Randy de Puniet (born February 14, 1981 in Maisons-Laffitte, France) is a French Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. 2006 was his first season in MotoGP, for the Kawasaki factory team, where he remains for 2007. At Barcelona he took his first front-row start, and finished a career-best fifth. Up until Donington, he has started all but one other race on the third row. He started 4th and finished 2nd at Motegi in the wet. August 24th 2007 saw the Honda LCR team announce that de Puniet would ride for them in 2008 and 2009.

De Puniet was French 125cc champion in 1998, moving up to the world championship a year later. In 2001 he moved up to the 250cc World Championship. He earned two podium finishes in 2002 to earn a factory Aprilia ride for 2003. He took his first win at Catalunya, coming 4th overall with 3 wins. In 2004 he was third with a single win, spending 2005 with an Aprilia team run by Jorge Martinez Aspar.



Career statistics

By season
Seas Class Moto Race Win Pod Pole FLap Pts Plcd WCh
1998 125cc Honda RS125R 1 0 0 0 0 0 - -
1999 125cc Aprilia RS125 16 0 0 0 0 26 18th -
2000 125cc Aprilia RS125 16 0 0 0 0 50 17th -
2001 250cc Aprilia RSV250 16 0 0 0 0 50 13th -
2002 250cc Aprilia RSV250 16 0 2 1 0 119 9th -
2003 250cc Aprilia RSV250 16 3 9 5 2 208 4th -
2004 250cc Aprilia RSV250 16 1 8 2 0 214 3rd -
2005 250cc Aprilia RSV250 16 1 3 1 2 138 8th -
2006 MotoGP Kawasaki Ninja ZX-RR 17 0 0 0 0 37 16th -
2007 MotoGP Kawasaki Ninja ZX-RR 18 0 1 0 0 108 11th -
Total   148 5 23 9 4 950  0


By class
Class Seas 1st GP 1st Pod 1st Win Race Win Pod Pole FLap Pts WCh
125cc 1998-2000 1998 France N/A N/A 33 0 0 0 0 76 0
250cc 2001-2005 2001 Japan 2002 Japan 2003 Catalunya 80 5 22 9 4 729 0
MotoGP 2006-2007 2006 Spain 2007 Japan N/A 35 0 1 0 0 145 0
Total 1998-2007    148 5 23 9 4 950 0


Races by year
(Races in bold indicate pole position)

Yr Class Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Final Pos Pts
1998 125 cc Honda JPN MAL SPA ITA FRA
17 MAD NED GBR GER CZE SMR CAT AUS ARG     - 0
1999 125 cc Aprilia MAL
20 JPN
15 SPA
Ret FRA
11 ITA
19 CAT
9 NED
Ret GBR
Ret GER
15 CZE
Ret SMR
Ret VAL
10 AUS
21 SAF
Ret BRA
18 ARG
10   18th 26
2000 125 cc Aprilia SAF
14 MAL
Ret JPN
10 SPA
13 FRA
12 ITA
9 CAT
13 NED
Ret GBR
10 GER
Ret CZE
Ret POR
7 VAL
18 BRA
9 PAC
Ret AUS
13   17th 50
2001 250 cc Aprilia JPN
Ret SAF
Ret SPA
18 FRA
Ret ITA
Ret CAT
8 NED
13 GBR
Ret GER
5 CZE
6 POR
17 VAL
10 PAC
11 AUS
Ret MAL
12 BRA
13   13th 50
2002 250 cc Aprilia JPN
3 SAF
6 SPA
Ret FRA
3 ITA
5 CAT
4 NED
Ret GBR
6 GER
Ret CZE
6 POR
Ret BRA
Ret PAC
Ret MAL
6 AUS
6 VAL
4   9th 119
2003 250 cc Aprilia JPN
Ret SAF
2 SPA
3 FRA
2 ITA
Ret CAT
1 NED
Ret GBR
8 GER
3 CZE
1 POR
3 BRA
3 PAC
6 MAL
5 AUS
Ret VAL
1   4th 208
2004 250 cc Aprilia SAF
2 SPA
2 FRA
2 ITA
4 CAT
1 NED
4 BRA
8 GER
5 GBR
3 CZE
2 POR
3 JPN
11 QAT
Ret MAL
5 AUS
Ret VAL
3   3rd 214
2005 250 cc Aprilia SPA
Ret POR
3 CHN
8 FRA
2 ITA
Ret CAT
6 NED
8 GBR
1 GER
6 CZE
8 JPN
5 MAL
4 QAT
Ret AUS
7 TUR
Ret VAL
8   8th 138
2006 MotoGP Kawasaki SPA
Ret QAT
Ret TUR
12 CHN
12 FRA
Ret ITA
13 CAT
Ret NED
14 GBR
12 GER
Ret USA
12 CZE
14 MAL
13 AUS
11 JPN
Ret POR
10 VAL
Ret  16th 37
2007 MotoGP Kawasaki QAT
Ret SPA
13 CHN
8 TUR
8 FRA
Ret ITA
Ret CAT
5 GBR
6 NED
Ret GER
Ret USA
6 CZE
8 SMR
Ret POR
Ret JPN
2 AUS
6 MAL
4 VAL
9 11th 108

Happy Birthday Randy!

Wow, Randy fell of again at Missano..

What a suprise !

how many races did he finish this season????

Probably 1 if you're lucky ..

God loves a trier lmao lmao  He is very sexy tho, even with his shrunken weener hehehehehehe

oh i just love randy!!!!

I dont find him especially hot, but i know woman would be attracted to him. Bengisu met him and went to riders party with him, from what she said, Randy is the only decent rider in motogp..

And he was a gentleman.