Sandro Cortese

Sandro Cortese in the 2012 world championship season

Cortese at the 2011 Czech Grand Prix

Alessandro "Sandro" Cortese (born January 6, 1990 in Ochsenhausen ) is a German motorcycle racer . In the 2012 season he started on a KTM for the Red Bull Ajo Motorsport team in the Moto3 class of the motorcycle world championship and became world champion.

Career

Sandro Cortese grew up as the son of an Italian and a German on his parents' metal construction company in Berkheim an der Iller . He began to ride a small motorcycle motocross at the age of two and a half ; later also pocket bike . In 2003 and 2004 the 1.69 m tall Cortese took part in the International German Motorcycle Championship in the 125 cm³ class. In the final accounts of the championship, he finished fourth (2003) and tenth (2004). In 2004 he competed against Stefan Bradl , among others , who finished fifth overall.

In 2005 , Cortese completed his first full season in the 125 cc class of the motorcycle world championship for the German Kiefer-Bos-Sotin Racing team of the Kiefer brothers on a Honda . He finished 26th in the world championship with eight points.

For the 2006 season, Cortese switched to Daniel Epp's Swiss elite team , where he became a team-mate of previous year's world champion Thomas Lüthi . With a previous year's factory Honda , Cortese scored 23 points and climbed to 17th place in the final score.

In the 2007 season , Cortese started again for his team from the previous year, which was now called Emmi-Caffe-Latte and started on Aprilia . He was able to show some highlights in qualifying, but most of the races didn't go that well.

For the motorcycle world championship in 2008 , Cortese got an official factory Aprilia, the same motorcycle as the world champion Gábor Talmácsi . At the beginning of the season he was handicapped by an injury, but Cortese improved from race to race. Shortly before the end of the season, he achieved his best result to date. In fourth place at the Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang he missed a podium place by just 30 hundredths of a second. In the overall standings, Sandro Cortese finished 8th with 141 points.

At the opening race of the 2009 season , the Grand Prix of Qatar in Losail , Cortese, meanwhile on a 125 cm³ Derbi of the Ajo Interwetten team , with whom Frenchman Mike Di Meglio had become world champion last year, was one after four laps due to rain canceled third race and thus drove his first podium in the motorcycle world championship. In June 2009 he got his first pole position in Assen , the Netherlands .

In May 2011 he founded the Sandro Cortese Junior Bike School , with which he takes care of young racers. On August 14, 2011, he clinched his first Grand Prix victory in Brno at the Grand Prix of the Czech Republic , having previously remained without a win in 108 races in the World Championship. At the end of the 2011 season , Cortese reached fourth place overall in the world championship in the 125 cc class with 225 points.

In the Moto3 class, which replaced the eight-liter category in 2012 , Cortese became the first German in 41 years to win the Sachsenring Grand Prix on July 8, 2012, taking the lead in the world championship. On October 21, he won the Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang , the third from last run of the championship, and was thus prematurely the first world champion in the Moto3 class. On November 17, 2012, his home parish and 7,000 fans prepared a reception for him in the town hall, where he signed the Golden Book. MotoGP driver Stefan Bradl and DTM champion Mattias Ekström were also present. Matthias Dolderer flew low over the community of Berkheim several times in foggy weather. KTM Motorsport Director Pit Beirer gave him his bike .

From the 2013 season, Cortese drove in the newly founded Intact GP team under the direction of Jürgen Lingg, Wolfgang Kuhn and Stefan Keckeisen on a Kalex in the Moto2 class. In his first season he finished 20th in the overall classification. In his second year in the Moto2 World Championship, he finished ninth in the overall classification. In 2015 he finished the season in eleventh place.

For the 2018 season, Sandro Cortese moved to the Finnish team Kallio Racing in the FIM - Supersport World Championship . With two wins and a total of 208 World Championship points, he immediately secured the World Championship title. In the overall standings, Cortese had 23 points on defending champion Lucas Mahias ( Kawasaki ) from the end of the season .

Cortese competed in the 2019 season in the Superbike World Championship for the Italian GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team on Yamaha . He finished his first year in the Superbike World Championship in 12th place overall. In 2020 he will also compete in the Superbike World Championship, but switched to the OUTDO Kawasaki TPR team .

statistics

title

• 2012 - Moto3 - World Champion on KTM
• 2018 - Supersport world champion on a Yamaha
• 7 Grand Prix victories

In the motorcycle world championship

season	class	team	motorcycle	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	Nice Race laps	Points	position
2005	125 cc	Kiefer Bos Racing Team	Honda	16	-	-	-	-	-	8th	26th
2006	125 cc	Elit Emmi Caffé Latte	Honda	16	-	-	-	-	-	23	17th
2007	125 cc	Elit Emmi Caffé Latte	Aprilia	17th	-	-	-	-	-	66	14th
2008	125 cc	Emmi Caffé Latte	Aprilia	17th	-	-	-	-	1	141	8th.
2009	125 cc	Ajo Interwetten	Derbi	16	-	1	2	1	2	130	6th
2010	125 cc	Red Bull Ajo Motorsport	Derbi	17th	-	1	1	1	2	143	7th
2011	125 cc	Racing-Team-Germany	Aprilia	17th	2	3	1	1	2	225	4th
2012	Moto3	Red Bull Ajo Motorsport	KTM	17th	5	5	5	7th	4th	325	World Champion
2013	Moto2	Dynavolt IntactGP	Kalex	17th	-	-	-	-	-	19th	20th
2014	Moto2	Dynavolt IntactGP	Kalex	18th	-	-	1	-	-	85	9.
2015	Moto2	Dynavolt IntactGP	Kalex	18th	-	-	1	-	-	90	11.
2016	Moto2	Dynavolt IntactGP	Kalex	17th	-	-	1	-	-	61	15th
2017	Moto2	Dynavolt IntactGP	Suter	17th	-	-	-	-	-	42	18th
total				220	7th	10	12	10	11	1358	1 world title

In the Supersport World Cup

season	team	motorcycle	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	Nice Race laps	Points	position
2018	Kallio Racing	Yamaha YZF-R6	12	2	4th	2	3	7th	208	World Champion
total			12	2	4th	2	3	7th	208	1 world title

In the Superbike World Championship

(As of August 10, 2020)

season	team	motorcycle	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	Nice Race laps	Points	position
2019	GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team	Yamaha YZF-R1	36	-	-	-	-	-	134	12.
2020	OUTDO Kawasaki TPR	Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10 R	7th	-	-	-	-	-	14th	15th
total			43	-	-	-	-	-	148

References

Web links

Commons : Sandro Cortese  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Sandro Cortese
• Sandro Cortese on the official website of the motorcycle world championship.
• Sandro Cortese on the official website of the Superbike and Supersport World Championship

Individual evidence

1. ^ " Riding a motorcycle on the country road is too dangerous for me" ; Interview in the FAZ on October 20, 2012
2. ↑ In the future there will be the Cortese Mini Bike School ; Latest news from Baden, May 23, 2011 (PDF; 1.0 MB)
3. ^ Sandro Cortese for the first time motorcycle world champion ; Focus Online from October 21, 2012
4. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung: Picture gallery: Euphoric reception for world champion Cortese on November 18, 2012, accessed on November 18, 2012
5. ↑ RP online: Reception for motorcycle world champions - Cortese turns Berkheim on its head from November 18, 2012, accessed on November 18, 2012
6. ↑ Sandro Cortese to join Kallio Racing! - Kallio Racing. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 5, 2018 ; Retrieved March 5, 2018 (Finnish).