Olivier Jacque
Olivier Jacque (born August 29, 1973 in Villerupt , Meurthe-et-Moselle , France ) is a French motorcycle racer .
His greatest success is winning the world championship in the 250 cm³ class of the motorcycle world championship in the 2000 season .
Career
Jacque finished second in the 250 cc European Championship in 1994 , and for the 1995 season he moved to the 250cc class of the World Championship , in which he raced first on Honda and later on Yamaha until 2000 and made it into the top 10 every year Overall ranking drove. The Frenchman achieved his first victory at the Brazilian Grand Prix in the 1996 season .
In the 2000 season, Olivier Jacque finally won the 250 cc World Championship. He prevailed with 279 points against the two Japanese Shin'ya Nakano and Daijirō Katō . The title decision was very close. Jacque prevailed on the home stretch of the last race of the season in Phillip Island in a slipstream duel against his teammate Nakano and won the race 0.014 seconds ahead of the Japanese, who finished second with 272 points.
For the 2001 season he moved with the Tech3 team to the 500 cc class of the world championship and again competed on a Yamaha, but without achieving outstanding results. Until the 2003 season , Jacque remained a regular driver at Yamaha in the premier class. In 2004 , the French competed in two MotoGP races as a wildcard driver on the losing Moriwaki .
In the 2005 season , Olivier Jacque started again without a permanent place in a MotoGP team. However, when the German Alex Hofmann was injured during a demonstration drive, Jacque stepped in as a substitute driver for the Kawasaki team and immediately took second place behind Valentino Rossi in his first race, the Chinese Grand Prix , which was characterized by heavy rain . Jacque was then hired as a test driver.
After Shin'ya Nakano had decided to leave the Kawasaki team at the end of the 2006 season for Honda, it was decided, after the cancellation of the Spaniard Sete Gibernau , to give the vacated place in the team for 2007 to Olivier Jacque. After numerous falls and injuries, Jacque announced his immediate resignation on June 21, 2007. He feels "tired and physically no longer up to date". Since then he has been working as a test rider for the Kawasaki MotoGP team.
In his 136 starts in the motorcycle world championship, Olivier Jacque achieved seven wins, 35 podium places, 17 pole positions and nine fastest race laps .
Web links
- Official website of Olivier Jacque (French)
- Olivier Jacque on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Former world champion Jacque resigns ( memento from June 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on eurosport.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacque, Olivier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French motorcycle racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 29th August 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Villerupt , Meurthe-et-Moselle department , France |