Alexis Masbou

Masbou was born in Albi. Before he reached the world championship he was joining the CDM French motorsport school. He started racing in the 50cc French class in 2001. From 2002 he stepped up to the national 125cc class. He was very successful and looked to be the next French relevation. In 2003 he made his wild-card debut at the Le Mans GP. In 2004 he became the national 125cc champion and he was ready to challenge the World Championship riders.

World Championship career

In 2005 he signed for the Ajo Moto Honda team to compete in the 125cc class, teamed with Japanese youngster Tomoyoshi Koyama. Masbou had a good debut season, with a best result of fifth in the Dutch TT, having run in the leading group throughout. For 2006 he rode an unfashionable Malaguti, with little success. In 2007 he again raced a Honda, finishing 21st overall best results were two tenth places. For 2008 he joined the new Loncin team, struggling to make this bike competitive and scoring four points. For 2009 he was joined in the Loncin team by Koyama.

At the 2014 Czech Republic Grand Prix, Masbou achieved his first victory at World Championship level after prevailing in a 17-rider lead battle, holding off Enea Bastianini and Danny Kent on the final lap.^[1]

Masbou gets another win At 2015 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix.

Masbou stil remained with the team for 2016 season, but the team will use newly Peugeot MGP3O. After failing to score a single point in nine races he was replaced by Albert Arenas ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix.

He will be ineligible to compete in Moto3 in 2017 due to the age limit.

Career statistics

Races by year

(key)

Year	Class	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Pos.	Pts
2003	125cc	Honda	JPN	RSA	SPA	FRA Ret	ITA	CAT	NED	GBR	GER	CZE	POR	BRA	PAC	MAL	AUS	VAL			NC	0
2004	125cc	Honda	RSA	SPA	FRA Ret	ITA	CAT	NED	BRA	GER	GBR	CZE	POR	JPN	QAT	MAL	AUS	VAL			NC	0
2005	125cc	Honda	SPA Ret	POR 13	CHN 21	FRA Ret	ITA 10	CAT Ret	NED 5	GBR Ret	GER DSQ	CZE Ret	JPN 20	MAL 14	QAT 20	AUS 10	TUR Ret	VAL Ret			18th	28
2006	125cc	Malaguti	SPA DNS	QAT DNS	TUR 20	CHN Ret	FRA 29	ITA Ret	CAT Ret	NED Ret	GBR	GER 25	CZE 23	MAL DNS	AUS	JPN	POR	VAL			NC	0
2007	125cc	Honda	QAT 10	SPA Ret	TUR Ret	CHN 13	FRA 12	ITA Ret	CAT 16	GBR 19	NED 16	GER 19	CZE 14	RSM 21	POR 14	JPN 21	AUS Ret	MAL 10	VAL 14		21st	25
2008	125cc	Loncin	QAT Ret	SPA 21	POR 20	CHN Ret	FRA 15	ITA 27	CAT Ret	GBR Ret	NED 23	GER 20	CZE 26	RSM Ret	IND 26	JPN 15	AUS Ret	MAL Ret	VAL 14		28th	4
2009	125cc	Loncin	QAT 26	JPN 21	SPA Ret	FRA Ret	ITA Ret	CAT Ret	NED Ret	GER Ret	GBR Ret	CZE 24	IND Ret	RSM	POR	AUS	MAL	VAL			NC	0
2010	125cc	Aprilia	QAT 10	SPA 9	FRA 16	ITA 12	GBR Ret	NED Ret	CAT Ret	GER 13	CZE Ret	IND DNS	RSM Ret	ARA	JPN	MAL	AUS	POR	VAL		20th	20
2011	125cc	Aprilia	QAT	SPA	POR	FRA 15															22nd	18
2011	125cc	KTM					CAT 14	GBR 14	NED 11	ITA 16	GER 26	CZE Ret	IND 14	RSM 20	ARA Ret	JPN Ret	AUS 14	MAL 12	VAL 22		22nd	18
2012	Moto3	Honda	QAT Ret	SPA 5	POR 9	FRA Ret	CAT 5	GBR 4	NED 7	GER 2	ITA 12	IND 10	CZE 16	RSM	ARA	JPN	MAL	AUS	VAL		13th	81
2013	Moto3	FTR Honda	QAT 14	AME 8	SPA 10	FRA 9	ITA 12	CAT 8	NED 9	GER DNS	IND 12	CZE 6	GBR 8	RSM Ret	ARA 11	MAL 7	AUS 10	JPN Ret	VAL 6		8th	94
2014	Moto3	Honda	QAT 7	AME 6	ARG 11	SPA 12	FRA 9	ITA 6	CAT 11	NED 4	GER 3	IND 4	CZE 1	GBR 8	RSM 7	ARA 10	JPN Ret	AUS 6	MAL 6	VAL 12	6th	164
2015	Moto3	Honda	QAT 1	AME 16	ARG Ret	SPA 15	FRA Ret	ITA 9	CAT 18	NED Ret	GER 8	IND 32	CZE Ret	GBR 11	RSM 7	ARA 8	JPN Ret	AUS 9	MAL 9	VAL 15	13th	78
2016	Moto3	Peugeot	QAT 24	ARG 21	AME 16	SPA Ret	FRA 19	ITA Ret	CAT Ret	NED Ret	GER 16	AUT	CZE	GBR	RSM	ARA	JPN	AUS	MAL	VAL	NC	0

References

↑ "First career victory for Masbou in hard fought Brno contest". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 17 August 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2014.

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