Matteo Baiocco – Wikipedia

Matteo Baiocco (Osimo, April 23, 1984) is an Italian motorcycle driver, three times Italian champion of the Superbike class in 2011, 2012 and 2016; European SuperSport class in 2003.

The first appearances in important competitions date back to the 2001 season, when he takes part in the Italian speed championship and also in the Vallelunga test of the European Championship in both cases running in class 125. ^[first] In 2002 he ranked twenty -fourth place in the Italian Supersport championship.

From 2003 to 2005 he participated in the Supersport World Championship by skipping occasionally in the points area. He had already gained a brief experience in the same category by closing the 2002 European championship in eleventh place and graduating continental champion in 2003 riding a Yamaha (without winning even a race). ^{[2] [3]} In this same season he concludes in the tenth place in the Italian Supersport championship. In 2004, riding a Yamaha, he ranks twelfth in the Italian Supersport championship, the same place also the following season.

In 2006 he ranked eleventh in the Italian Stock1000 championship. From the same season he also passes to the Superstock 1000 Fim Cup, where the same year ranks Quinto and the year after third with a Yamaha Yzf-R1 of the Umbria Bike team, also winning two races. Also in 2007, he is fourth in the Italian Stock1000 championship where he conquers four podium placements including a victory. In the 2008 edition, he remains in the same championship by leading to the leaders of the Team’s Kawasaki ZX-10R or Six Kawasaki Supported, but concludes in the twentieth twentieth ranking never going up to the podium. In the same season and with the same motorcycle, he is thirteenth in the Iiatoliano Stock1000 championship. In the 2009 Superbike World Championship he is offered a contract by the PSG-1 Corse team to carry the Kawasaki ZX-10R on the track, but the team enters the economic crisis by retiring from the races, ^[4] Therefore Baiocco completes the championship with the Ducati 1098r of the Guandalini Racing team. It also makes the same motorcycle change in the Italian Superbike championship where he gets a victory and three second places in the four races played by closing in third place in the standings. ^[5]

In 2010 he ranks fourth, winning a race, in the Italian Stock Championship 1000; While in the Superbike World Cup, guiding a Kawasaki ZX 10r of the Pedercini team, twenty -third. In the 2011 season he participated in the Italian Speed ​​Championship in the saddle of the Ducati 1098r of the Barni Racing team, graduating national champion in the Superbike category with 158 points, creating three wins and six podiums in the eight races on the calendar. In the same year he participates in three rounds of the Superbike World Championship as Wild Card, but only in Misano he gets a twelfth place in race 1 while in the remaining five races it is always withdrawn and outside the points area, thus totaling only 4 points in the world championship ranking .

Also the following year he participated in the Italian speed championship, always in the saddle of a Ducati of the Barni team. He invented the title, this time with 180 points, the result of four wins and four second places in eight games. He also participates as Wild Card in the Superbike World Championship in Misano, while in Portimão it runs to replace the injured Niccolò Canepa on the Ducati 1098r of the Red Devils Rome team. In 2013 he moved overseas to participate in the British Superbike championship, where he had already played two tests in 2012, riding a Ducati 1199 Panigale managed by the Rapido Sport Racing Ducati team, the only team to use Ducati motorcycles in the championship. He closes the season in seventeenth place with 53 points. In 2014 he returned to the Italian Speed ​​Championship, landing in the Grandi Corse & a P Racing team, always using a 1199 Panigale. It takes second in the standings, detached by 15 points from the leader Ivan Goi. In the same year he participated in the San Marino Grand Prix of the Superbike World Cup, not getting world championship points.

In 2015 he participated in the Superbike World Championship, riding a Ducati Panigale R of the Althea Racing team, with constant results, so as to finish the season in the world top 10, will in fact close in 9th place with 139 points to the active. It is not in the grid of the drivers who are owned for the 2016 season, but still participates in some race riding the Ducati Panigale R of the VFT Racing team to replace the injured Fabio Menghi. ^[6] It also conquers, for the third time, the title of Italian Superbike champion. The twelve points obtained in the Superbike World Cup allow him to close to the twenty -second place in the pilots standings.

In the two-year period 2017-2018 he was the owner pilot in the Italian Superbike championship with an APRIVI RSV̩4 FW-STK of the New M2 Racing team, closing third and tenth in the standings. In 2019 the CIV still played the Superbike class, moving on to the DMR Racing team riding a BMW S1000RR. He takes points in all the races on the calendar closing in seventh place. ^[7] In 2020 he moved to Ducati with the ZPM team. While playing only the Mugello event conquers a sufficient number of points to allow him to close in fifteenth place in the standings.

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• Official site . are matteobaiocco.it . URL consulted on June 4, 2012 (archived by URL Original May 18, 2012) .
• ( OF , IN , IS , FR , IT ) Matteo Baiocco . are WORLDDSBK.com Dorna Sports.
• Sports merits by Matteo Baiocco . are Coni.it , Italian National Olympic Committee.
• Personal card on the official website of the Italian Championship . are Oldciv.peruggiatiming.com (archived by URL Original February 22, 2015) .