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Jake Curtis Dixon (born 15 January 1996) is a British Grand Prix motorcycle racer competing for the Elf Marc VDS Racing Team in the 2025 Moto2 World Championship. Dixon is best known for placing second in the 2018 British Superbike Championship and was the youngest rider ever to qualify for the championship showdown in
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. He is the son of Darren Dixon, TT F1 Superbike Champion in 1988 and double World Sidecar Champion in 1995 and 1996.


Career


Early career

At 12 years of age, Dixon was competing in the Southern Supermoto Championship before advancing to the Aprilia Superteens Championship in 2010. In his first year competing on tarmac Dixon came 3rd in the Aprilia 125cc Superteens Championship. The winner that year was Chrissy Rouse, later competing against Dixon in the 2018 British Superbike Championship. Dixon advanced up to the Aprilia RRV450 Challenge Championship racing Aprilia's twin cylinder four-stroke machine. Once again he was 3rd in the Championship that year.


Supersport 600 Championship

In 2012, at 16 years of age, Dixon advanced to the British National Superstock 600 cc Championship, one of the support classes in the British Superbike Championship. He acquitted himself well on the Shaun Rose prepared, Moto Breakers Yamaha R6, finishing 4th in the Championship. If he had not crashed going over the mountain at
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injuring his wrist, he could have finished higher than 4th. In 2013, Dixon contested the year with a new team and a new championship. He moved up to the Supersport 600 Championship, riding for Craig Fitzpatrick's CF Motorsport team, on a Yamaha R6. After six rounds he crashed heavily at
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and broke his
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bone. This ended his season, he finished 16th in the championship. Staying in the Supersport 600 Championship for 2014, Dixon rode for the Appleyard/Macadam/Doodson team again on a Yamaha R6. He finished the season in 8th position. For 2015, Dixon joined the Smith's team riding a three-cylinder Triumph 675, and achieved 3rd place in the Supersport 600 Championship.


British Superbike Championship

Dixon moved up to the 2016 British Superbike Championship, and while it was originally planned that he would teaming up with Dave Tyson's Tsingtao Kawasaki team for the season, financial concerns led to the team not fielding a pair of riders that season, managing to start at only one round with Danny Buchan. Dixon was offered an alternative ride half way through the year, with Lee Hardy's Briggs Equipment
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, but after six rounds his brakes failed at Oulton Park, resulting in a broken hip, ending his season prematurely. He won both round-four races of the
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at
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. He finished 6th in the 2017 British Superbike Championship and was the youngest ever rider to make the final showdown, made up from the top six riders. Dixon announced that he would stay with the Lee Hardy Racing/RAF Regular & Reserves Team in 2018, on a Kawasaki ZX10R 1000 cc machine in the 2018 British Superbike Championship. He finished his participation in the British Superbike Championship series in second position to champion
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.


Superbike World Championship

Dixon also made his first appearance in the
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in 2017 as a wildcard entry at
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with Royal Air Force Reg. & Res. Kawasaki Team, where he retired in the first race, and finished 9th place in the second race.


Moto2 World Championship


Dynavolt Intact GP (2017)

Dixon made his
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debut at the
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at Silverstone riding for the Dynavolt/Intact Team replacing the injured Marcel Schrotter finishing 25th.


Ángel Nieto Team (2019)

For 2019 he signed to ride for the Spanish
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, in the
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with team-mate
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, aboard machinery using 765 cc Triumph controlled engines new to the series, and KTM chassis. He made his full debut as a Moto2 World Championship rider on board a KTM bike, but Dixon’s full-time Moto2 bow, in Qatar of 2019, is not his first Moto2 Grand Prix appearance, having already appeared as a wildcard at Silverstone in 2017, a race he finished in 25th place. Dixon finished his debut season with 7 points.


Petronas Sprinta Racing (2020–2021)

Dixon joined Petronas Sprinta Racing for the
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, alongside
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, in the team's third season in Grand Prix racing’s middleweight class. Dixon finished the 2020 season with 44 points. In October 2020, Petronas Sprint Racing (Sepang Racing Team) announced that Dixon would remain with the Malaysian team in Moto2 for the
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. Dixon finished the year with 30 points.


GasGas Aspar Team (2022–2024)

From 2022, Dixon is contracted to race for the Aspar Team branded as GasGas using a
Kalex Kalex Engineering is a German specialty engineering company that designs, manufactures and sells high-performance parts for motorcycles. Kalex Engineering was founded in 2008 in the Bavarian city of Bobingen, Germany by Klaus Hirsekorn and Alex ...
chassis in Moto2.


MarcVDS Racing Team (2025)

On 19 August 2024, MarcVDS Racing Team, announced that Dixon will race for their Moto2 Team in 2025, as they transition from the Kalex chassis to the Boscoscuro chassis.


MotoGP World Championship


Petronas Yamaha SRT (2021)

Dixon also competed in two MotoGP races for Petronas Yamaha, finishing in 19th place at the British Grand Prix in August and falling on the second lap at Aragon in September 2021.


Personal life

In December 2018, Dixon married Sarah, daughter of former racer Eddie Roberts. Sarah delivered their first child – a girl – on 1 April 2023 whilst Dixon was away from home competing in Argentina.Jake Dixon's daughter was born and 'Dad' celebrated on the podium: 'The last 24 hours have been incredible'
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Career statistics


Grand Prix motorcycle racing


By season


By class


Races by year

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) Half points awarded as less than two thirds of the race distance (but at least three full laps) was completed.
Season still in progress.


Superbike World Championship


Races by year

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)


References


External links

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