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Stefan Bradl
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Bradl at the 2022 British Grand Prix
Nationality German
Born (1989-11-29) 29 November 1989 (age 34)
Augsburg, West Germany
Current team Repsol Honda Team (Test/Replacement rider)
Bike number 6
Motorcycle racing career statistics
MotoGP World Championship
Active years 2012–2016, 2018–2023
Manufacturers Honda (2012-2014,2018- ) Yamaha Forward (2015) Aprilia (2015-2016)
Championships 0
2023 championship position 26th (8 pts)
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
126 0 1 1 0 565
Moto2 World Championship
Active years 2010–2011
Manufacturers Suter, Kalex
Championships 1 (2011)
2011 championship position 1st (274 pts)
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
33 5 12 7 3 371
125cc World Championship
Active years 2005–2009
Manufacturers KTM, Aprilia
Championships 0
2009 championship position 10th (85 pts)
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
54 2 6 0 2 316
Superbike World Championship
Active years 2017
Manufacturers Honda
Championships 0
2017 championship position 14th (67 pts)
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
14 0 0 0 0 54

Stefan Bradl (born 29 November 1989) is a German professional motorcycle racer, best known for winning the Moto2 World Championship in 2011. He then moved to MotoGP in 2012 with LCR Honda. While in MotoGP, Bradl is best known for his performance at Laguna Seca getting the pole position and finishing second in the race behind Marc Marquez, ahead of Valentino Rossi. Bradl finished the 2013 season 7th, despite missing two races due to injury. This proved to be his highest ever MotoGP finish.

Bradl is the son of former racer Helmut Bradl. He is contracted as a test rider for Honda Racing Corporation in MotoGP and makes occasional wild card appearances and acts as an injury replacement.

Career

125cc World Championship (2005–2009)

Born in Augsburg, West Germany, Bradl started his 125cc World Championship career in 2005 as a wild card for three races, competing in the 125cc German Championship with KTM. He took more wild card races in 2006, still with KTM. He had a terrible fracture when he was hit by another rider during practice for the 2006 Malaysian GP. Later that year he was competing again at the Red Bull KTM Junior.

Bradl was offered by Alberto Puig to ride his Repsol Honda factory 250cc team for 2007; he withdrew after a couple of tests, but did not stop racing. Later, he joined the 125cc Spanish Championship with Blusens Aprilia, winning the title just five points ahead of his teammate Scott Redding. Later he took a couple of wild card World Championship races, with the same team. Additionally, from the 2007 Portuguese GP onwards Blusens Aprilia Team principal Raúl Romero placed him on a second bike with veteran Pablo Nieto, replacing Dutchman Hugo van den Berg.

For 2008, rather than stay with Blusens Aprilia, he decided to ride for the German Grizzly Gas Kiefer Racing, on an official factory Aprilia RSA 125. He took his first win at Brno, fittingly a track his father won at in 1991.

Moto2 World Championship (2010–2011)

Stefan Bradl 2010 Assen
Bradl at the 2010 Dutch TT

After moving up to the Moto2 class of Grand Prix racing in 2010, he went on to claim ninth in the championship, with one victory at Estoril.

2011 saw Bradl win four of the first six races, and maintained a healthy lead in the championship until Marc Márquez found significant speed halfway through the season. The championship seemed to be going down to the wire, with both Bradl and Márquez having a fair shot at the title with two rounds remaining. Márquez, however, suffered a heavy fall during free practice for the Malaysian Grand Prix, and was unable to race for the remainder of the season, due to eyesight problems. Bradl was therefore crowned the World Champion at the final race of the season in Valencia, Spain.

MotoGP World Championship (2012–2016)

LCR Honda (2012–2014)

Bradl was signed by the LCR Honda team for 2012. He had a good season, running consistently in the top-10, with a best result of fourth place obtained at the Italian Grand Prix. He completed the season in eighth place, winning the Rookie of the Year award.

