Thomas Lüthi

Thomas Lüthi (born 6 September 1986 in Oberdiessbach, Kanton Bern, Switzerland) is a professional motorcycle road racer currently competing in the Moto2 Grand Prix World Championship for the Interwetten Paddock Moto2 team.

Early life

Growing up in Emmental, Lüthi started racing pocket bikes at the age of nine. He won pocket bike championships in 1999 and 2000. In 2002, he finished second overall in the European 125cc Championship, and third in the German 125cc series.

125cc

Lüthi made his first 125cc World Championship appearance at the 2002 German GP, which he finished in 26th place.

In the 2003 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Lüthi was invited by Daniel Epp to ride for his team, known as the "Elit Grand Prix Team"; Epp became his manager. Lüthi scored his first podium in Barcelona and ended in second place. In 2004, he retired from four races in a row, missed four races because of injury, and scored 14 points.

Andy Ibbott of California Superbike School started training Thomas during the 2005 season. Lüthi scored his first 125cc class Grand Prix win in 2005 at Le Mans, followed by three more victories that season, including one at his team's home race at Brno, Czech Republic. On 6 November 2005 Lüthi secured his first world championship in the 125cc class, the sixth-youngest person to do so; this took place at Valencia. While using a Honda RS125R kit, Lüthi won the world championship title in the 125cc class, being five points ahead of Mika Kallio. Lüthi was voted Swiss sportsman of the year in 2005 and also won the annual "Swiss Award" in the category of sport.

After winning the 2005 125cc World Championship, he was partnered by Sandro Cortese of Germany and the team name was changed to "Elit — Caffè Latte". He scored his only win and only podium of the season at the 2006 French Grand Prix. He lost his championship title to Álvaro Bautista.^{[citation needed]}

250cc

After the 2006 season, Lüthi moved on to 250cc. The team changed their name to "Emmi — Caffè Latte", and defected to Aprilia, racing on the Aprilia RSA 250.

For 2008, Lüthi continued with the Aprilia RSA 250. Daniel Epp also ran an Aprillia LE for Lukáš Pešek, under the Auto Kelly - CP branding. Lüthi didn't have any podiums until the 2008 Italian GP, where he finished at the podium in third place. At Assen, he finished in second place behind Álvaro Bautista. At Brno, Lüthi crashed out of the race due to an apparent brake failure.

In 2009, he finished seventh overall in 250cc, although without a podium.

Moto2

For 2010, he remained with the team in the Moto2 class that replaced the 250cc category. At Silverstone, Lüthi finished in second place. Lüthi finished in third place at Assen, which was a position he acquired on the last lap after being in first place earlier in the race.^[2] Lüthi had a collarbone injury during those two races.^[3]

Grand Prix career statistics

All statistics are from MotoGP.com^[4]

By season

Season	Class	Motorcycle	Type	Races	Wins	Podiums	Poles	FLaps	Pts	Plcd
2002	125cc	Honda	Honda RS125R	7	0	0	0	0	7	27th
2003	125cc	Honda	Honda RS125R	15	0	1	0	0	68	15th
2004	125cc	Honda	Honda RS125R	13	0	0	0	0	14	25th
2005	125cc	Honda	Honda RS125R	16	4	8	5	1	242	1st
2006	125cc	Honda	Honda RS125R	16	1	1	0	0	113	8th
2007	250cc	Aprilia	Aprilia RSA 250	17	0	0	0	0	133	8th
2008	250cc	Aprilia	Aprilia RSA 250	14	0	2	0	0	108	11th
2009	250cc	Aprilia	Aprilia RSA 250	16	0	0	0	0	120	7th
2010	Moto2	Moriwaki	Moriwaki MD600	17	0	5	0	2	156	4th
2011	Moto2	Suter	Suter MMXI	17	1	4	1	0	151	5th
2012	Moto2	Suter	Suter MMXII	17	1	6	1	3	191	4th
2013	Moto2	Suter	Suter MMXIII	15	0	6	0	1	155	6th
Total				180	7	33	7	7	1458

