José Luis Cardoso

Jose Luis Cardoso Lobo (born 2 February 1975 in Seville, Spain) is a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. During the 2006 season, he rode for the Pramac d'Antin Ducati squad, his second time with this team.

Early career Cardoso's first success was victory in the 1990 Andalucian 125cc championship, before moving up to the national championship a year later. In 1993, he won the Spanish 125cc title, as well as the Andalucian 250cc series, and made his 125cc World Championship debut in his home round. He combined world and Spanish 250cc racing over the next two seasons, finishing as runner-up in his domestic series in 1995.

Cardoso concentrated on international racing for the first time in 1996, but did not match his 16th overall in the world series over the next two seasons. He doubled up successfully in 1998, winning the Spanish 250cc title and finishing 11th in the international level.

500cc and MotoGP This was enough to earn Cardoso a 500cc World Championship ride with the TSR Honda team in 1999, finishing 25th overall. In 2000, his team had sponsorship from Maxon Dee Cee Jeans, and he finished 18th overall. 2001 was his first year with Luis D'Antin's team, and he racked up 45 points, more than double his 2000 total, although it was only good for 16th overall. The championship became MotoGP in 2002, although he only made five appearances, and did not race anything in 2003.

Recent years In 2004, Cardoso won the Spanish Formula Extreme title, and in 2005, he moved to Superbike World Championship, with the DFXtreme Yamaha team. He was highly competitive in testing, but struggled to finish races, ultimately coming only 31st overall. However, he went back to MotoGP and D'Antin in 2006, racing a 2005-spec Ducati as teammate to German Alex Hofmann. With the WCM team absent, and Team Roberts powered by Honda engines, they and Tech 3 Yamaha are the only privateer teams on the grid, and Cardoso and Hofmann have usually only had Tech 3's James Ellison near them at the bottom of the timesheets.

Career statistics

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

By class ClassSeason1st GPRaceWinPodiumsPoleFLapPtsWChmp 125cc 1993 1993 Spain 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 250cc 1994–1998, 2004 1994 Australia 67 0 0 0 0 118 0 500cc 1999–2001 1999 Malaysia 41 0 0 0 0 70 0 MotoGP 2002, 2006 2002 France 23 0 0 0 0 19 0 Total 1993–2002, 2004, 2006 132 0 0 0 0 207 0

Races by year (key) Year Class Bike 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Pts 1993 125cc Aprilia AUS MAL JPN SPA AUT GER NED EUR RSM GBR CZE ITA USA FIM NC 0 1994 250cc Aprilia AUS MAL JPN SPA AUT GER NED ITA FRA GBR CZE USA ARG EUR 31st 2 1995 250cc Aprilia AUS MAL JPN SPA GER ITA NED FRA GBR CZE BRA ARG EUR 16th 33 1996 250cc Aprilia MAL INA JPN SPA ITA FRA NED GER GBR AUT CZE IMO CAT BRA AUS 31st 3 1997 250cc Yamaha MAL JPN SPA ITA AUT FRA NED IMO GER BRA GBR CZE CAT INA AUS 21st 19 1998 250cc Yamaha JPN MAL SPA ITA FRA MAD NED GBR GER CZE IMO CAT AUS ARG 11th 61 1999 500cc TSR-Honda MAL JPN SPA FRA ITA CAT NED GBR GER CZE IMO VAL AUS RSA BRA ARG 26th 6 2000 500cc Honda RSA MAL JPN SPA FRA ITA CAT NED GBR GER CZE POR VAL BRA PAC AUS 18th 19 2001 500cc Yamaha JPN RSA SPA FRA ITA CAT NED GBR GER CZE POR VAL PAC AUS MAL BRA 16th 45 2002 MotoGP Yamaha JPN RSA SPA FRA ITA CAT NED GBR GER CZE POR BRA PAC MAL AUS VAL 23rd 9 2004 250cc Yamaha RSA SPA FRA ITA CAT NED BRA GER GBR CZE POR JPN QAT MAL AUS VAL NC 0 2006 MotoGP Ducati SPA QAT TUR CHN FRA ITA CAT NED GBR GER USA CZE MAL AUS JPN POR VAL 20th 10

Superbike World Championship

Races by year (key) Year Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pts R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 2005 Yamaha QAT QAT AUS AUS SPA SPA ITA ITA EUR EUR SMR SMR CZE CZE GBR GBR NED NED GER GER ITA ITA FRA FRA 24th 13