Niccolò Canepa
Niccolò Canepa is an Italian professional motorcycle road racer competing in the MotoE World Cup aboard an Energica Ego Corsa.Career
Having 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 – Canepa won the 2007 Superstock 1000 F.I.M. Cup championship on a Ducati, and spent 2008 as a tester of their MotoGP and World Superbike machines. He was given three World Superbike wild card rides in the second half of the, 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
Niccolò moved in 2016 to the World Endurance Championship riding the Factory GMT94 Yamaha R1. He ended the season in second place.
In 2017 Niccolò won the World Endurance Championship. 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.Career statistics
Supersport World Championship
By season
Year | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Pos | Pts |
2005 | Kawasaki | QAT | AUS | ESP | ITA | EUR | ITA | CZE | GBR | NED | GER 16 | ITA 15 | FRA Ret | 41st | 1 |
Superbike World Championship
By season
Races by year
By season
* Season still in progress.By class
Races by year
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 17 | JPN 14 | SPA 16 | FRA 15 | ITA 9 | CAT 16 | NED 14 | USA 12 | GER 12 | GBR 8 | CZE 12 | IND Ret | RSM 13 | POR 13 | AUS DNS | MAL | VAL | 16th | 38 |
2010 | Moto2 | Force GP | QAT 27 | SPA Ret | FRA 17 | ITA 28 | GBR 16 | NED 24 | CAT Ret | GER 20 | | | | | | | | | | NC | 0 |
2010 | Moto2 | Suter | | | | | | | | | CZE 28 | IND | | | | | | | | NC | 0 |
2010 | Moto2 | Bimota | | | | | | | | | | | RSM 28 | ARA 26 | JPN | MAL | AUS | POR | VAL | NC | 0 |
2019 | MotoE | Energica | GER 12 | AUT 8 | RSM1 5 | RSM2 4 | VAL1 6 | VAL2 Ret | | | | | | | | | | | | 9th | 46 |
2020 | MotoE | Energica | SPA
| AND
| RSM
| EMI1
| EMI2
| FRA1
| FRA2
| | | | | | | | | | | 0 | 0 |
* Season still in progress.