Aaron Slight

Aaron Slight
Aaron Slight
	Aaron Slight in 1993
Nationality	New Zealander
Born	19 January 1966 (age 58); Masterton, New Zealand
Motorcycle racing career statistics
Superbike World Championship
Active years	1988 – 2000

Aaron Tony Slight

MNZM (born 19 January 1966) is a New Zealand former professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in the Superbike World Championships from 1988 to 2000, finishing second in the championship twice and third four times.^[1]^[2] He later competed in car racing and was a television presenter for AA Torque

, a motoring show on New Zealand television.

Motorcycle racing career

Born in Masterton, New Zealand, Slight was Australian Superbike Champion in 1991, before spending most of the 1990s racing in the Superbike World Championship, amassing 87 podiums, 13 wins and 8 pole.^[1] For many years he was the only rider to win the Suzuka 8 Hours race for three consecutive years, having done so in 1993–1995.^[3]^[4]^[5] This feat has been repeated only recently by multiple Japanese Superbike Champion Katsuyuki Nakasuga in 2015–2018. Although Nakasuga was only declared a winner in 2018 due to being part of the three rider team (with Sam Lowes and Michael Van Der Mark) even though he did not ride in the race due to an injury. Officially Nakasuga is a four-time-in-a-row winner but in reality he has only matched Slight's three time record respectively.

He won his first WSB race during the

1997 as teammate John Kocinski won the title.^[1]

In

Misano.^[1]

Slight did not win a race in 1999; he crossed the line first in race 1 at Hockenheimring after passing Carl Fogarty on the last lap, but a red flag had been shown due to an incident elsewhere on the track, so the results were taken a lap back. Ironically, as Fogarty had already clinched the title, he did not need to win the race. Slight missed the start of the season in 2000 and then made his final appearance in the opening round of the 2001 American Superbike Championship at Daytona Speedway.

Car racing career

Slight raced in the British Touring Car Championship, ASCAR Racing Series and the British GT Championship.^[6]

Personal life

In the

Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to motor sport.^[7]

Racing record

Superbike World Championship

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Races by year

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

Year	Make	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		11		12		13		Pos.	Pts
Year	Make	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	Pos.	Pts
1988	Bimota	GBR	GBR	HUN	HUN	GER	GER	AUT	AUT	JPN 7	JPN 14	FRA	FRA	POR	POR	AUS	AUS	NZL	NZL									42nd	5.5
1989	Kawasaki	GBR	GBR	HUN	HUN	CAN	CAN	USA	USA	AUT	AUT	FRA	FRA	JPN 9	JPN 7	GER	GER	ITA	ITA	AUS 5	AUS 6	NZL 2	NZL Ret					14th	54
1990	Kawasaki	SPA	SPA	GBR	GBR	HUN	HUN	GER	GER	CAN	CAN	USA	USA	AUT	AUT	JPN	JPN	FRA	FRA	ITA	ITA	MAL	MAL	AUS 8	AUS 7	NZL Ret	NZL 3	19th	32
1991	Kawasaki	GBR	GBR	SPA	SPA	CAN	CAN	USA	USA	AUT	AUT	SMR	SMR	SWE	SWE	JPN 3	JPN 4	MAL 7	MAL 4	GER	GER	FRA	FRA	ITA	ITA	AUS Ret	AUS 3	13th	65
1992	Kawasaki	SPA 1	SPA Ret	GBR 5	GBR 6	GER 3	GER 5	BEL 6	BEL 7	SPA 6	SPA 5	AUT 7	AUT Ret	ITA	ITA	MAL 4	MAL 3	JPN 6	JPN 4	NED 7	NED 4	ITA	ITA	AUS 4	AUS 3	NZL 2	NZL 3	6th	249
1993	Kawasaki	IRL 5	IRL 6	GER 4	GER 4	SPA 2	SPA 3	SMR 6	SMR 6	AUT 2	AUT Ret	CZE 3	CZE Ret	SWE 8	SWE 5	MAL 4	MAL 6	JPN 6	JPN 4	NED 3	NED 6	ITA 1	ITA 2	GBR 3	GBR 2	POR 3	POR 5	3rd	316
1994	Honda	GBR 2	GBR Ret	GER 2	GER Ret	ITA 3	ITA 4	SPA 2	SPA 2	AUT 4	AUT 4	INA 2	INA 2	JPN 6	JPN 7	NED 3	NED 2	SMR 4	SMR 2	EUR 8	EUR 10	AUS 4	AUS 4					3rd	277
1995	Honda	GER 6	GER 3	SMR 16	SMR 13	GBR 4	GBR 3	ITA 2	ITA 3	SPA 1	SPA 3	AUT 4	AUT 4	USA 9	USA Ret	EUR 9	EUR 8	JPN 2	JPN 4	NED 4	NED 2	INA 3	INA 1	AUS 2	AUS 4			3rd	323
1996	Honda	SMR 6	SMR 5	GBR 5	GBR 2	GER 1	GER 2	ITA 2	ITA 2	CZE 3	CZE 2	USA 5	USA 3	EUR 6	EUR 5	INA 3	INA 2	JPN 6	JPN 3	NED 3	NED 5	SPA 9	SPA 6	AUS Ret	AUS 2			2nd	347
1997	Honda	AUS Ret	AUS 1	SMR 4	SMR 2	GBR 1	GBR 3	GER 1	GER Ret	ITA 2	ITA 5	USA 7	USA 10	EUR 6	EUR 8	AUT 3	AUT 2	NED 4	NED 4	SPA 2	SPA 3	JPN 6	JPN 4	INA 2	INA 4			3rd	343
1998	Honda	AUS 9	AUS 2	GBR 4	GBR 4	ITA 2	ITA Ret	SPA 4	SPA 2	GER 1	GER 4	SMR 1	SMR 1	RSA 8	RSA 8	USA 8	USA DNS	EUR 2	EUR 5	AUT 1	AUT 1	NED 4	NED 2	JPN 7	JPN 6			2nd	347
1999	Honda	RSA 3	RSA 2	AUS 4	AUS 4	GBR 2	GBR Ret	SPA 4	SPA 7	ITA 5	ITA Ret	GER 2	GER 2	SMR 5	SMR 4	USA 9	USA 6	EUR 2	EUR 2	AUT Ret	AUT 3	NED 3	NED 3	GER 2	GER 3	JPN 16	JPN 13	4th	323
2000	Honda	RSA	RSA	AUS	AUS	JPN	JPN	GBR 9	GBR 7	ITA 5	ITA 7	GER 5	GER 5	SMR Ret	SMR 9	SPA 7	SPA 7	USA 8	USA 9	GBR 7	GBR Ret	NED 5	NED 4	GER 5	GER Ret	GBR 13	GBR 8	8th	153

