Mattia Pasini
Mattia Pasini (born 13 August 1985) is an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
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Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Rimini, Italy | 13 August 1985||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current team | Tasca Racing Scuderia Moto2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bike number | 54 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Career
Early career
Born in Rimini, Pasini participated in his first race at the age of 9.
125cc World Championship
After several successful years in the Italian and European championships, he made his 125cc world championship debut in 2004 as the teammate of Roberto Locatelli. He finished his first season in the 15th place overall, and earned the rookie of the year award. His best results were a 3rd place in Qualifying and a 7th place in the Malaysian Grand Prix.
The following year Pasini was running in the lead in most of the races and won the Chinese and Catalan Grands Prix. He finished the season in fourth place overall. In 2006 Pasini finished fourth overall once again, having won the Italian Grand Prix and the German Grand Prix.
The 2007 season started very badly as Pasini suffered from motorcycles malfunctions early in the year. That lowered his chances of winning the championship. Despite having four wins, one more than the championship leader Gábor Talmácsi and as many as the runner-up Héctor Faubel, Pasini ended the year in fifth place.
250cc World Championship
In 2008, Pasini rode in the 250cc class for Polaris World Aprilia team. He gained his first 250cc victory in the opening round of the season during the Qatar Grand Prix and secured three more podium finishes in the first five rounds. However, he failed to maintain such form and finished no higher than fifth in the remaining races. He finished the season 8th overall and was the rookie of the year.
2009 Pasini was victorious at Mugello, but generally struggled to match the frontunners.
In 2009 he got a chance to test a Ducati MotoGP bike for Pramac Racing in order to evaluate him as a replacement for Mika Kallio who in turn replaced Casey Stoner at Ducati works team.[1] After the test however, it was decided he would not be racing for Pramac in 2009.[2]
Prior to the Portuguese Grand Prix in Pasini was forced to find a new team due to issues with Team Toth ability to pay for the leasing of bikes from Aprilia. This led to Daniel Epp assisting Pasini in financing the lease of bikes for the remainder of the season under the banner of Team Globalgest. The team acquired all of Pasini's mechanics from Toth and raced from the Emmi – Caffe Latte teams garage for the remainder of the season.[3]
MotoGP World Championship
In January 2012, it was announced that Pasini was going to make the step up to MotoGP with the Speed Master team,[4] replacing Anthony West, as he could not acquire the funds to retain the ride. He rode an Aprilia ART CRT bike. At Assen he achieved his best result with 10th place.
Career statistics
![](../I/m/Mattia_Pasini_2010_Assen.jpg)
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
By season
Season | Class | Motorcycle | Team | Race | Win | Podium | Pole | FLap | Pts | Plcd |
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2004 | 125cc | Aprilia | Safilo Carrera - LCR | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 15th |
2005 | 125cc | Aprilia | Totti Top Sport - NGS | 15 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 183 | 4th |
2006 | 125cc | Aprilia | Master - MVA Aspar Team | 16 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 192 | 4th |
2007 | 125cc | Aprilia | Polaris World | 17 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 174 | 5th |
2008 | 250cc | Aprilia | Polaris World | 16 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 132 | 8th |
2009 | 250cc | Aprilia | Team Tóth | 16 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 128 | 5th |
2010 | Moto2 | Motobi | JiR Moto2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 28th |
Suter | Italtrans Racing Team | |||||||||
2011 | Moto2 | FTR | IodaRacing Project | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 24th |
2012 | MotoGP | ART | Speed Master | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 22nd |
Moto2 | FTR | NGM Mobile Forward Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |
2013 | Moto2 | Speed Up | NGM Mobile Racing | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 15th |
2014 | Moto2 | Forward KLX | NGM Forward Racing | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 21st |
Kalex | ||||||||||
2015 | Moto2 | Kalex | Gresini Racing Moto2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC |
2016 | Moto2 | Kalex | Italtrans Racing Team | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 11th |
2017 | Moto2 | Kalex | Italtrans Racing Team | 18 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 148 | 6th |
2018 | Moto2 | Kalex | Italtrans Racing Team | 18 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 141 | 9th |
2019 | Moto2 | Kalex | Pons HP 40 Petronas Sprinta Racing Tasca Racing Scuderia Moto2 |
11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 20th |
KTM | Sama Qatar Ángel Nieto Team | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Total | 238 | 12 | 30 | 19 | 6 | 1405 |
By class
Class | Seasons | 1st GP | 1st Pod | 1st Win | Race | Win | Podiums | Pole | FLap | Pts | WChmp |
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125cc | 2004–2007 | 2004 South Africa | 2005 China | 2005 China | 64 | 8 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 603 | 0 |
250cc | 2008–2009 | 2008 Qatar | 2008 Qatar | 2008 Qatar | 32 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 260 | 0 |
Moto2 | 2010–2019 | 2010 Qatar | 2017 Italy | 2017 Italy | 128 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 529 | 0 |
MotoGP | 2012 | 2012 Qatar | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | ||
Total | 2004–2019 | 238 | 12 | 30 | 19 | 6 | 1405 | 0 |
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 | 18 | 19 | Pos | Pts |
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2004 | 125cc | Aprilia | RSA 13 |
SPA Ret |
FRA 12 |
ITA 8 |
CAT 11 |
NED 11 |
BRA 10 |
GER 20 |
GBR Ret |
CZE 14 |
POR 17 |
JPN Ret |
QAT 9 |
MAL 7 |
AUS 18 |
VAL 11 |
15th | 54 | |||
2005 | 125cc | Aprilia | SPA 4 |
POR 8 |
CHN 1 |
FRA DNS |
ITA 4 |
CAT 1 |
NED 3 |
GBR Ret |
GER Ret |
CZE Ret |
JPN 5 |
MAL 3 |
QAT 9 |
AUS 4 |
TUR 2 |
VAL 3 |
4th | 183 | |||
