Andrew Pitt

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Pitt in 2008 on a Ten Kate Honda

Andrew Pitt (born February 19, 1976 in Kempsey , New South Wales , Australia ) is an Australian motorcycle racer .

Career

Andrew Pitt finished second in the Australian Superbike Championship in 1999 and moved to the Supersport World Championship in 2000 , where he became World Champion in 2001 on a Kawasaki . In 2003 he switched to the motorcycle world championship for a less than successful year as part of Kawasaki's MotoGP project . He scored the first World Cup points for his team and finished the season on 26th place in the World Cup. After another year in the Supersport class, he finished seventh on a Yamaha in his first Superbike World Championship season in 2005 . In 2006 Pitt won his first win in this class in Misano and finished fifth in the World Championship. Nevertheless, at the end of the season he lost his place at Yamaha to Troy Corser . 2007 season Pitt entered the MotoGP class as a driver of the new Ilmor SRT X³ , but the team withdrew after the first race of the season due to financial problems.

In 2008 , he drove a Honda CBR 600 RR in the Supersport World Championship for the Dutch Ten Kate team . On August 3, 2008, there was a tragic accident at the World Championship run at Brands Hatch . The 23-year-old Briton Craig Jones fell right in front of Andrew Pitt and was hit in the head by the Australian's front wheel, which could no longer evade. Jones suffered a traumatic brain injury and died a few hours later in a London hospital. This season Pitt won the world championship title in the Supersport World Championship for the second time.

The 2010 season denied Andrew Pitt on a BMW S 1000 RR in the BMW -Kundenteam team riding car BMW in the Superbike World Championship. His teammate was the Austrian Roland Resch . However, the "Reitwagen-BMW" project failed and Pitt switched to the British Superbike at Yamaha in the middle of the season .

successes

year World Cup place Racing series team
2000 10. Supersport World Cup Kawasaki
2001 World Champion Supersport World Cup Kawasaki
2002 5. Supersport World Cup Kawasaki
2003 26th Motorcycle World Championship - MotoGP class Kawasaki
2004 12. Supersport World Cup Yamaha
year World Cup place Racing series team
2005 8th. Superbike World Championship Yamaha
2006 5. Superbike World Championship Yamaha
2007 27. Motorcycle World Championship - MotoGP class Ilmor GP
2008 World Champion Supersport World Cup Honda
2009 6th Supersport World Cup Honda
2010 27. Superbike World Championship Team riding car BMW

Web links

  • Andrew Pitt on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship.
  • Andrew Pitt on the official website of the Superbike and Supersport World Championship

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Ziegler: Pitt joins the Reitwagen team. www.motorsport-total.com, December 16, 2009, accessed on February 21, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Pitt will need boxing gloves for BSB debut . In: crash.net , Crash Media Group, June 23, 2010. 
personal data
SURNAME Pitt, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian motorcycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempsey