Àlex Crivillé
Crivillé at the 1996 Japanese Grand Prix.
Nationality	Spanish
Motorcycle racing career statistics Grand Prix motorcycle racing Active years 1987 - 2001 First race 1987 80cc Spanish Grand Prix Last race 2001 500cc Brazilian Grand Prix First win 1989 125cc Australian Grand Prix Last win 2000 500cc French Grand Prix Team(s) Derbi, Hummel Motorsports, JJ Cobas, Yamaha, Honda Championships 1989 - 125cc 1999 - 500cc Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 193 20 66 12 20 2012

Àlex Crivillé (born March 4, 1970 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. In 1992 he became the first Spaniard to win a 500cc Grand Prix and, in 1999 he became the first Spaniard to win the 500cc World Championship.^[1][2]

Pre 500 cc[link]

Crivillé falsified his age in order to start racing at 14 in 1985, the minimum age for a license being 15 in Spain. In that year he won the Criterium Solo Moto, a national series for 75 cc Honda streetbikes.^[3]

Crivillé started his international career in the now-defunct 80cc World Championship on team Derbi, taking a 2nd place in his very first race in 1987.^[1] He was second overall in 1988 while also dabbling in the 125cc series, which he raced fulltime in 1989.^[1][2] He won the 125cc World Championship in his first attempt riding for the JJ Cobas team, claiming 5 victories.^[1][2]

In 1990 he stepped up to the 250 cc class for Giacomo Agostini's team, before returning to the Cobas team a year later. He never did win a 250cc race.^[1]

500 cc[link]

Nonetheless, Crivillé joined the Sito Pons team in 500cc for 1992, taking 8th overall, and his first win at Assen in a race missed by Mick Doohan, Wayne Rainey and Wayne Gardner due to injuries.^[1] In 1993, he again finished 8th in the championship.^[1] 1994 was his first year as a full factory Honda rider, as Mick Doohan's team-mate on the Repsol-backed Hondas which would dominate 500cc and MotoGP racing in years to come. Crivillé was 4th in 1995 and 1997, runner-up in 1996 with 11 podium finishes, and 3rd in 1998.^[1]

Doohan's career-ending crash in 1999 opened the door for Crivillé, and he took six wins, including his 100th 500 cc start at Donington Park,^[4] clinching the championship with a race to spare.^[1][2] However, he finished 9th in 2000 and 8th in 2001 (with a third place at Jerez).^[1] Fired by Repsol Honda, he planned to spend the 2002 MotoGP season with the d'Antin Yamaha team, but was forced to retire due to undetermined health problems, the main symptom being fainting spells that started during the 2000 pre-season,^[5] and had continued over the following 2 years.^[6]

[edit] Grand Prix career statistics ^[1]

Points system from 1969 to 1987:

Points system from 1988 to 1992:

Points system from 1993 onwards:

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

References[link]

External links[link]

• Crash.net profile
• Interview following his 500cc championship victory

Anthony Gobert
Nationality	Australian
Born	5 March 1975 Greenacre, New South Wales, Australia
Bike number	17. (Muzzy Kawasaki)

Anthony Gobert (born 5 March 1975 in Greenacre, New South Wales, Australia) is a professional motorcycle road racer nicknamed The Go Show. He was a rider of immense promise and talent who had his career derailed by a personal struggle with drug abuse. He is the eldest of three racing brothers, which include Aaron and Alex.

In his teens he was a successful motocross racer, winning national classes in Australia, before moving to road racing and winning the Australian domestic superbike championship. He first earned international notice as a wild card at his home Superbike World Championship round at Philip Island in 1994, taking pole position, a win and a third place. Racing full-time in the championship for Muzzy Kawasaki in 1995, he became team leader after Scott Russell's abrupt departure and finished 4th overall, winning races at Laguna Seca and Philip Island.^[1] He was 8th in 1996, with 3 wins and 3 other podiums, after missing much of the season through injury.

He went to the 500cc World Championship in 1997 with the Lucky Strike Suzuki replacing Scott Russell as the number one rider, but was dismissed in mid-season after failing a drug test. For 1998 and 1999 he competed in the AMA Superbike Championship on a Vance & Hines Ducati, with some success, including a win as a WSBK wildcard at Laguna Seca.^[2] A win in the second race was within reach, until an unforced crash at the final turn, onto the main straight. The second race was won by his team mate Ben Bostrom.

For 2000 he returned to WSBK on a Bimota SB8R. With the race number 501, he won a wet race at Philip Island and generally did better than expected on the machine, before the team folded, due to lack of financial backing. Bimota named the SB8K Gobert bike after him. A 500cc one-off at Donington Park for Kenny Roberts' KR3 Modenas Team and three British Superbike meetings (substituting for Steve Hislop at Team Virgin Mobile Yamaha) followed in late 2000.

