Marco Melandri

Marco Melandri

Nation:	Italy
Motorcycle world championship
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR 215 22nd 9 16
World Cup points:	2096
Podiums:	62
According to class (es): 125 cc class First start: Czech Grand Prix 1997 Last start: 1999 Argentina Grand Prix Constructors 1997-1999  Honda World Cup balance Vice World Champion ( 1999 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 29 7th 6th 5 World Cup points: 428 Podiums: 17th 250 cc class First start: San Marino Grand Prix 2000 Last start: 2002 Valencia Grand Prix Constructors 2000-2002  Aprilia World Cup balance World Champion ( 2002 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 47 10 3 8th World Cup points: 651 Podiums: 25th MotoGP class First start: 2003 Spanish Grand Prix Last start: Dutch TT 2015 Constructors 2003-2004  Yamaha  • 2005-2007, 2010  Honda  • 2008  Ducati  • 2009  Kawasaki  • 2015  Aprilia World Cup balance Vice World Champion ( 2005 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 139 5 - 3 World Cup points: 1017 Podiums: 20th
Superbike World Championship Status: active First start:  Phillip Island (Run 1) 2011 Start number: 33 statistics Constructors 2011  Yamaha  • 2012–2013  BMW  • 2014  Aprilia  • 2017–2018  Ducati World Cup balance Vice World Champion ( 2011 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 153 22nd 4th 21st World Cup points: 2039.5 Podiums: 72 Status: end of season 2018

Marco Melandri in Phillip Island , 2007

Marco Melandri (born August 7, 1982 in Ravenna , Emilia-Romagna , Italy ) is a former Italian motorcycle racer .

In 2002 he was world champion in the 250 cm³ class of the motorcycle world championship on Aprilia . From 2011 to 2014 he was active in the FIM - Superbike World Championship .

Career

Motorcycle world championship

Marco Melandri started in 1997 for the first time in the 125 cm³ class of the motorcycle world championship and won the Dutch TT in his debut season . In the 2002 season , Melandri won the world championship title in the 250 cc class on Aprilia at the age of 20 as the youngest driver in history at the time.

For the 2003 season he moved to Yamaha in the MotoGP class . In the first race of the season he broke his leg in a serious accident and was out for a few runs. The following season was not very successful either.

Melandri started the 2005 season for the team of former world champion Fausto Gresini on a Honda. He was able to win the last two races of the season and thus secured the runner-up world championship. In the 2006 season he was able to win the Grand Prix in Turkey , France and Australia with the same team and thus secure fourth place in the world championship. In 2007 Marco Melandri also competed for the Gresini team in the MotoGP class and finished the season in fifth place with three podium places.

In the 2008 season , Melandri started for the Ducati factory team , and in the 2009 season he started for Kawasaki after agreeing with Ducati to terminate his two-year contract, which ran until the end of 2009, before the summer break.

In his 215 starts in the motorcycle world championship , Marco Melandri achieved 22 wins , 62 podium places, nine pole positions and 16 fastest race laps .

Superbike World Championship

For the 2011 season Marco Melandri switched to the Yamaha World Superbike Team in the FIM - Superbike World Championship . He started alongside the Irishman Eugene Laverty and replaced Cal Crutchlow , who had switched to Team Tech 3 in the MotoGP class. The Italian achieved four race wins and a total of 15 podium positions in 26 races and was runner-up behind Carlos Checa .

After Yamaha gave up his involvement in the Superbike World Championship at the end of the 2011 season, Melandri joined the 2012 season for BMW - factory team , where he is a driver pairing with the Brits Leon Haslam made. The Italian won six races and was third behind Max Biaggi (Aprilia) and Tom Sykes (Kawasaki). A better ranking prevented a total of six retirements in 25 races. After BMW closed its works team at the end of the season and left official representation in the Superbike World Championship to the Italian BMW importer, Melandri stayed with the manufacturer in 2013 and switched to the BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK team . There he again rode an S 1000 RR alongside Chaz Davies . With fourth place in the World Championship, Melandri was again the best BMW driver.

