Niccolò Canepa Explained

Niccolò Canepa
Nationality:	Italian
Birth Date:	1988 5, df=yes
Birth Place:	Genoa, Italy
Website:	niccolocanepa59.com
Current Team:	WithU GRT RNF MotoE Team
Bike Number:	7
Motogp Manufacturers:	Ducati
Motogp Championships:	0
Motogp Race Starts:	14
Motogp Race Wins:	0
Motogp Podiums:	0
Motogp Poles:	0
Motogp Fastest Laps:	0
Motogp Total Points:	38
Motogp Last Season:	2009
Motogp Last Position:	16th (38 pts)
Moto2 Manufacturers:	Force GP, Suter, Bimota
Moto2 Championships:	0
Moto2 Race Starts:	11
Moto2 Race Wins:	0
Moto2 Podiums:	0
Moto2 Poles:	0
Moto2 Fastest Laps:	0
Moto2 Total Points:	0
Moto2 Last Season:	2010
Moto2 Last Position:	NC (0 pts)
Motoe Active Years:	2019–
Motoe Manufacturers:	Energica
Motoe Championships:	0
Motoe Race Starts:	25
Motoe Race Wins:	0
Motoe Podiums:	1
Motoe Poles:	0
Motoe Fastest Laps:	0
Motoe Total Points:	191.5
Motoe Last Season:	2022
Motoe Last Position:	7th (94.5 pts)
Sbk Active Years:	, –,
Sbk Championships:	0
Sbk Manufacturers:	Ducati, EBR, Kawasaki, Yamaha
Sbk Race Starts:	79
Sbk Race Wins:	0
Sbk Podiums:	0
Sbk Poles:	0
Sbk Fastest Laps:	0
Sbk Total Points:	222.5
Sbk Last Season:	2018
Sbk Last Position:	22nd (7 pts)

Niccolò Canepa (born 14 May 1988 in Genoa) is a former 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

thumb|Canepa at the 2009 Italian Grand PrixCanepa 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 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, 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.

Canepa retired from racing after the Italian Round of the 2024 Superbike World Championship.^[4] He initially announced his retirement before the 2024 Bol d'Or race^[5], however he was called to race for the factory Yamaha team in Cremona, substituting for Jonathan Rea.

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)

Superbike World Championship

By season

Season	Motorcycle	Team	Number	Race	Pts	Plcd	WCh
	Ducati 1098	Ducati Xerox Team	59	2	3	32nd	–
	Ducati 1098	Red Devils Roma	59	19	42.5	20th	–
	Ducati 1199 Panigale	Team Ducati Alstare	59	4	12	24th	–
	Ducati 1199 Panigale	Althea Racing	59	24	73	13th	–
	EBR 1190RX Kawasaki ZX-10R Ducati 1199 Panigale	Team Hero EBR Grillini SBK Althea Racing	59	22	55	16th	–
	Yamaha YZF-R1	Pata Yamaha Official WorldSBK Team	59	4	30	19th	–
	Yamaha YZF-R1	Yamaha Motor Europe	94	4	7	22nd	–
Total				79	222.5		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
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			Pos	Pts
2008	Ducati	QAT	QAT	AUS	AUS	SPA	SPA	NED	NED	ITA	ITA	USA	USA	GER	GER	SMR	SMR	CZE	CZE	GBR	GBR	EUR	EUR	ITA	ITA	FRA	FRA	POR	POR	32nd	3
2012	Ducati	AUS	AUS	ITA	ITA	NED	NED	ITA	ITA	EUR	EUR	USA	USA	SMR	SMR	SPA	SPA	CZE	CZE	GBR	GBR	RUS	RUS	GER	GER	POR	POR	FRA	FRA	20th	42.5
2013	Ducati	AUS	AUS	SPA	SPA	NED	NED	ITA	ITA	GBR	GBR	POR	POR	ITA	ITA	RUS	RUS	GBR	GBR	GER	GER	TUR	TUR	USA	USA	FRA	FRA	SPA	SPA	24th	12
2014	Ducati	AUS	AUS	SPA	SPA	NED	NED	ITA	ITA	GBR	GBR	MAL	MAL	SMR	SMR	POR	POR	USA	USA	SPA	SPA	FRA	FRA	QAT	QAT					13th	73
2015	EBR	AUS	AUS	THA	THA	SPA	SPA	NED	NED																					16th	55
	Kawasaki									ITA	ITA	GBR	GBR	POR	POR
	Ducati															SMR	SMR	USA	USA	MAL	MAL	SPA	SPA	FRA	FRA	QAT	QAT
2016	Yamaha	AUS	AUS	THA	THA	SPA	SPA	NED	NED	ITA	ITA	MAL	MAL	GBR	GBR	ITA	ITA	USA	USA	GER	GER	FRA	FRA	SPA	SPA	QAT	QAT			19th	30
2018	Yamaha	AUS	AUS	THA	THA	SPA	SPA	NED	NED	ITA	ITA	GBR	GBR	CZE	CZE	USA	USA	ITA	ITA	POR	POR	FRA	FRA	ARG	ARG	QAT	QAT			22nd	7

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

By season

Season	Class	Motorcycle	Team	Number	Race	Win	Podium	Pole	FLap	Pts	Plcd	WCh
2009	MotoGP	Ducati Desmosedici GP9	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	RSM Team Scot
		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	–
	MotoE	Energica Ego Corsa	WithU GRT RNF MotoE Team	7	12	0	1	0	0	94.5	7th	–
Total					50	0	1	0	0	229.5		0

By class

Class	Seasons	1st GP	1st Pod	Race	Podiums	Pts
MotoGP	2009	2009 Qatar		14	0	38
Moto2	2010	2010 Qatar		11	0	0
MotoE	2019–2020, 2022–present	2019 Germany	2022 France	25	1	191.5
Total	2009–2010, 2019–2020, 2022-present			50	1	229.5

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
2009	MotoGP	Ducati	QAT	JPN	SPA	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	USA	GER	GBR	CZE	INP	RSM	POR	AUS	MAL	VAL	16th	38
2010	Moto2	Force GP	QAT	SPA	FRA	ITA	GBR	NED	CAT	GER										NC	0
Suter									CZE	INP
Bimota											RSM	ARA	JPN	MAL	AUS	POR	VAL
2019	MotoE	Energica	GER	AUT	RSM1	RSM2	VAL1	VAL2												9th	46
2020	MotoE	Energica	SPA	ANC	RSM	EMI1	EMI2	FRA1	FRA2											9th	51
	MotoE	Energica	SPA1	SPA2	FRA1	FRA2	ITA1	ITA2	NED1	NED2	AUT1	AUT2	RSM1	RSM2						7th	94.5

Half points awarded as less than two thirds of the race distance (but at least three full laps) was completed.

FIM EWC

By year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

CIV National Championship

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Notes and References

Web site: Canepa leads Indianapolis MotoGP test . flagworld.com . 2008-10-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090508140222/http://www.flagworld.com/news/?p=1872 . 2009-05-08 . dead .
Web site: Canepa makes his case . crash.net . 2008-10-28.
Web site: Canepa to get three WSBK wild-card rides with Ducati . worldsbk.com . 2008-10-28.
Web site: Bittersweet Sunday for Pata Prometeon Yamaha in Cremona as Canepa Retires from Professional Racing Yamaha Racing . 2024-10-30 . www.yamaha-racing.com.
Web site: Niccolò Canepa to Retire from Racing After Bol d’Or Yamaha Racing . 2024-10-30 . www.yamaha-racing.com.