Niccolò Canepa
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![]() Canepa at the Pré-Mans 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Genoa, Italy | 14 May 1988||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current team | WithU GRT RNF MotoE Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bike number | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | niccolocanepa59.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Niccolò Canepa (born 14 May 1988 in Genoa) is an Italian professional motorcycle road racer contracted from 2022 to RNF Racing in the MotoE World Cup aboard an Energica Ego Corsa. Canepa won the 2007 European Superstock 1000 Championship on a Ducati, and spent 2008 as a tester of their MotoGP and World Superbike machines.[1][2]
Career[]
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Canepa previously competed in the Italian Superstock Championship, the Italian Supersport Championship, and the Superstock 600 UEM European Championship, where he finished runner-up in 2006. He was given three World Superbike wild card rides in the second half of the 2008 season,[3] qualifying on the second row for his debut at Brno, on his first experience of the one-shot "Superpole" system. He raced in MotoGP full-time for Pramac Ducati in 2009 with little success, and made an uncompetitive start in Moto2. He moved back to the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup in 2011, and after a season in the Superbike World Championship in 2012, returned to Superstock 1000 in 2013 and became runner up behind Sylvain Barrier.
Canepa moved in 2016 to the World Endurance Championship riding the Factory GMT94 Yamaha R1. He ended the season in second place.
In 2017 Canepa won the FIM Endurance World Championship (EWC). He is the first Italian in history to win an Endurance World Championship. He is also the Yamaha Superbike Factory Team test rider and replacement rider. He is also coaching Alex Lowes and Michael Van Der Mark during the Superbike World Championship.
Career statistics[]
Supersport World Championship[]
By season[]
Season | Motorcycle | Team | Number | Race | Win | Podium | Pole | FLap | Pts | Plcd | WCh |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R | Lightspeed Kawasaki | 55 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 41st | – | |
Total | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Races by year[]
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Pos | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kawasaki | QAT | AUS | ESP | ITA | EUR | ITA | CZE | GBR | NED | GER 16 |
ITA 15 |
FRA Ret |
41st | 1 |
Superbike World Championship[]
By season[]
Season | Motorcycle | Team | Number | Race | Win | Podium | Pole | FLap | Pts | Plcd | WCh |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2008 | Ducati 1098 | Ducati Xerox Team | 59 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 32nd | – |
2012 | Ducati 1098 | Red Devils Roma | 59 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42.5 | 20th | – |
2013 | Ducati 1199 Panigale | Team Ducati Alstare | 59 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 24th | – |
2014 | Ducati 1199 Panigale | Althea Racing | 59 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 13th | – |
2015 | EBR 1190RX Kawasaki ZX-10R Ducati 1199 Panigale |
Team Hero EBR Grillini SBK Althea Racing |
59 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 16th | – |
2016 | Yamaha YZF-R1 | Pata Yamaha Official WorldSBK Team | 59 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 19th | – |
Total | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 215.5 | 0 |
Races by year[]
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Pos | Pts | ||||||||||||||
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R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | ||||
2008 | Ducati | QAT |
QAT |
AUS |
AUS |
SPA |
SPA |
NED |
NED |
ITA |
ITA |
USA |
USA |
GER |
GER |
SMR |
SMR |
CZE 13 |
CZE Ret |
GBR |
GBR |
EUR |
EUR |
ITA |
ITA |
FRA |
FRA |
POR |
POR |
32nd | 3 |
2012 | Ducati | AUS 20 |
AUS 10 |
ITA 10 |
ITA Ret |
NED 8 |
NED Ret |
ITA C |
ITA 17 |
EUR 19 |
EUR 11 |
USA Ret |
