Ángel Rodríguez (motorcyclist)

Ángel Rodríguez Campillo (born 20 May 1985 in Elche, Province of Alicante, Spain) is a professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He raced in the 125cc and 250cc World championships between 2000 and 2009.[1] He currently competes in the RFME Superstock 1000 Championship, aboard a Kawasaki ZX-10R.

Ángel Rodríguez
Rodríguez at the 2012 French Grand Prix
NationalitySpanish
Born (1985-05-20) 20 May 1985
Elche, Spain
Current teamTACK Kawasaki
Bike number47
Motorcycle racing career statistics
Moto2 World Championship
Active years2012
ManufacturersFTR, Bimota
Championships0
2012 championship positionNC (0 pts)
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
6 0 0 0 0 0
250cc World Championship
Active years2002, 2009
ManufacturersAprilia
Championships0
2009 championship positionNC (0 pts)
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
2 0 0 0 0 0
125cc World Championship
Active years2000–2002, 2004–2006
ManufacturersAprilia, Derbi, Honda
Championships0
2006 championship position18th (20 pts)
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
64 0 0 0 1 82
Supersport World Championship
Active years2008
ManufacturersYamaha
Championships0
2008 championship position24th (14 pts)
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
3 0 0 0 0 14

Rodríguez started racing in pocketbikes. He competed in the Spanish Championship, where he won the title in 2001 again riders like Casey Stoner, Jorge Lorenzo, Chaz Davies, Marco Simoncelli. He also made his debut in the 125cc World Championship in 2000. In 2001 he rode for Aspar Team with his CEV Aprilia bike. In 2001 he done some good race including a sixth place in Jerez and a great race in Phillip Island. In this race he fight for the victory until last lap, but a rider crashed in front of him while Angel was third and he crashed.

In 2002 he continued with Aspar Team and he improved his qualification results starting some races in second row, but he had some crashes and some mechanical failures and he did not finish many races. After these bad results, Angel and the Aspar team decided to finish the contract, but they were together again in the last round of the 250cc class in Valencia.

In 2004 he rode for Derbi being Jorge Lorenzo teammate, but Angel did not have good results. He was in the same team as Jorge Lorenzo but with a very different bike - older and with many mechanical problems in free practice, qualys and races, this is why Angel not finish many races in the 2004 season.

In 2005 and 2006 he improved his results in the category doing the fastest lap of the race in Australia 2005 with Team Toth bike, this was incredible because before Angel arrived to this team they did not get any points that season.

In 2007 he went to CEV, doing a great season in his first season in a 600cc bike. He finished third due to an injury.

In 2008, Rodríguez became the 600cc Spanish National Champion winning all races and doing all poles of the championship and he became European Champion, too, winning this championship against some riders who rode in World SSP. He also made three World Supersport appearances with his CEV bike doing 2 top 10 in 3 races. After this amazing season, some World SSP and World SBK were interested in signing him and also Aspar Team had some conversations with Angel for race in 2009 MotoGP season, but due to sponsors problems he did not sign with any of this teams.

In 2009 he won the three races and he did the three poles in Spanish championship, but after that he stopped racing due to problems with RFME and for not having support of sponsors to be back at the world championship.

In 2012 he was back in World Moto2 but after the first races he decided to finish the contract with his team because they did not have the equipment for fighting for the top 5.

After that Angel wemt to FIM CEV and rode with the old Suzuki, with amazing results including one pole and one victory and earning the track record in Alcarras Circuit.

In 2016 and 2017 he has finished third in CEV having good results in the category with many podiums and being one of references of the category.

Career statistics

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

By season
Season Class Motorcycle Team Number Race Win Podium Pole FLap Pts Plcd
2000 125cc Aprilia Analco-3C Racing 47 1 0 0 0 0 0 NC
2001 125cc Aprilia Valencia Circuit Aspar Team 31 15 0 0 0 0 27 20th
2002 125cc Aprilia Master-Aspar Team 47 9 0 0 0 0 17 24th
2002 250cc Aprilia Racing Damas 74 1 0 0 0 0 0 NC
2004 125cc Derbi Caja Madrid Derbi Racing 47 16 0 0 0 0 2 32nd
2005 125cc Honda LG Mobile Galicia Team 47 12 0 0 0 1 16 22nd
Aprilia Team Toth
2006 125cc Aprilia 3C Racing 10 11 0 0 0 0 20 18th
2009 250cc Aprilia Balatonring Team 47 1 0 0 0 0 0 NC
2012 Moto2 FTR Desguaces La Torre SAG 47 6 0 0 0 0 0 NC
Bimota
Total 72 0 0 0 1 82

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
2000 125cc Aprilia RSA MAL JPN SPA FRA ITA CAT
DNQ		 NED GBR GER CZE POR VAL
Ret		 BRA PAC AUS NC 0
2001 125cc Aprilia JPN
Ret		 RSA
Ret		 SPA
6		 FRA
DNS		 ITA
20		 CAT
Ret		 NED
Ret		 GBR
9		 GER
8		 CZE
17		 POR
Ret		 VAL
15		 PAC
15		 AUS
23		 MAL
17		 BRA
Ret		 20th 27
2002 125cc Aprilia JPN
7		 RSA
Ret		 SPA
Ret		 FRA
Ret		 ITA
Ret		 CAT
Ret		 NED
10		 GBR
Ret		 GER
14		 CZE POR BRA PAC MAL AUS 24th 17
250cc Aprilia VAL
18		 NC 0
2004 125cc Derbi RSA
Ret		 SPA
Ret		 FRA
18		 ITA
Ret		 CAT
15		 NED
15		 BRA
Ret		 GER
Ret		 GBR
Ret		 CZE
Ret		 POR
Ret		 JPN
Ret		 QAT
Ret		 MAL
Ret		 AUS
Ret		 VAL
Ret		 32nd 2
2005 125cc Honda SPA
Ret		 POR
21		 CHN
Ret		 FRA
Ret		 ITA
Ret		 CAT
20		 NED
22		 GBR
Ret		 GER
Ret		 CZE JPN MAL 22nd 16
Aprilia QAT
Ret		 AUS
8		 TUR
8		 VAL
2006 125cc Aprilia SPA
Ret		 QAT
7		 TUR
10		 CHN
Ret		 FRA
11		 ITA
Ret		 CAT
Ret		 NED
Ret		 GBR
19		 GER
Ret		 CZE
17		 MAL AUS JPN POR VAL 18th 20
2009 250cc Aprilia QAT JPN SPA FRA
Ret		 ITA CAT NED GER GBR CZE IND RSM POR AUS MAL VAL NC 0
2012 Moto2 FTR QAT
20		 SPA
20		 POR
22		 NC 0
Bimota FRA
Ret		 CAT
20		 GBR
26		 NED GER ITA IND CZE RSM ARA JPN MAL AUS VAL

Supersport World Championship

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 Pos Pts
2008 Yamaha QAT AUS SPA
8		 NED
Ret		 ITA
10		 GER SMR CZE GBR EUR ITA FRA POR 24th 14
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References
  1. Ángel Rodríguez career statistics at MotoGP.com
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Joan Olivé		 Spanish 125cc Champion
2001		 Succeeded by
Héctor Barberá
Preceded by
Graeme Gowland		 Spanish Supersport Champion
2008		 Succeeded by
Kev Coghlan
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