14 May 2018: SIC
Racing Team can today announce that Finnish rider Niki Tuuli has joined the
Moto2 team and will make his debut on board the 600cc Kalex machine in Le Mans
this weekend.
The twenty two year-old from Imatra in Finland, will
contest the Moto2 Championship in replace of Zulfahmi Khairuddin, who decided
to end his Moto2 career in order to concentrate more on his mentor role within
the SIC-backed ‘Impian ke MotoGP’ programme.
Niki Tuuli enters the World Championship with an
impressive racing background to date.
Riding minimotos from the age of nine, Niki’s progress
led him to ride a 600cc bike for the first time in 2012 in the IDM Yamaha R6
Cup, a competition that he would end up winning.
In 2013 he would make the move up to the European SuperStock600 series, where
over the course of three seasons he would claim five podiums and one victory,
achieving fourth place overall in 2014 as best result.
2016 was also a noteworthy year for the Finn. After
putting his sporting career on the backburner with the disappearance of the
European SuperStock600 series and having to undertake mandatory military
service in Finland, he participated as a wildcard at three of the final four
SuperSport World Championship races, taking the podium in all of them. He also
won the Finnish Championship that year.
His brilliant appearances in WorldSSP earned him an
opportunity to compete as a full time rider for the 2017 season. Under the
tutelage of Vesa Kallio (brother of Mika Kallio), Tuuli took two podiums and
one pole position during that year, finishing 7th overall.
In 2018 he has participated in five WorldSSP races (he is
currently 8th in the overall standings), before receiving the proposal from SIC
Racing Team to start an exciting challenge together in the Moto2 World
Championship.
- http://www.sicracingteam.com
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