Ángel Rodríguez Campillo

Ángel Rodríguez Campillo (born 20 May 1985 in Elche, Province of Alicante, Spain) is a professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He raced in the 125cc and 250cc World championships between and . He currently competes in the RFME Superstock 1000 Championship, aboard a Kawasaki ZX-10R.

Rodríguez started racing in pocketbikes. He competed in the Spanish Championship, where he won the title in 2001 again riders like Casey Stoner, Jorge Lorenzo, Chaz Davies, Marco Simoncelli. He also made his debut in the 125cc World Championship in 2000. In 2001, he rode for Aspar Team with his CEV Aprilia bike. In 2001, he done some good races including a sixth place in Jerez and a great race in Phillip Island. In this race, he fight for the victory until last lap, but a rider crashed in front of him while Rodríguez was third and he crashed.

In 2002, Rodríguez continued with Aspar Team and he improved his qualification results starting some races in second row, but he had some crashes and some mechanical failures and he did not finish many races. After these bad results, Rodríguez and the Aspar team decided to finish the contract, but they were together again in the last round of the 250cc class in Valencia.

In 2004, Rodríguez rode for Derbi being Jorge Lorenzo's teammate, but he did not have good results. He was in the same team as Lorenzo but with a very different bike - older and with many mechanical problems in free practice, qualys and races, this is why Rodríguez not finish many races in the 2004 season.

In 2005 and 2006, Rodríguez improved his results in the category doing the fastest lap of the race in Australia 2005 with Team Toth bike, this was incredible because before Rodríguez arrived to this team they did not get any points that season.

In 2007, Rodríguez went to CEV, doing a great season in his first season in a 600cc bike. He finished third due to an injury.

In 2008, Rodríguez became the 600cc Spanish National Champion winning all races and doing all poles of the championship and he became European Champion, too, winning this championship against some riders who rode in World SSP. He also made three World Supersport appearances with his CEV bike doing two top-tens in three races. After this amazing season, some World SSP and World SBK were interested in signing him and also Aspar Team had some conversations with Angel for race in 2009 MotoGP season, but due to sponsors problems he did not sign with any of this teams.

In 2009, Rodríguez won the three races and he did the three poles in Spanish championship, but after that he stopped racing due to problems with RFME and for not having support of sponsors to be back at the world championship.

In 2012, Rodríguez was back in World Moto2 but after the first races he decided to finish the contract with his team because they did not have the equipment for fighting for the top-five.

After that, Rodríguez went to FIM CEV and rode with the old Suzuki, with amazing results including one pole and one victory and earning the track record in Alcarras Circuit.

In 2016 and 2017, Rodríguez finished third in CEV having good results in the category with many podiums and being one of references of the category.

Career statistics Grand Prix motorcycle racing By season

Races by year (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Class Bike 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Pos Pts 2000 125cc Aprilia RSA MAL JPN SPA FRA ITA CATDNQ NED GBR GER CZE POR VALRet BRA PAC AUS NC 0 2001 125cc Aprilia JPNRet RSARet SPA6 FRADNS ITA20 CATRet NEDRet GBR9 GER8 CZE17 PORRet VAL15 PAC15 AUS23 MAL17 BRARet 20th 27 125cc Aprilia JPN7 RSARet SPARet FRARet ITARet CATRet NED10 GBRRet GER14 CZE POR BRA PAC MAL AUS 24th 17 250cc Aprilia VAL18 NC 0 2004 125cc Derbi RSARet SPARet FRA18 ITARet CAT15 NED15 BRARet GERRet GBRRet CZERet PORRet JPNRet QATRet MALRet AUSRet VALRet 32nd 2 2005 125cc Honda SPARet POR21 CHNRet FRARet ITARet CAT20 NED22 GBRRet GERRet CZE JPN MAL 22nd 16 Aprilia QATRet AUS8 TUR8 VAL 2006 125cc Aprilia SPARet QAT7 TUR10 CHNRet FRA11 ITARet CATRet NEDRet GBR19 GERRet CZE17 MAL AUS JPN POR VAL 18th 20 2009 250cc Aprilia QAT JPN SPA FRARet ITA CAT NED GER GBR CZE INP RSM POR AUS MAL VAL NC 0 Moto2 FTR QAT20 SPA20 POR22 NC 0 Bimota FRARet CAT20 GBR26 NED GER ITA INP CZE RSM ARA JPN MAL AUS VAL

Supersport World Championship Races by year (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 2008 Yamaha QAT AUS SPA8 NEDRet ITA10 GER SMR CZE GBR EUR ITA FRA POR 24th 14