Marco Bezzecchi

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Marco Bezzecchi
Nation: ItalyItaly Italy
Motorcycle world championship
Status: active ( Moto2 )
Start number: 72
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR
65 4th 3 1
World Cup points: 316
Podiums: 12
Status: GP of Styria, 2020
According to class (es):
Moto3 class
First start: 2015 Qatar Grand Prix
Last start: 2018 Valencia Grand Prix
Constructors
2015-2017  KTM ; 2018  KTM
World Cup balance
World Cup third ( 2018 )
Starts Victories Poles SR
40 3 2 -
World Cup points: 234
Podiums: 10
Moto2 class
First start: 2019 Qatar Grand Prix
Last start: 2020 Spanish Grand Prix
Constructors
2019  KTM ; 2020  Kalex
World Cup balance
WM-23. ( 2019 )
Starts Victories Poles SR
25th 1 1 1
World Cup points: 82
Podiums: 2

Marco Bezzecchi (born November 12, 1998 in Rimini ) is an Italian motorcycle racer . He won the Italian Moto3 championship in 2015 .

Career

Marco Bezzecchi started in 2011 in the Europeo Minimoto Open 40 , which was part of the Italian Motorbike Road Championship (CIV), and finished the season in second place. The following year he moved to the Europeo Minimoto Open 50 and won the championship. In 2013 he drove in the Italian PreGP 125 and finished sixth in the annual ranking.

For the 2014 season, Bezzecchi switched to the Moto3 class of the CIV and was runner- up behind Manuel Pagliani . A year later he achieved his greatest success to date, winning the Moto3 championship on a Mahindra MGP3O . At the same time he started in two Moto3 races of the motorcycle world championship .

In 2017 Bezzecchi contested a full season in the Moto3 World Championship and finished it in 23rd place. In 2018 , he was third in the championship on a KTM of the German team Redox Prüstel GP with victories in Argentina , Austria and Japan .

In the 2019 season , Bezzecchi started for the Red Bull KTM Tech 3 team in the Moto2 class of the World Championship and was 23rd in the World Championship with 17 points. For the 2020 season he switched to the VR46 team. At the Styrian Grand Prix , the Italian achieved his first Moto2 victory on the 25th attempt. After six races, Bezzecchi is in fifth place overall.

statistics

(Status: Grand Prix of Styria 2020)

season class team motorcycle run Victories Podiums Poles Nice Race laps Points position
2015 Moto3 San Carlo Team Italia Mahindra 2 - - - - 0 -
Minimoto Portomaggiore
2016 Moto3 Mahindra Racing Mahindra 2 - - - - 0 -
2017 Moto3 CIP green power Mahindra 18th - 1 - - 20th 23.
2018 Moto3 Redox Prüstel GP KTM 18th 3 9 2 - 214 3.
2019 Moto2 Red Bull KTM Tech 3 KTM 19th - - - - 17th 23.
2020 Moto2 SKY Racing Team VR46 Kalex 6th 1 2 1 1 65 5.
total 65 4th 12 3 1 316

Web links

  • Marco Bezzecchi on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bezzecchi trionfa al Mugello Suo il titolo italiano Moto3. La Gazzetta dello Sport , October 11, 2015, accessed January 5, 2016 (Italian).
  2. ^ A b Marco Bezzecchi: CIV master with Mahindra Peugeot. www.speedweek.com, October 14, 2015, accessed April 12, 2019 .
  3. a b Team Italia - website: Pilota: Marco Bezzecchi. www.teamitaliafmi.com, accessed April 12, 2019 (Italian).
  4. VR46-Junior Marco Bezzecchi: "I get a lot of tips from Rossi". www.motorsport-total.com, February 21, 2019, accessed April 12, 2019 .