Rider Profile

Name: Oliver Dupuy

Birthday: 1st May

Birthplace: Colchester

Residence: London

Height: 6' 1"

Weight: 85kg

First Bike: Suzuki GS125

First Trackday: Donington Park, 22nd July 2002

First Race: Snetterton, 11th March 2005

First Crash: Snetterton, 12th March 2005

First Podium: Brands Hatch, 1st May 2005

Career Stats - (Up to date as of 26th of May 08)

  Race Starts: 111

  Wins: 0

  Podiums: 4

  Points: 600

  Crashes: 7 race, 13 total

My story

The racing bug came early to me, although it started on four wheels rather than two. I became a formula one fanatic at a very young age, attending my first Grand Prix at the tender age of 7, the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa Francorchamps. That day also marked the first ever Grand Prix start of one of my racing heroes, a certain Michael Schumacher.

My passion for bikes wasn't long in following however, and my earliest bike racing memories include cheering on the likes of Kevin Schwantz and Daryl Beattie, all because I loved the Lucky Strike Suzuki colour scheme! At that time Carl Fogarty was also battling it out hard with Scott Russell in WSB, and family trips to Donnington and Brands Hatch became a regular affair that fuelled my passion further, as I spent the weekends breaking into the paddocks to go autograph hunting!

My own racing career really started at the age of 11, all as a result of a karting event organised by of all things, my local football club. The whole club went up to the local karting centre for the day, and at the end of it all I turned out to be the fastest. As I was crap at football, the path as to which sport I should pursue became a little clearer.......

After learning and crashing some more at the indoor karting centre my parents decided to purchase a 100cc two-stroke kart to race outdoors, at a club based in Carver Barracks in Essex. It was there that my Dad first chose my now traditional #22, and I continued to learn a lot and have a lot of fun, plus the odd crash (including a spectacular barrel roll - my parent's weren't impressed!). After half a season there some of the parents, including my own, set up a new club at Red Lodge near Newmarket, and I carried on racing for 3 seasons in the junior category.

My own racing took a break for while as I left school and my Dad passed away, but my passion for bikes never diminished, and I soon got my first taste of two-wheeled action, learning to ride a Suzuki GS125 - which I promptly crashed a couple of times! After my full test I got my first sports bike, a Kawasaki ZXR400. I loved it, being 17 and having a bike capable of 135mph! In the summer of 2002 I got my first taste of track action with a day at Donnington Park, an 18th birthday present from my dear Mum!

The ZXR ultimately met a Volvo (I was luckily unhurt) and the compensation I received went towards a nice CBR600 FX, all decked out in Rossi colours. I had also enrolled on my degree course at Kingston University, in motorcycle engineering and design.

Early in 2004 I attended my second trackday, but my first on the 600, at Brands Hatch, producing a best time 1min 2 seconds. Through the university racing team I was introduced to Bemsee at the start of the 2004 season, which I spent spannering for a fellow student, Stuart Reid.

At the first meeting of 2004, back at Brands, I watched as Stuart got his Rookie 600 career underway, and realised some of the guys in his race weren't even going as fast as I had done on my road bike. That day I decided "next year, I'm going to race!".

And so in 2005, I fulfilled a lifetime ambition and started my first season of racing, in Rookie 600s, and Oliver Dupuy Racing was born. Now in my fourth season, I have high hopes for the future. Plans to race in the National Superstock Cup in 2008, had to be shelved when the series was dropped from the BSB support race calendar, but racing at British level remains my long term ambition.

I hope that you enjoy looking around the site and be sure to look out for me at race meetings up and down the country!