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Randy de Puniet (born February 14, 1981) is a French motorcycle road racer. He currently races in the Superbike World Championship for VOLTCOM Crescent Suzuki, aboard a GSX-R1000. De Puniet also competed in Grand Prix racing between 1998 and 2014, where he achieved five wins in the 250cc class. ==Career== Born in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, de Puniet was French 125cc champion in 1998, moving up to the world championship a year later. In he moved up to the 250cc World Championship. He earned two podium finishes in to earn a factory Aprilia ride for . He took his first win in Catalunya, coming 4th overall with 3 wins. In he was third with a single win, spending with on an Aprilia run by former world champion, Jorge Martínez and his Aspar Racing Team. was his first season in MotoGP, for the Kawasaki factory team, where he remained for . He took his first front-row start at the 2007 Catalan Grand Prix, and finished a career-best fifth. Up until Donington, he started all but one other race on the third row. He started fourth and finished second at Motegi in the wet. LCR Honda announced on August 24, 2007 that de Puniet would ride for them in 2008 and 2009. He suffered a fractured ankle in a midseason testing crash in . He ultimately remained with LCR for 2010, despite being linked to the French Tech 3 squad. He had been in contention for a Tech 3 ride for 2011, but team boss Herve Poncharal denied this link. He enjoyed a strong run of form midseason in 2010, including consecutive front row starts at Silverstone and Assen. He was running fifth in the championship before breaking his leg in a crash at the Sachsenring. He missed the race at Laguna Seca before returning at Brno, where he finished tenth. In spite of the promise he showed on the Honda before his injury, De Puniet raced for Pramac Racing in . After a disappointing year on the satellite Ducati De Puniet joined the Power Electronics Aspar team for , a 'Claiming Rules Team' running a modified Aprilia RSV4 known as the ART. For 2014, De Puniet was not racing, instead concentrating on development and testing on the Suzuki 2015 MotoGP machine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=de Puniet to concentrate on Suzuki MotoGP tests )〕 He hoped to receive a wild card ride during 2014,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=motogp.com · L’Equipe: De Puniet to have sabbatical in 2014 )〕 and did so at the final race in Valencia, retiring from the race. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Randy de Puniet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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