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| Born | (1975-02-02)February 2, 1975 (age 50) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jose Luis Cardoso Lobo (born 2 February 1975 inSeville, Spain) is aGrand Prixmotorcycleroad racer. During the2006 season, he rode for thePramac d'AntinDucati squad, his second time with this team.
Cardoso's first success was victory in the 1990 Andalucian 125cc championship, before moving up to the national championship a year later. In 1993, he won the Spanish 125cc title, as well as the Andalucian 250cc series, and made his 125cc World Championship debut in his home round. He combined world and Spanish 250cc racing over the next two seasons, finishing as runner-up in his domestic series in 1995.
Cardoso concentrated on international racing for the first time in 1996, but did not match his 16th overall in the world series over the next two seasons. He doubled up successfully in 1998, winning the Spanish 250cc title and finishing 11th in the international level.
This was enough to earn Cardoso a 500cc World Championship ride with the TSRHonda team in1999, finishing 25th overall. In 2000 his team had sponsorship fromMaxon Dee Cee Jeans, and he finished 18th overall. 2001 was his first year withLuis D'Antin's team, and he racked up 45 points, more than double his 2000 total, although it was only good for 16th overall. The championship becameMotoGP in 2002, although he only made 5 appearances, and did not race anything in 2003.[1]
In 2004, Cardoso won the Spanish Formula Extreme title, and in2005, he moved toSuperbike World Championship, with the DFXtreme Yamaha team. He was highly competitive in testing, but struggled to finish races, ultimately coming only 31st overall. However, he went back to MotoGP and D'Antin in2006, racing a 2005-spec Ducati as teammate toGermanAlex Hofmann. With theWCM team absent, andTeam Roberts powered byHonda engines, they andTech 3Yamaha are the only privateer teams on the grid, and Cardoso and Hofmann have usually only had Tech 3'sJames Ellison near them at the bottom of the timesheets.
| Class | Season | 1st GP | Race | Win | Podiums | Pole | FLap | Pts | WChmp |
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| 125cc | 1993 | 1993 Spain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 250cc | 1994–1998, 2004 | 1994 Australia | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 118 | 0 |
| 500cc | 1999–2001 | 1999 Malaysia | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 0 |
| MotoGP | 2002, 2006 | 2002 France | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 |
| Total | 1993–2002, 2004, 2006 | 132 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 207 | 0 |
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| Year | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Pos. | Pts | ||||||||||||
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| R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | ||||
| 2005 | Yamaha | QAT Ret | QAT Ret | AUS Ret | AUS Ret | SPA Ret | SPA Ret | ITA 19 | ITA Ret | EUR 9 | EUR Ret | SMR 13 | SMR Ret | CZE 16 | CZE Ret | GBR 20 | GBR Ret | NED 17 | NED Ret | GER 13 | GER Ret | ITA | ITA | FRA | FRA | 24th | 13 |
