Thomas Lüthi

Thomas Luthi 2011 in Estoril

Lüthi 2010 on Moriwaki

Thomas "Tom" Lüthi (born September 6, 1986 in Oberdiessbach , Canton Bern ) is a Swiss motorcycle racer .

biography

Growing up in Linden in the Emmental , Thomas Lüthi got on a motorcycle for the first time at the age of nine and started his career in a pocket bike race .

From 2001 to 2008, Lüthi was financially supported by Certina with Adrian Bosshard .

Lüthi celebrated his first Grand Prix victory in the motorcycle world championship at the 2005 French Grand Prix in Le Mans . On November 6, 2005 Lüthi won the world championship title in the 125 cc class in Valencia on a Honda . He became the sixth youngest world champion in history. As a result, he was voted Swiss Sportsman of the Year 2005 and won the “ Swiss Award ” in the Sport category as part of the Swiss of the Year election . In the 2006 season he reached eighth place overall as defending champion.

After four full seasons in the eight-liter World Championship with the Czech Elit Grand Prix team, whose team boss was the Swiss Daniel Epp , Thomas Lüthi switched to the 250cc class in 2007 , which also meant a change from Honda to Aprilia . His team-mate was the German Sandro Cortese , who competed in the 125cc World Championship. In his first year in the quarter liter class, Lüthi finished eighth overall with 133 points in the 2007 season. In the 2008 season he achieved his first podium places in the 250 cm³ class with a second and a third place and finished the season with 108 points in eleventh place, the following season he finished seventh without a single podium place. In the 2010 season Lüthi drove for Terrell Thien's Interwetten Moriwaki Moto2 in the new Moto2 class. Overall, he achieved five podium places and fourth overall with 156 points. In 2011 the team switched to Suter . Lüthi stayed with the team, clinched his first pole position in six years in qualifying at the Malaysian Grand Prix and won the race the next day, which means his first win in the middle class on his 80th attempt. He finished the year in fifth place overall. In the next three years he got three more victories and finished the years 2012 and 2014 in fourth place.

In 2015 the team switched to Kalex . Lüthi took another win and came in fifth. In 2016 Lüthi won the Grand Prix of Qatar , Great Britain , Japan and Australia , scored 234 points, fought for the title until the penultimate race and was runner-up behind Johann Zarco .

The season 2017 began Luthi with a second place in Qatar and a third in Argentina . He later won the Czech Grand Prix and the San Marino race . He was on the podium ten times and scored 243 points, in the end Lüthi was again runner-up behind Franco Morbidelli .

For the 2018 season he moved to Honda in MotoGP in the Marc VDS Racing Team (which also ended his 16-year collaboration with Paddock / Interwetten), but didn't score a single point in the entire season.

In 2019 Lüthi returned to Moto2, where he drove a Kalex for the Dynavolt Intact GP team. He won the US Grand Prix and was third overall with 250 points, just twelve points behind world champion Álex Márquez .

The 2020 season started for Lüthi on average with a tenth place.

He lives with his parents and siblings in Linden.

Statistics in the motorcycle world championship

title

• 2005 - 125 cc world champion on a Honda
• 17 Grand Prix victories

In the motorcycle world championship

(Status: GP of Styria 2020)

season	class	motorcycle	run	Victories	Podiums	Poles	Points	Result
2002	125 cc	Honda	7th	-	-	-	7th	27.
2003	125 cc	Honda	15th	-	1	-	68	15th
2004	125 cc	Honda	13	-	-	-	14th	25th
2005	125 cc	Honda	16	4th	8th	5	242	World Champion
2006	125 cc	Honda	16	1	1	-	113	8th.
2007	250 cc	Aprilia	17th	-	-	-	133	8th.
2008	250 cc	Aprilia	14th	-	2	-	108	11.
2009	250 cc	Aprilia	16	-	-	-	120	7th
2010	Moto2	Moriwaki	17th	-	5	-	156	4th
2011	Moto2	Suter	17th	1	4th	1	151	5.
2012	Moto2	Suter	17th	1	6th	1	190	4th
2013	Moto2	Suter	15th	-	6th	-	155	6th
2014	Moto2	Suter	18th	2	4th	-	194	4th
2015	Moto2	Kalex	18th	1	4th	1	179	5.
2016	Moto2	Kalex	17th	4th	6th	3	234	2.
2017	Moto2	Kalex	16	2	10	1	243	2.
2018	MotoGP	Honda	18th	-	-	-	-	-
2019	Moto2	Kalex	19th	1	8th	-	250	3.
2020	Moto2	Kalex	6th	-	-	-	35	11.
total			292	17th	64	12	2593	1 world title

Web links

Commons : Thomas Lüthi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official homepage of Thomas Lüthi
• Thomas Lüthi on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tom Lüthi meets his MotoGP predecessor Adi Bosshard . In: look . March 13, 2018 ( blick.ch [accessed December 2, 2018]).