| Claudio Corti | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Corti at the 2013 British Grand Prix. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 June 1987 Como, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current team | Stauff Quick Connect Academy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bike number | 71 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Claudio Corti (born 25 June 1987) is a Grand Prix motorcycle racer from Italy. He currently competes in the British National Superstock 1000 Championship aboard a Kawasaki ZX-10R.
Born in Como, Corti progressed up the motorcycling ladder through the Italian 125GP Championship and by 2004, he had finished as runner-up in the Italian Supersport Championship. In 2005, Corti moved into the European Superstock 600cc Cup, run on the Superbike World Championship support package. Riding for the Trasimeno team, Corti and France's Yoann Tiberio battled for the championship title, with Corti claiming the honours by eight points. He finished his first seven races on the podium, including five victories. He also competed in the Italian Supersport, Superstock and Superbike series; he twice finished as runner-up in the championship in Superstock in 2006 and 2007, and was runner-up in Superbikes in 2008.
After his championship campaign in 2005, Corti moved up into the more powerful 1000cc championship for the 2006 season with Yamaha Team Italia. Four victories was a season-high for all riders, but for Corti, these were his only trips to the podium all season, as Alessandro Polita claimed the title ahead of Corti by a margin of 20 points. Corti continued with Yamaha Team Italia in 2007, and again finished as championship runner-up, this time to Niccolò Canepa, as well as holding off Matteo Baiocco for the runner-up placing.
Corti's 2008 campaign was far from successful however, as he tumbled down the standings to end the season in eleventh place on 57 points, tying with Andrea Antonelli. But he returned to prior form in 2009, as he claimed his third runner-up placing in four seasons, riding a Suzuki for Alstare Racing. [1] Corti won two of the first three races, but was eventually overhauled by the super-consistent placings of Xavier Simeon, who finished all ten races in the top two. Maxime Berger's retirements from three races equally helped Corti to secure second in the championship.
Corti moved onto the Grand Prix bill, moving into the new-for-2010 Moto2 class. [2] He partnered Jules Cluzel at the Forward Racing team riding Suter motorcycles. [3] Corti was one of the few riders to finish each one of the season's 17 races, although points-scoring finishes were hard to come by due to the expansive nature of the class, with races having around 40 entries each. Corti finished 25th in the championship, with a best result of ninth in San Marino. He also claimed pole position at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, [4] but finished the race in 30th place.
| Season | Class | Motorcycle | Team | Race | Win | Podium | Pole | FLap | Pts | Plcd |
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| 2010 | Moto2 | Suter | Forward Racing | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 25th |
| 2011 | Moto2 | Suter | Italtrans Racing Team | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 25th |
| 2012 | Moto2 | Kalex | Italtrans Racing Team | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 74 | 14th |
| MotoGP | Inmotec | Avintia Blusens | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |
| 2013 | MotoGP | FTR Kawasaki | NGM Mobile Forward Racing | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 19th |
| 2015 | MotoGP | Yamaha Forward | Forward Racing | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC |
| Total | 69 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 131 |
| Class | Seasons | 1st GP | 1st Pod | 1st Win | Race | Win | Podiums | Pole | FLap | Pts | WChmp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moto2 | 2010–2012 | 2010 Qatar | 2012 France | 46 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 117 | 0 | |
| MotoGP | 2012–2013, 2015 | 2012 Valencia | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)
| Year | Class | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Pos. | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Moto2 | Suter | QAT 20 | SPA 18 | FRA 15 | ITA 22 | GBR 30 | NED 17 | CAT 22 | GER 22 | CZE 26 | INP 13 | RSM 9 | ARA 11 | JPN 14 | MAL 15 | AUS 15 | POR 19 | VAL 19 | 25th | 20 | |
| 2011 | Moto2 | Suter | QAT 21 | SPA 21 | POR 11 | FRA 22 | CAT 17 | GBR Ret | NED 15 | ITA 23 | GER 15 | CZE 14 | INP 22 | RSM 18 | ARA 19 | JPN | AUS 4 | MAL Ret | VAL 15 | 25th | 23 | |
| 2012 | Moto2 | Kalex | QAT 16 | SPA 6 | POR 14 | FRA 2 | CAT 13 | GBR 6 | NED 16 | GER 9 | ITA 9 | INP 10 | CZE Ret | RSM 14 | ARA 9 | JPN | MAL | AUS | 14th | 74 | ||
| MotoGP | Inmotec | USA | VAL Ret | NC | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | MotoGP | FTR Kawasaki | QAT 16 | AME 19 | SPA 17 | FRA Ret | ITA Ret | CAT 12 | NED 18 | GER 15 | USA Ret | INP 14 | CZE Ret | GBR 17 | RSM 16 | ARA 15 | MAL 13 | AUS 17 | JPN 20 | VAL 13 | 19th | 14 |
| 2015 | MotoGP | Yamaha Forward | QAT | AME | ARG | SPA | FRA | ITA | CAT | NED | GER Ret | INP | CZE 20 | GBR 18 | RSM 20 | ARA | JPN | AUS | MAL | VAL | NC | 0 |
| Year | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Pos. | Pts | ||||||||||||||
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| 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 | ||||
| 2012 | Kawasaki | AUS | AUS | ITA | ITA | NED | NED | ITA | ITA | EUR | EUR | USA | USA | SMR | SMR | SPA | SPA | CZE | CZE | GBR | GBR | RUS | RUS | GER | GER | POR | POR | FRA 9 | FRA 12 | 24th | 11 |
| 2014 | MV Agusta | AUS 13 | AUS 18 | SPA Ret | SPA Ret | NED 14 | NED Ret | ITA 18 | ITA Ret | GBR 15 | GBR 12 | MAL Ret | MAL DNS | SMR 13 | SMR 17 | POR DNS | POR DNS | USA | USA | SPA 15 | SPA Ret | FRA 13 | FRA 8 | QAT Ret | QAT 14 | 17th | 27 | ||||
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