Date of birth: 14/02/1981
Place of birth: Maisons Laffitte
First GP: 1998
First victory: 2003

Randy De Puniet started his sporting career in scooter competitions, but it was not long before motorcycles came calling. He became one of the biggest stars of the French Championships during the 90’s.

The French 125cc Champion in 1997 and 1998, he followed his compatriot Arnaud Vincent to the Scrab team in order to contest his first World Championship in 1999.

In 2003 the Parisian rider rode the Aprilia to three victories and on a LCR Team Factory team the next season, he became one of the Championship favourites.

His hopes were dashed by a combination of Dani Pedrosa and his own mistakes, which left him in fourth place overall. But Randy got the third final place overall on LCR Aprilia 250.

In 2005 he joined up with Porto under the Repsol Aspar Team banner, again riding an Official Aprilia. After completing an irregular campaign – he earned one victory and three podiums, but was only able to finish eight in the final classification.

De Puniet moved up to the premiere class with Kawasaki in 2006 and 2007.

Now the Parisian is back with LCR Team riding the Honda RC212V in 2008 season