2006 | 125cc | Aprilia | SPA 3 |
QAT 4 |
TUR 17 |
CHN 2 |
FRA Ret |
ITA 1 |
CAT 4 |
NED 7 |
GBR 3 |
GER 1 |
CZE 6 |
MAL 7 |
AUS 3 |
JPN 4 |
POR Ret |
VAL 9 |
4th | 192 | |||
2007 | 125cc | Aprilia | QAT Ret |
SPA Ret |
TUR Ret |
CHN 10 |
FRA Ret |
ITA 6 |
CAT Ret |
GBR 1 |
NED 1 |
GER Ret |
CZE 2 |
RSM 1 |
POR 8 |
JPN 1 |
AUS 7 |
MAL 8 |
VAL 4 |
5th | 174 | ||
2008 | 250cc | Aprilia | QAT 1 |
SPA 2 |
POR Ret |
CHN 3 |
FRA 3 |
ITA 5 |
CAT 6 |
GBR Ret |
NED Ret |
GER 6 |
CZE 7 |
RSM Ret |
IND C |
JPN 8 |
AUS Ret |
MAL Ret |
VAL 9 |
8th | 132 | ||
2009 | 250cc | Aprilia | QAT Ret |
JPN 3 |
SPA 6 |
FRA Ret |
ITA 1 |
CAT 4 |
NED Ret |
GER Ret |
GBR 3 |
CZE 2 |
IND Ret |
RSM 2 |
POR 8 |
AUS Ret |
MAL Ret |
VAL Ret |
5th | 128 | |||
2010 | Moto2 | Motobi | QAT 6 |
SPA Ret |
FRA Ret |
ITA Ret |
GBR Ret |
NED 14 |
CAT | GER | CZE | IND | 28th | 12 | |||||||||
Suter | RSM Ret |
ARA Ret |
JPN | MAL | AUS | POR | VAL | ||||||||||||||||
2011 | Moto2 | FTR | QAT Ret |
SPA 13 |
POR 20 |
FRA 23 |
CAT Ret |
GBR Ret |
NED 6 |
ITA 20 |
GER 19 |
CZE 11 |
IND 8 |
RSM 17 |
ARA Ret |
JPN 14 |
AUS Ret |
MAL Ret |
VAL Ret |
24th | 28 | ||
2012 | MotoGP | ART | QAT 17 |
SPA 14 |
POR Ret |
FRA 12 |
CAT 17 |
GBR Ret |
NED 10 |
GER Ret |
ITA 15 |
USA Ret |
IND Ret |
CZE 16 |
RSM Ret |
ARA 16 |
JPN | MAL | AUS | 22nd | 13 | ||
Moto2 | FTR | VAL 25 |
NC | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
2013 | Moto2 | Speed Up | QAT Ret |
AME 7 |
SPA 15 |
FRA 6 |
ITA 24 |
CAT 11 |
NED 18 |
GER 19 |
IND 25 |
CZE 14 |
GBR 10 |
RSM 11 |
ARA 9 |
MAL Ret |
AUS 16 |
JPN 10 |
VAL 9 |
15th | 58 | ||
2014 | Moto2 | Forward KLX | QAT 17 |
AME 12 |
ARG Ret |
SPA 18 |
21st | 35 | |||||||||||||||
Kalex | FRA Ret |
ITA Ret |
CAT 6 |
NED 17 |
GER 8 |
IND DNS |
CZE 17 |
GBR 9 |
RSM 13 |
ARA 21 |
JPN Ret |
AUS Ret |
MAL 13 |
VAL Ret | |||||||||
2015 | Moto2 | Kalex | QAT | AME | ARG | SPA | FRA | ITA 18 |
CAT | NED | GER | IND | CZE | GBR | RSM 16 |
ARA | JPN | AUS | MAL | VAL | NC | 0 | |
2016 | Moto2 | Kalex | QAT 16 |
ARG 10 |
AME 17 |
SPA 12 |
FRA 16 |
ITA Ret |
CAT 12 |
NED 19 |
GER 4 |
AUT 13 |
CZE 4 |
GBR 9 |
RSM 16 |
ARA 12 |
JPN 7 |
AUS Ret |
MAL 23 |
VAL 7 |
11th | 72 | |
2017 | Moto2 | Kalex | QAT 24 |
ARG 20 |
AME 22 |
SPA 4 |
FRA 5 |
ITA 1 |
CAT DSQ |
NED 4 |
GER 5 |
CZE Ret |
AUT 5 |
GBR 2 |
RSM Ret |
ARA 2 |
JPN 5 |
AUS Ret |
MAL 4 |
VAL 19 |
6th | 148 | |
2018 | Moto2 | Kalex | QAT 4 |
ARG 1 |
AME 7 |
SPA 5 |
FRA 18 |
ITA Ret |
CAT Ret |
NED 11 |
GER Ret |
CZE 10 |
AUT 4 |
GBR C |
RSM 4 |
ARA 8 |
THA 6 |
JPN 14 |
AUS Ret |
MAL 4 |
VAL 4 |
9th | 141 |
2019 | Moto2 | Kalex | QAT | ARG | AME 4 |
FRA Ret |
ITA 11 |
CAT | NED | GER | CZE Ret |
AUT 10 |
GBR 13 |
RSM DNS |
ARA | THA Ret |
JPN Ret |
AUS Ret |
MAL 13 |
VAL 11 |
20th | 35 | |
KTM | SPA Ret |
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References
- http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2009/Pasini+to+test+with+Pramac+Racing+at+Brno
- "Pasini rules out racing for Pramac in 09". Autosport. 18 August 2009.
- http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2009/Pasini+hopes+for+stability+at+final+rounds
- "Mattia Pasini takes over Speed Master MotoGP ride". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. 28 January 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2012.