Troy Corser
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Troy Gordon Corser (born November 27, 1971) is an Australian motorcycle racer, currently riding a Suzuki GSX-R1000 in the World Superbike championship, winning the 2005 championship after a run of early-season victories - later in the season Chris Vermeulen and Noriyuki Haga were usually the men to beat. Having previous won the Australian and AMA Superbike titles (becomng the first non-American to win the latter, before the dominance of countryman Mat Mladin), and shone in a handful of wildcard rides in WSBK, he went to the series fulltime in 1995.
He won this title in 1996, and came close to regaining it in 1998. 1997 had been an unsuccessful and fragmented year in the 500cc World Championship. In 2000 and 2001 he was on a factory Aprilia, and took 7 wins on previously-uncompetitive machinery, finishing in the championship top 5 in both seasons.
In 2002 he joined Carl Fogarty's Foggy Petronas team, and spent the year developing the bike before racing it in 2003 and 2004. He finished 9th in the 2004 championship, with a best result of 3rd, but chose to leave the team after this to race for the Alstare Suzuki Team in 2005 which enabled him to regain his position as World Superbike Champion.
Since the commencement of the 2006 championship Troy has taken two race wins out of ten. However, a crash at Phillip Island, and a DNF at Silverstone has enabled compatriot Troy Bayliss to gain the upper hand in the early stages of the title chase.
Troy has been on pole at Philip Island and Valencia four times, equalling a championship record for a single track. Of the eight cases of a rider having 10 or more podium finishes at a particular circuit, Troy has four - 13 at Misano, 11 each at Laguna Seca and Philip Island, and 10 at Donington Park.
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[notes on some of Troy's records]
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