Sylvain Guintoli

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Sylvain Guintoli
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Nationality	French
Date of birth	June 24, 1982 (1982-06-24) (age 25)
Place of birth	Montélimar, France
Website	sylvainguintoli.com
MotoGP Record
Current team	Alice Team
Bike number	50
World Championships	0
Race starts	100
Race Wins	0
Podium finishes	1
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
Championship Points	418
2008 Championship position	17th (12 pts) - In Progress

Sylvain Guintoli (born 24 June 1982 in Montélimar, France, currently living in Leicester, England), is a professional motorcycle racer. He made a single MotoGP start in 2002, but has spent most of his career in the 250cc World Championship on private bikes.

In 2007, he raced in the MotoGP class for the Tech 3 Yamaha team. He described the opportunity as a "dream come true"^[1], but suffered a setback early in testing when he crashed and broke his collarbone, eliminating him from testing for several weeks^[2] . He has scored solid lower-order points in 2007, but shone in damp conditions at Le Mans, briefly leading before falling, but rejoining to finish 10th. He was involved in a practice crash at Laguna Seca which broke Alex Hofmann's hand. He finished 4th at the Motegi GP, making this his best MotoGP finish, and Dunlop's best finish on an 800cc bike. There were further regular lower-point finishes in 2007.

He was officially snapped up by Luis d'Antin, to ride the Ducati Desmocedici in 2008 for Pramac d'Antin, now renamed as Alice Team (replacing Hofmann), on Saturday 15th September [1].

Contents 1 Career statistics 1.1 Races by year 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Career statistics

[edit] Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Yr	Class	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Final Pos	Pts
2000	250 cc	Honda	SAF	MAL	JPN	SPA	FRA Ret	ITA	CAT	NED	GBR	GER	CZE	POR	VAL	BRA	PAC	AUS			-	-
2001	250 cc	Aprilia	JPN 15	SAF 12	SPA Ret	FRA 14	ITA Ret	CAT 18	NED 4	GBR 7	GER Ret	CZE 13	POR Ret	VAL 16	PAC 16	AUS Ret	MAL 9	BRA 11			14th	44
2002	MotoGP	Yamaha	JPN	SAF	SPA	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GBR	GER	CZE 17	POR	BRA	PAC	MAL	AUS	VAL			-	-
2003	250 cc	Aprilia	JPN 10	SAF 9	SPA Ret	FRA 6	ITA 5	CAT 8	NED 3	GBR Ret	GER Ret	CZE 8	POR 7	BRA 4	PAC Ret	MAL DNS	AUS Ret	VAL 4			10th	101
2004	250 cc	Aprilia	SAF 15	SPA Ret	FRA Ret	ITA 13	CAT 7	NED Ret	BRA 12	GER 10	GBR 10	CZE Ret	POR Ret	JPN 19	QAT 11	MAL Ret	AUS 8	VAL Ret			14th	42
2005	250 cc	Aprilia	SPA Ret	POR 8	CHN 12	FRA 9	ITA Ret	CAT 8	NED 12	GBR 9	GER 11	CZE 10	JPN 10	MAL 9	QAT 9	AUS 10	TUR 9	VAL 14			10th	84
2006	250 cc	Aprilia	SPA 9	QAT 6	TUR 6	CHN 12	FRA 9	ITA 11	CAT 8	NED Ret	GBR 8	GER 10	CZE 8	MAL 7	AUS Ret	JPN Ret	POR 8	VAL 10			9th	96
2007	MotoGP	Yamaha	QAT 15	SPA 15	CHN 15	TUR 13	FRA 10	ITA 14	CAT 14	GBR 16	NED 14	GER Ret	USA 13	CZE 13	SMR 12	POR 14	JPN 4	AUS 14	MAL 19	VAL 11	16th	50
2008	MotoGP	Ducati	QAT 15	SPA 16	POR 15	CHN 15	FRA 13	ITA 11	CAT -	GBR -	NED -	GER -	USA -	CZE -	SMR -	IND -	JPN -	AUS -	MAL -	VAL -	-	-

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• sylvainguintoli.com Official website

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