USA Ret |
SMR 18 |
SMR 13 |
SPA 11 |
SPA 17 |
CZE |
CZE |
GBR Ret |
GBR 15 |
RUS 7 |
RUS Ret |
GER DNS |
GER DNS |
POR |
POR |
FRA |
FRA |
20th | 42.5 |
2013 | Ducati | AUS | AUS | SPA | SPA | NED | NED | ITA | ITA | GBR 13 |
GBR 8 |
POR | POR | ITA | ITA | RUS | RUS | GBR | GBR | GER | GER | TUR | TUR | USA Ret |
USA 15 |
FRA | FRA | SPA | SPA | 24th | 12 |
2014 | Ducati | AUS 10 |
AUS 11 |
SPA Ret |
SPA 11 |
NED 10 |
NED 10 |
ITA Ret |
ITA Ret |
GBR 11 |
GBR 11 |
MAL Ret |
MAL 15 |
SMR 12 |
SMR 16 |
POR 13 |
POR 18 |
USA 11 |
USA Ret |
SPA 14 |
SPA 15 |
FRA 11 |
FRA 10 |
QAT 12 |
QAT 12 |
13th | 73 | ||||
2015 | EBR | AUS Ret |
AUS DNS |
THA Ret |
THA DNS |
SPA 15 |
SPA 18 |
NED 15 |
NED Ret |
16th | 55 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Kawasaki | ITA DNS |
ITA DNS |
GBR 15 |
GBR Ret |
POR 17 |
POR 17 |
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Ducati | SMR Ret |
SMR 12 |
USA Ret |
USA 8 |
MAL 9 |
MAL 11 |
SPA 17 |
SPA 11 |
FRA 10 |
FRA 7 |
QAT Ret |
QAT 8 |
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2016 | Yamaha | AUS | AUS | THA | THA | SPA | SPA | NED | NED | ITA | ITA | MAL | MAL | GBR | GBR | ITA 7 |
ITA 9 |
USA 10 |
USA 8 |
GER | GER | FRA | FRA | SPA | SPA | QAT | QAT | 19th | 30 |
Grand Prix motorcycle racing[]
By season[]
Season | Class | Motorcycle | Team | Number | Race | Win | Podium | Pole | FLap | Pts | Plcd | WCh |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2009 | MotoGP | Ducati Desmosedici GP9 Sat | Pramac Racing | 88 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 16th | – |
2010 | Moto2 | Force GP210 | RSM Team Scot | 59 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | – |
Suter MMX | ||||||||||||
Bimota HB4 | M Racing | |||||||||||
2019 | MotoE | Energica Ego Corsa | LCR E-Team | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 9th | – |
2020 | MotoE | Energica Ego Corsa | LCR E-Team | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 9th | – |
Total | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 135 | 0 |
By class[]
Class | Seasons | 1st GP | 1st Pod | 1st Win | Race | Win | Podiums | Pole | FLap | Pts | WChmp |
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MotoGP | 2009 | 2009 Qatar | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 0 | ||
Moto2 | 2010 | 2010 Qatar | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
MotoE | 2019–present | 2019 Germany | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 0 | ||
Total | 2009–2010, 2019–Present | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 135 | 0 |
Races by year[]
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Class | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Pos | Pts |
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2009 | MotoGP | Ducati | QAT 17 |
JPN 14 |
SPA 16 |
FRA 15 |
ITA 9 |
CAT 16 |
NED 14 |
USA 12 |
GER 12 |
GBR 8 |
CZE 12 |
IND Ret |
RSM 13 |
POR 13 |
AUS DNS |
MAL | VAL | 16th | 38 |
2010 | Moto2 | Force GP | QAT 27 |
SPA Ret |
FRA 17 |
ITA 28 |
GBR 16 |
NED 24 |
CAT Ret |
GER 20 |
NC | 0 | |||||||||
Suter | CZE 28 |
IND | |||||||||||||||||||
Bimota | RSM 28 |
ARA 26 |
JPN | MAL | AUS | POR | VAL | ||||||||||||||
2019 | MotoE | Energica | GER 12 |
AUT 8 |
RSM1 5 |
RSM2 4 |
VAL1 6 |
VAL2 Ret |
9th | 46 | |||||||||||
2020 | MotoE | Energica | SPA 13 |
ANC 5 |
RSM 11 |
EMI1 6 |
EMI2 4 |
FRA1 Ret |
FRA2 7 |
9th | 51 |
References[]
- ^ "Canepa leads Indianapolis MotoGP test". flagworld.com. Archived from the original on 2009-05-08. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
- ^ "Canepa makes his case". crash.net. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
- ^ "Canepa to get three WSBK wild-card rides with Ducati". worldsbk.com. Retrieved 2008-10-28.[dead link]
External links[]
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- Niccolò Canepa at MotoGP.com
- Niccolò Canepa at WorldSBK.com
- 1988 births
- Living people
- Italian motorcycle racers
- Superbike World Championship riders
- Pramac Racing MotoGP riders
- Moto2 World Championship riders
- FIM Superstock 1000 Cup riders
- Sportspeople from Genoa
- MotoGP World Championship riders
- MotoE World Cup riders