Complete British Touring Car Championship results

(key) Races in bold indicate pole position (1 point awarded all races) Races in italics indicate fastest lap (1 point awarded all races) * signifies that driver lead feature race for at least one lap (1 point awarded)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	Pos	Pts
2001	Peugeot Sport UK	Peugeot 406 Coupé	T	BRH 1	BRH 2	THR 1	THR 2	OUL 1	OUL 2	SIL 1	SIL 2	MON 1	MON 2	DON 1 7	DON 2 Ret*	KNO 1	KNO 2	SNE 1	SNE 2	CRO 1	CRO 2	OUL 1	OUL 2	SIL 1	SIL 2	DON 1	DON 2	BRH 1	BRH 2	NC†	0†
2002	Barwell Motorsport	Vauxhall Astra Coupé	T	BRH 1 9	BRH 2 12	OUL 1 6	OUL 2 8	THR 1 7	THR 2 DNS	SIL 1 10	SIL 2 Ret	MON 1 DNS	MON 2 8	CRO 1 7	CRO 2 10	SNE 1 12	SNE 2 9	KNO 1 Ret	KNO 2 12	BRH 1 Ret	BRH 2 9	DON 1 Ret	DON 2 Ret							13th	32

† Not eligible for points

Complete Porsche Supercup results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
2003	Porsche AG	Porsche 996 GT3	ITA1	ESP	AUT	MON	GER1	FRA	GBR 18	GER2	HUN	ITA2	USA1	USA2	NC‡	0‡

‡ – Guest driver – Not eligible for points.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Aaron Slight WSBK career statistics". worldsbk.com. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
^ Jessup, Peter. "A Slight change of direction". nzherald.co.nz. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
^ "1993 Suzuka 8 Hours results". motoracing-japan.com. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
^ "1994 Suzuka 8 Hours results". motoracing-japan.com. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
^ "1995 Suzuka 8 Hours results". motoracing-japan.com. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
^ www.mcnews.com.au Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2000 (including special list for East Timor)". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 5 June 2000. Retrieved 4 July 2020.

External links

Preceded by Malcolm Campbell	Australian Superbike Champion 1991	Succeeded by Mat Mladin
Preceded by Wayne Gardner Daryl Beattie (1992)	Suzuka 8 Hours Winner 1993 (with Scott Russell) 1994 (with Doug Polen) 1995 (with Tadayuki Okada)	Succeeded by Colin Edwards Noriyuki Haga (1996)

[Aaron_Slight_WSBK_career_statistics-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Aaron Slight WSBK career statistics". worldsbk.com. Retrieved 11 May 2019.

[2] Jessup, Peter. "A Slight change of direction". nzherald.co.nz. Retrieved 11 May 2019.

[3] "1993 Suzuka 8 Hours results". motoracing-japan.com. Retrieved 11 May 2019.

[4] "1994 Suzuka 8 Hours results". motoracing-japan.com. Retrieved 11 May 2019.

[5] "1995 Suzuka 8 Hours results". motoracing-japan.com. Retrieved 11 May 2019.

[6] www.mcnews.com.au Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine

[7] "Queen's Birthday honours list 2000 (including special list for East Timor)". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 5 June 2000. Retrieved 4 July 2020.

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