Julián Simón

Julián Simón 2010

Simón 2011 in Estoril

Julián Simón Sesmero (born April 3, 1987 in Villacañas , Spain ) is a Spanish motorcycle racer .

In the 2011 season he will compete in the Moto2 class of the Motorcycle World Championship in the Mapfre Aspar Team on Suter MMX .

Career

Julián Simón began his motorsport career at the age of two with minicross, at the age of five he switched to motocross , where he became Spanish Junior Champion at the age of ten. At the age of twelve, Simón switched to road racing, in 2000 the Spaniard won the Aprilia Cup in the classes up to 50 and 125  cm³ .

In the 2002 season , Julián Simón made his debut on a Honda at the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez in the 125 cc class of the motorcycle world championship . In the following season , the 167 cm tall Spaniard competed permanently in the 125cc World Championship for the Semprucci-Angaia team on Malaguti , but only achieved points once. In 2004 the Angaia team used Honda motorcycles. Simón got along better and better with the Japanese material as the season progressed and improved continuously, which brought him 14th place in the World Cup with 60 points.

For the 2005 season , Julián Simón was hired by the Austrian manufacturer KTM for the 125cc class and competed in the Red Bull KTM works team alongside Mika Kallio and Gábor Talmácsi . At the British Grand Prix in Donington Park , the Spaniard achieved the first Grand Prix victory of his career in a race characterized by heavy rain. In the overall standings, he finished seventh. In 2006 Simón was consistently in the top ten in the same team and finished ninth in the World Cup.

In 2007 , Julián Simón was promoted to the 250 cc class, where he drove a Honda in Alberto Puig's Repsol Honda team alongside Japanese rider Shūhei Aoyama . Although the Spaniard did not achieve a podium finish, he consistently made it into the top ten and finished ninth overall at the end of the season. In 2008 he formed the KTM factory team in the 250cc class with Mika Kallio and Hiroshi Aoyama . Simón was again unable to set any big exclamation marks, but achieved tenth place in the World Cup with consistent performances.

In the 2009 season , Julián Simón started for the Bancaja Aspar team of four-time world champion Jorge Martínez on an Aprilia factory machine in the 125 cc class. The Spaniard was one of the top drivers from the start; In the 16 races of the season he achieved seven victories with a total of twelve podium finishes. On October 18, 2009, the Spaniard crowned himself world champion in the eight-liter class with a win at the Australian Grand Prix in Phillip Island in the third last race of the season. At the end of the season, Simón had 289 points, 65.5 more points than his worst opponent, his British team-mate Bradley Smith . Simón provided a novelty at the Grand Prix of Catalonia when, while in the lead, he mistakenly celebrated his victory one lap before the end and was thereby passed through to fourth place.

In the 2010 season , Julián Simón and Mike Di Meglio competed for the Aspar team in the newly created Moto2 class, finishing in second place.

In the 2011 season , Julián Simón rides with Jordi Torres for the Mapfre Aspar Moto2 team .

statistics

title

• 2009 - 125 cc world champion on Aprilia
• 2010 - Moto2 vice world champion on RSV / Suter
• 8 Grand Prix victories

In the motorcycle world championship

season	class	motorcycle	run	Victories	Podiums	Poles	Points	Result
2002	125 cc	Honda	4th	-	-	-	2	37.
2003	125 cc	Malaguti	16	-	-	-	4th	29
2004	125 cc	Honda	14th	-	-	-	60	14th
2005	125 cc	KTM	15th	1	1	-	123	7th
2006	125 cc	KTM	13	-	1	-	97	9.
2007	250 cc	Honda	17th	-	-	-	123	9.
2008	250 cc	KTM	16	-	-	-	109	10.
2009	125 cc	Aprilia	16	7th	12	7th	289	World Champion
2010	Moto2	RSV / Suter	17th	-	8th	3	201	2.
2011	Moto2	Suter	10	-	1	-	68	14th
2012	Moto2	FTR / Suter	17th	-	2	-	81	13.
2013	Moto2	Kalex	17th	-	-	-	81	13.
2014	Moto2	Kalex	18th	-	-	-	56	17th
2015	Moto2	Speed ​​up	18th	-	-	-	58	18th
2016	Moto2	Speed ​​up	16	-	1	-	40	18th
2017	Moto2	Kalex	3	-	-	-	-	40.
total			227	8th	26th	10	1392	1 world title

References

Web links

Commons : Julián Simón  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Julián Simón on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roman Witt Meier: mad: Simon cheers too early and lose! www.motorsport-total.com, June 14, 2009, accessed January 9, 2010 . 
2. ↑ Marco Helgert: Aspar is looking forward to Moto2 adventures. www.motorsport-total.com, November 16, 2009, accessed January 9, 2010 .