198 JJ Cobas 125 сс
JJ Cobas 125 cc 1989
Campiona del Mon
Barcelona
Exhibit: Fundacion Can Costa
On this bike (Marlboro JJ Cobas-Rotax 125) Crivillé won the world championship in 1989.
Àlex Crivillé Tapias (born March 4, 1970 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. In 1992 he became the first Spaniard to win a 500cc Grand Prix and, in 1999 he became the first Spaniard to win the 500cc World Championship.
Crivillé falsified his age in order to start racing at 14 in 1985, the minimum age for a license being 15 in Spain. In that year he won the Criterium Solo Moto, a national series for 75 cc Honda street bikes.
Crivillé started his international career in the now-defunct 80cc World Championship in the team Derbi, taking a 2nd place in his very first race in 1987. He was second in the overall standing in 1988 in the 125cc series. He won the 125cc World Championship in his first attempt riding for the JJ Cobas team, having claimed 5 victories.
In 1990 he passed into the 250 cc class for Giacomo Agostini's team, before returning to the Cobas team a year later. He never won a 250cc race. In 1992 he became the first Spaniard, who won 500cc Grand Prix, and in 1999 he was the first Spaniard, who won 500 cc World championship.
JJ Cobas is a Spanish motorcycle manufacturer. The company was founded in 1983 in Barcelona by a businessman Jacinto Moriana and an engineer Antonio Cobas. The full company name is JJ Cobas Engineering GmbH. Within a few years, the production was located in Vilasar de Mar, then it was moved to San Andrés de la Barca in 1990. The company was definitively dissolved in 1998, shortly after Moriana’s death.
Campiona del Mon
Barcelona
Exhibit: Fundacion Can Costa
On this bike (Marlboro JJ Cobas-Rotax 125) Crivillé won the world championship in 1989.
Àlex Crivillé Tapias (born March 4, 1970 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. In 1992 he became the first Spaniard to win a 500cc Grand Prix and, in 1999 he became the first Spaniard to win the 500cc World Championship.
Crivillé falsified his age in order to start racing at 14 in 1985, the minimum age for a license being 15 in Spain. In that year he won the Criterium Solo Moto, a national series for 75 cc Honda street bikes.
Crivillé started his international career in the now-defunct 80cc World Championship in the team Derbi, taking a 2nd place in his very first race in 1987. He was second in the overall standing in 1988 in the 125cc series. He won the 125cc World Championship in his first attempt riding for the JJ Cobas team, having claimed 5 victories.
In 1990 he passed into the 250 cc class for Giacomo Agostini's team, before returning to the Cobas team a year later. He never won a 250cc race. In 1992 he became the first Spaniard, who won 500cc Grand Prix, and in 1999 he was the first Spaniard, who won 500 cc World championship.
JJ Cobas is a Spanish motorcycle manufacturer. The company was founded in 1983 in Barcelona by a businessman Jacinto Moriana and an engineer Antonio Cobas. The full company name is JJ Cobas Engineering GmbH. Within a few years, the production was located in Vilasar de Mar, then it was moved to San Andrés de la Barca in 1990. The company was definitively dissolved in 1998, shortly after Moriana’s death.
