Simone Corsi

Simone Corsi (born 24 April 1987) is an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

Simone Corsi

Corsi at the 2018 Qatar Grand Prix
Personal information
Nationality	Italian
Born	24 April 1987 Rome, Italy
Sport
Club	Fiamme Oro[1]
Current team	MV Agusta Forward Racing
Bike number	24
Motorcycle racing career statistics Moto2 World Championship Active years 2010– Manufacturers Motobi, FTR, Speed Up, Forward KLX, Kalex, NTS, MV Agusta Championships 0 2020 championship position 24th (15 pts) Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 176 0 9 1 0 945 250cc World Championship Active years 2005 Manufacturers Aprilia Championships 0 2005 championship position 14th (59 pts) Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 16 0 0 0 0 59 125cc World Championship Active years 2002–2004, 2006–2009 Manufacturers Honda, Gilera, Aprilia Championships 0 2009 championship position 11th (81 pts) Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 95 5 12 3 2 646

Career

Corsi was born in Rome.

125cc World Championship

His first World Championship race was in 2002 at Mugello, in the 125cc class. Since the following year he has competed regularly in the world championship level.

In 2003, he achieved two 9th places and finished 19th in the final standings. In the following year he improved and ended 13th in the final standings while his team-mate, Andrea Dovizioso, won the championship. In 2005 they both moved to 250cc, but were now riding different bikes.

250cc World Championship

Corsi had a good first half of the year as he finished in the points in seven of the eight races. However, in the second half he finished in the points only once.

Return to 125cc

He returned to the 125cc class for 2006. Two fourth places and other lesser placings gave him 12th spot in the championship. But as five riders ahead of him moved to 250cc class, his 2007 looked promising.

He won the Turkish Grand Prix at Istanbul, but apart from that, achieved only one podium and finished in 6th place.

For 2008 he received a factory spec Aprilia RSA 125 and he was a title favourite for the year. He ultimately lost out to the Derbi of Mike Di Meglio.

For 2009, it had been speculated that Corsi would ride for the Scot Honda team in 250's, but he continued in 125s with Aprilia.

Moto2 World Championship

In 2010, Corsi stepped up to the new intermediate Moto2 class, for Team JiR. He scored his first podium – and his team's first podium – in the class at the French round at Le Mans, moving into third place in the championship standings.[2] He added another podium at Mugello, but a crash at the Sachsenring dented his championship hopes.[3]

Corsi in 2015.

In 2016, Corsi will join with Speed Up replacing Sam Lowes.

Corsi has been involved in several collisions over the past few years, and has been a frequent visitor to Race Direction. In Mugello 2015, he was involved in a collision with Sam Lowes, in which Corsi turned in on Lowes, causing himself to crash. He did this also to Tito Rabat in Qatar the same year.

In Austin 2016, he tried overtaking Takaaki Nakagami in the first corner with 5 laps to go, in which Corsi went up the inside of Nakagami when there was no room, causing Nakagami to crash. He was placed under investigation by Race Direction but it was subsequently deemed a racing incident. He did it again to Nakagami in Brno that year, but this time receiving a ride-through penalty for dangerous riding.

In Catalunya 2016, he was investigated after making contact with Lorenzo Baldassari in a chicane, but it was deemed a racing incident.

In Jerez 2017, he was involved in a collision with Nakagami and Xavi Vierge, when Corsi tried to overtake too many riders and lost the front, taking them out.

