Marcel Schrötter

He finished with 27 total points and 18th in the championship.

He is the first rider since Alfred Waibel in 1988 to succeed in defending his 125cc title.

Marcel Schrötter (born 2 January 1993) is a German motorcycle racer.

Schrötter contested his first race in 2002, at the age of nine, when he won the DMSB/dmsj pocket bike junior cup.

In 2003, Schrötter switched to the ADAC Mini Bike Cup, where he competed for two years.

In 2005, the Bavarian was invited by five-time world champion Toni Mang to his motorcycle training sessions at the Hockenheim and Salzburgring circuits, where he impressed.

In the same year, he finished third in the ADAC Junior Cup with one race win, and in 2006 Schrötter achieved four race wins, improving to second place in the overall standings.

Born in Vilgertshofen, Schrötter started out in the German 125cc National Championship in 2007 and finished fifth in his debut campaign, before he took back-to-back titles in 2008 and 2009.

Since 2007 Schrötter has been coached and supported by Toni Mang, who takes care of sporting and technical matters, as well as finding sponsors.

Sepp Schlögl and Adi Stadler are in charge of the motorbike and business decisions.

Schrötter competed for the Toni Mang team on Honda RS125 in the 125cc class of the International German Motorcycle Championship (IDM).

In his very first race in this class at the Lausitzring, at the age of 14, he took second place behind the eventual German champion Georg Fröhlich.

Schrötter finished the 2007 season in fifth place overall.

In the 2008 season the young german made his World Championship debut as a wildcard rider at the Sachsenring, before three further races in 2009, with a highly impressive fifth place in the final round of the season at Valencia.

He has been racing in the Moto2 class for ten years, scoring five podiums.

In the 2008 season, the Bavarian celebrated his first IDM victory at the first round of the season at the Lausitzring.

As the season progressed, Schrötter achieved a further four victories, narrowly beating Dutchman Joey Litjens in the overall standings to win the eight-liter title.

He also competed sporadically in the Spanish championship, where he won the first round of the season in Valencia.

Schrötter made his Grand Prix motorcycle racing debut in the 2008 season, in the 125cc class at the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring, one of his favorite circuits.

In 2009 Schrötter dominated the IDM 125, winning the first three races at the Lausitzring, Oschersleben and Nürburgring.

At the Sachsenring, the Bavarian had to admit defeat to Jonas Folger and Jakub Kornfeil, but since they were not eligible for points in the 125cc IDM, he also received the maximum 25 points here.

After finishing second at the Salzburgring, Schrötter secured his second German championship title at the age of 16, with victory at the Schleizer Dreieck on August 2, 2009, two rounds before the end of the season.

In 2009, again riding as a wildcard at Sachsenring, Schrötter qualified fourth on the grid in wet conditions.

He finished the race in twelfth place, scoring four points.

Schrötter competed in the 2010 season for Team Interwetten Honda 125 on a Honda 125cc.

In 2011 he competed in the same 125cc class for the Indian Mahindra Racing factory team.

He had a virtually identical season, finishing in the points nine times, with a season's best of 9th in Assen.

He scored points in ten races that season, but ended no higher than 12th in any races.

He had an awful start to the year, finishing in the points only once in eight races, a 12th place in Le Mans, and so he was dropped by Mahindra, being replaced by Riccardo Moretti.

Luckily for Schrötter, in the 2012 Moto2 World Championship, Ángel Rodríguez also had a weak start to the season, and was dropped by SAG Team after eight non-point scoring races.

Schrötter replaced Rodríguez, but failed to score points in the last eight remaining races.

He started as a wildcard rider and scored three world championship points straight away, finishing 13th.

He would also enter the Czech Grand Prix and the Valencia Grand Prix this year, finishing in 13th and 5th respectively.

These good results earned him a full-time ride for next season.

Schrötter was partnered at SAG Team by Xavier Siméon for the 2013 Moto2 World Championship, and the pair scored solid points throughout the season.

Schrötter joined Tech 3 Racing on KTM bikes for the 2014 Moto2 World Championship, and improved on new machinery.

He ended the championship in 15th place, with 36 total points.

Schrötter stayed for one last year in the smallest class, which has been re-branded from 125cc class, to Moto3.

He was partnered at Mahindra by Danny Webb.

Schrötter scored points in twelve races, and finished 16th place in the championship with 38 points.