Alessandro Zaccone
Alessandro Zaccone is an Italian motorcycle racer. In Grand Prix motorcycle racing, he won the 2025 MotoE World Championship competing for Aruba Cloud MotoE Racing Team.
Career
Early career
Zaccone began competing as a child; in 2008, he was regional mini-bike champion and fourth at the national level. In the following years, he continued with the MiniGP and some CIV races in the Moto3 category. He made his international debut in 2013 by participating, with the Honda Italia team, in the Imola Grand Prix of the European Junior Cup. In the same season, he finished in sixteenth place in the Italian Moto3 championship.In 2014, Zaccone took part in the last four races on the calendar of the European Superstock 600 Championship with a Honda CBR600RR of the Talmácsi Racing team. He collected sixteen points with which he finished in twentieth place in the riders' standings. The following season he competed in the European Superstock 600 with the same team as in 2014. He finished in nineteenth scoring twenty-one points.
Supersport World Championship and FIM Moto2 European Championship
In 2016, Zaccone, together with Axel Bassani, rode for the San Carlo Team Italia with which he took part in the races in the European section of the Supersport World Championship. Riding a Kawasaki ZX-6R, he finished in third place in the Europe Supersport Cup and seventeenth overall. In 2017, he moved to the MV Agusta Reparto Corse team with which he competed again for the European Cup of the Supersport World Championship. He scored seventeen points with which he finished third in the ESC and twenty-third overall.In the 2018 and 2019, Zaccone competed in the CEV Moto2 class, with the Promoracing team.
MotoE and Moto2 World Championship
In 2020, Zaccone made his debut in the world championship, racing in the MotoE class with the Trentino Gresini team with Matteo Ferrari as his teammate. He ended the season in 12th place with 37 points.In 2021, Zaccone moved to the Pramac Racing team, with teammate Yonny Hernández. On 2 May, he obtained his first victory in the category, temporarily taking the lead in the world championship.
In 2022, Zaccone moved up to the Moto2 World Championship, with the Gresini Racing team. He finished the season in 24th place with 9 points.
In 2023, Zaccone returned to compete in MotoE by moving to the Tech3 team, with Hikari Okubo as his teammate. He finished all the scheduled races, scoring points, except for the Silverstone round, and finished in eleventh place.
In 2024, Zaccone continued with Tech3 in MotoE, with Nicholas Spinelli as his teammate. He scored three consecutive pole positions and won race two at Assen, finishing the sesason in fifth place.
In 2025, Zaccone became MotoE World Champion after finishing fourth in race 2 of the Portuguese round.
Career statistics
Career highlights
- 2013 - NC, European Junior Cup, Honda CBR500R
- 2014 - 20th, European Superstock 600 Championship #61 Honda CBR600RR
- 2015 - 19th, European Superstock 600 Championship #61 Honda CBR600RR
FIM European Superstock 600
Races by year
| Year | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Pos | Pts |
| 2014 | Honda | SPA | NED | IMO | ITA 7 | POR 9 | SPA 20 | FRA Ret | 20th | 16 | |
| 2015 | Honda | SPA 16 | SPA 16 | NED 14 | ITA Ret | POR | ITA 10 | SPA 8 | FRA 11 | 19th | 21 |
Supersport World Championship
Races by year
| Year | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Pos | Pts |
| 2016 | Kawasaki | AUS | THA | SPA 5 | NED 19 | ITA 5 | MAL | GBR 12 | ITA Ret | GER Ret | FRA Ret | SPA 11 | QAT | 18th | 31 |
| 2017 | MV Agusta | AUS | THA | SPA Ret | NED 18 | ITA 10 | GBR Ret | ITA 11 | GER 14 | POR Ret | FRA Ret | SPA 12 | QAT | 23rd | 17 |
FIM CEV Moto2 European Championship
Races by year
| Year | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Pos | Pts |
| 2018 | Kalex | EST1 6 | EST2 Ret | VAL 7 | CAT1 14 | CAT2 9 | ARA1 9 | ARA2 8 | JER 6 | ALB1 10 | ALB2 11 | VAL 4 | 10th | 74.5 |
| 2019 | Kalex | EST1 5 | EST2 1 | VAL 8 | CAT1 Ret | CAT2 4 | ARA1 7 | ARA2 4 | JER 3 | ALB1 5 | ALB2 2 | VAL 5 | 3rd | 137 |
| 2020 | Kalex | EST1 4 | EST2 3 | POR1 3 | POR2 3 | JER1 2 | JER2 9 | ARA1 1 | ARA2 1 | ARA3 3 | VAL1 1 | VAL2 3 | 3rd | 195 |
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
By season
By class
Races by year
| Year | Class | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Pos | Pts |
| MotoE | Energica | SPA WD | ANC Ret | RSM 7 | EMI1 10 | EMI2 5 | FRA1 9 | FRA2 12 | 12th | 37 | ||||||||||||||
| MotoE | Energica | SPA 1 | FRA 3 | CAT 4 | NED 3 | AUT 6 | RSM1 Ret | RSM2 DNS | 5th | 80 | ||||||||||||||
| Moto2 | Kalex | QAT 22 | INA 24 | ARG Ret | AME Ret | POR 15 | SPA 11 | FRA 18 | ITA 19 | CAT Ret | GER 19 | NED Ret | GBR 18 | AUT Ret | RSM 15 | ARA 14 | JPN Ret | THA 21 | AUS 16 | MAL Ret | VAL 16 | 24th | 9 | |
| MotoE | Ducati | FRA1 8 | FRA2 9 | ITA1 11 | ITA2 9 | GER1 5 | GER2 9 | NED1 12 | NED2 7 | GBR1 Ret | GBR2 Ret | AUT1 7 | AUT2 11 | CAT1 9 | CAT2 8 | RSM1 7 | RSM2 10 | 11th | 104 | |||||
| MotoE | Ducati | POR1 Ret | POR2 12 | FRA1 Ret | FRA2 4 | CAT1 5 | CAT2 3 | ITA1 2 | ITA2 6 | NED1 DSQ | NED2 1 | GER1 2 | GER2 5 | AUT1 6 | AUT2 5 | RSM1 2 | RSM2 8 | 5th | 179 | |||||
| MotoE | Ducati | FRA1 3 | FRA2 Ret | NED1 2 | NED2 1 | AUT1 7 | AUT2 6 | HUN1 5 | HUN2 6 | CAT1 4 | CAT2 8 | RSM1 1 | RSM2 4 | POR1 1 | POR2 4 | 1st | 198 |