Bradl battled consistently among the second group of riders in 2013, along with Valentino Rossi, Cal Crutchlow and Álvaro Bautista. The highlight of his season was a pole-position at the United States Grand Prix, at Laguna Seca, where he also finished second, achieving his first MotoGP podium. A crash towards the end of the season at the Malaysian Grand Prix – in which he broke an ankle – took him out of contention in the battle for fifth place with Bautista and Crutchlow. He closed the season in seventh place with 156 points.

In 2014, Bradl continued to ride for LCR Honda. However, on 2 August 2014, it was announced that Cal Crutchlow would join LCR Honda for the 2015 season and ride the factory-specification Honda RC213V. Bradl subsequently announced a move to the Forward Racing team for 2015, riding an open-specification bike.

Athinà Forward Racing (2015)

For the 2015 season, Bradl moved to Forward Racing, riding a Yamaha Forward – where he was joined by Loris Baz, moving into the series from the Superbike World Championship. At the midway point of the season, Bradl had collected 9 points, despite missing his home race at the Sanchsenring due to injury. After the summer break, Bradl parted company with the team, following the arrest of team boss Giovanni Cuzari.

Aprilia Racing Team Gresini (2015–2016)

In August, Bradl joined Aprilia Gresini Racing for the remainder of the 2015 season. His partnership with Gresini started with a 20th at Indianapolis, and scored his first points for the team, with 14th at Brno.

For the 2016 season, Bradl was partnered by Spanish rider Álvaro Bautista. He collected 63 points, with no poles, fastest laps and podiums. He finished the season ranked 16th overall.

Superbike World Championship (2017)

For the 2017 season, Bradl moved from MotoGP to the Superbike World Championship, riding a Honda of the RedBull Honda Team. He only raced 6 full rounds and 4 half-rounds; taking up 67 points and ranked 14th in the list.

Return to MotoGP (2018–present)

EG 0,0 Marc VDS, HRC Honda Team & LCR Honda (2018)

In 2018, Bradl returned to MotoGP as a replacement rider for an injured Franco Morbidelli at EG 0,0 Marc VDS Racing in his home race at the Sachsenring. He made two wildcard entries for HRC Honda Team at the Czech Republic and San Marino rounds. Bradl replaced the injured Cal Crutchlow at LCR Honda for the final two rounds, finishing 13th in Malaysia and 9th in Valencia. He collected 10 points total on the season, and was ranked 24th overall.

Repsol Honda Team (2019–present)

Stefan Bradl 2021 (cropped)
Bradl at the 2021 Algarve Grand Prix

In 2019, he was contracted as a test rider for the Honda works MotoGP team. He raced in the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez as a wildcard entry and in the German, Czech Republic and Austrian Grand Prix as a replacement for the injured Jorge Lorenzo. Bradl finished 10th at Jerez as a wildcard rider. In his second outing as replacement for Jorge Lorenzo he finished 10th in Germany, 15th at Brno and 13th in Austria.

In 2020, Bradl was called up as a replacement rider for Marc Márquez from the Czech Republic round onwards, while Márquez was recovering from injuries sustained in an August crash at the Spanish Grand Prix.

In 2021, Bradl was a replacement rider for injured Marquez in the early season. He finished in positions 11 and 14 with two consecutive weekend races at Losail, Doha. Bradl also had a wild card ride in 2021 at Jerez, finishing in position 12.

For 2022, in the third race of the season at Argentina on 3 April, Bradl finished in position 19 when deputising for Marc Márquez, who was injured in March a few hours before the Indonesian Grand Prix at Mandalika.

