1. Stefan Bradl was born on 29 November 1989 and is a German professional motorcycle racer, best known for winning the Moto2 World Championship in 2011.
27 Facts About Stefan Bradl
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Stefan Bradl then moved to MotoGP in 2012 with LCR Honda.
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Stefan Bradl finished the 2013 season 7th, despite missing two races due to injury.
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Stefan Bradl is contracted as a test rider for Honda Racing Corporation in MotoGP and makes occasional wild card appearances and acts as an injury replacement.
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Stefan Bradl took more wild card races in 2006, still with KTM.
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Stefan Bradl had a terrible fracture when he was hit by another rider during practice for the 2006 Malaysian GP.
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Stefan 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.
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Stefan Bradl took his first win at Brno, fittingly a track his father won at in 1991.
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Stefan Bradl was therefore crowned the World Champion at the final race of the season in Valencia, Spain.
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Stefan Bradl had a good season, running consistently in the top-10, with a best result of fourth place obtained at the Italian Grand Prix.
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Stefan Bradl completed the season in eighth place, winning the Rookie of the Year award.
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Stefan Bradl battled consistently among the second group of riders in 2013, along with Valentino Rossi, Cal Crutchlow and Alvaro Bautista.
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Stefan Bradl closed the season in seventh place with 156 points.
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Stefan Bradl subsequently announced a move to the Forward Racing team for 2015, riding an open-specification bike.
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At the midway point of the season, Stefan Bradl had collected 9 points, despite missing his home race at the Sanchsenring due to injury.
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Stefan Bradl collected 63 points, with no poles, fastest laps and podiums.
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Stefan Bradl only raced 6 full rounds and 4 half-rounds; taking up 67 points and ranked 14th in the list.
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In 2018, Stefan 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.
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Stefan Bradl made two wildcard entries for HRC Honda Team at the Czech Republic and San Marino rounds.
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Stefan Bradl replaced the injured Cal Crutchlow at LCR Honda for the final two rounds, finishing 13th in Malaysia and 9th in Valencia.
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Stefan Bradl collected 10 points total on the season, and was ranked 24th overall.
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Stefan Bradl 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.
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In 2020, Stefan Bradl was called up as a replacement rider for Marc Marquez from the Czech Republic round onwards, while Marquez was recovering from injuries sustained in an August crash at the Spanish Grand Prix.
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In 2021, Stefan Bradl was a replacement rider for injured Marquez in the early season.
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Stefan Bradl finished in positions 11 and 14 with two consecutive weekend races at Losail, Doha.
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Stefan Bradl had a wild card ride in 2021 at Jerez, finishing in position 12.
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For 2022, in the third race of the season at Argentina on 3 April, Stefan Bradl finished in position 19 when deputising for Marc Marquez, who was injured in March a few hours before the Indonesian Grand Prix at Mandalika.