Stefan Nebel

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Stefan Nebel (born February 13, 1981 in Velbert ) is a former German motorcycle racer .

Career

Already father Peter Nebel was a motorcycle racer. Stefan Nebel learned to ride a motorcycle on a Yamaha PW 50 at the age of three . His first passion was motocross , until a serious fall motivated him to switch to the street in the minibike field . There he was German champion in 1994 and 1995. Then Nebel switched to the ADAC Junior Cup on the Aprilia RS 125 and came in tenth place there in 1996, and in 1997 Nebel was ADAC Junior Cup champion. He was then accepted into the Hein Gericke Junior Program.

Stefan Nebel had his first road racing appearances among adults in 1996 on a Honda RS 125 in the OMK Cup with a win and in the German championship with fifth place in Assen . In 1998 he competed in the Supersport World Series on Kawasaki , and his best result that year was eleventh place in the US Laguna Seca race . In 1999 and 2000, Nebel competed in the German Supersport Championship on a Laaks- Yamaha YZF-R6 and came seventh in the final ranking. In 2001 he switched to the Karthin team and started again on a Yamaha R6. After a serious fall at the first race of the season at the Lausitzring , Nebel had to take a three-month break, but he still won twice over the course of the season and was sixth overall.

In 2002, the 174 cm tall Stefan Nebel competed in both the German Supersport and German Superstock championships. In the Superstock class he won the title on Schäfer - Suzuki GSX-R 1000 , in the Supersport DM he was runner-up. In the 2003 season, Nebel competed in the German Superbike Championship for Schäfer-Suzuki and confidently secured the title. In 2004 he started for Emonts-Yamaha on a Yamaha YZF-R1 and reached sixth place in the Superbike DM. In the 2005 season , Stefan Nebel won his second German championship title in the Superbikes for Team Yamaha Germany . In the same year he took third place in the Superstock 1000 Cup run in Magny-Cours, France . When the Yamaha team ended their commitment at the end of 2005 for financial reasons, he switched to Team Docshop in 2006 and finished fourth in the Superbike DM on a Kawasaki ZX-10R . For the 2007 season , Stefan Nebel returned to the Schäfer team and finished fifth in the German Superbike Championship, and also finished fourth in the Suzuka 8-hour race and fifth in the 24 Hours of Le Mans for motorcycles.

Since spring 2008 Stefan Nebel has been working as a test driver for the Austrian manufacturer KTM , where he is working on the further development of the KTM 1190 RC8 .

From summer 2015 to the end of 2018 he was co-commentator at Eurosport for the motorcycle world championship alongside Johannes Orasche and Harry Weber. He commented on this from the pit lane and during the races.

Nebel has been commenting on the Superbike World Championship on ServusTV since 2019 alongside Philipp Krummholz, but shares this job with Stefan Bradl . Here, too, he takes on the same position as at Eurosport.

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  1. ↑ Stefan Nebel: From driver to Eurosport commentator
personal data
SURNAME Nebel, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German motorcycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Velbert