Career statistics

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

By season

Season Class Motorcycle Team Race Win Podium Pole FLap Pts Plcd WCh
2005 125cc KTM Red Bull ADAC KTM Juniors 3 0 0 0 0 1 35th
2006 125cc KTM Red Bull KTM Junior Team 9 0 0 0 0 4 26th
2007 125cc Aprilia Blusens Aprilia 9 0 0 0 0 39 18th
2008 125cc Aprilia Grizzly Gas Kiefer Racing 17 2 6 0 2 187 4th
2009 125cc Aprilia Viessmann Kiefer Racing 16 0 0 0 0 85 10th
2010 Moto2 Suter Viessmann Kiefer Racing 16 1 1 0 0 97 9th
2011 Moto2 Kalex Viessmann Kiefer Racing 17 4 11 7 3 274 1st 1
2012 MotoGP Honda LCR Honda MotoGP 18 0 0 0 0 135 8th
2013 MotoGP Honda LCR Honda MotoGP 16 0 1 1 0 156 7th
2014 MotoGP Honda LCR Honda MotoGP 18 0 0 0 0 117 9th
2015 MotoGP Yamaha Forward Athinà Forward Racing 8 0 0 0 0 9 18th
Aprilia Aprilia Racing Team Gresini 9 0 0 0 0 8
2016 MotoGP Aprilia Aprilia Racing Team Gresini 17 0 0 0 0 63 16th
2018 MotoGP Honda EG 0,0 Marc VDS 1 0 0 0 0 0 24th
HRC Honda Team 2 0 0 0 0 0
LCR Honda 2 0 0 0 0 10
2019 MotoGP Honda Team HRC 1 0 0 0 0 6 21st
Repsol Honda Team 3 0 0 0 0 10
2020 MotoGP Honda Repsol Honda Team 11 0 0 0 0 27 19th
2021 MotoGP Honda Repsol Honda Team 3 0 0 0 0 8 22nd
Honda HRC 2 0 0 0 0 6
2022 MotoGP Honda Repsol Honda Team 7 0 0 0 0 2 26th
Team HRC 1 0 0 0 0 0
2023 MotoGP Honda Repsol Honda Team 1 0 0 0 0 0 26th -
Team HRC 2 0 0 0 0 2
LCR Honda 3 0 0 0 0 6
Total 213 7 19 8 5 1252 1

By class

Class Seasons 1st GP 1st Pod 1st Win Race Win Podiums Pole FLap Pts WChmp
125cc 2005–2009 2005 Catalunya 2008 Qatar 2008 Czech Republic 54 2 6 0 2 316 0
Moto2 2010–2011 2010 Qatar 2010 Portugal 2010 Portugal 33 5 12 7 3 371 1
MotoGP 2012–2016, 2018–present 2012 Qatar 2013 United States 126 0 1 1 0 565 0
Total 2005–present 213 7 19 8 5 1252 1

