Niccolò Antonelli

Niccolò Antonelli

Niccolò Antonelli (born February 23, 1996 in Cattolica ) is an Italian motorcycle racer . He has been competing in the Moto3 class of the motorcycle world championship since 2012 .

Career

Early years

Niccolò Antonelli, whose father Igor was already a motorcycle racer, began his career in 2004 in a mini-moto series. In the following year he became the European Minimoto Champion in the Junior A category . In 2006 Antonelli was promoted to the Junior B class and won several championships there in 2007, including the worldwide series. In 2008 he became Italian champion in the MiniGP Junior 50 class . In 2009 he started in the Metrakit 125 category of the Catalan and Mediterranean Championships . In the 2010 season , Antonelli took part in the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cuppart and finished it on the eighth place overall. He also finished sixth in the 125 m³ class of the Italian championship . In 2011 he was Italian champion of the eight-liter class and finished fourth in the Spanish 125 cc championship .

Moto3 class

In 2012 Niccolò Antonelli made his debut in the motorcycle world championship . On a Honda in the San Carlo Gresini Moto3 team of Fausto Gresini, he was able to achieve several top ten placings, including fourth place at the French Grand Prix in Le Mans .

The following years 2013 and 2014 were marked by falls and stagnant performances for Antonelli.

In the 2015 season , his fourth in the Moto3 World Championship, Niccolò Antonelli celebrated his first podium and immediately his first victory at the Czech Grand Prix in Brno . After two subsequent third places, he won his second win of the season at the Japanese Grand Prix in Motegi .

After his opening win in Qatar in 2016 , Antonelli was considered one of the title contenders, but was unable to meet these expectations due to falls and insufficient performance and fell back to eleventh place in the World Cup by the end of the season.

For the 2017 season, he switched to the Red Bull KTM Ajo team , where he replaced Brad Binder, who was promoted to the Moto2 class . The season was disappointing, he scored only 38 points, over half of them with a second place in the Australian Grand Prix , and was 18th in the final standings. In the team-internal duel against Bo Bendsneyder , he drew the short straw.

In 2018 he moved to SIC58 Squadra Corse , the public team Paolo Simoncellis, the father of the late Marco Simoncelli and has since been driving alongside the Japanese Tatsuki Suzuki . Although he did not get any podium places in 2018, the season went better than 2017, he scored 71 points and finished the season in 15th place. In 2019 Antonelli achieved his fourth Moto3 victory at the Spanish Grand Prix , which also became a double victory for the team due to a second place from Suzuki. It was the only podium for the Italian this season and he also had to miss four races due to injury, but he finished the season in seventh place with 128 points.

The 2020 season started with Antonelli with another injury (in motocross ), due to which he had to skip the season opener, the Qatar Grand Prix . In the second race of the season in Spain , he returned to the track and finished ninth.

statistics

title

• 2011 - Italian 125cc champion on Aprilia

In the motorcycle world championship

(Status: GP of the Czech Republic 2020)

season	class	team	motorcycle	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	Nice Race laps	Points	position
2012	Moto3	San Carlo Gresini Moto3	Honda	16	-	-	-	-	-	77	14th
2013	Moto3	GO & FUN Gresini Moto3	FTR -Honda	17th	-	-	-	-	-	47	16.
2014	Moto3	GO & FUN Junior Team Moto3	KTM	18th	-	-	-	1	-	68	14th
2015	Moto3	Ongetta-Rivacold	Honda	18th	2	-	2	2	2	174	5.
2016	Moto3	Ongetta-Rivacold	Honda	17th	1	-	-	1	-	91	11.
2017	Moto3	Red Bull KTM Ajo	KTM	16	-	1	-	-	-	38	18th
2018	Moto3	SIC58 Squadra Corse	Honda	16	-	-	-	1	-	71	15th
2019	Moto3	SIC58 Squadra Corse	Honda	15th	1	-	-	3	2	128	7th
2020	Moto3	SIC58 Squadra Corse	Honda	5	-	-	-	-	-	21st	14th
total				138	4th	1	2	8th	4th	715

References

Web links

Commons : Niccolò Antonelli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Niccolò Antonelli on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).
• Official website (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Moto3: Antonelli wins season opener in Qatar. In: eurosport.de. March 20, 2016. Retrieved October 9, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Sebastian Fränzschky: KTM-Ajo 2017: Niccolo Antonelli replaces Brad Binder. In: Motorsport-Total.com. September 14, 2016. Retrieved October 8, 2016 .