Régis Laconi

Infobox Superbike rider


Name = Régis Laconi
Caption = Régis Laconi Brands Hatch 2007
Nationality = flagicon|FRA French
Birthdate = July 8 1975
Birthplace = St. Dizier, France
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Current team = Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse
Bike number = 55
Championships = 0
Race Starts = 142
Race Wins = 11
Podiums = 28
Poles = 7
Fastest laps = 10
Last season = 2008
Last position = 18th (16pts)

Régis Laconi born July 8 1975 in St. Dizier France is a professional motorcycle racer. In SBK|2008 he competes in the Superbike World Championship for Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse. He was runner-up in SBK|2004, and has won races in both 500cc and the Superbike World Championship.

Early career

Régis has a French mother and Italian father. He started racing in 1991 in the French 125cc championship. He won this title in 1992, the French 250cc title a year later, and the European 250cc title in 1994. For 1995 he went to the 250cc World Championship, but was never a front-runner in his two seasons there.

500cc

1997 was his first season on a 500cc Grand Prix bike, but his World Championship season was ended by injury. With Red Bull backing he returned for 1998, riding a Yamaha for three years. He finished 10th, 11th and 12th in the series in this time, but won at Valencia in 1999.

uperbike World Championship

For SBK|2001 he was a factory Aprilia WSBK rider. He lead the first lap of the season, but struggled for much of the season on circuits he did not know. Until the final round at Imola his best result was a 4th, but he benefitted from knowing this circuit (which, like himself, was new to WSBK after being familiar in 500cc). He qualified 2nd, and won the second race, after running strongly in race 1 before being taken out by a fall for champion Troy Bayliss.A move to MotoGP for 2002 was not successful, with a best result of 8th, so for SBK|2003 he returned to WSBK for the Caracchi Ducati team, doing enough to earn a factory ride for SBK|2004 by taking 5 podium finishes, finishing 4th in a relatively weakened championship.

He and team-mate James Toseland were clear favourites for the SBK|2004 title, which Toseland took at the final round of the season, in spite of Régis taking 5 poles and 7 wins, and having what is seen as the stronger team of mechanics. His SBK|2005 season was interrupted by injury, and for SBK|2006 he switched to Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse. He finished the season behind his two team-mates in the championship, taking 15th place, with Chris Walker in 9th and Fonsi Nieto in 10th.

He remained with the team for SBK|2007 and finished 10th overall. He continues with the same team for SBK|2008. At Misano the team ran in a localised San Marino livery, but unfortunately both he and team-mate Makoto Tamada crashed in race 1, forcing Laconi to run race 2 in the conventional green Kawasaki livery.

External links

* [http://www.motorbike-search-engine.co.uk/Rider%20Profiles/regis_laconi_05.html motorbike-search-engine.co.uk] Rider profile
* [http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s180/st47086.php sportnetwork.net] Rider profile