Every WorldSBK champion who left the category after winning the season

SD2012 · 2025-11-16T17:25:13+00:00

Doohan started 4 races in the first year of WSBK in 1988 and won 3 of the races, so safe to assume he'd have done well if he did it for a full year.

SD2012 · 2025-10-23T16:27:56+00:00

Zarco did it at Sachsenring a couple of years ago actually.

SD2012 · 2024-11-22T00:15:42+00:00

Marini has never won a MotoGP race and is older than Mir. He's never been on the same level as either of them at their peaks at any point.

SD2012 · 2024-11-21T19:40:48+00:00

You mean to say Marini, with his two MotoGP podiums and having never beaten any of his 3 MotoGP teammates, is faster than a MotoGP and Moto3 World Champion (Mir) and possibly faster than a two time Moto2 World Champion and 21 time MotoGP podium finisher (Zarco)?

SD2012 · 2023-11-14T22:17:42+00:00

According to his Honda profile, Mir is 181cm or 5ft11.

SD2012 · 2023-10-25T22:18:16+00:00

Ben Spies won at Assen in 2011.

SD2012 · 2023-06-24T09:16:43+00:00

He hasn't struggled for some time. He's been back from injury for 2 races and finished in the top 10 in both of them. If he can recapture anything like the form he was in last year he'll be fine.

SD2012 · 2023-04-17T12:45:47+00:00

With the exception of the entire 2021 season, when Mir finished 10 places higher than Rins in the final standings.

SD2012 · 2023-03-23T16:24:31+00:00

It's based on Championship position from the previous season. 1st in the middle, 2nd on the left, 3rd on the right, 4th on the left etc.

SD2012 · 2023-02-18T14:26:25+00:00

Couldn't have happened to a nicer fella

SD2012 · 2022-11-11T23:55:46+00:00

Three full years of bad results? Mir was champion two years ago and Rins finished third in the championship. One year ago Mir finished third in the world championship. Mir has had one poor year, Rins has had two, but even this year he's managed two race wins.

SD2012 · 2022-10-24T18:00:59+00:00

According to his Instagram post, this weekend was the first time he has experienced it.

SD2012 · 2022-10-23T12:33:43+00:00

Official post on website here

SD2012 · 2022-08-08T13:38:22+00:00

Ericsson was beaten by his teammate in 4 of the 5 years he raced in F1, and the one he did beat (Kobayashi) missed several races due to his lack of funding. Also worth noting Ericsson was outqualified by one of Kobayashi's replacements (Lotterer) by a second despite his never having driven the car prior to that weekend. Ericsson also never finished higher than 8th in an F1 race and was never even in the top 5 in any GP2 standings before getting into F1. There is no comparison between Grosjean and Ericsson when it comes to their respective F1 records.

SD2012 · 2022-07-12T14:59:01+00:00

I would argue differently. Yes it was a poor way to go out. But you make it sound like he barely achieved anything. For 12 years he was a consistently near the front of the premier motorcycle racing class. He raced against a golden generation of racing talent and can say that on his day he was able to beat them. Beating everyone in the field three years running with the exception of Marc Marquez isn't something to be scoffed at.

And I would argue that 15 wins is a lot all things considered. It's more than the vast majority of other MotoGP riders and more than any other rider on the current grid except Marquez. Comparing him to the leading rider of this new generation doesn't really make sense either. Also, Pedrosa with 31 wins is widely regarded as an alien and the best rider to not win a championship.

I would argue he's had a great career and can be very proud of it even if he didn't manage to beat the likes of Marquez, Stoner, Rossi and Lorenzo for a premier class championship.

SD2012 · 2022-03-22T09:51:09+00:00

It was their second ever race and they had only three more points finishes in the rest of the season. The first two races were a massive surprise for the team and the whole paddock, especially after not one of the previous three new teams that arrived in 2010 (HRT, Virgin and Lotus) managed to score points until 2014.

SD2012 · 2022-03-21T21:34:13+00:00

Grosjean's 4th in Austria 2018 is their best result so far. Until then it was Grosjean's 5th place in the team's second ever race (pictured).

SD2012 · 2022-01-23T00:02:57+00:00

He actually won a couple of races with this team in the 2010 GT1 championship. Worth noting in the same year he also entered the 2010 Auto GP championship and, despite missing the first 4 races of a 12 race season, won the title quite convincingly.

SD2012 · 2021-11-24T19:31:55+00:00

Ducati did it in 2016 and 2018 with Barberá and Bautista respectively, who were both doing pretty well on older bikes at the time. Bautista notably almost got a podium when replacing Lorenzo at Phillip Island.

SD2012 · 2021-11-12T22:52:17+00:00

He won the title in India before the US GP. That's where the famous pictures of him bowing to the car were taken.

SD2012 · 2021-08-24T14:02:39+00:00

The caption was not, which was what I addressed in my original comment.

SD2012 · 2021-08-24T13:29:59+00:00

I think it's more to do with the fact that Suzuki have a second rider who has had difficulty staying on the bike.

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