Igor Jerman

Igor Jerman in Oschersleben 2014, on a Yamaha

Igor Jerman (born July 12, 1975 in Ljubljana ) is a Slovenian motorcycle racer .

Career

Between 1996 and 2000, Igor Jerman competed for the private Bertocci team on a Kawasaki in the Superbike World Championship . His best World Cup placement was 14th in the 1999 season .

From 1998 Igor Jerman also competed in the World Endurance Championship , where he went down in history as the youngest Le Mans winner in 1998 . In 2002 he became world champion for the first time with the Chinese Zongshen team on Suzuki . In 2004 he switched to the Austrian Yamaha Austria Racing Team (YART), with which he won the Le Mans 24-hour motorcycle race for the second time on a Yamaha eleven years after his first Le Mans triumph in 2009. He also won his second world title in 2009.

Igor Jerman has won ten Endurance World Championship races to date, six of them for the YART.

successes

• 2002 - World Endurance Champion on Suzuki
• 2009 - World endurance champion on a Yamaha
• 10 victories in the endurance world championship

statistics

(Status: end of season 2009)

season	team	Points	Victories	Poles	Nice Round	World Cup rank	Teammates	Races won
1998	Kawasaki France	-	1	-		-	Bertrand Sébileau Thierry Paillot	24 hours of Le Mans
2001	Phase One	-	1	-		4th	Olivier Ulmann Peter Lindén	24 hours from Oschersleben
2002	ZongShen	127	2	-		1.	Warwick Nowland Stéphane Mertens Bruno Bonhuil	200 miles from Assen 12 hours from Albacete
2006	YART	150	1	-	1	2.	Gwen Giabbani Sebastien Scarnato	8 hours of Suzuka (Superbike class)
2008	YART	95	1	-	1	2.	Steve Martin Gwen Giabbani Steve Plater	8 hours from Doha
2009	YART	145	4th	1	3	1.	Steve Martin Gwen Giabbani	24 hours of Le Mans 8 hours of Oschersleben 8 hours of Albacete 8 hours of Doha

Web links

• Official website of the YART team
• Igor Jerman on the official website of the Superbike and Supersport World Championship