Thomas Lüthi

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Thomas Lüthi (born 6 September 1986 in Oberdiessbach, Kanton Bern, Switzerland) is a Swiss Grand Prix motorcycle road racer for the Czech Elit Grand Prix-Team of team manager Daniel Epp.

He scored his first 125 cc class Grand Prix win in 2005 at Le Mans followed by three more victories that season. On November 6, 2005, Lüthi secured his first world championship in the 125 cc class, the sixth-youngest champion ever.

1 Biography
2 Career
- 2.1 Championship standings
- 2.2 FIM Grand Prix results
3 External links

[edit] Biography

He is considered by many as one of the great talents in motorcycle road racing. 2005 represented his third full season in the 125cc class, with the Czech Elit Grand Prix team, whose team manager is Swiss Daniel Epp.

Growing up amongst the lime trees in Emmental, Thomas Luthi’s name first appeared in the motorcycle world as a 9 year old, starting his career on pocket bike. He had a special ability for balance and concentration even at that age. That ability has not changed even to this day. This season, Sandro Cortese is his team mate at the Elit team.

Thomas Luthi is the ideal weight for a 125cc bike, which means that he does not have to ride with lead weights on the motorcycle in order to compete with the minimum all-up weight of the motorcycle at 136 Kilos.

Andy Ibbott of California Superbike School fame started training Thomas during the 2005 season. On 6 November 2005 at Valencia, Luthi won the MotoGP world championship title in the 125cc Class. He thereby became the sixth-youngest world champion of all time. As a consequence he was selected to be Swiss sportsman of the year 2005 and by the choice of the Swiss people, also won the annual "Swiss Award" in the category of sport.

For his 2007 season he has moved up a class to 250cc classification. His ride in 2007 will be Aprilia.

[edit] Career

[edit] Championship standings

Contest	Year	Result
Swiss Pocket Bike	1998 1999 2000	2nd 1st 1st
ADAC Junior Cup 125	2001	6th
IDM German championship 125 cc IDM	2002	3rd
FIM Road Racing World Championship 125cc at Estoril	2002	9th
GP 125 cc	2002	27th
GP 125 cc	2003	15th
GP 125 cc	2004	25th
GP 125 cc	2005	World Champion
GP 125 cc	2006	8th

[edit] FIM Grand Prix results

Round	Year	Result
GP 125 cc - Barcelona, Spain	2003	2nd
GP 125 cc - Assen, Netherlands	2003	9th
GP 125 cc - Sepang, Malaysia	2003	4th
GP 125 cc - Estoril, Portugal	2005	3rd
GP 125 cc - Le Mans, France	2005	Winner
GP 125 cc - Brno, Czech Republic	2005	Winner
GP 125 cc - Sepang, Malaysia	2005	Winner
GP 125 cc - Phillip Island, Australia	2005	Winner
GP 125 cc - Le Mans, France	2006	Winner