Steve Martin (racing driver)

Steve (n) Martin (born December 2, 1968 in Adelaide ) is an Australian motorcycle racer .

Career

Steve Martin contested 183 races in the Superbike World Championship between 1989 and 2009 . His most successful year was 2004 when he started for the Italian team DFXtreme Sterilgarda on a Ducati 999 RS and achieved five podium positions, three pole positions , two fastest laps and seventh place in the World Championship. In the 2005 and 2006 seasons , Steve Martin was a works driver at Carl Fogarty's Foggy Petronas team alongside Garry McCoy and Craig Jones, respectively .

At the end of the 2007 season ended Martin his World Cup career for the time being, worked as a television commentator and was a test driver in the development of BMW - Superbikes S 1000 RR involved. The Australian's last appearance in the Superbike World Championship was in the 2009 season, when he replaced the injured Troy Corser in the BMW works team at the races in Kyalami, South Africa .

In 2007 he moved to the FIM Endurance World Championship for the Yamaha Austria Racing Team (YART), where he was supposed to only stand in for one race, the 8 Hours of Suzuka , for the injured Sebastien Scarnato. However, the chemistry in the team was so perfect that he has been a regular driver ever since. After two podium places in 2007, the first race victory in the 8-hour race in Doha and the runner-up world title followed in 2008. 2009 would then be the year of 40 year old Steve Martin. He won together with Igor Jerman and Gwen Giabbani to Yamaha , the 24 Hours of Le Mans for motorcycles . After that, the trio won three more long-distance World Championship races and became long-distance world champions in 2009.

Steve Martin has won five Endurance World Championship races to date, all of them for the Austrian Yamaha Austria Racing Team.

successes

• 1989 - Australian Production Master on Yamaha
• 1999 - Australian Superbike Champion on Ducati
• 2008 - Endurance runner-up world champion on a Yamaha
• 2009 - World endurance champion on a Yamaha
• 5 wins in the World Endurance Championship
• 5 podium finishes in the Superbike World Championship
• 3 pole positions in the Superbike World Championship
• 2 fastest race laps in the Superbike World Championship

statistics

(Status: end of season 2009)

season	team	Points	Victories	Poles	Nice Round	World Cup rank	Teammates	Races won
2008	YART	95	1	-	1	2.	Igor Jerman Gwen Giabbani Steve Plater	8 hours from Doha
2009	YART	145	4th	1	3	1.	Igor Jerman Gwen Giabbani	24 hours of Le Mans 8 hours of Oschersleben 8 hours of Albacete 8 hours of Doha

Web links

• Steve Martin on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).
• Steve Martin on the official website of the Superbike and Supersport World Championship