Marco Melandri was a works driver for Aprilia in 2014 . There he replaced his former Yamaha teammate Eugene Laverty .

After four years in the Superbike World Championship, Melandri should be back in the Motorcycle World Championship for the Aprilia Gresini team from the 2015 season . After only eight races Aprilia ended the cooperation with him by mutual agreement.

At the end of July 2016, the Aruba.it Racing-Ducati team announced that Marco Melandri will replace his compatriot Davide Giugliano from 2017 . He drove alongside Chaz Davies and finished fourth with one win.

In 2018, Melandri won the first two races in Australia, but only finished fifth at the end of the season.

In 2019, the Italian moved to the private GRT Yamaha team and finished ninth in the World Championship with three third places.

statistics

title

• 1997 - Italian 125cc champion on a Honda
• 1999 - 125 cc vice world champion on a Honda
• 2002 - 250 cc world champion on Aprilia
• 2005 - MotoGP Vice World Champion on Honda
• 2011 - Vice World Superbike Champion on a Yamaha
• 22 Grand Prix victories

In the motorcycle world championship

season	class	motorcycle	run	Victories	Podiums	Poles	Points	Result
1997	125 cc	Honda	1	-	-	-	-	-
1998	125 cc	Honda	14th	2	8th	3	202	3.
1999	125 cc	Honda	14th	5	9	3	226	2.
2000	250 cc	Aprilia	16	-	4th	1	159	5.
2001	250 cc	Aprilia	15th	1	9	-	194	3.
2002	250 cc	Aprilia	16	9	12	2	298	World Champion
2003	MotoGP	Yamaha	13	-	-	-	45	15th
2004	MotoGP	Yamaha	15th	-	2	-	75	12.
2005	MotoGP	Honda	17th	2	7th	-	220	2.
2006	MotoGP	Honda	17th	3	7th	-	228	4th
2007	MotoGP	Honda	17th	-	3	-	187	5.
2008	MotoGP	Ducati	18th	-	-	-	51	17th
2009	MotoGP	Kawasaki	17th	-	1	-	108	10.
2010	MotoGP	Honda	17th	-	-	-	103	10.
2015	MotoGP	Aprilia	8th	-	-	-	-	-
total			215	22nd	62	9	2096

Grand Prix victories

1998	125 cc
1999	125 cc
2001	250 cc
2002	250 cc
2005	MotoGP
2006	MotoGP

In the Superbike World Championship

(As of August 10, 2020)

season	team	motorcycle	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	Nice Race laps	Points	position
2011	Yamaha World Superbike Team	Yamaha YZF-R1	26th	4th	7th	4th	1	3	395	2.
2012	BMW Motorrad Motorsport	BMW S 1000 RR	25th	6th	5	-	-	4th	328.5	3.
2013	BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK	BMW S 1000 RR	27	3	5	4th	-	2	359	4th
2014	Aprilia Racing Team	Aprilia RSV4 Factory	24	6th	2	3	-	3	333	4th
2017	Aruba.it Racing - Ducati	Ducati Panigale R	26th	1	3	9	1	4th	327	4th
2018	Aruba.it Racing - Ducati	Ducati Panigale R	25th	2	3	5	2	5	297	5.
2019	GRT Yamaha WorldSBK	Yamaha YZF-R1	36	-	-	3	-	-	177	9.
2020	Barni Racing Team	Ducati Panigale V4R	6th	-	-	-	-	-	17th	13.
total			195	22nd	25th	28	4th	21st	2233.5

References

Web links

Commons : Marco Melandri  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marco Melandri on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).
• Marco Melandri on the official website of the Superbike and Supersport World Championship

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Melandri moves to Kawasaki in 2009 (Motorsport-Total.com on August 19, 2008)
2. ↑ http://www.motogp.com/de/nachrichten/2015/07/08/michael-laverty-ersetzt-melandri/179395
3. ↑ http://www.worldsbk.com/de/nachrichten/2016/Die+Zukunft+von+Ducati+Davies+bleibt+Melandri+kehrt+back