Régis Laconi

Régis Laconi (born 8 July 1975 in Saint-Dizier, Haute-Marne) is a French former professional motorcycle racer. In 2009 he competed in the Superbike World Championship for DFX on a Ducati. He was runner-up in 2004, and has won races in both Grand Prix in 500cc engine capacity classification and the Superbike World Championship.

Régis Laconi
Laconi in 2005
NationalityFrench
Motorcycle racing career statistics
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
Active years1992, 1995 - 2000, 2002
First race1992 125cc French Grand Prix
Last race2002 500cc Valencia Grand Prix
First win1999 500cc Valencia Grand Prix
Last win1999 500cc Valencia Grand Prix
Team(s)Aprilia, WCM Yamaha
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
100 1 2 1 0 427
Superbike World Championship
Active years2001, 2003 - 2009
ManufacturersAprilia, Ducati, Kawasaki
2009 championship position15th
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
173 11 28 7 10 1345

Early career

Laconi 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 champion 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 marred by injury, missing four rounds after being run over twice in a first-turn incident at the A1 Ring. 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 [1]

Superbike World Championship [2]

For 2001 he was a factory Aprilia WSBK rider. He led 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 2003 he returned to WSBK for the Caracchi Ducati team, doing enough to earn a factory ride for 2004 by taking 5 podium finishes, finishing 4th in a relatively weakened championship.

He and team-mate James Toseland were clear favourites for the 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 2005 season was interrupted by injury, and for 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 2007 and finished 10th overall. He continues with the same team for 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.

For 2009 Laconi switched to private Ducatis, riding the sole DFX machine. Results were strong early in the season, however he was seriously injured when he crashed heavily during the opening moments of the first practice of the Kyalami round of the World Superbike Championship.[3] As of 20 May 2009 it was reported that Laconi awakened from his medically induced coma and is reported to have full movement in his arms, hands and legs. Laconi has undergone surgery to clasp his cervical vertebrae back together and it is expected he will remain immobile for some time.

Laconi returned for an exploratory test for the DFX Corse Ducati Team at Misano in June 2010 following his horrific crash at Kyalami in 2009. Regis had been training on his bicycle and after more than 70 laps with a best time of 1'37"800, he proved that his talent is still intact. But any thoughts of returning to racing for the moment are premature and totally groundless.The friendship that ties Regis to team manager Daniele Carli enabled the test to take place.[4]

Career statistics

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 Pos Pts
1992 125cc Honda JPN AUS MAL SPA ITA EUR GER NED HUN FRA
26
GBR BRA RSA NC 0
1995 250cc Honda AUS
Ret
MAL
21
JPN
15
SPA
20
GER
Ret
ITA
19
NED
Ret
FRA
Ret
GBR
15
CZE
21
BRA
Ret
ARG
14
EUR
Ret
27th 4
1996 250cc Honda MAL
Ret
INA
16
JPN
14
SPA
Ret
ITA
14
FRA
11
NED
Ret
GER
8
GBR
7
AUT
9
CZE
16
IMO
Ret
CAT
10
BRA
Ret
AUS
12
15th 43
1997 500cc Honda MAL
12
JPN
12
SPA
10
ITA
10
AUT
Ret
FRA NED IMO GER BRA
9
GBR
Ret
CZE
7
CAT
11
INA
16
AUS
5
14th 52
1998 500cc Yamaha JPN
DNS
MAL SPA
14
ITA
10
FRA
11
MAD
7
NED
9
GBR
8
GER
5
CZE
9
IMO
12
CAT
8
AUS
7
ARG
6
10th 86
1999 500cc Yamaha MAL
7
JPN
Ret
SPA
7
FRA
8
ITA
Ret
CAT
Ret
NED
12
GBR
Ret
GER
13
CZE
9
IMO
5
VAL
1
AUS
3
RSA
14
BRA
11
ARG
12
11th 103
2000 500cc Yamaha RSA
9
MAL
9
JPN
14
SPA
8
FRA
9
ITA
7
CAT
13
NED
8
GBR
12
GER
7
CZE
13
POR
5
VAL
6
BRA
8
PAC
11
AUS
11
12th 106
2002 MotoGP Aprilia JPN
8
RSA
15
SPA
14
FRA
9
ITA
8
CAT
14
NED
Ret
GBR
16
GER
Ret
CZE
16
POR
Ret
BRA
Ret
PAC
11
MAL
17
AUS
Ret
VAL
Ret
19th 33

