Steve Martin

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, Martin 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, Martin moved to the Australian Supersport series, before moving to the Superbike World Championship full-time for , riding on Pirelli tyres for DFXtreme. He scored a pair of top-six finishes at Imola in , and set fastest lap at the Lausitzring that year, but he was not a frontrunner for much of 2001 or . However, he stepped up to eighth overall in and seventh in , along with three pole positions and five podiums. He spent the next two 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 , 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 two races, 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 Later in 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, Martin 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 first 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, which led to a one-off return at Kyalami in place of Troy Corser.

Career statistics

Superbike World Championship

Races by year (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 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 R1 R2 R1 R2 1989 Suzuki GBR GBR HUN HUN CAN CAN USA USA AUT AUT FRA FRA JPN JPN GER GER ITA ITA AUS15 AUSRet 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 AUS11 AUS10 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 AUS8 AUS7 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 AUS16 AUS16 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 AUS15 AUS15 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 AUS16 AUS16 NC 0 1996 Suzuki SMR SMR GBR GBR GER GER ITA ITA CZE CZE USA USA EUR EUR INARet INA15 JPN JPN NED NED SPA SPA AUS14 AUSRet 49th 3 1997 Suzuki AUS16 AUSRet 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 AUSRet AUS10 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 AUSRet AUS7 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 SPA11 SPARet RSA19 RSA17 AUS12 AUSC JPN19 JPN20 ITARet ITA14 GBR17 GBR18 GER15 GER14 SMR13 SMRRet USA14 USA13 EUR14 EUR18 GERRet GER14 NED20 NED20 ITA6 ITA5 17th 47 2002 Ducati SPA17 SPA9 AUS13 AUSRet RSARet RSARet JPN17 JPN20 ITA10 ITA11 GBRRet GBR19 GER9 GER11 SMR13 SMR12 USA14 USA11 GBR19 GBR16 GER GER NEDRet NEDDNS ITA13 ITA14 16th 52 2003 Ducati SPA6 SPA5 AUS4 AUS9 JPN15 JPNRet ITA9 ITA7 GER6 GER6 GBRRet GBRRet SMR6 SMR9 USARet USARet GBR14 GBRRet NED9 NED11 ITA6 ITARet FRA7 FRA5 8th 139 2004 Ducati SPARet SPA3 AUS4 AUSRet SMR7 SMR3 ITARet ITA8 GER5 GERRet GBR6 GBR6 USA3 USA6 EUR3 EURRet NED7 NEDRet ITA6 ITA3 FRA5 FRARet 7th 181 2005 Petronas QAT15 QATRet AUSRet AUSRet SPARet SPA17 ITARet ITARet EURRet EUR20 SMR11 SMR8 CZE17 CZE16 GBR15 GBRRet NED14 NED16 GER18 GER9 ITA5 ITAC FRARet FRADNS 18th 35 2006 Petronas QAT18 QAT18 AUS14 AUS15 SPARet SPA15 ITARet ITARet EURRet EURRet SMRRet SMR17 CZERet CZE19 GBR17 GBR16 NED12 NED11 GER14 GER12 ITARet ITA16 FRARet FRARet 21st 19 2007 Honda QAT11 QAT18 AUS10 AUSRet EUR19 EUR13 SPARet SPARet NED NED ITA16 ITARet GBR GBR SMR SMR CZE CZE 18th 27 Yamaha GBR11 GBR16 Suzuki GER14 GER14 ITA14 ITA14 FRA16 FRARet 2009 BMW AUS AUS QAT QAT SPA SPA NED NED ITA ITA RSA22 RSA18 USA USA SMR SMR GBR GBR CZE CZE GER GER ITA ITA FRA FRA POR POR NC 0

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

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 500cc Honda MAL JPN SPA FRA ITA CAT NED GBR GER CZE IMO VAL AUS14 RSA21 BRARet ARG20 32nd 2

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 Pts 2007 Yamaha QAT AUS EUR SPA NED10 ITA GBR SMR CZE GBR GER ITA FRA 32nd 6

FIM Endurance World Championship

Year Team Bike Rider 2007 Yamaha Austria Racing Team Yamaha YZF-R1 Steve Martin Igor Jerman Sebastien Scarnato Damian Cudlin 3rd 2008 Yamaha Austrian Endurance Team Yamaha YZF-R1 Igor Jerman Steve Martin Steve Plater Gwen Giabbani 2nd 2009 Yamaha Austria Racing Team Yamaha YZF-R1 Steve Martin Igor Jerman Gwen Giabbani 1st 2010 Yamaha Austria Racing Team Yamaha YZF-R1 Steve Martin Igor Jerman Gwen Giabbani 3rd 2011 Yamaha Austria Racing Team Yamaha YZF-R1 Steve Martin Igor Jerman Gwen Giabbani Katsuyuki Nakasuga Loris Baz 5th 2012 Yamaha Austria Racing Team Yamaha YZF-R1 Steve Martin Igor Jerman Gwen Giabbani Noriyuki Haga Katsuyuki Nakasuga Tommy Hill 6th