Luca Cadalora

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**Luca Cadalora**
Motorcycle Grand Prix Career
Nationality	Italian
Active years	1984 - 2000
Team(s)	MBA, Garelli, Yamaha, Honda, MuZ
Grands Prix	195
Championships	125cc - 1986 250cc - 1991, 1992
Wins	34
Podium finishes	72
Pole positions	29
Fastest laps	30
First Grand Prix	1984 125cc San Marino Grand Prix
First win	1986 125cc West German Grand Prix
Last win	1996 500cc German Grand Prix
Last Grand Prix	2000 500cc Czech Republic Grand Prix

Luca Cadalora (born May 17, 1963 in Modena, Italy) is an Italian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion. He won the 1986 125cc World Championship on a Garelli and then the 1991 and 1992 250cc World Championship aboard an Erv Kanemoto tuned Honda.

In 1993 he rose to the blue riband 500cc division as Wayne Rainey's team mate in the Kenny Roberts Yamaha team. In three seasons on the Roberts Yamaha, he displayed flashes of brilliance, finishing as high as 2nd to Mick Doohan in 1994. Cadalora rejoined Kanemoto for the 1996 season, racing a Honda NSR-500. Despite lacking any major sponsors, he still managed to finish the season in third place aboard the Kanemoto Honda. He returned to the Rainey Yamaha squad for a few races in 1997 season then helped develop the new MuZ race bike in 1998 and 1999. He closed out his career with Kenny Roberts' Modenas team in 2000.

Despite having immense talent, Cadalora was an enigma. He never trained as hard as he could have yet, on any given Sunday he could beat the best riders in the world during a period in Grand Prix history that was rich with talented riders.

[edit] Motorcycle Grand Prix Results

Year	Class	Classification	Machine	Victories
1984	125cc	8th	MBA	0
1985	125cc	17th	MBA	0
1986	125cc	1st	Garelli	4
1987	250cc	7th	Yamaha	0
1988	250cc	6th	Yamaha	2
1989	250cc	5th	Yamaha	2
1990	250cc	3rd	Yamaha	3
1991	250cc	1st	Honda	8
1992	250cc	1st	Honda	7
1993	500cc	5th	Yamaha	2
1994	500cc	2nd	Yamaha	2
1995	500cc	3rd	Yamaha	2
1996	500cc	3rd	Honda	2
1997	500cc	6th	Yamaha	0
1998	500cc	23rd	MuZ	0
1999	500cc	20th	MuZ	0
2000	500cc	27th	Modenas	0