Simone Corsi

Corsi 2010 on Motobi

Simone Corsi (born April 24, 1987 in Rome ) is an Italian motorcycle racer . In 2008 he was runner- up in the 125 cm³ class of the motorcycle world championship .

Career

Beginnings

Corsi began motorcycling at the age of 4, as the son of the motocross rider Stefano Corsi, the talent seemed to have been put in his cradle. So he was active in the minibike scene like his (today) more successful compatriots Valentino Rossi or Marco Melandri until 2000 and won the Italian championship title twice. It followed the road to the Italian motorcycle road championship on a-125cc machine with the tenth place in his first race in 2001. The following year he finished as third overall in this series, a wild card at the Italian Grand Prix of the Motorcycle -World Cup in Mugello was the reward: he was 22.

Motorcycle world championship

In 2003 and 2004 Corsi drove alongside Andrea Dovizioso (2004 World Champion) in the Scot team in the 125 cc class. He achieved a podium (3rd) at the Japanese Grand Prix in Motegi .

The one-year change to the 250 cc class in 2005 did not follow the upward trend of previous years with a fifth place in the Spanish Grand Prix . Corsi switched back to the 125 cc class; the constant improvement in the overall ranking proved him right. He celebrated his first Grand Prix victory in the third race of the season in 2007 , the Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul . And finally, in 2008, with a total of four wins, including one on the home track in Mugello, three third places and three pole positions, the Italian came second in the overall standings with 225 points behind the superior world champion Mike Di Meglio , who took nine podium places four wins, and had experienced 264 points. In the following year, 2009 , Corsi had no chance against the much younger colleagues, with only two podium finishes, he ended up in the middle of the overall table. Another change seemed advisable.

He has been racing in the newly created Moto2 class since 2010 and is returning to his old strength. In the third race he was able to celebrate on the podium as third.

Statistics in the motorcycle world championship

(Status: GP of the Czech Republic 2020)

season	class	motorcycle	run	Victories	Podiums	Poles	Points	Result
2002	125 cc	Honda	1	-	-	-	-	-
2003	125 cc	Honda	14th	-	-	-	32	19th
2004	125 cc	Honda	16	-	1	-	61	13.
2005	250 cc	Aprilia	16	-	-	-	59	14th
2006	125 cc	Gilera	14th	-	-	-	79	12.
2007	125 cc	Aprilia	17th	1	2	-	168	6th
2008	125 cc	Aprilia	17th	4th	7th	3	225	2.
2009	125 cc	Aprilia	16	-	2	-	81	11.
2010	Moto2	Motobi	17th	-	2	-	138	5.
2011	Moto2	FTR	17th	-	2	-	127	6th
2012	Moto2	FTR	17th	-	-	1	88	11.
2013	Moto2	Speed ​​up	17th	-	1	-	108	11.
2014	Moto2	Kalex	12	-	2	-	100	7th
2015	Moto2	Kalex	17th	-	-	-	86	12.
2016	Moto2	Speed ​​up	18th	-	2	-	103	10.
2017	Moto2	Speed ​​up	18th	-	-	-	117	9.
2018	Moto2	Kalex	18th	-	-	-	53	14th
2019	Moto2	Kalex	9	-	-	-	10	24.
		NTS	2	-	-	-	-
		Overall result 2015	11	-	-	-	10
2020	Moto2	MV Agusta	4th	-	-	-	1	24.
total			277	5	21st	4th	1636

Victories

2007	125 cc
2008	125 cc

Web links

Commons : Simone Corsi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official homepage of Simone Corsi (Italian)
• Simone Corsi on the official website of the motorcycle world championship (English).