Eugene Laverty

Eugene Laverty
Laverty in 2016
Nationality	British
Born	(1986-06-03) 3 June 1986 (age 38) Toomebridge, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Current team	Bonovo Action BMW
Bike number	50
Website	elaverty.com
Motorcycle racing career statistics MotoGP World Championship Active years 2015–2016 Manufacturers Honda, Ducati Championships 0 2016 championship position 13th (77 pts) Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 36 0 0 0 0 86 250cc World Championship Active years 2007–2008 Manufacturers Honda, Aprilia Championships 0 2008 championship position 21st (8 pts) Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 29 0 0 0 0 14 125cc World Championship Active years 2004 Manufacturers Honda Championships 0 2004 championship position NC (0 pts) Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 1 0 0 0 0 0 Superbike World Championship Active years 2011–2014, 2017–2022 Manufacturers Yamaha, Aprilia, Suzuki, Ducati, BMW Championships 0 2022 championship position 16th (36 pts) Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 242 13 35 4 5 1678.5 Supersport World Championship Active years 2008–2010 Manufacturers Yamaha, Honda Championships 0 2010 championship position 2nd (252 pts) Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 29 12 19 6 6 508

Eugene Laverty (born 3 June 1986) is a former professional motorcycle road racer from Northern Ireland, the brother of Michael and John.

For 2022, Laverty is contracted to ride for satellite BMW team Bonovo in World Superbike Championship.^[1] Midway through the season, Laverty announced his intended retirement at the end of 2022, partly due to poor race results, to continue with the same team as a co-owner and rider coach.^[2][3]

During 2021, Laverty rode in some World Superbike events before his RC Squadra Corse team withdrew from racing; further rides later in the season were as a replacement for injured BMW factory rider Tom Sykes.^[4]

Career

Early career

Born in Toomebridge, Northern Ireland, Laverty was runner-up in the 2004 British 125cc Championship. He had a successful year in 2006 aboard the Dunlop shod Red Bull Honda CBR600RR. He was a top challenger for the British Supersport title, but finished third overall behind Cal Crutchlow and Tom Sykes, with four wins.^[5] He had previously finished 9th overall as a series rookie in 2005.

250cc World Championship (2007–2008)

For 2007, he raced in the 250cc Grand Prix World Championship for LCR Honda^[6] finishing in 25th place overall with a best result of 14th. A strong run at Barcelona produced no points due to an engine problem.^[7]

For 2008 it was expected that he would go back to Britain and further his career in Supersports or Superbikes, but he was signed by Blusens Aprilia on 18 December to continue to race in 250cc with privateer motorcycles.^[8] He scored points in China and Portugal, but at Le Mans he crashed at the one remaining wet corner as the circuit dried.^[9]

Supersport World Championship (2008–2010)

Plans for him to make his World Superbike debut later that year^[8] were scrapped when Chris Walker joined the team full-time, but he instead joined the factory Yamaha team in World Supersport as a temporary replacement for the injured Fabien Foret. Despite riding injured following a crash at the 2008 Indianapolis motorcycle Grand Prix a week earlier, he moved up from an early 7th to battle championship leader Andrew Pitt and teammate Broc Parkes for 2nd. Parkes got the better of him, but he finished on the podium after surviving contact with Pitt which eliminated the Honda rider. He decided before this race to end his 250cc season, and focus on a full-time WSS ride for 2009.^[10]

The young Irish man signed with the Parkalgar Honda World Supersport team for the 2009 season.^[11] On 14 March 2009 Laverty won his first Supersport World Championship race at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar, narrowly beating Ten Kate Racing's Andrew Pitt to the chequered flag. His win was also the first for the Parkalgar Honda team. He stacked up three more wins and four-second places to finish as series runner-up behind Yamaha rider Cal Crutchlow – ending Ten Kate's run of being the top Honda team for many years.

