Arthur Sissis

Arthur Sissis (born 15 June 1995) is an Australian speedway rider and former Grand Prix motorcycle racer who last rode for Mahindra Racing in the Moto3 World Championship before being replaced by Andrea Migno mid season due to poor results.

Career

Junior speedway

Sissis was born in Adelaide, South Australia, but grew up in the small town of Virginia, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Adelaide. Sissis started racing junior motocross before joining the Sidewinders Under 16 Speedway Club in the northern suburbs of Adelaide at just 9 years of age. He went on to win the 2008 and 2009, 2011 Australian Under-16 Individual Speedway Championships, and finished second to Brady Kurtz from New South Wales, in the final of the 2010 championship.

Red Bull Rookies

Sissis then chased his Grand Prix dream and went on to ride in the 2010 Red Bull MotoGP Rookie Cup. A best placing of 6th in the first race of Round 3 at Assen saw him finish 13th in the championship. He again rode in the championship in 2011, scoring three wins (Jerez race 2, Assen race 2 and Mugello race 1) and finished 2nd in the championship, only 9 points behind Italian Lorenzo Baldassarri.

It was during 2011 that Sissis got his first Grand Prix start when he rode an Aprilia 125cc at the Malaysian Grand Prix. After qualifying 30th he had a steady race and finished in 20th.

Moto3

In 2012, Sissis has joined the Red Bull KTM Ajo team for the Moto3 World Championship, replacing the 125cc World Championship. After qualifying 9th for the first race at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar, Sissis got a good start and was 2nd on the first lap before slowly dropping back and eventually finishing 7th.

The high point in Sissis' racing career to date was his third-place finish at his home Grand Prix at Philip Island on 28 October 2012. Sissis led home a competitive pack behind the two leaders, his position only secured in the final seconds of the race, by only 0.054 seconds from fourth placed Alex Rins. This result was his only Grand Prix podium.

Return to speedway

In December 2014, Sissis decided on a return to speedway, signing to ride in 2015 for Sheffield Tigers in the British Premier League.^[1]

In his return to speedway, Sissis finished 10th in the 2014/15 South Australian Solo Championship held at the Gillman Speedway in Adelaide on 28 December 2014.^[2]

In May 2016 he rejoined the Sheffield Tigers team.^[3]

Career statistics

By season

Season	Class	Motorcycle	Team	Number	Race	Podium	Pts	Plcd
2011	125cc	Aprilia	TT Motion Events Racing	32	1	0	0	NC
2012	Moto3	KTM	Red Bull KTM Ajo	61	17	1	84	12th
2013	Moto3	KTM	Red Bull KTM Ajo	61	17	0	59	15th
2014	Moto3	Mahindra	Mahindra Racing	61	10	0	3	29th
Total					45	1	146

Races by year

(key)

Yr	Class	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Pos	Pts
2011	125 cc	Aprilia	QAT	SPA	POR	FRA	CAT	GBR	NED	ITA	GER	CZE	IND	RSM	ARA	JPN	AUS	MAL 20	VAL		NC	0
2012	Moto3	KTM	QAT 7	SPA Ret	POR 13	FRA 5	CAT 22	GBR 8	NED 16	GER 9	ITA Ret	IND 11	CZE 14	RSM 10	ARA 9	JPN 11	MAL 11	AUS 3	VAL 19		12th	84
2013	Moto3	KTM	QAT 8	AME 12	SPA 12	FRA 13	ITA 18	CAT 10	NED 8	GER 10	IND 6	CZE 14	GBR 24	RSM 15	ARA 9	MAL 19	AUS 16	JPN 16	VAL 18		15th	59
2014	Moto3	Mahindra	QAT DNS	AME Ret	ARG 22	SPA Ret	FRA 17	ITA 17	CAT 18	NED 21	GER 13	IND 21	CZE 26	GBR	RSM	ARA	JPN	AUS	MAL	VAL	29th	3

References

↑ "Teenager Arthur Sissis joins Sheffield for next season". Sky Sports. BSkyB. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
↑ 2014/15 SA Solo Championship result
↑ "Tigers Reveal Team Change", Sheffield Tigers, 11 May 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2016

External links

Profile on motogp.com

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