40 Facts About Simone Corsi

Simone Corsi was born on 24 April 1987 and is an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle sporting director, and former rider.

In 2003, Simone Corsi rode a Honda for Scot Racing Team, along with teammate Andrea Dovizioso.

Simone Corsi achieved nine point scoring finishes, a season's best result of 9th in two races, and finished 19th in the final standings with 32 points.

Simone Corsi ended the season 13th in the final standings with 61 points, while his teammate Dovizioso won the World Championship title with 293 points.

Simone Corsi had a good first half of the year, as he finished in the points in seven of the eight races.

Simone Corsi returned to the 125cc class for 2006 with Gilera, but he fell short of an impressive season, two fourth places were the best results of his year, and he finished 12th in the championship, with 79 points.

Simone Corsi ended the season 6th in the standings, with 168 points, both being career high totals so far.

For 2008, Simone Corsi received a factory spec Aprilia RSA 125 and he was seen as a title favourite for the year.

Simone Corsi won races in Jerez, Estoril, Mugello, and the season closer in Valencia, and finished 3rd in Assen, Rimini, and Sepang, but ultimately finished 2nd in the championship with 225 points, 39 points behind the Derbi of Mike Di Meglio, who won four races himself, winning the title.

For 2009, it had been speculated that Simone Corsi would ride for the Scot Honda team in 250cc's, but he continued in 125cc with Aprilia, in one last hope of winning the World Championship.

In 2010, Simone Corsi stepped up to the new intermediate class, Moto2, for Team JiR.

Simone Corsi scored his first podium, and his team's first podium in the intermediate class, with a 3rd place at Le Mans, moving into third place in the championship standings temporarily.

Simone Corsi added another 3rd placed podium at Mugello, but a crash at both Silverstone and the Sachsenring put a dent his championship hopes.

Simone Corsi finished the season well, with regular top-10 finishes, ending his second season in the intermediate class 5th in the rider's championship, with 138 points.

In 2011, Simone Corsi now riding for IodaRacing Project, he basically replicated his 2010 season, scoring two 3rd place finishes, and finishing 6th in the final standings, with 127 points.

Simone Corsi finished the year 11th in the rider's championship, with 108 points.

Simone Corsi started the season off well, with three straight 5th place finishes in Qatar, Texas, and Argentina, before a retirement in Jerez.

Simone Corsi underwent a four hour operation at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford to fix the open and displaced fracture of the ulna of his left arm, reducing and fixing the fracture with a plaque and screws.

Simone Corsi still managed to finish the year 7th in the standings, with 100 points.

Simone Corsi started the season off poorly, being involved in a crash with Esteve Rabat in the season opener in Qatar, causing both riders to retire from the race.

In Mugello, he was involved in a collision with Sam Lowes, in which Simone Corsi turned in on Lowes, causing himself to crash, Lowes managing to go on, eventually finishing 4th.

Altogether, Simone Corsi had an average year, scoring no podiums, his season's best results were two 4th places in Germany and San Marino, and finished 12th overall in the rider's championship, with 86 points.

In 2016, Simone Corsi joined Speed Up to replace Sam Lowes, who left to Gresini Racing.

Simone Corsi had his usual year, starting the season off really well, scoring a 3rd place in the season opener at Qatar, and a 2nd place in Le Mans, the fifth race of the season.

Simone Corsi was placed under investigation by race direction, but it was deemed a racing incident.

Simone Corsi had a similar incident with Nakagami in Brno that year as in Austin, but this time Corsi receiving a ride-through penalty for dangerous riding.

Simone Corsi tried to overtake too many riders into turn one, lost the front, and took out all three of them from the race.

Simone Corsi switched to team Tasca Racing for the 2018 season, partnering Federico Fuligni.

Simone Corsi had a weaker year, seeing the checkered flag in the top-10 only four times, and finished 14th in the rider's championship with 53 points.

In 2019, Simone Corsi had his Grand Prix career's worst year, finishing in the points only twice in the first 9 races of the season, an 8th place in Austin and a 14th place in Barcelona.

Simone Corsi thus finished with only 10 points, 24th in the rider's championship.

Simone Corsi made his return to MV Agusta Forward Racing for the 2020 season, partnering Stefano Manzi, and continued declining in his performances.

Simone Corsi finished in the points only six times, and only finished in the top-10 once, a 10th place finish in Aragon.

Simone Corsi ended the year 24th in the championship again, this time with 15 points.

Simone Corsi was replaced for the second round by Tommaso Marcon, and for the third by Miquel Pons, with rumours starting to circle whether or not it was going to be his last year.

Simone Corsi finished 9th in Le Mans, 10th in Aragon, and 13th in Austin, and the following weekend in Misano saw Corsi start his 300th career race, becoming only the 5th rider after Loris Capirossi, Valentino Rossi, Andrea Dovizioso, and Thomas Luthi to achieve this feat.

The final round in Valencia saw him take an unexpected pole position in qualifying, his first pole in nearly nine years, but on the warm-up lap Simone Corsi's bike stalled, and he entered the pits in tears, unable to start the race from the front of the grid due to a technical issue.

Simone Corsi ended the season 24th in the standings with 16 points, and was extended for another year by Forward Racing for his brilliant pole position.

The year was a major disappointment, with Simone Corsi failing to score a point and he and Ramirez were never really looking competitive because of a bike with not many upgrades and tensions between Forward Racing and MV Agusta with Simone Corsi being replaced by Alex Escrig, ending his long career in Grand Prix racing.

Simone Corsi tried to join the World Supersport paddock, but he could not find a ride for 2023.