Mick Doohan

Mick Doohan

Nation:	Australia
Motorcycle world championship
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR 137 54 58 46
World title:	5
World Cup points:	2283
Podiums:	95
According to class (es): 500 cc class First start: 1989 Japanese Grand Prix Last start: 1999 Japanese Grand Prix Constructors 1989-1999  Honda World Cup balance World Champion ( 1994 , 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 1998 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 137 54 58 46 World Cup points: 2283 Podiums: 95
Superbike World Championship First start:  Sugo (Run 1) 1988 Last start:  Oran Park (Run 2) 1998 statistics Constructors 1988  Yamaha World Cup balance World Cup twelfth ( 1988 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 4th 3 1 1 World Cup points: 30th Podiums: 3

Michael "Mick" Doohan (born June 4, 1965 in Brisbane ) is a former Australian motorcycle racer and five-time world champion in the 500 cc class of the motorcycle world championship .

Career

Beginnings

In 1974, Mick Doohan first sat on a motorcycle, following his older brother Col, at the age of nine. In the late 1980s he demonstrated his talent in the Australian and Japanese Superbike championships and in the 1988 season also in the newly created Superbike World Championship . In 1989 he made his debut in the motorcycle world championship on a 500cc factory machine as a teammate of world champions Wayne Gardner and Eddie Lawson . After finishing ninth in his debut year, he steadily improved and finished his second season in third place. In the same season he won his first race on the Hungaroring at the Hungarian Grand Prix .

1992 looked like it was going to be Doohan's year. He won five of the first seven races and was already leading the championship by 53 points. At the eighth race of the season in Assen , the Netherlands , he fell so badly in qualifying that he broke his right leg and the season was over for him. He only gave up his world championship lead in the last race and was runner-up, four points behind. In the following season he started with a considerable lack of fitness and was only able to build on his old achievements in the second half of the season. The bottom line was that it was enough for fourth place in the world championship.

Five world championships in a row

In the 1994 season Mick Doohan won nine out of 14 races and was world champion in the 500 cc class for the first time in his career. In the following year he managed to defend his title and in 1996 he won his third world title in a row, standing on the podium twelve times in 15 races. In 1997 he won his fourth title in a row, which only Giacomo Agostini and Mike Hailwood had previously achieved. In 1998 he finally won his fifth title in a row.

Career end

1999 started the season with a fourth and a second place only mediocre for his standards. In training for the third round of the season on the Circuito de Jerez in Spain , he fell in turn four at around 200 km / h and broke his right leg again, which was already damaged. Two plates were inserted and twelve screws were screwed into his leg. He announced his resignation before the end of the season.

With 137 starts in the motorcycle world championship, Mick Doohan achieved 54 wins, 95 podium places, 58 pole positions and 46 fastest race laps . In 2000 he became the first ever rider to be inducted into the MotoGP Hall of Fame .

From 2000 to 2004 he was the team manager of the Honda Racing Corporation (HRC). Among other things, he was involved in signing the Italian Valentino Rossi, his potential driving successor.

statistics

title

• 1991 - Winner of the 8 Hours of Suzuka with Wayne Gardner on a Honda
• 1994 - 500 cc world champion on a Honda
• 1995 - 500 cc world champion on a Honda
• 1996 - 500 cc world champion on a Honda
• 1997 - 500 cc world champion on a Honda
• 1998 - 500 cc world champion on a Honda
• 54 Grand Prix victories
• Induction into the MotoGP Hall of Fame

In the motorcycle world championship

season	class	motorcycle	run	Victories	Podiums	Poles	Points	Result
1989	500 cc	Honda	12	0	1	0	81	9.
1990	500 cc	Honda	15th	1	5	3	179	3.
1991	500 cc	Honda	15th	3	14th	2	224	2.
1992	500 cc	Honda	9	5	7th	6th	136	2.
1993	500 cc	Honda	13	1	6th	4th	156	4th
1994	500 cc	Honda	14th	9	14th	6th	317	World Champion
1995	500 cc	Honda	13	7th	10	9	248	World Champion
1996	500 cc	Honda	15th	8th	12	8th	309	World Champion
1997	500 cc	Honda	15th	12	14th	12	340	World Champion
1998	500 cc	Honda	14th	8th	11	8th	260	World Champion
1999	500 cc	Honda	2	0	1	0	33	17th
total			137	54	95	58	2283	5 world titles

In the Superbike World Championship

season	motorcycle	run	Victories	Podiums	Poles	Nice Race laps	Points	position
1988	Yamaha	4th	3	3	1	1	30th	12.
total		4th	3	3	1	1	30th

Web links

Commons : Mick Doohan  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Mick Doohan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mick Doohan on the motorcycle world championship official website.
• Mick Doohan on the official website of the Superbike and Supersport World Championship