Career statistics

By season

Season	Class	Team	Motorcycle	Type	Race	Win	Podium	Pole	FLap	Pts	Plcd
2002	125cc	Polini	Honda	Honda RS125R	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2003	125cc	Team Scot	Honda	Honda RS125R	14	0	0	0	0	32	19th
2004	125cc	Kopron Team Scot	Honda	Honda RS125R	16	0	1	0	0	61	13th
2005	250cc	MS Aprilia Italia Corse	Aprilia	Aprilia RSW 250 LE	16	0	0	0	0	59	14th
2006	125cc	Squadra Corse Metis Gilera	Gilera	Gilera RS 125	14	0	0	0	0	79	12th
2007	125cc	Skilled Racing Team	Aprilia	Aprilia RS 125	17	1	2	0	0	168	6th
2008	125cc	Jack & Jones WRB	Aprilia	Aprilia RSA 125	17	4	7	3	2	225	2nd
2009	125cc	Fontana Racing	Aprilia	Aprilia RSA 125	16	0	2	0	0	81	11th
2010	Moto2	JiR Moto2	Motobi	TSR TSR6	17	0	2	0	0	138	5th
2011	Moto2	IodaRacing Project	FTR	FTR Moto M211	17	0	2	0	0	127	6th
2012	Moto2	Came IodaRacing Project	FTR	FTR Moto M212	17	0	0	1	0	88	11th
2013	Moto2	NGM Mobile Racing	Speed Up	Speed Up SF13	17	0	1	0	0	108	11th
2014	Moto2	NGM Forward Racing	Forward KLX	Forward KLX	12	0	2	0	0	100	7th
			Kalex	Kalex Moto2
2015	Moto2	Athinà Forward Racing	Kalex	Kalex Moto2 2014	17	0	0	0	0	86	12th
2016	Moto2	Speed Up Racing	Speed Up	Speed Up SF16	18	0	2	0	0	103	10th
2017	Moto2	Speed Up Racing	Speed Up	Speed Up SF17	18	0	0	0	0	117	9th
2018	Moto2	Tasca Racing Scuderia Moto2	Kalex	Kalex Moto2	18	0	0	0	0	53	14th
2019	Moto2	Tasca Racing Scuderia Moto2	Kalex	Kalex Moto2	9	0	0	0	0	10	24th
		NTS RW Racing GP	NTS	NTS NH7	2	0	0	0	0
2020	Moto2	MV Agusta Temporary Forward	MV Agusta	MV Agusta F2	14	0	0	0	0	15	24th
Total					287	5	21	4	2	1650

By class

Class	Seasons	1st GP	1st Pod	1st Win	Race	Win	Podiums	Pole	FLap	Pts	WChmp
125cc	2002–2004, 2006–2009	2002 Italy	2004 Japan	2007 Turkey	95	5	12	3	2	646	0
250cc	2005	2005 Spain			16	0	0	0	0	59	0
Moto2	2010–present	2010 Qatar	2010 France		176	0	9	1	0	945	0
Total	2002–Present				287	5	21	4	2	1650	0

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap of the race)

