Mike Di Meglio
Mike Di Meglio has been winning races all over the world for over twenty years. Spotted in a competition organised by FFM in 2002 at the age of 14, the Toulousan arrived in 125cc Grand Prix racing three years later with the Liégeois team.
It was a tough learning curve, but the youngster persevered and eventually found his way to the podium in 2005 with the Scot Honda team. That same year he took his first win in Turkey. However, he would have to wait until 2008 to win the title, this time with Ajo Motorsport.
The following year he made his 250cc debut with the Aspar team. A regular contender for the top 5, the Frenchman made a name for himself. Unfortunately, the replacement of the 250cc category by the Moto2 class did not allow him to continue his progress.
Less comfortable with the Honda 600 four-stroke than the Aprilia two-stroke, Mike was unable to find his way back to the front of the field, whether with the Aspar team's Suter chassis, Tech 3's Mistral, Speed Up's Kalex or JiR's Motobi.
In 2014 he decided to move up to MotoGP with the Avintia team, riding an experimental Kawasaki-powered machine in the Open class. In 2015, still with the Avintia team, he struggled with an older generation Ducati that still didn't allow him to reach his potential.
He then decided to enter the EWC with the GMT 94 team. Alongside David Checa and Niccolo Canepa, the man from Toulouse won the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Eight Hours of Oschersleben and the Eight Hours of Slovakia to claim his second World Championship title, his first in endurance racing.
The following season Mike Di Meglio added another trophy to his cabinet by winning the Bol d'Or.
When GMT 94 withdrew from the EWC championship, the Toulouse rider signed for the FCC TSR Honda France team. Riding alongside Josh Hook and Freddy Foray, he won another World Championship title in 2022. Now a major figure in the World Endurance Championship, he is back this year with Masakazu Fujii's team, with Josh Hook and Alan Techer as his team-mates.