Miguel Oliveira (racing driver)

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Miguel Oliveira after his victory in Sepang (2017)

Miguel Ângelo Falcão de Oliveira (born January 4, 1995 in Almada ) is a Portuguese motorcycle racer .

Career

Miguel Oliveira gained his first international racing experience in 2008 in the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup , which he completed with victories in Donington and Assen in twelfth place overall. In 2009 and 2010 he competed in the 125 cc class of the Spanish championship . In the first year Oliveira was third overall behind Alberto Moncayo and Maverick Viñales . In 2010, after four wins in seven races, he finished two points behind Viñales in second place. He also finished second behind Maverick Viñales in the season's EM round at the Circuito de Albacete .

Oliveira 2011 on Aprilia

In 2011 , Miguel Oliveira made his debut on an Aprilia for the Andalucia Banca Civica team in the 125 cc class of the motorcycle world championship . From the 2012 season , the 125-cc class was organized by the Moto3 replaced class, on one of the Oliveira Suter - Honda for Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 participated. This season, at the Catalonia Grand Prix in Barcelona, ​​he achieved his first podium finish in the motorcycle world championship with third place and eighth place overall.

In the seasons 2013 and 2014 Oliveira occurred Mahindra for the factory team Mahindra Racing at. In 2013, he achieved his first pole position at the Dutch TT in Assen and his first fastest race lap in the motorcycle world championship. He finished the season with 150 points in sixth place in the World Cup. In 2014 he was tenth overall.

Oliveira 2015 on KTM

Miguel Oliveira had his most successful season in the Moto3 class in 2015 on a KTM for the Red Bull KTM Ajo team . On May 31st of that year he had his first Grand Prix victory at the Italian Grand Prix in Mugello and also the first ever victory for a Portuguese at a World Championship Grand Prix. After further victories at the Dutch TT, in Aragon , Australia , Malaysia and Valencia , he finished second in the overall standings with 254 points behind Briton Danny Kent (Honda).

For the 2016 season, Oliveira switched to the Moto2 class and competed on a Kalex for the Leopard Racing team and, suffering from injuries, only achieved 21st place in the World Championship standings. For his second Moto2 season in 2017 Oliveira switched back to the KTM works team Red Bull KTM Ajo , which was new to this class. Especially in the last third of the season the completely new machine proved to be more and more competitive. Oliveira took three wins in the last three races of the season, two of them even ahead of his teammate Brad Binder . Behind the Italian Franco Morbidelli and Thomas Lüthi from Switzerland (both Kalex) he achieved third place in the overall ranking. He was also successful in the 2018 season , becoming runner-up in the overall standings just nine points behind Francesco Bagnaia . Oliveira has been on the podium twelve times this season, winning the races in Italy , the Czech Republic and the last one in Valencia .

Since the 2019 season he has continued to ride a KTM in the MotoGP class for Red Bull KTM Tech 3 , alongside Hafizh Syahrin in 2019 , while his team-mate in 2020 is Iker Lecuona . At the Styrian Grand Prix 2020 Oliveira achieved his first victory in the MotoGP class. On the final lap of the race, he drove into the last corner in third place behind Jack Miller ( Ducati ) and KTM works driver Pol Espargaró . Miller and Espargaró went way out in the battle for victory, Oliveira chose the faster inside line, overtook both and won the race. This victory was the first ever for a Portuguese in the premier class, which has existed since 1949 , and also the first for the Tech 3 team, which has been active in the top class since 2001.

In 2021 Oliveira will join the KTM factory team as the successor to Pol Espargaró. His teammate will be his former Moto2 and Moto3 teammate Brad Binder .

statistics

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In the motorcycle world championship

(Status: Grand Prix of Styria 2020)

season class motorcycle run Victories Podiums Poles Nice Race laps Points Result
2011 125 cc Aprilia 11 - - - - 44 14th
2012 Moto3 Suter - Honda 17th - 2 - - 114 8th.
2013 Moto3 Mahindra 17th - 1 1 3 150 6th
2014 Moto3 Mahindra 18th - 1 - - 110 10.
2015 Moto3 KTM 17th 6th 9 1 3 254 2.
2016 Moto2 Kalex 14th - - - - 36 21st
2017 Moto2 KTM 18th 3 9 2 3 241 3.
2018 Moto2 KTM 18th 3 12 - 1 297 2.
2019 MotoGP KTM 16 - - - - 33 17th
2020 MotoGP KTM 5 1 1 - - 43 9.
total 148 13 34 4th 10 1322
Grand Prix victories

(Status: Grand Prix of Styria 2020)

season class run
2015 Moto3 ItalyItaly NetherlandsNetherlands AragonAragon AustraliaAustralia MalaysiaMalaysia ValenciaValencia
2017 Moto2 AustraliaAustralia MalaysiaMalaysia ValenciaValencia
2018 Moto2 ItalyItaly Czech RepublicCzech Republic ValenciaValencia
2020 MotoGP StyriaStyria

References

Web links

Commons : Miguel Oliveira  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Miguel Oliveira on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CLASIFICACIÓN GENERAL 125GP CEV BUCKLER 2009. (PDF) www.fimcevrepsol.com, accessed on December 26, 2017 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ revisada 125GP CEV. (PDF) www.fimcevrepsol.com, November 21, 2010, accessed December 26, 2017 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Vincent Glon: CHAMPIONNAT D'EUROPE DE VITESSE MOTO. racingmemo.free.fr, accessed on December 26, 2017 (French).
  4. ^ Moto3, Mugello: vince Oliveira, Fenati terzo. Corriere dello Sport , May 31, 2015, accessed December 26, 2017 (Italian).
  5. ↑ Mario Fritzsche: "Simply pure racing": Miguel Oliveira celebrates his first MotoGP victory. www.motorsport-total.com, August 23, 2020, accessed on August 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Oliveira, Miguel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oliveira, Miguel Ângelo Falcão de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese motorcycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Almada , Portugal