Year	Class	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Pos	Pts
2002	125cc	Honda	JPN	RSA	SPA	FRA	ITA 22	CAT	NED	GBR	GER	CZE	POR	BRA	PAC	MAL	AUS	VAL				NC	0
2003	125cc	Honda	JPN 12	RSA 14	SPA 21	FRA 14	ITA 12	CAT 15	NED 12	GBR Ret	GER 9	CZE Ret	POR 9	BRA 22	PAC 15	MAL	AUS	VAL Ret				19th	32
2004	125cc	Honda	RSA 14	SPA 12	FRA 15	ITA 11	CAT Ret	NED 18	BRA 13	GER 12	GBR 5	CZE 9	POR Ret	JPN 3	QAT Ret	MAL Ret	AUS 16	VAL 8				13th	61
2005	250cc	Aprilia	SPA 9	POR 17	CHN 8	FRA 11	ITA 9	CAT 5	NED 10	GBR 6	GER Ret	CZE Ret	JPN 11	MAL Ret	QAT 17	AUS 16	TUR Ret	VAL Ret				14th	59
2006	125cc	Gilera	SPA 11	QAT 9	TUR 4	CHN 10	FRA 10	ITA 10	CAT Ret	NED 4	GBR 13	GER 5	CZE 15	MAL 15	AUS DNS	JPN DNQ	POR 9	VAL 19				12th	79
2007	125cc	Aprilia	QAT 5	SPA Ret	TUR 1	CHN 5	FRA 8	ITA 3	CAT 7	GBR 10	NED 5	GER 4	CZE 7	RSM Ret	POR 4	JPN 6	AUS 4	MAL 7	VAL 12			7th	168
2008	125cc	Aprilia	QAT 7	SPA 1	POR 1	CHN Ret	FRA 13	ITA 1	CAT 5	GBR 5	NED 3	GER 5	CZE 10	RSM 3	IND 7	JPN 7	AUS 8	MAL 3	VAL 1			2nd	225
2009	125cc	Aprilia	QAT 14	JPN 15	SPA 14	FRA Ret	ITA 18	CAT 16	NED 8	GER Ret	GBR 2	CZE Ret	IND 3	RSM 7	POR Ret	AUS 5	MAL Ret	VAL 4				11th	81
2010	Moto2	Motobi	QAT 8	SPA 5	FRA 3	ITA 3	GBR Ret	NED 12	CAT 6	GER Ret	CZE 8	IND 5	RSM 4	ARA 5	JPN 11	MAL 10	AUS 8	POR 14	VAL 7			5th	138
2011	Moto2	FTR	QAT 6	SPA 3	POR 5	FRA 7	CAT 4	GBR 10	NED 14	ITA 7	GER 8	CZE 9	IND 14	RSM 10	ARA 3	JPN 5	AUS 15	MAL Ret	VAL Ret			6th	127
2012	Moto2	FTR	QAT 8	SPA 17	POR Ret	FRA Ret	CAT 5	GBR 5	NED Ret	GER 6	ITA 18	IND 8	CZE 5	RSM Ret	ARA 7	JPN 6	MAL 22	AUS 6	VAL 17			11th	88
2013	Moto2	Speed Up	QAT 7	AME 15	SPA 13	FRA 11	ITA 7	CAT 10	NED Ret	GER 2	IND 6	CZE 9	GBR 9	RSM Ret	ARA Ret	MAL 11	AUS 4	JPN Ret	VAL 4			11th	108
2014	Moto2	Forward KLX	QAT 5	AME 5	ARG 5	SPA Ret																7th	100
		Kalex					FRA 2	ITA 4	CAT Ret	NED 13	GER 3	IND 5	CZE 12	GBR Ret	RSM	ARA	JPN	AUS	MAL	VAL
2015	Moto2	Kalex	QAT Ret	AME 11	ARG Ret	SPA 8	FRA 18	ITA Ret	CAT 13	NED 10	GER 4	IND	CZE 11	GBR Ret	RSM 4	ARA 9	JPN 7	AUS 13	MAL 9	VAL 9		12th	86
2016	Moto2	Speed Up	QAT 3	ARG 20	AME 6	SPA Ret	FRA 2	ITA 12	CAT Ret	NED 7	GER Ret	AUT Ret	CZE 19	GBR 8	RSM Ret	ARA 9	JPN 6	AUS 7	MAL 11	VAL 11		10th	103
2017	Moto2	Speed Up	QAT 17	ARG 6	AME 7	SPA Ret	FRA 8	ITA 8	CAT 11	NED Ret	GER 4	CZE 6	AUT 11	GBR 6	RSM 7	ARA 7	JPN Ret	AUS 7	MAL 11	VAL 9		9th	117
2018	Moto2	Kalex	QAT 14	ARG 23	AME 12	SPA 12	FRA 14	ITA 10	CAT 12	NED 15	GER 8	CZE 15	AUT Ret	GBR C	RSM 11	ARA 12	THA 10	JPN Ret	AUS 19	MAL 16	VAL 10	14th	53
2019	Moto2	Kalex	QAT 19	ARG Ret	AME 8	SPA Ret	FRA Ret	ITA Ret	CAT 14	NED Ret	GER 21	CZE	AUT	GBR								24th	10
		NTS													RSM 19	ARA 21	THA	JPN	AUS	MAL	VAL
2020	Moto2	MV Agusta	QAT 21	SPA 15	ANC Ret	CZE DNS	AUT 20	STY 20	RSM 14	EMI 12	CAT 15	FRA 16	ARA 10	TER 15	EUR Ret	VAL 17	POR Ret					24th	15

References

1. "Fiamme Oro discipline sportive - Motociclismo" (in Italian). poliziadistato.it. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
2. "Corsi hands JiR first podium". crash.net. Crash Media Group. 2010-05-25. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
3. "Simone Corsi – Q&A". crash.net. Crash Media Group. 2010-08-06. Retrieved 2010-08-07.

External links

• Simone Corsi at MotoGP.com
• Simone Corsi at AS.com (in Spanish)