Sylvain Guintoli | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Montélimar, France | 24 June 1982||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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]