Niccolò Canepa
Niccolò Canepa is an Italian professional motorcycle road racer competing in the MotoE World Cup aboard an Energica Ego Corsa.Career
Having previously competed in the Italian Superstock Championship, the Italian Supersport Championship, and the Superstock 600 UEM European Championship – where he finished runner-up in 2006 – Canepa won the 2007 Superstock 1000 F.I.M. Cup championship on a Ducati, and spent 2008 as a tester of their MotoGP and World Superbike machines. He was given three World Superbike wild card rides in the second half of the, qualifying on the second row for his debut at Brno, on his first experience of the one-shot "Superpole" system. He raced in MotoGP full-time for Pramac Ducati in 2009 with little success, and made an uncompetitive start in Moto2. He moved back to the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup in 2011, and after a season in the Superbike World Championship in, returned to Superstock 1000 in 2013 and became runner up behind Sylvain Barrier
Niccolò moved in 2016 to the World Endurance Championship riding the Factory GMT94 Yamaha R1. He ended the season in second place.
In 2017 Niccolò won the World Endurance Championship. He is the first Italian in history to win an Endurance World Championship. He is also the Yamaha Superbike Factory Team test rider and replacement rider. He is also coaching Alex Lowes and Michael Van Der Mark during the Superbike World Championship.Career statistics
Supersport World Championship
By season
| Year | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Pos | Pts |
| 2005 | Kawasaki | QAT | AUS | ESP | ITA | EUR | ITA | CZE | GBR | NED | GER
16 | ITA
15 | FRA
Ret | 41st | 1 |
Superbike World Championship
By season
Races by year
By season
* Season still in progress.By class
Races by year
| Year | Class | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Pos | Pts |
| 2009 | MotoGP | Ducati | QAT
17 | JPN
14 | SPA
16 | FRA
15 | ITA
9 | CAT
16 | NED
14 | USA
12 | GER
12 | GBR
8 | CZE
12 | IND
Ret | RSM
13 | POR
13 | AUS
DNS | MAL | VAL | 16th | 38 |
| 2010 | Moto2 | Force GP | QAT
27 | SPA
Ret | FRA
17 | ITA
28 | GBR
16 | NED
24 | CAT
Ret | GER
20 | | | | | | | | | | NC | 0 |
| 2010 | Moto2 | Suter | | | | | | | | | CZE
28 | IND | | | | | | | | NC | 0 |
| 2010 | Moto2 | Bimota | | | | | | | | | | | RSM
28 | ARA
26 | JPN | MAL | AUS | POR | VAL | NC | 0 |
| 2019 | MotoE | Energica | GER
12 | AUT
8 | RSM1
5 | RSM2
4 | VAL1
6 | VAL2
Ret | | | | | | | | | | | | 9th | 46 |
| 2020 | MotoE | Energica | SPA
| AND
| RSM
| EMI1
| EMI2
| FRA1
| FRA2
| | | | | | | | | | | 0 | 0 |
* Season still in progress.
