Jake Curtis Dixon was born on 15 January 1996 and is a British Grand Prix motorcycle racer competing for the Elf Marc VDS Racing Team in the 2025 Moto2 World Championship.
19 Facts About Jake Dixon
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Jake Dixon is the son of Darren Dixon, TT F1 Superbike Champion in 1988 and double World Sidecar Champion in 1995 and 1996.
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At 12 years of age, Jake Dixon was competing in the Southern Supermoto Championship before advancing to the Aprilia Superteens Championship in 2010.
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Jake Dixon acquitted himself well on the Shaun Rose prepared, Moto Breakers Yamaha R6, finishing 4th in the Championship.
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In 2013, Jake Dixon contested the year with a new team and a new championship.
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Jake Dixon moved up to the Supersport 600 Championship, riding for Craig Fitzpatrick's CF Motorsport team, on a Yamaha R6.
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For 2015, Jake Dixon joined the Smith's team riding a three-cylinder Triumph 675, and achieved 3rd place in the Supersport 600 Championship.
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Jake Dixon moved up to the 2016 British Superbike Championship, and while it was originally planned that he would teaming up with Dave Tyson's Tsingtao Kawasaki team for the season, financial concerns led to the team not fielding a pair of riders that season, managing to start at only one round with Danny Buchan.
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Jake Dixon was offered an alternative ride half way through the year, with Lee Hardy's Briggs Equipment BMW S1000RR, but after six rounds his brakes failed at Oulton Park, resulting in a broken hip, ending his season prematurely.
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Jake Dixon won both round-four races of the 2017 British Superbike Championship at Knockhill Racing Circuit.
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Jake Dixon finished 6th in the 2017 British Superbike Championship and was the youngest ever rider to make the final showdown, made up from the top six riders.
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Jake Dixon finished his participation in the British Superbike Championship series in second position to champion Leon Haslam.
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Jake Dixon made his first appearance in the Superbike World Championship in 2017 as a wildcard entry at Donington Park with Royal Air Force Reg.
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Jake Dixon made his full debut as a Moto2 World Championship rider on board a KTM bike, but Dixon's full-time Moto2 bow, in Qatar of 2019, is not his first Moto2 Grand Prix appearance, having already appeared as a wildcard at Silverstone in 2017, a race he finished in 25th place.
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Jake Dixon joined Petronas Sprinta Racing for the 2020 Moto2 World Championship, alongside Xavi Vierge, in the team's third season in Grand Prix racing's middleweight class.
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In October 2020, Petronas Sprint Racing announced that Jake Dixon would remain with the Malaysian team in Moto2 for the 2021 season.
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From 2022, Jake Dixon is contracted to race for the Aspar Team branded as GasGas using a Kalex chassis in Moto2.
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Jake Dixon competed in two MotoGP races for Petronas Yamaha, finishing in 19th place at the British Grand Prix in August and falling on the second lap at Aragon in September 2021.
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In December 2018, Jake Dixon married Sarah, daughter of former racer Eddie Roberts.