Andrew Pitt (motorcycle racer)

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Andrew Pitt
MotoGP Record
Nationality	Australian
Nicknames
Bike #	88
Current team	Ilmor
World Championships	0
Race Starts	22
Race Wins	0
Podium finishes	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
Championship Points	10
2007 Championship position	17th (0 pts)

Andrew Pitt (born 19 February 1976) hails from New South Wales, Australia, and is a motorcycle racer.

He was runner-up in the Australia Superbike championship in 1999, before entering the World Supersport Championship in 2000 riding for Kawasaki. He finished 10th in his debut season and won the title in 2001. For 2002 he continued in supersport with Kawasaki finishing the season 5th.

At the end of 2002 he was given a ride on Kawasaki's first MotoGP bike for the final 3 races of the season. He took his and Kawasaki's first MotoGP points at the final race of the season^[1]. His promising results in 2002 made Kawasaki offer him a full time MotoGP ride for the 2003 season. He matched experienced team-mate Garry McCoy, but neither was retained after an uncompetitive year. He made occasional appearances for Moriwaki in 2004 as part of their development programme.

In 2005 Yamaha offered him a World Superbike ride^[2]. He finished the season 8th overall, behind team-mate Noriyuki Haga who was third. Things improved in 2006 as he was 5th overall, and scored his maiden World Superbike Championship win at the Misano Circuit in Italy in June 2006. At the end of the 2006 season, he lost his seat to fellow Australian and 2005 Superbike World Champion, Troy Corser ^[3].

For 2007, he signed to race in MotoGP for the Ilmor team ^[4]. He was forced to retire with mechanical problems from the first race of the season in Qatar^[5]. On 15 March, 2007, Ilmor announced that they were taking a break from MotoGP as a result of funding issues.^[6], this leaves Andrew Pitt without a ride.