Steve Martin (motorcyclist)

Australian motorcycle racer

Steve Martin

Nationality| Australian
Born|  (1968-12-02) 2 December 1968 (age 56)
South Australia, Australia
| Motorcycle racing career statistics

Grand Prix motorcycle racing
Active years| 1999
Championships| 0
| Starts | Wins | Podiums | Poles | F. laps | Points

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4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2
Superbike World Championship
Active years| 18
Manufacturers| Suzuki, Ducati, Petronas, Yamaha, Honda, BMW
Championships| 0
2009 championship position| NC
| Starts | Wins | Podiums | Poles | F. laps | Points

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182 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 549
Supersport World Championship
Active years| 2007
Manufacturers| Yamaha
Championships| 0
2007 championship position| 32nd
| Starts | Wins | Podiums | Poles | F. laps | Points

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1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6

Steve Martin is a retired motorcycle road racer and racing commentator from Australia. He currently resides in Melbourne, Australia. He is the 2009 World Endurance Champion for YART (Yamaha Austria Racing Team), but is a veteran of the World Superbike Championship, and former champion of the Australian series.

After success in trials, he started racing in his home Superbike Championship in 1990, initially on a factory Suzuki. Years on private bikes followed, but he later earned a Ducati ride. He led the 1998 standings until a crash at Phillip Island, but won the title in 1999. He also did an assortment of wild card rides in the Superbike World Championship rounds at Phillip Island over the years, as well as four 500cc Grand Prix races in 1999.

After that, he moved to the Australian Supersport series, before moving to the Superbike World Championship full-time for 2001, riding on Pirelli tyres for DFXtreme. He scored a pair of top-6 finishes at Imola in 2001, and set fastest lap at the Lausitzring that year, but he was not a frontrunner for much of 2001 or 2002. However, he stepped up to 8th overall in 2003 and 7th in 2004, along with 3 pole positions and five podiums. He spent the next 2 years with Carl Fogarty's Foggy Petronas team, which struggled to be competitive with its three-cylinder machine, although beating team-mates Garry McCoy and Craig Jones in those years. He returned to DFXtreme for 2007,[1] turning down other offers as he believed the team had enough funds for the full season. It soon became clear that this was not the case - he nearly lost the ride after 2 races,[2] but continued for rounds 3 and 4, before leaving the team as it could not provide a full-time entry. He moved into the World Supersport Championship at Assen, replacing injured countryman Kevin Curtain[3] Later in 2007 he contested the Suzuka 8 Hours race, and he made World Superbike starts on Yamaha and Suzuki equipment, but finished the season with a broken metatarsal.

In 2008 he retired from World Superbike racing but joined the World Superbike Championship as a commentator alongside Jonathan Green. He continued to race a Superbike and finished 1st in the World Endurance Championship for YART (Yamaha Austria Racing Team). BMW also retained his services as a development rider for their new S1000RR Superbike project,[4] which led to a one-off return at Kyalami in place of Troy Corser.

## Career statistics

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### Superbike World Championship

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#### Races by year

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year  | Make  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | 9  | 10  | 11  | 12  | 13  | 14  | Pos. | Pts

