Mike Di Meglio

It has now been more than twenty years since Mike Di Meglio has been winning victories all over the world. Spotted in 2002, when he was only 14 years old, in a competition organized by the FFM, the Toulousain arrived in 125 Grands Prix three years later with the Liégeois team.

The learning process is difficult, but the kid hangs on and eventually finds his way to the podium in 2005 with the Scot Honda team. He wins his first victory that same year in Turkey. However, he has to wait until 2008 to clinch the world champion title, this time with the Ajo Motorsport structure. He starts the following year in 250 with the Aspar team. Regularly fighting for the top 5, the Frenchman stands out. Unfortunately, the replacement of the 250 category with the Moto2 class does not allow him to continue his progress.

Less comfortable with the Honda 600 4-stroke engine than the 2-stroke Aprilia, Mike fails to find the front ranks again, whether with the Suter chassis of the Aspar team, the Tech 3 Mistral, the Speed Up Kalex, or the JiR Motobi. Thus, he decides in 2014 to switch to MotoGP with the Avintia team to ride an experimental Kawasaki engine machine entered in Open. In 2015, still with the Avintia team, he fights with an old-generation Ducati that still does not allow him to exploit his potential.