Superbike World Championship (2011–2014)

Laverty, on his Yamaha World Superbike, won his first Superbike World Championship race at Monza on 8 May 2011. Eugene stood proudly as his national anthem was played just after race one.^[12] Later that afternoon, Laverty completed the double by winning race two, with fellow Yamaha teammate Marco Melandri taking second spot.^[13] For 2012 Laverty rode a factory-specification Aprilia, partnering Max Biaggi.

MotoGP World Championship (2015–2016)

For the 2015 season, Laverty moved to MotoGP with the Aspar Team, riding a Honda RC213V-RS open-specification motorcycle. He finished the season in 22nd place in the riders' championship standings, with a best result of 12th in Catalunya.^[14]

Laverty remained with the team – now riding Ducati Desmosedici GP14.2 motorcycles – for the 2016 season, where he partnered Yonny Hernández.^[15] In Argentina, he achieved his best results in MotoGP career with 4th place.

Timeline

In 2008 he had competed in both the 250cc World Championship and the World Supersport series, he then went on to be runner up in the Supersport World Championship in both 2009 and 2010.

In 2011 he moved up to the Superbike World Championship with the factory Yamaha World Superbike team,^[16] alongside former MotoGP rider Marco Melandri. On 8 May he won his first World Superbike race at Monza and went on to complete the double in race two.^[17] For 2012 he moved to the Aprilia Racing Team and has been racing the Aprilia RSV4 alongside Max Biaggi, ending the championship in 6th position and competed for the 2013 championship in the same team alongside Sylvain Guintoli.

In 2017 and 2018 Laverty competed in the World Superbikes aboard an Aprilia RSV4, before losing his position within the Shaun Muir Racing team to former Kawasaki rider Tom Sykes.^[18]

For 2019 he was contracted to ride in the Superbike World Championship for Team Go Eleven on a Ducati Panigale.^[18]

During 2021 Laverty rode a few times for under-financed RC Squadra Corse BMW team and as a replacement for injured Chaz Davies.

For 2022, Laverty has signed to race in Superbike World Championship for satellite BMW team Bonovo, together with team-mate Loris Baz.^[19]

Career statistics

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

By season

Season	Class	Motorcycle	Team	Race	Win	Podium	Pole	FLap	Pts	Plcd
2004	125cc	Honda	Red Bull Rookies Honda	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2007	250cc	Honda	Honda LCR	17	0	0	0	0	6	25th
2008	250cc	Aprilia	Blusens Aprilia	12	0	0	0	0	8	21st
2015	MotoGP	Honda	Aspar MotoGP Team	18	0	0	0	0	9	22nd
2016	MotoGP	Ducati	Pull & Bear Aspar Team	18	0	0	0	0	77	13th
Total				66	0	0	0	0	100

By class

Class	Seasons	1st GP	1st Pod	1st Win	Race	Win	Podiums	Pole	FLap	Pts	WChmp
125cc	2004	2004 Great Britain			1	0	0	0	0	0	0
250cc	2007–2008	2007 Qatar			29	0	0	0	0	14	0
MotoGP	2015–2016	2015 Qatar			36	0	0	0	0	86	0
Total	2004, 2007–2008, 2015–2016				66	0	0	0	0	100

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Class	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Pos	Pts
2004	125cc	Honda	RSA	SPA	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	RIO	GER	GBR 25	CZE	POR	JPN	QAT	MAL	AUS	VAL			NC	0
2007	250cc	Honda	QAT 18	SPA 14	TUR 17	CHN 17	FRA 15	ITA 20	CAT 19	GBR Ret	NED 21	GER Ret	CZE Ret	RSM 15	POR 14	JPN 19	AUS 16	MAL 17	VAL 21		25th	6
2008	250cc	Aprilia	QAT Ret	SPA Ret	POR 15	CHN 13	FRA Ret	ITA 13	CAT 16	GBR Ret	NED 16	GER 15	CZE 16	RSM Ret	INP C	JPN	AUS	MAL	VAL		21st	8
2015	MotoGP	Honda	QAT 18	AME 16	ARG 17	SPA 18	FRA 14	ITA 15	CAT 12	NED Ret	GER 17	INP 19	CZE Ret	GBR 17	RSM 19	ARA 14	JPN 17	AUS 19	MAL 19	VAL Ret	22nd	9
2016	MotoGP	Ducati	QAT 12	ARG 4	AME 12	SPA 9	FRA 11	ITA 13	CAT 13	NED 7	GER 11	AUT 18	CZE 6	GBR 12	RSM 14	ARA 14	JPN Ret	AUS 14	MAL 12	VAL 16	13th	77