For 2001 he was back in the AMA championship with Yamaha, spending two years racing the YZF R7 in the superbike class and the YZF R6 in the supersport class respectively. This was followed with a brief dalliance with Ducati in 2003. After some time back in the Australian Superbike series he did two rounds of Supersport World Championship at the start of 2006, replacing the injured David Checa.^[3] In 2006, he raced at the Valencia Superbike World Championship round (making him the first rider to have wildcard rides in three different countries), alongside some rounds of Spain's Superbike series. For 2007 he returned to Australia Superbikes on a Kawasaki.

Legal troubles[link]

According to reports in the Courier Mail, the 33-year-old Gobert was charged with two counts of stealing after taking two $20 bills from the hand of the 70-year-old man at a Coles supermarket in Surfers Paradise on Tuesday, 13 May 2008. The following day, he allegedly snatched a woman's purse on the streets of Surfers, according to the newspaper report.^[4]

References[link]

Career details from mcnews

Garry McCoy
Garry McCoy on the Ilmor X3
Nationality	Australian
Born	(1972-04-18) 18 April 1972 (age 40) Sydney, Australia
Current team	FB Corse
Bike number	24
Website	garrymccoy.tv

Garry McCoy (born 18 April 1972 in Sydney, Australia) is a professional motorcycle racer. He has won races in the 125 cc and 500 cc World Championships, as well as in the Superbike World Championship. He is noted for his oversteering style of riding, earning him the nickname "The Slide King".^[1][2]

McCoy was born in Sydney. He raced in his first 125 cc world championship races in 1992, only four months after his first road race of any kind. He entered the full season the year after, though he missed races through injury in both 1993 and 1994. He won the 1995 Malaysian Grand Prix and the 1996 Australian Grand Prix as well as 7 other top-3 finishes and one pole position. In 1996 he signed to privateer Team Bramich and rode a 748s Ducati. It was a great year for McCoy as he learnt from team director, Don Bramich, the fundamentals for managing a successful team.

In 1998 he raced in 500 cc for the first time, with a Shell Advance Honda. He scored points in six of the nine races he started before a broken ankle ended his season. He was out of a ride at the start of 1999, and considered returning to cabinet-making,^[3] but he joined WCM mid-season, and finished third at Valencia, though his best result elsewhere was seventh.

2000 was a breakout season for Garry with WCM, as he opened the year with a shock win at Welkom in South Africa. He had been the only rider to get the 16'5-inch Michelin tyre working to full effect, with his sideways riding style and slight build ideally suited to it. There were 2 further wins that year,^[4][5] and 5th in the 500 championship. 2001 was ruined by a broken wrist sustained at Le Mans, and 2002 was not a huge success either, resulting in him joining Kawasaki's factory team. This was hugely disappointing; McCoy only scored points three times, and he and team-mates Andrew Pitt and Alex Hofmann rarely qualified in the top 15.

For 2004 he joined NCR Ducati in the Superbike World Championship,^[6] winning at Philip Island^[7] and finishing 6th overall. He raced for Carl Fogarty's Foggy Petronas team in 2005, as the team attempted to make its 900 cc 3 cylinder bike competitive. After 9 rounds his best finish was 12th, and he has qualified for Superpole and a top-16 starting spot 4 times. Results did not improve, and he had no road racing ride for 2006, instead contesting some Supercross.^[8]

McCoy worked as a test rider for Ilmor's 2007 Ilmor X3 800 cc MotoGP prototype, competing in the final two rounds of the 2006 MotoGP season as a wildcard.^[9] [1] He was expected to ride for Ilmor in 2007, but Andrew Pitt and an injured, 42-year-old Jeremy McWilliams were chosen instead.^[10]

In 2008 McCoy joined Triumph's new Supersport World Championship campaign on the Daytona 675 bike. He failed to finish the first race in Losail due to a mecahnical failure.^[11] He finished 6th in the Philip Island race and retired from the Valencia race. A huge crash at Brno when he struck the slowing bike of one-time team-mate Andrew Pitt threatened to end his season^[12]

In 2009 at the Donington circuit McCoy scored the first podium for Triumph with 3rd place. He was back on the podium with another third at the WSS final round for 2009 in Portimao, Portugal, finishing the season 8th overall.

Initial expectations were that McCoy would continue with the team for the 2010 season, however he was not a part of the four-rider lineup. The team stated that he had left by 'mutual consent', however McCoy denied this and claimed that the departure was news to him^[13]

In 2010 McCoy was set to make his return to MotoGP with the FB Corse Team with a two-year deal that would have marked his 18 years in competition. However the team failed to get its three-cylinder 800cc project into competitive shape and on June 7, 2010 McCoy announced their contract had been terminated by mutual consent.

Grand Prix career statistics[link]

All stats according to MotoGP.com^[14]

Races by year[link]

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

References[link]