Somkiat Chantra

Somkiat Chantra
Somkiat Chantra
Nationality	Thai
Born	15 December 1998; Chonburi, Thailand
Current team	IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia
Bike number	35
Motorcycle racing career statistics
Moto2 World Championship
Active years	2019–
Manufacturers	Kalex
2021 championship position	18th (37 pts)
Moto3 World Championship
Active years	2018
Manufacturers	Honda
Championships	0
2018 championship position	33rd (7 pts)

Somkiat Chantra (Thai: สมเกียรติ จันทรา;[1] born 15 December 1998) is a Thai motorcycle rider, currently competing in the Moto2 World Championship for Honda Team Asia.

Career

Early career

Coming through the Shell Advance Asia Talent Cup ranks, where he was champion in 2016,[2] he competed in the FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship for two seasons before making his Grand Prix debut as a wildcard at the 2018 Thailand GP where he finished 9th in the Moto3 class.

2019

Riding for the newly formed Honda Asia Team, created specifically to give asian riders a chance in Moto2 and Moto3, Chantra performed well as a rookie, scoring 23 points in the season, while his teammates Dimas Ekky Pratama, Andi Farid Izdihar, Teppei Nagoe, and Gerry Salim scored none.

2020

Racing full time for Honda Asia Team again, Chantra struggled to reproduce what he did last season, scoring points in just two races, ending the season with 10 points. His teammate was Izdihar for the whole year, who scored no points.

2021

Chantra had a bounce-back 2021 season, and so did the Honda Asia Team. Chantra scored 37 points throughout the year, his highest finish coming in Austria, where rookie teammate Ai Ogura came in second place, and Chantra in fifth, scoring a season-high in points for the team.[3]

Career statistics

By season

Season	Class	Motorcycle	Team	Race	FLap	Pts	Plcd
2018	Moto3	Honda	AP Honda Racing Thailand	1	0	7	33rd
2019	Moto2	Kalex	IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia	16	0	23	21st
2020	Moto2	Kalex	IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia	15	0	10	25th
2021	Moto2	Kalex	IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia	18	1	37	18th
Total				50	1	77

By class

Class	Seasons	1st GP	Race	FLap	Pts
Moto3	2018	2018 Thailand	1	0	7
Moto2	2019–present	2019 Qatar	49	1	70
Total	2018–present		50	1	77

Races by year

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

Year	Class	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Pos	Pts
2018	Moto3	Honda	QAT	ARG	AME	SPA	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GER	CZE	AUT	GBR	RSM	ARA	THA 9	JPN	AUS	MAL	VAL	33rd	7
2019	Moto2	Kalex	QAT Ret	ARG 10	AME 20	SPA 17	FRA Ret	ITA	CAT 17	NED DNS	GER	CZE 15	AUT 12	GBR 16	RSM 14	ARA 16	THA 9	JPN 13	AUS Ret	MAL Ret	VAL 23	21st	23
2020	Moto2	Kalex	QAT 25	SPA Ret	ANC Ret	CZE 23	AUT 13	STY Ret	RSM 18	EMI 21	CAT Ret	FRA 9	ARA 23	TER 19	EUR Ret	VAL 18	POR 18					25th	10
2021	Moto2	Kalex	QAT Ret	DOH 19	POR 21	SPA Ret	FRA 12	ITA 18	CAT 9	GER 18	NED 11	STY 8	AUT 5	GBR 17	ARA Ret	RSM Ret	AME 14	EMI Ret	ALR DSQ	VAL 19		18th	37

References

"A.P.Honda Racing Thailand – Rider – สมเกียรติ จันทรา (ก้อง#35)". aphonda.co.th (in Thai). A.P. Honda. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
"Somkiat Chantra wins the title in dramatic final race". AsiaTalentCup.com. 30 October 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
"Honda Team Asia Joy for Ogura and Chantra".

External links

Somkiat Chantra at MotoGP.com

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[1] "A.P.Honda Racing Thailand – Rider – สมเกียรติ จันทรา (ก้อง#35)". aphonda.co.th (in Thai). A.P. Honda. Retrieved 13 June 2020.

[2] "Somkiat Chantra wins the title in dramatic final race". AsiaTalentCup.com. 30 October 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2019.

[3] "Honda Team Asia Joy for Ogura and Chantra".