Races by year

Year Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pos. Pts
R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2
2001 Aprilia SPA
4
SPA
Ret
RSA
8
RSA
6
AUS
Ret
AUS
C
JPN
14
JPN
14
ITA
5
ITA
8
GBR
12
GBR
11
GER
7
GER
13
SMR
Ret
SMR
Ret
USA
11
USA
9
EUR
Ret
EUR
11
GER
8
GER
5
NED
9
NED
7
ITA
Ret
ITA
1
11th 152
2003 Ducati SPA
5
SPA
Ret
AUS
6
AUS
4
JPN
2
JPN
7
ITA
2
ITA
4
GER
4
GER
4
GBR
4
GBR
6
SMR
3
SMR
4
USA
Ret
USA
4
GBR
4
GBR
8
NED
Ret
NED
4
ITA
3
ITA
2
FRA
6
FRA
16
4th 267
2004 Ducati SPA
Ret
SPA
Ret
AUS
1
AUS
Ret
SMR
1
SMR
2
ITA
1
ITA
1
GER
6
GER
1
GBR
Ret
GBR
3
USA
5
USA
3
EUR
2
EUR
Ret
NED
3
NED
5
ITA
1
ITA
1
FRA
3
FRA
3
2nd 327
2005 Ducati QAT
3
QAT
2
AUS
7
AUS
7
SPA
DNS
SPA
DNS
ITA
4
ITA
2
EUR
1
EUR
Ret
SMR
1
SMR
1
CZE
3
CZE
7
GBR
3
GBR
5
NED
DNS
NED
DNS
GER GER ITA
9
ITA
C
FRA
DNS
FRA
DNS
6th 221
2006 Kawasaki QAT
13
QAT
Ret
AUS
13
AUS
16
SPA
8
SPA
8
ITA
7
ITA
Ret
EUR
7
EUR
14
SMR
6
SMR
19
CZE
Ret
CZE
16
GBR
9
GBR
4
NED
Ret
NED
8
GER
12
GER
19
ITA
10
ITA
10
FRA
9
FRA
18
15th 103
2007 Kawasaki QAT
Ret
QAT
11
AUS
Ret
AUS
Ret
EUR
7
EUR
6
SPA
11
SPA
8
NED
16
NED
10
ITA
Ret
ITA
8
GBR
5
GBR
C
SMR
7
SMR
11
CZE
11
CZE
14
GBR
8
GBR
9
GER
6
GER
11
ITA
7
ITA
Ret
FRA
9
FRA
8
10th 137
2008 Kawasaki QAT
15
QAT
16
AUS
Ret
AUS
17
SPA
8
SPA
9
NED
11
NED
16
ITA
Ret
ITA
Ret
USA
Ret
USA
9
GER
14
GER
10
SMR
Ret
SMR
Ret
CZE
Ret
CZE
Ret
GBR
Ret
GBR
16
EUR
Ret
EUR
15
ITA
16
ITA
9
FRA
11
FRA
20
POR
10
POR
10
16th 61
2009 Ducati AUS
7
AUS
4
QAT
10
QAT
14
SPA
4
SPA
4
NED
8
NED
16
ITA
8
ITA
11
RSA RSA USA USA SMR SMR GBR GBR CZE CZE GER GER ITA ITA FRA FRA POR POR 15th 77

References

Sporting positions
Preceded by
Giuseppe Fiorillo
250 cc motorcycle European Champion
1994
Succeeded by
Luca Boscoscuro
Preceded by
JJ Lehto
Tommi Mäkinen
Kari Tiainen
Race of Champions
Nations' Cup

2000 with:
Yvan Muller
Gilles Panizzi
Succeeded by
Fernando Alonso
Jesús Puras
Rubén Xaus
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