Francesco Bagnaia

Bagnaia at the 2015 Catalan Grand Prix.

Nationality

Italian

Born

14 January 1997
Turin, Italy

Current team

SKY Racing Team VR46

Bike number

Motorcycle racing career statistics

Moto3 World Championship

Active years

2013–2016

Manufacturers

FTR Honda, KTM, Mahindra

2016 championship position

4th (145 pts)

Starts	Wins	Podiums	Poles	F. laps	Points
69	2	7	1	2	271

Francesco "Pecco" Bagnaia (born 14 January 1997 in Turin) is an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle racer. He currently competes in the Moto2 World Championship for the VR46 team.^[1]

Career

Early career

Born in Torino (Italy), Bagnaia was successful in Minimoto and he won the European MiniGP championship in 2009. Bagnaia made his preGP 125 mediterranean championship debut with Monlau Competicion team in 2010 and finished 2nd in the championship. In the 2012 CEV Moto3 championship he rode the Honda Moto3 NSF250R and finished 3rd in the championship points table. Bagnaia was also a member of VR46 riders academy.

Moto3 world championship

2013

In 2013, Bagnaia made his Grand prix debut with Team Italia FMI with Romano Fenati as his partner riding a Honda. 2013 Moto3 season was disappointing for Bagnaia as he does not manage to get a single point in the entire season.

2014

In 2014, Bagnaia switched team to join Sky Racing Team by VR46 riding a KTM with same partner Romano Fenati. He finished the season at 16th position with 50 points for the championship.

2015

In the 2015 , Bagnaia made another team change joining Aspar racing team BY Mahindra where he got his first podium in France Grand prix and finished the race at 3rd place. But that was his only podium finish in the 2015 season where he eventually finished 14th at the championship table with 76 points to his name.

2016

In 2016, Bagnaia started the season with a podium finish in Qatar and another podium finish at Spain. Finishing 3rd on both occasions. At his home race at Mugello Bagnaia secured another 3rd position.Followed by a crash at Barcelona, Bagnaia secured his first Grand Prix win at the historic Assen circuit in his 59th moto3 race and it was the first win for Mahindra too. After two average races and a crash at Czech race, Bagnaia got his first pole position in the rain affected Britain grand Prix and finished Second in a intense race. He finished the season with 145 points to place 5th in the Moto3 Championship with a total of 2 wins and 6 podiums.

Career Statistics

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

By season

Season	Class	Motorcycle	Team	Number	Race	Win	Podium	Pole	FLap	Pts	Plcd
2013	Moto3	FTR Honda	San Carlo Team Italia	4	17	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2014	Moto3	KTM	SKY Racing Team VR46	21	16	0	0	0	1	50	16th
2015	Moto3	Mahindra	MAPFRE Team MAHINDRA Moto3	21	18	0	1	0	1	76	14th
2016	Moto3	Mahindra	Pull & Bear Aspar Mahindra Team	21	18	2	6	1	0	145	4th
Total					69	2	7	1	2	271

By class

Class	Seasons	1st GP	1st Pod	1st Win	Race	Win	Podiums	Pole	FLap	Pts	WChmp
Moto3	2013-2016	2013 Qatar	2015 France	2016 Dutch TT	69	2	7	1	2	271	0
Total	2013–2016				69	2	7	1	2	271	0

Races by year

Year	Class	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Pos.	Pts
2013	Moto3	FTR Honda	QAT 23	AME 22	SPA 26	FRA 20	ITA 24	CAT 17	NED 26	GER 30	IND Ret	CZE 28	GBR Ret	RSM Ret	ARA 17	MAL 16	AUS Ret	JPN 20	VAL Ret		NC	0
2014	Moto3	KTM	QAT 10	AME 7	ARG Ret	SPA 8	FRA 4	ITA Ret	CAT 10	NED DNS	GER DNS	IND Ret	CZE 17	GBR 21	RSM Ret	ARA 24	JPN 13	AUS 11	MAL Ret	VAL 16	16th	50
2015	Moto3	Mahindra	QAT 9	AME Ret	ARG 11	SPA 7	FRA 3	ITA 4	CAT 20	NED 11	GER Ret	IND Ret	CZE 12	GBR Ret	RSM 8	ARA 11	JPN 15	AUS Ret	MAL 17	VAL 13	14th	76
2016	Moto3	Mahindra	QAT 3	ARG 23	AME 14	SPA 3	FRA 12	ITA 3	CAT Ret	NED 1	GER 10	AUT 11	CZE Ret	GBR 2	RSM 21	ARA 16	JPN 6	AUS Ret	MAL 1	VAL Ret	4th	145

References

↑ "Francesco Bagnaia". MotoGP. Retrieved 3 February 2016.

External links

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