Randy de Puniet

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Randy de Puniet
Randy de Puniet
Nationality	French
Date of birth	February 14, 1981 (1981-02-14) (age 27)
Place of birth	Maisons-Laffitte, France
MotoGP Record
Current team	Team LCR
Bike number	14
World Championships	0
Race starts	148
Race Wins	5
Podium finishes	23
Pole positions	9
Fastest laps	4
Championship Points	950
2008 Championship position	16th (18 pts) - In Progress

Randy de Puniet (born February 14, 1981 in Maisons-Laffitte, France) is a French Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. 2006 was his first season in MotoGP, for the Kawasaki factory team, where he remains for 2007. At Barcelona he took his first front-row start, and finished a career-best fifth. Up until Donington, he has started all but one other race on the third row. He started 4th and finished 2nd at Motegi in the wet. August 24th 2007 saw the Honda LCR team announce that de Puniet would ride for them in 2008 and 2009.

De Puniet was French 125cc champion in 1998, moving up to the world championship a year later. In 2001 he moved up to the 250cc World Championship. He earned two podium finishes in 2002 to earn a factory Aprilia ride for 2003. He took his first win at Catalunya, coming 4th overall with 3 wins. In 2004 he was third with a single win, spending 2005 with an Aprilia team run by former world champion, Jorge Martínez Aspar.

Contents 1 Career statistics 1.1 By season 1.2 By class 1.3 Races by year

[edit] Career statistics

[edit] By season

Seas	Class	Moto	Race	Win	Pod	Pole	FLap	Pts	Plcd	WCh
1998	125cc	Honda RS125R	1	0	0	0	0	0	-	-
1999	125cc	Aprilia RS125	16	0	0	0	0	26	18th	-
2000	125cc	Aprilia RS125	16	0	0	0	0	50	17th	-
2001	250cc	Aprilia RSV250	16	0	0	0	0	50	13th	-
2002	250cc	Aprilia RSV250	16	0	2	1	0	119	9th	-
2003	250cc	Aprilia RSV250	16	3	9	5	2	208	4th	-
2004	250cc	Aprilia RSV250	16	1	8	2	0	214	3rd	-
2005	250cc	Aprilia RSV250	16	1	3	1	2	138	8th	-
2006	MotoGP	Kawasaki Ninja ZX-RR	17	0	0	0	0	37	16th	-
2007	MotoGP	Kawasaki Ninja ZX-RR	18	0	1	0	0	108	11th	-
Total			148	5	23	9	4	950		0

[edit] By class

Class	Seas	1st GP	1st Pod	1st Win	Race	Win	Pod	Pole	FLap	Pts	WCh
125cc	1998-2000	1998 France	N/A	N/A	33	0	0	0	0	76	0
250cc	2001-2005	2001 Japan	2002 Japan	2003 Catalunya	80	5	22	9	4	729	0
MotoGP	2006-2007	2006 Spain	2007 Japan	N/A	35	0	1	0	0	145	0
Total	1998-2007				148	5	23	9	4	950	0

[edit] Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Yr	Class	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Final Pos	Pts
1998	125 cc	Honda	JPN	MAL	SPA	ITA	FRA 17	MAD	NED	GBR	GER	CZE	SMR	CAT	AUS	ARG					-	0
1999	125 cc	Aprilia	MAL 20	JPN 15	SPA Ret	FRA 11	ITA 19	CAT 9	NED Ret	GBR Ret	GER 15	CZE Ret	SMR Ret	VAL 10	AUS 21	SAF Ret	BRA 18	ARG 10			18th	26
2000	125 cc	Aprilia	SAF 14	MAL Ret	JPN 10	SPA 13	FRA 12	ITA 9	CAT 13	NED Ret	GBR 10	GER Ret	CZE Ret	POR 7	VAL 18	BRA 9	PAC Ret	AUS 13			17th	50
2001	250 cc	Aprilia	JPN Ret	SAF Ret	SPA 18	FRA Ret	ITA Ret	CAT 8	NED 13	GBR Ret	GER 5	CZE 6	POR 17	VAL 10	PAC 11	AUS Ret	MAL 12	BRA 13			13th	50
2002	250 cc	Aprilia	JPN 3	SAF 6	SPA Ret	FRA 3	ITA 5	CAT 4	NED Ret	GBR 6	GER Ret	CZE 6	POR Ret	BRA Ret	PAC Ret	MAL 6	AUS 6	VAL 4			9th	119
2003	250 cc	Aprilia	JPN Ret	SAF 2	SPA 3	FRA 2	ITA Ret	CAT 1	NED Ret	GBR 8	GER 3	CZE 1	POR 3	BRA 3	PAC 6	MAL 5	AUS Ret	VAL 1			4th	208
2004	250 cc	Aprilia	SAF 2	SPA 2	FRA 2	ITA 4	CAT 1	NED 4	BRA 8	GER 5	GBR 3	CZE 2	POR 3	JPN 11	QAT Ret	MAL 5	AUS Ret	VAL 3			3rd	214
2005	250 cc	Aprilia	SPA Ret	POR 3	CHN 8	FRA 2	ITA Ret	CAT 6	NED 8	GBR 1	GER 6	CZE 8	JPN 5	MAL 4	QAT Ret	AUS 7	TUR Ret	VAL 8			8th	138
2006	MotoGP	Kawasaki	SPA Ret	QAT Ret	TUR 12	CHN 12	FRA Ret	ITA 13	CAT Ret	NED 14	GBR 12	GER Ret	USA 12	CZE 14	MAL 13	AUS 11	JPN Ret	POR 10	VAL Ret		16th	37
2007	MotoGP	Kawasaki	QAT Ret	SPA 13	CHN 8	TUR 8	FRA Ret	ITA Ret	CAT 5	GBR 6	NED Ret	GER Ret	USA 6	CZE 8	SMR Ret	POR Ret	JPN 2	AUS 6	MAL 4	VAL 9	11th	108
2008	MotoGP	Honda	QAT 9	SPA Ret	POR 15	CHN 13	FRA 9	ITA Ret	CAT -	GBR -	NED -	GER -	USA -	CZE -	SMR -	IND -	JPN -	AUS -	MAL -	VAL -	-	-

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