Races by year

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

Year	Class	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Pos	Pts
2002	125cc	Honda	JPN	RSA	SPA	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GBR	GER 26	CZE 19	POR 9	BRA 24	PAC	MAL 21	AUS Ret	VAL 24		27th	7
2003	125cc	Honda	JPN 9	RSA 17	SPA 12	FRA 9	ITA 15	CAT 2	NED 7	GBR 22	GER Ret	CZE Ret	POR Ret	BRA 15	PAC 10	MAL 4	AUS 16	VAL DNS		15th	68
2004	125cc	Honda	RSA Ret	SPA Ret	FRA Ret	ITA Ret	CAT	NED	BRA	GER 18	GBR 18	CZE 18	POR 16	JPN 12	QAT 13	MAL 11	AUS 19	VAL 14		25th	14
2005	125cc	Honda	SPA Ret	POR 3	CHN 4	FRA 1	ITA 2	CAT 7	NED 10	GBR 6	GER 2	CZE 1	JPN 2	MAL 1	QAT 6	AUS 1	TUR 5	VAL 9		1st	242
2006	125cc	Honda	SPA Ret	QAT 8	TUR 12	CHN Ret	FRA 1	ITA 9	CAT 6	NED 8	GBR 8	GER 6	CZE 5	MAL 13	AUS 4	JPN Ret	POR Ret	VAL 10		8th	113
2007	250cc	Aprilia	QAT 4	SPA Ret	TUR 5	CHN 8	FRA Ret	ITA 5	CAT 4	GBR Ret	NED Ret	GER 9	CZE 7	RSM 4	POR 4	JPN 10	AUS 5	MAL 5	VAL 9	8th	133
2008	250cc	Aprilia	QAT 15	SPA Ret	POR 4	CHN Ret	FRA 11	ITA 3	CAT 5	GBR 5	NED 2	GER 7	CZE Ret	RSM 7	IND C	JPN	AUS	MAL 9	VAL 10	11th	108
2009	250cc	Aprilia	QAT 6	JPN 8	SPA 5	FRA Ret	ITA 4	CAT 6	NED Ret	GER 8	GBR 9	CZE Ret	IND 9	RSM 10	POR 7	AUS 11	MAL 4	VAL 4		7th	120
2010	Moto2	Moriwaki	QAT 7	SPA 3	FRA 19	ITA 4	GBR 2	NED 3	CAT 2	GER Ret	CZE 11	IND 7	RSM 3	ARA 10	JPN 8	MAL Ret	AUS 11	POR 16	VAL 4	4th	156
2011	Moto2	Suter	QAT 3	SPA 2	POR Ret	FRA 5	CAT Ret	GBR 15	NED 8	ITA 6	GER 5	CZE 5	IND 17	RSM 8	ARA 7	JPN 3	AUS 11	MAL 1	VAL 17	5th	151
2012	Moto2	Suter	QAT 5	SPA 3	POR 3	FRA 1	CAT 2	GBR 8	NED Ret	GER 5	ITA 3	IND 5	CZE 2	RSM 9	ARA 10	JPN 5	MAL Ret	AUS Ret	VAL 4	4th	191
2013	Moto2	Suter	QAT	AME DNS	SPA 11	FRA Ret	ITA 9	CAT 3	NED 8	GER 6	IND 13	CZE 3	GBR 3	RSM 4	ARA Ret	MAL 3	AUS 2	JPN 3	VAL 7	6th	155

References

↑ Official MotoGP profile
↑ "Another Iannone runaway at Assen". crash.net (Crash Media Group). 2010-06-26. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
↑ "Luthi to ride fresh from surgery". crash.net (Crash Media Group). 2010-07-01. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
↑ "Thomas Luthi". MotoGP.com. Retrieved 2008-11-03.

External links

(German) Official website
(German) Schweizer Fanpage
(German) Die Homepage des deutschen Fanclubs
(German) Tom Lüthi ist der «Star des Jahres» von www.startalk.ch
(German) Radio Basilisk-Interview nach dem 1. Sieg in Le Mans (wma, schweizerdeutsch)

Awards
Preceded by Roger Federer	Swiss Sportsman of the Year 2005	Succeeded by Roger Federer
Sporting positions
Preceded by Andrea Dovizioso	125cc Motorcycle World Champion 2005	Succeeded by Álvaro Bautista

v t e Interwetten Honda MotoGP Team

Moto2 (Interwetten Paddock Moto2):	Thomas Lüthi (12)

Moto3 (Interwetten Paddock Moto3):	Philipp Öttl (65)

Grand Prix motorcycle::	Suter MMX2 (Moto2) Kalex-KTM (Moto3)

125cc/Moto3 Motorcycle World Champions

1949 – N. Pagani

1950 – B. Ruffo
1951 – C. Ubbiali
1952 – C. Sandford
1953 – W. Haas
1954 – R. Hollaus
1955 – C. Ubbiali
1956 – C. Ubbiali
1957 – T. Provini
1958 – C. Ubbiali
1959 – C. Ubbiali

1960 – C. Ubbiali
1961 – T. Phillis
1962 – L. Taveri
1963 – H. Anderson
1964 – L. Taveri
1965 – H. Anderson
1966 – L. Taveri
1967 – B. Ivy
1968 – P. Read
1969 – D. Simmonds

1970 – D. Braun
1971 – Á. Nieto
1972 – Á. Nieto
1973 – K. Andersson
1974 – K. Andersson
1975 – P. Pileri
1976 – P. Bianchi
1977 – P. Bianchi
1978 – E. Lazzarini
1979 – Á. Nieto

1980 – P. Bianchi
1981 – Á. Nieto
1982 – Á. Nieto
1983 – Á. Nieto
1984 – Á. Nieto
1985 – F. Gresini
1986 – L. Cadalora
1987 – F. Gresini
1988 – J. Martínez
1989 – À. Crivillé

1990 – L. Capirossi
1991 – L. Capirossi
1992 – A. Gramigni
1993 – D. Raudies
1994 – K. Sakata
1995 – H. Aoki
1996 – H. Aoki
1997 – V. Rossi
1998 – K. Sakata
1999 – E. Alzamora

2000 – R. Locatelli
2001 – M. Poggiali
2002 – A. Vincent
2003 – D. Pedrosa
2004 – A. Dovizioso
2005 – T. Lüthi
2006 – Á. Bautista
2007 – G. Talmácsi
2008 – M. Di Meglio
2009 – J. Simón

2010 – M. Márquez
2011 – N. Terol
2012 – S. Cortese
2013 – M. Viñales

Persondata
Name	Luthi, Thomas
Alternative names
Short description	swiss motorcycle racer
Date of birth	1986-9-6
Place of birth	Oberdiessbach (Switzerland)
Date of death
Place of death

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