Supersport World Championship

By season

Season	Motorcycle	Team	Race	Win	Podium	Pole	FLap	Pts	Plcd
2008	Yamaha	Yamaha World Supersport	2	0	1	0	0	20	21st
2009	Honda	Parkalgar Honda	14	4	8	1	1	236	2nd
2010	Honda	Parkalgar Honda	13	8	10	5	5	252	2nd
Total			29	12	19	6	6	508

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos	Pts
2008	Yamaha	QAT	AUS	SPA	NED	ITA	GER	SMR	CZE	GBR	EUR 12	ITA 3	FRA	POR		21st	20
2009	Honda	AUS 5	QAT 1	SPA 9	NED 1	ITA 4	RSA 1	USA 2	SMR 2	GBR 5	CZE 5	GER 2	ITA 2	FRA 13	POR 1	2nd	236
2010	Honda	AUS 1	POR 11	SPA 5	NED 1	ITA 1	RSA 1	USA 2	SMR 1	CZE Ret	GBR 1	GER 1	ITA 3	FRA 1		2nd	252

Superbike World Championship

By season

Season	Motorcycle	Team	Race	Win	Podium	Pole	FLap	Pts	Plcd
2011	Yamaha	Yamaha World Superbike Team	26	2	6	0	0	303	4th
2012	Aprilia	Aprilia Racing Team	27	1	6	0	1	263.5	6th
2013	Aprilia	Aprilia Racing Team	27	9	19	2	4	424	2nd
2014	Suzuki	Voltcom Crescent Suzuki	24	1	2	0	0	161	10th
2017	Aprilia	Milwaukee Aprilia	26	0	0	0	0	157	10th
2018	Aprilia	Milwaukee Aprilia	21	0	2	1	0	158	8th
2019	Ducati	Team GoEleven	24	0	0	0	0	81	15th
2020	BMW	BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team	22	0	0	1	0	55	15th
2021	BMW	RC Squadra Corse	19	0	0	0	0	40	19th
2022	BMW	Bonovo Action BMW	27	0	0	0	0	36*	16th*
Total			243	13	35	4	5	1678.5

