Arón Canet

Arón Canet

Arón Canet in 2017 after his victory in Katat

Arón Canet (born September 30, 1999 in Corbera ) is a Spanish motorcycle racer .

He has been competing in the Moto3 class of the motorcycle world championship since 2016 . He rode a Honda for the first three years , but then switched to KTM .

Career

Early years

Before moving to the world championship, Canet competed in the CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship from 2014 to 2015 and finished the 2015 season in third place overall.

Moto3 class

In 2016 Canet made his debut in the Moto3 class of the motorcycle world championship with the Estrella Galicia 0,0 team alongside Jorge Navarro . He achieved his first podium at the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island . In the last race, the Valencia Grand Prix , he achieved his first pole position , but had to start out of the pits due to a technical defect and finished 19th. He finished the season in 15th place.

In 2017 , Canet achieved his first victory in the motorcycle world championship by overtaking Joan Mir and Romano Fenati in the last corner at the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez . That year he won the Dutch TT in Assen and the Grand Prix of Great Britain in Silverstone and was third behind Mir and Fenati. He was able to leave his new team-mate Enea Bastianini , who finished sixth without a win, far behind.

Canet stayed with his team for the 2018 season . Alonso López was a new team-mate after Bastianini joined Leopard Racing. However, Canet won no race this season and finished the season in sixth place in the World Cup, although he had led the World Cup for the first time with two second places in the first two races. Due to bad luck with injuries he had to skip the new Grand Prix of Thailand . He had clearly defeated his new team-mate Alonso López with 128 to 36 points.

For season 2019 left Canet Estrella Galicia 0.0 and switched to Max Biaggi's new Sterilgarda Max Racing Team , where he on KTM took. He was the only driver for the team that year. After finishing third in the first race in Qatar (from pole position) and twelfth in Argentina , the young Spaniard won the Grand Prix of The Americas in Austin , tied with World Cup leader Jaume Masiá , who finished second had more to record. In fifth place at the Spanish Grand Prix , Canet took the championship lead for the first time this season after Masiá fell. Canet came third at the French Grand Prix . He won two more races and was runner-up behind Lorenzo Dalla Porta at the end of the season .

2020 he is in the Moto2 rising class and on a Speed Up for the Aspar team of Jorge Martínez to be launched. At the start of the season, the Qatar Grand Prix , Canet scored his first points in eighth place. The Spaniard finished the Spanish Grand Prix in fifth place after having been second for a long time. After two races, Canet is sixth in the World Championship.

statistics

In the motorcycle world championship

(Status: GP of Austria 2020)

season	class	team	motorcycle	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	Nice Race laps	Points	position
2016	Moto3	Estrella Galicia 0.0	Honda	18th	-	-	1	1	2	76	15th
2017	Moto3	Estrella Galicia 0.0	Honda	18th	3	1	1	2	3	199	3.
2018	Moto3	Estrella Galicia 0.0	Honda	17th	-	4th	-	-	4th	128	6th
2019	Moto3	Sterilgarda Max Racing Team	KTM	19th	3	1	3	2	-	200	2.
2020	Moto2	Aspar team	Speed ​​up	5	-	-	-	1	-	43	6th
total				78	6th	6th	5	6th	9	638

Web links

Commons : Arón Canet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Arón Canet on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship.