Nicolás Terol

Terol (center) together with Efrén Vázquez (left) and Marc Márquez (right) after his victory in Qatar in 2010

Nicolás Terol Peidro (born September 27, 1988 in Alcoi , Valencia region , Spain ) is a former Spanish motorcycle racer and was the last 125 cc world champion on Aprilia in the history of the motorcycle world championship in the 2011 season . He played most of his career in the Aspar team .

Career

Nicolás Terol started his career on pocket bikes in 1999 , and in 2002 he was runner-up in the Spanish Formula Bancaja series. The following year he finished 16th overall in the 125 cc class of the Spanish motorcycle championship. In 2004 he graduated fourth. In the same year the Spaniard made his debut in the motorcycle world championship on an Aprilia as a substitute for Mike Di Meglio at the eight-liter Grand Prix of Valencia .

Terol 2007 on Valsir-Seedorf-Derbi

In 2005 Terol started for Caja Madrid - Derbi Racing on a Derbi for the first time as a fixed starter in the 125cc World Championship. However, the Spaniard only scored one World Championship point and was 35th overall. In the following year , Terol rose to constant places in the World Cup points and thus to 14th place in the World Cup in the second half of the season. In the 2007 season , his third on Derbi, Nicolás Terol and the Czech Lukáš Pešek formed the Valsir-Seedorf-Derbi team, which was supported by the Dutch soccer star Clarence Seedorf . However, he did not manage to consistently reach the points and was 22nd in the World Cup with 19 points.

For the 2008 season, Terol switched to the Jack & Jones WRB team , where he competed on Aprilia alongside the Italian Simone Corsi . At the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez , he achieved his first podium finish in the 125cc World Championship with second place behind his team-mate. Later, at the Indianapolis Grand Prix in the USA, she even won her first Grand Prix. In 2008 Terol was fifth in the World Championship with 176 points. In 2009 the Spaniard won the Czech Grand Prix in Brno in the same team and celebrated three second places. In the overall standings, he climbed to third place. His deficit on world champion Julián Simón was still 99.5 points at the end of the season.

Terol 2010 in Assen

For the 2010 season, Nicolás Terol moved to the Aspar team of four-time world champion Jorge Martínez , in which Simón had won the title last year. The Spaniard won the opening Grand Prix in Qatar on Aprilia and again in the Czech Republic and Indianapolis. After 16 races so far, of which he has only contested 14 due to an injury, he has only failed to make it onto the podium twice and is up against his compatriots Marc Márquez and Pol Espargaró head-to-head for the world title.

statistics

successes

• 2010 - 125 cc vice world champion on Aprilia
• 2011 - 125 cc world champion on Aprilia
• 16 Grand Prix victories

In the motorcycle world championship

(Status: end of season 2019)

season	class	motorcycle	run	Victories	Podiums	Poles	Points	Result
2004	125 cc	Aprilia	1	-	-	-	-	-
2005	125 cc	Derbi	13	-	-	-	1	36.
2006	125 cc	Derbi	16	-	-	-	53	14th
2007	125 cc	Derbi	17th	-	-	-	19th	22nd
2008	125 cc	Aprilia	17th	1	5	-	176	5.
2009	125 cc	Aprilia	16	1	4th	-	179.5	3.
2010	125 cc	Aprilia	16	3	14th	1	296	2.
2011	125 cc	Aprilia	16	8th	11	7th	302	World Champion
2012	Moto2	Suter	17th	-	1	-	37	17th
2013	Moto2	Suter	17th	3	4th	1	150	7th
2014	Moto2	Suter	16	-	-	-	2	28.
2019	MotoE	Energica	6th	-	-	-	33	12.
total			168	16	39	9	1248.5

References

Web links

Commons : Nicolás Terol  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nicolás Terol on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ motogp.com - Nicolas Terol