Mattia Pasini
Mattia Pasini (born August 13, 1985 in Rimini ) is an Italian motorcycle racer .
In the 2012 season he started for the Speed Master team in the MotoGP class of the motorcycle world championship .
Career
Beginnings
Mattia Pasini's interest in motorcycling was inherited from his father Luca, who won the Italian Supermono Championship in 1984. He contested his first race at the age of nine. In 1996 Pasini won the Italian Pocket Bike Championship, beating Andrea Dovizioso , Manuel Poggiali and Alex De Angelis , among others . In 1998 he sustained serious injuries in a motocross accident that forced him not to race for the next two years.
125 cc World Championship
After two successful years in the Italian 125cc championship and the 125cc European championship , he made his debut in the 125cc class of the motorcycle world championship in 2004 . Pasini started on Aprilia for Lucio Cecchinello's Safilo Carrera LCR team , his team mate was the 125cc world champion from 2000 , his compatriot Roberto Locatelli . Pasini regularly reached the points, finished the season in fifteenth place in the world championship and secured the title of Rookie of the Year .
In the following season , Pasini established himself as a top driver in the 125 cc class. He started for the team Totti Top Sport - NGS of soccer players Francesco Totti , again with Aprilia, and could in the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai its first Grand Prix -Sieg celebrate. Three races later, at the Catalonia Grand Prix in Barcelona , his second success followed. With four further podium finishes, Pasini reached fourth place overall in 2005.
For the 2006 season, Mattia Pasini moved to Jorge Martínez's Master MVA Aprilia team . The Italian won his home Grand Prix in Mugello and the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring, as well as four more podiums and fourth place in the world championship.
In the 2007 season , Mattia Pasini competed in the Polaris World Team on one of the newly designed RSA April factory machines and was one of the World Cup favorites after setting the best times in the preseason tests. The Italian was unlucky in the first half of the season. He retired several times while in the lead due to technical defects on his motorcycle, which ruined his title chances early on. In the second half of the season, Pasini celebrated four victories and reached fifth place in the World Cup.
250 cm world championship
For the 2008 season Mattia Pasini rose to the 250cc class with the Polaris World Team. On the road again on Aprilia factory equipment, the Italian achieved his first victory in this class in the first race, the Grand Prix of Qatar in Losail .
Moto2 World Championship
Pasini has been riding various motorcycles in the Moto2 class since 2010. In 2017 he won the Italian Grand Prix , this season he achieved his best placement with sixth place in the overall standings. In 2018 he won in Argentina , took pole three times and finished ninth in the world championship.
Pasini did not receive a contract for 2019 , but started at the Grand Prix of The Americas on a Kalex used by Sito Pons ' team instead of the injured Augusto Fernández and finished fourth. The Spanish Grand Prix will also be a substitute driver for an injured driver, this time at Ángel Nieto Racing on a KTM for Jake Dixon .
MotoGP class
In 2012 Mattia Pasini drove in the MotoGP class in the Speed Master team on ART .
statistics
title
- 1996 - pocket bike champion
- 12 Grand Prix victories
In the motorcycle world championship
(Status: end of season 2018)
| season | class | motorcycle | run | Victories | Podiums | Poles | Points | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 125 cc | Aprilia | 16 | - | - | - | 54 | 15th |
| 2005 | 125 cc | Aprilia | 15th | 2 | 6th | - | 183 | 4th |
| 2006 | 125 cc | Aprilia | 16 | 2 | 6th | 2 | 192 | 4th |
| 2007 | 125 cc | Aprilia | 17th | 4th | 5 | 9 | 174 | 5. |
| 2008 | 250 cc | Aprilia | 16 | 1 | 4th | - | 132 | 8th. |
| 2009 | 250 cc | Aprilia | 16 | 1 | 5 | - | 128 | 5. |
| 2010 | Moto2 | Motobi / Suter | 8th | - | - | - | 12 | 28. |
| 2011 | Moto2 | FTR | 17th | - | - | - | 28 | 24. |
| 2012 | MotoGP | ART | 14th | - | - | - | 13 | 22nd |
| Moto2 | FTR | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 2013 | Moto2 | Speed up | 17th | - | - | - | 58 | 15th |
| 2014 | Moto2 | Kalex | 17th | - | - | - | 35 | 21st |
| 2015 | Moto2 | Kalex | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2016 | Moto2 | Kalex | 18th | - | - | - | 72 | 11. |
| 2017 | Moto2 | Kalex | 18th | 1 | 3 | 5 | 148 | 6th |
| 2018 | Moto2 | Kalex | 18th | 1 | 1 | 3 | 141 | 9. |
| total | 226 | 12 | 30th | 19th | 1370 | |||
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Mattia Pasini on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pasini, Mattia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian motorcycle racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rimini , Emilia-Romagna , Italy |