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R1  | R2  | R1  | R2  | R1  | R2  | R1  | R2  | R1  | R2  | R1  | R2  | R1  | R2  | R1  | R2  | R1  | R2  | R1  | R2  | R1  | R2  | R1  | R2  | R1  | R2  | R1  | R2
1989 | Suzuki | GBR | GBR | HUN | HUN | CAN | CAN | USA | USA | AUT | AUT | FRA | FRA | JPN | JPN | GER | GER | ITA | ITA | AUS
15 | AUS
Ret | NZL | NZL |  |  |  |  |  |  | 87th  | 1
1990 | Suzuki | SPA | SPA | GBR | GBR | HUN | HUN | GER | GER | CAN | CAN | USA | USA | AUT | AUT | JPN | JPN | FRA | FRA | ITA | ITA | MAL | MAL | AUS
11 | AUS
10 | NZL | NZL |  |  | 41st  | 11
1991 | Suzuki | GBR | GBR | SPA | SPA | CAN | CAN | USA | USA | AUT | AUT | SMR | SMR | SWE | SWE | JPN | JPN | MAL | MAL | GER | GER | FRA | FRA | ITA | ITA | AUS
8 | AUS
7 |  |  | 36th  | 17
1992 | Suzuki | SPA | SPA | GBR | GBR | GER | GER | BEL | BEL | SPA | SPA | AUT | AUT | ITA | ITA | MAL | MAL | JPN | JPN | NED | NED | ITA | ITA | AUS
16 | AUS
16 | NZL | NZL |  |  | NC  | 0
1994 | Suzuki | GBR | GBR | GER | GER | ITA | ITA | SPA | SPA | AUT | AUT | INA | INA | JPN | JPN | NED | NED | SMR | SMR | EUR | EUR | AUS
15 | AUS
15 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 61st  | 2
1995 | Suzuki | GER | GER | SMR | SMR | GBR | GBR | ITA | ITA | SPA | SPA | AUT | AUT | USA | USA | EUR | EUR | JPN | JPN | NED | NED | INA | INA | AUS
16 | AUS
16 |  |  |  |  | NC  | 0
1996 | Suzuki | SMR | SMR | GBR | GBR | GER | GER | ITA | ITA | CZE | CZE | USA | USA | EUR | EUR | INA
Ret | INA
15 | JPN | JPN | NED | NED | SPA | SPA | AUS
14 | AUS
Ret |  |  |  |  | 49th  | 3
1997 | Suzuki | AUS
16 | AUS
Ret | SMR | SMR | GBR | GBR | GER | GER | ITA | ITA | USA | USA | EUR | EUR | AUT | AUT | NED | NED | SPA | SPA | JPN | JPN | INA | INA |  |  |  |  | NC  | 0
1998 | Ducati | AUS
Ret | AUS
10 | GBR | GBR | ITA | ITA | SPA | SPA | GER | GER | SMR | SMR | RSA | RSA | USA | USA | EUR | EUR | AUT | AUT | NED | NED | JPN | JPN |  |  |  |  | 36th  | 6
1999 | Ducati | RSA | RSA | AUS
Ret | AUS
7 | GBR | GBR | SPA | SPA | ITA | ITA | GER | GER | SMR | SMR | USA | USA | EUR | EUR | AUT | AUT | NED | NED | GER | GER | JPN | JPN |  |  | 41st  | 9
2001 | Ducati | SPA
11 | SPA
Ret | RSA
19 | RSA
17 | AUS
12 | AUS
C | JPN
19 | JPN
20 | ITA
Ret | ITA
14 | GBR
17 | GBR
18 | GER
15 | GER
14 | SMR
13 | SMR
Ret | USA
14 | USA
13 | EUR
14 | EUR
18 | GER
Ret | GER
14 | NED
20 | NED
20 | ITA
6 | ITA
5 |  |  | 17th  | 47
2002 | Ducati | SPA
17 | SPA
9 | AUS
13 | AUS
Ret | RSA
Ret | RSA
Ret | JPN
17 | JPN
20 | ITA
10 | ITA
11 | GBR
Ret | GBR
19 | GER
9 | GER
11 | SMR
13 | SMR
12 | USA
14 | USA
11 | GBR
19 | GBR
16 | GER | GER | NED
Ret | NED
DNS | ITA
13 | ITA
14 |  |  | 16th  | 52
2003 | Ducati | SPA
6 | SPA
5 | AUS
4 | AUS
9 | JPN
15 | JPN
Ret | ITA
9 | ITA
7 | GER
6 | GER
6 | GBR
Ret | GBR
Ret | SMR
6 | SMR
9 | USA
Ret | USA
Ret | GBR
14 | GBR
Ret | NED
9 | NED
11 | ITA
6 | ITA
Ret | FRA
7 | FRA
5 |  |  |  |  | 8th  | 139
2004 | Ducati | SPA
Ret | SPA
3 | AUS
4 | AUS
Ret | SMR
7 | SMR
3 | ITA
Ret | ITA
8 | GER
5 | GER
Ret | GBR
6 | GBR
6 | USA
3 | USA
6 | EUR
3 | EUR
Ret | NED
7 | NED
Ret | ITA
6 | ITA
3 | FRA
5 | FRA
Ret |  |  |  |  |  |  | 7th  | 181
2005 | Petronas | QAT
15 | QAT
Ret | AUS
Ret | AUS
Ret | SPA
Ret | SPA
17 | ITA
Ret | ITA
Ret | EUR
Ret | EUR
20 | SMR
11 | SMR
8 | CZE
17 | CZE
16 | GBR
15 | GBR
Ret | NED
14 | NED
16 | GER
18 | GER
9 | ITA
5 | ITA
C | FRA
Ret | FRA
DNS |  |  |  |  | 18th  | 35
2006 | Petronas | QAT
18 | QAT
18 | AUS
14 | AUS
15 | SPA
Ret | SPA
15 | ITA
Ret | ITA
Ret | EUR
Ret | EUR
Ret | SMR
Ret | SMR
17 | CZE
Ret | CZE
19 | GBR
17 | GBR
16 | NED
12 | NED
11 | GER
14 | GER
12 | ITA
Ret | ITA
16 | FRA
Ret | FRA
Ret |  |  |  |  | 21st  | 19
2007 | Honda | QAT
11 | QAT
18 | AUS
10 | AUS
Ret | EUR
19 | EUR
13 | SPA
Ret | SPA
Ret | NED | NED | ITA
16 | ITA
Ret | GBR | GBR | SMR | SMR | CZE | CZE |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 18th  | 27
Yamaha |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | GBR
11 | GBR
16 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Suzuki |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | GER
14 | GER
14 | ITA
14 | ITA
14 | FRA
16 | FRA
Ret |  |
2009 | BMW | AUS | AUS | QAT | QAT | SPA | SPA | NED | NED | ITA | ITA | RSA
22 | RSA
18 | USA | USA | SMR | SMR | GBR | GBR | CZE | CZE | GER | GER | ITA | ITA | FRA | FRA | POR | POR | NC  | 0

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#### Races by year

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Year  | Class  | Bike  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | 9  | 10  | 11  | 12  | 13  | 14  | 15  | 16  | Pos. | Pts

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1999 | 500cc  | Honda | MAL | JPN | SPA | FRA | ITA | CAT | NED | GBR | GER | CZE | IMO | VAL | AUS
14 | RSA
21 | BRA
Ret | ARG
20 | 32nd  | 2

### Supersport World Championship

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#### Races by year

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year  | Bike  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | 9  | 10  | 11  | 12  | 13  | Pos. | Pts

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2007 | Yamaha | QAT | AUS | EUR | SPA | NED
10 | ITA | GBR | SMR | CZE | GBR | GER | ITA | FRA | 32nd  | 6

## References

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1. ^ Rubber Magazine - SBK: Steve Martin signs with DFX for 2007[usurped]
2. ^ Steve Martin Left Without A Ride For Remainder Of Season
3. ^ Yamaha Owners Club - Steve Martin to stand in for Kevin Curtain Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
4. ^ "STEVE MARTIN 99 :: World superbike championship rider". Archived from the original on 8 March 2010. Retrieved 12 August 2008.