Troy Bayliss

Troy Bayliss

Nation:	Australia
Motorcycle world championship
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR 45 1 - -
World Cup points:	288
Podiums:	5
According to class (es): 250 cc class First start: 1997 Australian Grand Prix Last start: 1997 Australian Grand Prix Constructors 1997  Suzuki World Cup balance WM-27. ( 1997 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - - World Cup points: 10 Podiums: - MotoGP class First start: 2003 Japanese Grand Prix Last start: 2006 Valencia Grand Prix Constructors 2003-2004, 2006  Ducati  • 2005  Honda World Cup balance World Cup sixth ( 2003 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 44 1 - - World Cup points: 278 Podiums: 5
Superbike World Championship First start:  Phillip Island (Run 1) 1997 Last start:  Buri Ram (Run 2) 2015 statistics Constructors 1997  Suzuki  • 1998–2002, 2006–2008, 2015  Ducati World Cup balance World Champion ( 2001 , 2006 , 2008 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 156 52 26th 35 World title: 3 World Cup points: 2457 Podiums: 94

Troy Bayliss (born March 30, 1969 in Taree , New South Wales , Australia ) is an Australian motorcycle racer .

Career

Beginnings

Troy Bayliss got a small motorcycle from his father when he was six. When he was ten, he wanted to race. For the next four years he and his father went to motocross and dirt track competitions. In 1992 and 1993 Bayliss drove private motorcycles in Australian races. From 1994 he competed in national championships. In 1996 Bayliss moved to the Australian Superbike Championship. He finished third with the Kawasaki Australia team .

Troy Bayliss also competed in the Australian Superbike series in the following two years . In addition, he rode a race in the Superbike World Championship in Phillip Island in 1997 , where he also competed in the motorcycle world championship in the 250 cc class.

In the 1999 season, Bayliss competed in the British Superbike Championship (BSB), where he drove a Ducati machine for the first time . In his first year he and his team GSE-Ducati won the title in the Superbike class (at that time 750 cm³ for 4-cylinder; 1000 cm³ for 2-cylinder).

Superbike World Championship

In 2000 Bayliss was to drive for Ducati in the US Superbike Championship . However, when Ducati factory rider Carl Fogarty had a serious crash at the second race of the season at Phillip Island in the Superbike World Championship and was out for a long time, his team was looking for a replacement and chose Bayliss, who was starting the fifth race of the season in Monza for the first time. Bayliss led a few laps and finished both runs in fourth. At the following race weekend at the Hockenheimring , Bayliss won the first race with his Ducati 996 . Bayliss celebrated yet another victory in the British Brands Hatch and with a total of nine podium places he finished the 2000 season in sixth place overall, although he had only contested 18 of 26 races.

For the 2001 season Bayliss got a new teammate in Team Ducati Infostrada with Rubén Xaus and with the Ducati 998 a new works motorcycle. He won six out of a total of 25 races, finished second six times and third three times. At the end of the season he was 36 points ahead of Colin Edwards and became world champion. Bayliss is to this day the second Superbike World Champion of Australian origin after Troy Corser .

In 2002 Bayliss won 14 of the first 17 races, six of them twice in a row. But Edwards consistently scored points with his Honda VTR 1000 SP2 and won the last nine races in a row, so that he could beat Bayliss with 552 to 541 points and celebrate his second world title.

MotoGP class

Troy Bayliss 2005 on Honda

For the 2003 season , the first two winners of the 2002 Superbike World Cup switched to the MotoGP class. Bayliss remained loyal to Ducati and started the new season with the new Desmosedici GP3 of the Ducati MotoGP team . At the end of the season Bayliss had three podiums, as well as a second starting position and a total of sixth place in the World Championship.

The 2004 season was a setback for Bayliss, Ducati and also Bayliss' team-mate Loris Capirossi . Contrary to the demands of both drivers, the team developed an engine that was difficult to control and a largely new chassis. Bayliss and Capirossi were therefore not competitive for around three quarters of the season. After arguments between Bayliss and team boss Livio Suppo due to the poor results, Ducati decided to fire Bayliss after the season finale.

For the 2005 season , Bayliss signed with Sito Pons , whose Camel Honda team competed with the Honda RC211V . Bayliss was able to take sixth place in Laguna Seca , although he only contested the season up to the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring . During the summer break, he injured himself on the dirt track and had to forego further starts that year for health reasons. Shane Byrne , Tōru Ukawa and Chris Vermeulen were hired as replacements by the team boss for one race each.

Return to the superbikes

Ducati 999 F06 of the 2006 superbike season

For 2006 Troy Bayliss finally found no more place in MotoGP. He returned to Ducati in the Superbike World Championship, in 24 races he achieved twelve wins, three second and one third place. This was the second time he won the Superbike World Championship on the new Ducati 999 F06 since 2001 . At the last MotoGP race of the season, the Valencia Grand Prix at Circuit Ricardo Tormo , Bayliss represented the injured Sete Gibernau in the Ducati factory team. In this race he achieved a start-to-finish victory in front of his team-mate Capirossi. Bayliss achieved his only MotoGP victory and Ducati at the same time the first one-two in this class.

Bayliss also competed for the Ducati Xerox factory team in the Superbike World Championship in the 2007 season . However, his Ducati 999 F07 turned out to be no longer as superior as the previous year's model. After a mediocre start to the season, he fell in the first run of the third event of the season in Donington Park while leading and injured himself seriously. Two phalanxes had to be amputated on the little finger of his right hand. Bayliss recovered quickly and showed strong performances in the middle of the season. After less good results in Brno and Brands Hatch, however, he had no real chance of winning the world title. With 43 points behind world champion James Toseland , Bayliss finally finished fourth. In December 2007, Troy Bayliss announced his retirement at the end of the 2008 season and emphasized that he was determined to win his third Superbike World Championship beforehand.

