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Jose Luis Cardoso Lobo (born 2 February 1975 in Seville, Spain) is a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. During the 2006 season, he rode for the Pramac d'Antin Ducati squad, his second time with this team.
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Jose Luis Cardoso Lobo (born 2 February 1975 in Seville, Spain) is a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. During the 2006 season, he rode for the Pramac d'Antin Ducati squad, his second time with this team.
His first success was victory in the 1990 Andalucian 125cc championship, before moving up to the national championship a year later. In 1993 he won the Spanish 125cc title, as well as the Andalucian 250cc series, and made his 125cc World Championship debut in his home round. He combined world and Spanish 250cc racing over the next two seasons, finishing as runner-up in his domestic series in 1995.
Cardoso concentrated on international racing for the first time in 1996, but did not match his 16th overall in the world series over the next two seasons. He doubled up successfully in 1998, winning the Spanish 250cc title and finishing 11th in the international level.
This was enough to earn him a 500cc World Championship ride with the TSR Honda team in 1999, finishing 25th overall. In 2000 his team had sponsorship from Maxon Dee Cee Jeans, and he finished 18th overall. 2001 was his first year with Luis D'Antin's team, and he racked up 45 points, more than double his 2000 total, although it was only good for 16th overall. The championship became MotoGP in 2002, although he only made 5 appearances, and did not race anything in 2003. [1]
In 2004 Cardoso won the Spanish Formula Extreme title, and in 2005, he moved to Superbike World Championship, with the DFXtreme Yamaha team. He was highly competitive in testing, but struggled to finish races, ultimately coming only 31st overall. However, he went back to MotoGP and D'Antin in 2006, racing a 2005-spec Ducati as teammate to German Alex Hofmann. With the WCM team absent, and Team Roberts powered by Honda engines, they and Tech 3 Yamaha are the only privateer teams on the grid, and Cardoso and Hofmann have usually only had Tech 3's James Ellison near them at the bottom of the timesheets.
| Class | Season | 1st GP | Race | Win | Podiums | Pole | FLap | Pts | WChmp |
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| 125cc | 1993 | 1993 Spain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 250cc | 1994–1998, 2004 | 1994 Australia | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 118 | 0 |
| 500cc | 1999–2001 | 1999 Malaysia | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 0 |
| MotoGP | 2002, 2006 | 2002 France | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 |
| Total | 1993–2002, 2004, 2006 | 132 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 207 | 0 |
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| Year | Class | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Pos. | Pts |
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| 1993 | 125cc | Aprilia | AUS | MAL | JPN | SPA Ret | AUT | GER | NED | EUR | RSM | GBR | CZE | ITA | USA | FIM | NC | 0 | |||
| 1994 | 250cc | Aprilia | AUS 19 | MAL Ret | JPN Ret | SPA 15 | AUT Ret | GER 21 | NED Ret | ITA Ret | FRA Ret | GBR 19 | CZE Ret | USA 20 | ARG 15 | EUR Ret | 31st | 2 | |||
| 1995 | 250cc | Aprilia | AUS 8 | MAL 13 | JPN 7 | SPA 17 | GER 17 | ITA 12 | NED Ret | FRA Ret | GBR 16 | CZE 13 | BRA 14 | ARG Ret | EUR 12 | 16th | 33 | ||||
| 1996 | 250cc | Aprilia | MAL Ret | INA Ret | JPN 23 | SPA | ITA DNS | FRA Ret | NED Ret | GER | GBR | AUT Ret | CZE Ret | IMO 13 | CAT Ret | BRA Ret | AUS Ret | 31st | 3 | ||
| 1997 | 250cc | Yamaha | MAL Ret | JPN 20 | SPA 10 | ITA Ret | AUT Ret | FRA Ret | NED Ret | IMO 14 | GER Ret | BRA 15 | GBR 13 | CZE 11 | CAT 14 | INA Ret | AUS Ret | 21st | 19 | ||
| 1998 | 250cc | Yamaha | JPN 8 | MAL 10 | SPA Ret | ITA 8 | FRA 13 | MAD 5 | NED Ret | GBR 10 | GER 7 | CZE 10 | IMO 12 | CAT Ret | AUS Ret | ARG Ret | 11th | 61 | |||
| 1999 | 500cc | TSR-Honda | MAL Ret | JPN 14 | SPA Ret | FRA Ret | ITA Ret | CAT 12 | NED 16 | GBR Ret | GER | CZE DNS | IMO Ret | VAL Ret | AUS Ret | RSA 17 | BRA 17 | ARG 16 | 26th | 6 | |
| 2000 | 500cc | Honda | RSA 11 | MAL 13 | JPN Ret | SPA Ret | FRA | ITA 13 | CAT DNS | NED | GBR Ret | GER 12 | CZE 16 | POR 16 | VAL 12 | BRA 16 | PAC DNQ | AUS DNQ | 18th | 19 | |
| 2001 | 500cc | Yamaha | JPN Ret | RSA 13 | SPA Ret | FRA 13 | ITA 11 | CAT 14 | NED 12 | GBR Ret | GER 13 | CZE 13 | POR 10 | VAL 17 | PAC 13 | AUS Ret | MAL 11 | BRA 8 | 16th | 45 | |
| 2002 | MotoGP | Yamaha | JPN | RSA | SPA | FRA 16 | ITA | CAT | NED | GBR | GER 13 | CZE | POR | BRA 11 | PAC | MAL 16 | AUS 15 | VAL Ret | 23rd | 9 | |
| 2004 | 250cc | Yamaha | RSA | SPA | FRA | ITA | CAT DNQ | NED | BRA | GER | GBR | CZE | POR | JPN | QAT | MAL | AUS | VAL | NC | 0 | |
| 2006 | MotoGP | Ducati | SPA Ret | QAT 16 | TUR Ret | CHN 17 | FRA Ret | ITA 17 | CAT 11 | NED 17 | GBR 15 | GER 14 | USA 16 | CZE Ret | MAL 17 | AUS 17 | JPN Ret | POR 14 | VAL Ret | 20th | 10 |
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| Year | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 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 | ||||
| 2005 | Yamaha | QAT Ret | QAT Ret | AUS Ret | AUS Ret | SPA Ret | SPA Ret | ITA 19 | ITA Ret | EUR 9 | EUR Ret | SMR 13 | SMR Ret | CZE 16 | CZE Ret | GBR 20 | GBR Ret | NED 17 | NED Ret | GER 13 | GER Ret | ITA | ITA | FRA | FRA | 24th | 13 |
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