Tom Sykes

Tom Sykes

Nation:	United Kingdom
Superbike World Championship Status: active First start:  Brands Hatch (Run 1) 2008 Start number: 66 statistics Constructors 2008  Suzuki  • 2009  Yamaha  • 2010–2018  Kawasaki World Cup balance World Champion ( 2013 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 299 34 50 39 World title: 1 World Cup points: 3445.5 Podiums: 112 Status: end of season 2018

Tom Sykes in Assen 2016

Tom Sykes (born August 19, 1985 in Huddersfield , England ) is a British motorcycle racer .

Sykes 2008 on Rizla-Suzuki

Tom Sykes 2012 on Kawasaki

Career

Sykes began his career by entering the British Supersport Championship in the 2003 season and remained in the racing series until the end of the 2006 season. He drove for Suzuki during this time . In the 2004 and 2005 seasons he was fifth in the overall standings, but was able to improve in his last season and was second in 2006 behind Cal Crutchlow .

For the 2007 season he was promoted to the British Superbike Championship and at the same time moved to the Stobart Honda team . At the end of the season, he finished sixth. For the 2008 season he moved to Rizla Suzuki in 2008 . With the change he improved to fourth place overall in the BSB and also took part in two racing weekends in the 2008 Superbike World Championship .

Superbike World Championship

In 2009 Sykes moved to the Superbike World Championship . In his first season he won the Yamaha - factory team Yamaha World Superbike ninth place in the standings. Teammate Ben Spies became world champion with 14 wins from 28 races.

For the 2010 season, Tom Sykes switched to Kawasaki -Werksteam. In 2010 and 2011 he had only moderate success and reached the overall positions 14 and 13 respectively. Nevertheless, he won the second race at the Nürburgring last season . In the 2012 season he improved a lot and at the end of the season was second behind Max Biaggi with 357.5 points and thus only half a point behind . In addition, with nine pole positions, he set a new season record that is still unsurpassed today.

He finally won his first title in the Superbike World Championship in the 2013 season . He scored 447 points and was world champion ahead of Eugene Laverty and Sylvain Guintoli .

Sykes finished third with Kawasaki in 2014 and 2015, second in 2016, again third in 2017 and fourth overall in 2018. From the 2019 racing season, Sykes will drive for the BMW works team. ^[outdated]

statistics

• 2004 and 2005: 5th place in the British Supersport Championship
• 2006: 2nd place in the British Supersport Championship
• 2007: 6th place in the British Superbike Championship
• 2008: 4th place in the British Superbike Championship
• 2010: 16th place in the British Superbike Championship

In the Superbike World Championship

(As of August 10, 20)

season	team	motorcycle	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	Nice Race laps	Points	position
2008	Rizla Suzuki	Suzuki GSX-R1000	4th	-	1	-	-	-	35	21st
2009	Yamaha World Superbike	Yamaha YZF-R1	26th	-	-	-	-	-	176	9.
2010	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki ZX-10R	26th	-	-	-	1	-	106	14th
2011	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki ZX-10R	24	1	-	-	1	1	141	13.
2012	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki ZX-10R	27	4th	5	4th	9	3	357.5	2.
2013	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki ZX-10R	27	9	4th	5	8th	13	447	World Champion
2014	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki ZX-10R	24	8th	1	7th	5	4th	410	2.
2015	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki ZX-10R	26th	4th	6th	5	6th	7th	399	3.
2016	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki ZX-10R	26th	5	9	6th	8th	6th	447	2.
2017	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki ZX-10R	24	2	5	9	4th	2	373	3.
2018	Kawasaki Racing Team	Kawasaki ZX-10R	25th	1	4th	3	6th	2	314	4th
2019	BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team	BMW S 1000 RR	37	-	2	2	1	1	223	8th.
2020	BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team	BMW S 1000 RR	9	-	-	-	1	-	47	10.
total			305	34	37	41	50	39	3475.5	1 world title

Web links

Commons : Tom Sykes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tom Sykes on the official website of the Superbike and Supersport World Championship