Mike Di Meglio

Mike Di Meglio (born 17 January 1988 in Toulouse, France) is a French motorcycle road racer who currently competes in 125cc world championship.

Di Meglio as well himself is a Frenchman of partial Italian origins was come to the attention of the Fédération Française de Motocyclisme (French Motorcycle Federation(FFM)). He took a race at the Spanish Championshp Race in Carole at a very young age.

Biography

2003, Debut with Aprilia, switch to Honda later

When Di Meglio turn to 15 years old, he decided to debut to the 125cc world championship with Aprilia. Although he manage to score points, including 13th place at Catalunya, it was really difficult for him, crashing most of the time and he didn't get the result that he wanted to achieve. This cause him later to move to Honda to re-try to achieve hig goals, but it get worse. He failed to score any championship point.

2004, Ride with Globet.com, first front-row start and first top five finish

After a dissapointing 2003, Di Meglio vowed to redeem a wrecked debut. He signed with Globet.com Racing on Aprilia alongside with Gino Borsoi. The start was promising with a front-row start and a fifth place finish at South Africa, but is was just temporary. He crashes several times again because of inconsistensy. Later scores very low points at later races.

2005, Ride with Team Scot, first podium and first win

Di Meglio stayed with the same team at that year, but his team joined forces with Team Scot which runs on Honda machinery, the team help won Andrea Dovizioso the 2004 125cc World Championship. So it means he was their rider officially with Fabrizio Lai but it was under the Kopron Racing World name.Both him and Lai have an official Factory Honda aside from Thomas Luthi. His performance improved, scored with points regularly. He also had a heroinc deed in the French GP by fighting for a podium place, instead he finished 4th that make his home crowds happy and entertained. But his podium come in the wet British GP by finishing 2nd place behind Julian Simon, it really makes him a lover of wet races later on, but also on the hot and humid desert Qatar GP with finishing in 4th place ahead of later-to-be 125cc champion Thomas Luthi as well other races collectiong points. The highest turning point for the Italian-Frenchman, his contraversial win at the 2005 Turkish Grand Prix after the crash of Mika Kallio that potentially cause him the 2005 125cc title & avoidance of the crash by Thomas Luthi which almost got the Hat-trick (Pole-Win-Fastest Lap). This is currently hs highest finish in the championship and his momorable one.

2006, Ride with FFM Honda GP 125cc

He joined the Fédération Française de Motocyclisme's world championship team run by Allain Bronec. The FFM Honda GP 125, this time, his team switch didn't gave him a factory Honda unlike in 2005. The start of the season was very dissapointing, he manage to score only one point in five races. The teams poor performance that Di Meglio didn't want to get use to again just achieve only eight points. Immediately he left the team after the season has finished.

2007, Return to Team Scot. Master of wet races

After leaving a underperformung FFM GP. Di Meglio return to Team Scot for 2007 which the team help him to win his first Grand Prix in 2005. He was partnered by the young Italian Stefano Musco. His testing pace was quite good. In the first several races, he manage to score championship points. But the worst phisically had come. He had a very nasty crash at the 2007 Spanish GP qualifying, the effect was he broke his collarbone and took him out also at the Turkish GP as well. When the return at the Chinese GP, He manage to challenge his fellow riders and score championship points. His best finishes were bot wet races, 6th place at the British GP and 4th place but potentially a podium position before crashing to fourth at the Japanese GP. His best grid position was on a wet qualifying, 2nd at the Italain GP with later teamate Dino Lombardi who achieve also a front-row start at 4th grid. His reputation on wet races was one of the bravest and highlight of his season despite a dissapointing but normal season.

2008, Ride with Ajo Motorsport

2008 was every new for Di Meglio. He was offered to ride with the Finnish Ajo Motorsport this season partnered by Dominique Aegerter.<ref> He retuned to Aprilia machineries, but officially is with Aprilia's sister Piaggio motorcycle Derbi. He is currently usng is official factory Derbi RSA 125 for this season. It also means that for the first time he joined a team which is not an Italian team nor a French team. His aim is to improve in the standings.

Grand Prix motorcycle racing career

Season	Class	Team	Moto	Races	Wins	Podiums	Poles	Fastest Laps	Pts	Position
2003	125cc	Freesoul Racing Team	Aprilia	10	0	0	0	0	5	28th
2003	125cc	Metasystem Rg Service	Honda	15	0	0	0	0	0	28th
2004	125cc	Globet. com Racing	Aprilia	14	0	0	0	0	41	18th
2005	125cc	Kopron Racing World	Honda	16	1	2	0	0	104	11th
2006	125cc	FFM Honda GP 125	Honda	14	0	0	0	0	8	25th
2007	125cc	Kopron Team Scot	Honda	15	0	0	0	0	42	17th
2008	125cc	Ajo Motorsport	Derbi	2	0	0	0	0	11	6th (Season In Progress)
Total					1	2	0	0	211