aprilia	16	4th	11	5	244	2.
2009	250 cc	Aprilia	16	2	10	3	218	4th
2010	MotoGP	Suzuki	17th	-	-	-	85	13.
2011	MotoGP	Suzuki	15th	-	-	-	67	13.
2012	MotoGP	Honda	18th	-	2	1	178	5.
2013	MotoGP	Honda	18th	-	-	-	171	6th
2014	MotoGP	Honda	18th	-	1	-	89	11.
2015	MotoGP	Aprilia	18th	-	-	-	31	16.
2016	MotoGP	Aprilia	18th	-	-	-	82	12.
2017	MotoGP	Ducati	18th	-	-	-	75	12.
2018	MotoGP	Ducati	18th	-	-	-	105	12.
total			274	16	49	18th	2071	1 world title

In the Superbike World Championship

(As of August 10, 2020)

season	team	motorcycle	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	Nice Race laps	Points	position
2019	Aruba.it Racing - Ducati	Ducati Panigale V4 R	36	16	4th	4th	4th	15th	498	2.
2020	Team HRC	Honda CBR1000RR-R	9	-	-	-	-	-	55	7th
total			43	16	4th	4th	4th	15th	553

Web links

Commons : Álvaro Bautista  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (English / Spanish)
• Álvaro Bautista on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Armin Bichler: Stefan Bradl Achter in Barcelona 2015. Stadtsportal.tv, August 3, 2015, accessed on August 3, 2015 .