Back سيلفان جوينتولي Arabic Sylvain Guintoli German Sylvain Guintoli Esperanto Sylvain Guintoli Spanish Sylvain Guintoli French Sylvain Guintoli Hungarian Sylvain Guintoli ID Sylvain Guintoli Italian シルバン・ギュントーリ Japanese Sylvain Guintoli Dutch
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| Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 June 1982 Montélimar, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bike number | 50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sylvain Guintoli (born 24 June 1982) is a French professional motorcycle racer and race analyst for television.[1] He was FIM World Superbike Champion in 2014. Until the Suzuki MotoGP team's withdrawal from racing in 2022, he was contracted as their test and development rider, with occasional race entries as a wild card or replacement rider.[2][3][4]
In 2024, Guintoli was contracted as a test rider, together with Bradley Smith, for the BMW Motorrad world superbike team, delivered by Shaun Muir Racing.[5]
He spent the early years of his career in 250cc Grand-Prix World Championship on private bikes. He was a 500cc 2 stroke test rider for Yamaha and made a single MotoGP start in 2002. Best MotoGP rookie in 2007 for Yamaha, he raced for Ducati MotoGP in 2008. After a serious leg injury in 2009, he recovered and became World Superbike Champion in 2014 for Aprilia. For 2017, he competed in the British Superbike Championship with the then-new Suzuki GSX-R1000.
In 2021 he was the winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race on Suzuki together with Xavier Simeon and Gregg Black,[6] followed by the Bol d'Or and finally the Championship.[7] In 2022, he suffered a wrist injury preventing his entry into the Suzuka 8 Hours race and also as a replacement for Joan Mir in MotoGP.[8][9]
- ^ Talented Sylvain Guintoli: Suzuki tester & TV expert speedweek.com, 31 July, 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2023
- ^ MotoGP Silverstone: Guintoli to replace still-injured Mir bikesportnews, Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ Suzuki Racing Retrieved 21 September 2019
- ^ Suzuki To Quit MotoGP Racing At The End of 2022 Cycle News, 14 July, 2022. Retrieved 19 November 2023
- ^ WSB: Sylvain Guintoli and Bradley Smith join BMW test team Motorcycle News , 8 December 2023. Retrieved 24 February 2024
- ^ "Results".
- ^ 2021 FIM EWC-Teams Ranking fimewc.com Retrieved 10 October 2021
- ^ Suzuki's Guintoli to miss Suzuka 8 Hours due to injury 5 August 2022. Retrieved 30 August 2022
- ^ Suzuki names unlikely Mir replacement for Misano MotoGP round msn.com, Retrieved 30 August 2022