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Bike	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		11		12		13		14		Pos	Pts
		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
2011	Yamaha	AUS 4	AUS 15	EUR Ret	EUR 14	NED 7	NED 6	ITA 1	ITA 1	USA 5	USA 4	SMR 5	SMR 13	SPA 4	SPA 6	CZE 5	CZE 5	GBR 2	GBR 2	GER 4	GER 5	ITA 5	ITA 4	FRA 5	FRA 3	POR 19	POR 2			4th	303
2012	Aprilia	AUS Ret	AUS 8	ITA 5	ITA 6	NED 5	NED 3	ITA C	ITA 3	EUR 15	EUR Ret	USA 5	USA 6	SMR 7	SMR Ret	SPA 5	SPA 2	CZE 5	CZE 5	GBR 10	GBR 4	RUS 4	RUS Ret	GER 2	GER 2	POR 13	POR 1	FRA 7	FRA 4	6th	263.5
2013	Aprilia	AUS 2	AUS 1	SPA NC	SPA Ret	NED 4	NED 1	ITA 3	ITA 1	GBR 7	GBR 3	POR Ret	POR 1	ITA 3	ITA Ret	RUS Ret	RUS C	GBR 2	GBR 3	GER 15	GER 2	TUR 1	TUR 1	USA 3	USA 1	FRA 3	FRA 2	SPA 1	SPA 1	2nd	424
2014	Suzuki	AUS 1	AUS Ret	SPA 5	SPA 6	NED Ret	NED Ret	ITA 7	ITA 9	GBR Ret	GBR 13	MAL 3	MAL 7	ITA 9	ITA 7	POR 8	POR 9	USA Ret	USA 4	SPA 6	SPA 6	FRA 19	FRA Ret	QAT 9	QAT Ret					10th	161
2017	Aprilia	AUS 8	AUS 10	THA Ret	THA 15	SPA 8	SPA 9	NED 8	NED 8	ITA NC	ITA 7	GBR 13	GBR Ret	ITA 6	ITA 5	USA Ret	USA 6	GER 10	GER Ret	POR 7	POR 4	FRA 6	FRA 17	SPA 8	SPA Ret	QAT 4	QAT 7			10th	157
2018	Aprilia	AUS 8	AUS 15	THA 9	THA Ret	SPA	SPA	NED	NED	ITA 12	ITA 9	GBR 6	GBR Ret	CZE 6	CZE 4	USA 4	USA 3	ITA 3	ITA 8	POR Ret	POR 7	FRA 9	FRA 11	ARG 5	ARG Ret	QAT 4	QAT C			8th	158

Year	Bike	1			2			3			4			5			6			7			8			9			10			11			12			13			Pos	Pts
		R1	SR	R2	R1	SR	R2	R1	SR	R2	R1	SR	R2	R1	SR	R2	R1	SR	R2	R1	SR	R2	R1	SR	R2	R1	SR	R2	R1	SR	R2	R1	SR	R2	R1	SR	R2	R1	SR	R2
2019	Ducati	AUS 12	AUS 9	AUS 9	THA Ret	THA DNS	THA Ret	SPA 15	SPA 6	SPA 6	NED 14	NED C	NED 13	ITA WD	ITA WD	ITA WD	SPA	SPA	SPA	ITA	ITA	ITA	GBR DNS	GBR DNS	GBR DNS	USA 11	USA 14	USA 12	POR Ret	POR 15	POR 14	FRA 9	FRA 13	FRA 12	ARG DNS	ARG 13	ARG 7	QAT 9	QAT 9	QAT 6	15th	81
2020	BMW	AUS 11	AUS DNS	AUS DNS	SPA 15	SPA 13	SPA Ret	POR 10	POR 20	POR 12	SPA 16	SPA 16	SPA 14	SPA 8	SPA 14	SPA 11	SPA 11	SPA 11	SPA 7	FRA Ret	FRA 15	FRA 14	POR 12	POR 16	POR 12																15th	55
2021	BMW	SPA Ret	SPA 16	SPA 17	POR 18	POR 8	POR 9	ITA DNS	ITA 13	ITA 15	GBR 13	GBR 12	GBR 15	NED	NED	NED	CZE	CZE	CZE	SPA	SPA	SPA	FRA	FRA	FRA	SPA	SPA	SPA	SPA 12	SPA C	SPA 11	POR 9	POR 9	POR 10	ARG 13	ARG 15	ARG 16	INA	INA	INA	19th	40
2022	BMW	SPA 10	SPA 11	SPA 12	NED DNS	NED DNS	NED DNS	POR 15	POR Ret	POR 14	ITA 13	ITA 12	ITA 14	GBR 20	GBR 23	GBR Ret	CZE 19	CZE 18	CZE DNS	FRA 18	FRA 18	FRA Ret	SPA 10	SPA 14	SPA 14	POR 15	POR 15	POR 16	ARG 14	ARG 19	ARG 11	INA 14	INA 17	INA 16	AUS 18	AUS 15	AUS Ret				16th	36

^* Season still in progress.

References

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External links

• Eugene Laverty at MotoGP.com
• Eugene Laverty at WorldSBK.com
• Eugene Laverty at AS.com (in Spanish)
• Official website