Bayliss 2008 on Ducati

The 2008 season denied Bayliss continues in the Ducati factory team with the all-new Ducati 1098 F08 took. It was the first motorcycle in the history of the Superbike World Championship to be fitted with a 1200 cm³ V2 engine. His new teammate became Michel Fabrizio . Already at the first race in Losail ( Qatar ) he celebrated his first victory and immediately took the lead in the overall standings, which he did not give up during the entire season. At the third from last event in Vallelunga , Italy , Bayliss already had the opportunity to secure the title early, but fell on the last lap of the second run. In the following race in the French Magny-Cours , Bayliss secured his third Superbike World Championship title with third place in the first run. At the last event of the season on the newly built track in Portimão , Portugal , he won both races from pole position and set new lap records.

Bayliss retired in November 2008 at the age of 39 after winning his third World Superbike title. In total, he won 52 races in this class, achieved 26 pole positions and 35 fastest race laps. He also won the British Superbike Championship once and achieved the only victory of his career in the MotoGP class at the 2006 Valencia Grand Prix.

After years as a test driver, Troy Bayliss made his comeback on the Ducati 1199 Panigale at the start of the 2015 season in Phillip Island . In the first run he finished 13th. With this result he is the oldest rider to score points in the Superbike World Championship. He was 45 years, 10 months and 23 days old.

Private

Bayliss was born on a farm, the only son of Warren and Lorraine Bayliss. He has a sister named Jana. At the age of 18 he met his wife Kim, to whom he has been married since 1993. The two have three children and are now back in Australia after spending many years in Monaco .

In 2009 he was honored for his life's work by the city of Imola

statistics

title

• 1999 - British Superbike Championship , GSE Racing, Champion
• 2001 - World Superbike Champion on Ducati
• 2006 - World Superbike Champion on Ducati
• 2008 - World Superbike Champion on Ducati

In the motorcycle world championship

season	class	motorcycle	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	Nice Race laps	Points	position
1997	250 cc	Suzuki	1	-	-	-	-	-	10	27.
2003	MotoGP	Ducati	16	-	-	3	-	-	128	6th
2004	MotoGP	Ducati	16	-	-	1	-	-	71	14th
2005	MotoGP	Honda	11	-	-	-	-	-	54	15th
2006	MotoGP	Ducati	1	1	-	-	-	-	25th	19th
total			45	1	-	4th	-	-	288

In the Superbike World Championship

season	team	motorcycle	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	Nice Race laps	Points	position
1997	Ansett Air Freight Suzuki	Suzuki GSX-R 750	2	-	-	-	-	-	22nd	20th
1998	Team GSE Ducati	Ducati 916	4th	-	-	-	-	-	4th	40.
2000	Ducati Infostrada	Ducati 996	20th	2	5	2	1	1	243	6th
2001	Ducati Infostrada	Ducati 996 R.	24	6th	6th	3	2	3	369	World Champion
2002	Ducati Infostrada	Ducati 998 F02	26th	14th	7th	1	4th	9	541	2.
2006	Ducati Xerox team	Ducati 999	24	12	3	1	5	10	431	World Champion
2007	Ducati Xerox team	Ducati 999	24	7th	4th	2	6th	4th	372	4th
2008	Ducati Xerox team	Ducati 1098	28	11	4th	4th	8th	8th	460	World Champion
2015	Aruba.it Racing-Ducati Superbike Team	Ducati 1199 Panigale	4th	-	-	-	-	-	15th	24.
total			156	52	29	13	26th	35	2457	3 world titles

Web links

Commons : Troy Bayliss  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Troy Bayliss on the motorcycle world championship official website.
• Troy Bayliss on the official website of the Superbike and Supersport World Championship

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Nimmervoll: Bayliss announces his resignation. www.Motorsport-Total.com, December 11, 2007, accessed November 3, 2008 . 
2. ↑ Johannes Orasche: Ducati: Perfect debut in Qatar. www.motorsport-total.com, February 23, 2008, accessed November 3, 2008 . 
3. ↑ Johannes Orasche: Bayliss: The celebration is postponed. www.motorsport-total.com, September 21, 2008, accessed November 3, 2008 . 
4. ↑ Christian Nimmervoll: Superbike in Magny-Cours: Bayliss is world champion! www.motorsport-total.com, October 5, 2008, accessed on November 3, 2008 . 
5. ↑ David Pergler: Bayliss rolls everything down - victory in race 1. www.motorsport-total.com, November 2, 2008, accessed on November 3, 2008 . 
6. ↑ David Pergler & Christian Nimmervoll: Bayliss's last emotional victory. www.motorsport-total.com, November 2, 2008, accessed November 3, 2008 . 
7. ↑ http://www.speedweek.com/sbk/news/70858/Bayliss-wuetend-Jeder-denkt-ich-bin-scheic39fe-alt.html
8. ^ Biography on Bayliss' official homepage, p. 1. Archived from the original on February 24, 2007 ; accessed on November 3, 2008 . 
9. ^ Biography on Bayliss' official homepage, p. 2. Archived from the original on February 24, 2007 ; accessed on November 3, 2008 . 
10. ↑ Report on Motorsport-Magazin.com. Retrieved August 5, 2009 .