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 18 19 20 21 Pos Pts
2005 125cc KTM SPA POR CHN FRA ITA CAT
Ret
NED GBR GER
16
CZE
15
JPN MAL QAT AUS TUR VAL 35th 1
2006 125cc KTM SPA
DNQ
QAT
26
TUR
19
CHN
20
FRA
18
ITA
16
CAT
WD
NED
31
GBR
Ret
GER
18
CZE
12
MAL
DNS
AUS JPN POR VAL 26th 4
2007 125cc Aprilia QAT SPA TUR CHN FRA ITA CAT
9
GBR NED
10
GER
13
CZE RSM
7
POR
6
JPN
15
AUS
Ret
MAL
13
VAL
Ret
18th 39
2008 125cc Aprilia QAT
3
SPA
4
POR
8
CHN
5
FRA
6
ITA
10
CAT
4
GBR
Ret
NED
12
GER
2
CZE
1
RSM
Ret
INP
3
JPN
1
AUS
2
MAL
Ret
VAL
Ret
4th 187
2009 125cc Aprilia QAT
8
JPN
4
SPA
Ret
FRA
Ret
ITA
8
CAT
7
NED
6
GER
Ret
GBR
Ret
CZE
7
INP
7
RSM
6
POR
4
AUS
Ret
MAL
Ret
VAL
Ret
10th 85
2010 Moto2 Suter QAT
Ret
SPA
14
FRA
9
ITA
14
GBR
Ret
NED
19
CAT GER
9
CZE
9
INP
Ret
RSM
5
ARA
9
JPN
7
MAL
7
AUS
5
POR
1
VAL
Ret
9th 97
2011 Moto2 Kalex QAT
1
SPA
5
POR
1
FRA
3
CAT
1
GBR
1
NED
Ret
ITA
2
GER
2
CZE
3
INP
6
RSM
2
ARA
8
JPN
4
AUS
2
MAL
2
VAL
Ret
1st 274
2012 MotoGP Honda QAT
8
SPA
7
POR
9
FRA
5
CAT
8
GBR
8
NED
Ret
GER
5
ITA
4
USA
7
INP
6
CZE
5
RSM
6
ARA
Ret
JPN
6
MAL
Ret
AUS
6
VAL
Ret
8th 135
2013 MotoGP Honda QAT
Ret
AME
5
SPA
Ret
FRA
10
ITA
4
CAT
5
NED
6
GER
4
USA
2
INP
7
CZE
6
GBR
6
RSM
5
ARA
5
MAL
DNS
AUS
DNS
JPN
5
VAL
6
7th 156
2014 MotoGP Honda QAT
Ret
AME
4
ARG
5
SPA
10
FRA
7
ITA
Ret
CAT
5
NED
10
GER
16
INP
Ret
CZE
7
GBR
7
RSM
Ret
ARA
4
JPN
7
AUS
Ret
MAL
4
VAL
8
9th 117
2015 MotoGP Yamaha Forward QAT
16
AME
Ret
ARG
15
SPA
16
FRA
Ret
ITA
Ret
CAT
8
NED
Ret
GER 18th 17
Aprilia INP
20
CZE
14
GBR
Ret
RSM
16
ARA
18
JPN
18
AUS
21
MAL
10
VAL
18
2016 MotoGP Aprilia QAT
Ret
ARG
7
AME
10
SPA
14
FRA
10
ITA
14
CAT
12
NED
8
GER
DNS
AUT
19
CZE
14
GBR
Ret
RSM
12
ARA
10
JPN
10
AUS
11
MAL
17
VAL
13
16th 63
2018 MotoGP Honda QAT ARG AME SPA FRA ITA CAT NED GER
16
CZE
Ret
AUT GBR RSM
Ret
ARA THA JPN AUS MAL
13
VAL
9
24th 10
2019 MotoGP Honda QAT ARG AME SPA
10
FRA ITA CAT NED GER
10
CZE
15
AUT
13
GBR RSM ARA THA JPN AUS MAL VAL 21st 16
2020 MotoGP Honda SPA ANC CZE
18
AUT
17
STY
18
RSM
18
EMI
DNS
CAT
17
FRA
8
ARA
17
TER
12
EUR
12
VAL
14
POR
7
19th 27
2021 MotoGP Honda QAT
11
DOH
14
POR SPA
12
FRA ITA CAT GER NED STY AUT GBR ARA RSM
14
AME EMI ALR
15
VAL 22nd 14
2022 MotoGP Honda QAT INA ARG
19
AME POR SPA
Ret
FRA ITA CAT
Ret
GER
16
NED
18
GBR
19
AUT
17
RSM
14
ARA JPN THA AUS MAL VAL 26th 2
2023 MotoGP Honda POR ARG AME
Ret
SPA
14
FRA ITA GER NED
13
GBR AUT CAT RSM
18
IND
15
JPN
14
INA AUS THA MAL QAT VAL 26th 8
2024 MotoGP Honda QAT POR AME
SPA
16
FRA CAT ITA KAZ NED GER GBR AUT CAT RSM IND INA JPN AUS THA MAL VAL 24th* 0*

* Season still in progress.

Superbike World Championship

Races by year

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

Year Bike 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 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
2017 Honda AUS
15
AUS
15
THA
10
THA
Ret
SPA
9
SPA
12
NED
6
NED
10
ITA
10
ITA
14
GBR
Ret
GBR
11
ITA
NC
ITA
10
USA
11
USA
11
GER
DNS
GER
13
POR
Ret
POR
DNS
FRA FRA SPA SPA QAT QAT 14th 67

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