Niccolò Canepa

Niccolò Canepa, born on 14 May 1988, is an Italian former professional motorcycle road racer, contracted from 2022 to RNF Racing in the MotoE World Cup on an Energica Ego Corsa. He won the 2007 European Superstock 1000 Championship on a Ducati and spent 2008 as a tester of its MotoGP and World Superbike machines, with three World Superbike wild card rides that year. He raced in MotoGP full-time for Pramac Ducati in 2009, moved back to the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup in 2011 and finished runner-up in 2013. In 2016 he moved to the World Endurance Championship with the Factory GMT94 Yamaha, ending second, and in 2017 he won the FIM Endurance World Championship.