Humberto Maier
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| Nationality | Brazilian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | October 28, 2005 Osasco, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current team | AD78 Team Brasil by MS Racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bike number | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | https://www.instagram.com/turquinhojr12/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Humberto Maier (born October 28, 2005, in Osasco) is a Brazilian motorcycle racer. He rides for AD78 Team Brasil by MS Racing alongside fellow Brazilian Kevin Fontainha.
Humberto Maier is 16 years old and has had a passion for motorcycle racing since he was a child; his father is a passionate motorcyclist and has always raced as an amateur and professionally.
Humberto has followed this passion since he was 7 years old, and began riding motorcycles on the track.
Humberto has been charting his career in motorcycling since he was a child. In 2015, he started in Super Bike Brasil, and mid-season, he joined the Honda Junior Cup. In 2016, he switched to the Super Street category, where he raced a 300cc motorcycle. That season, he started the championship with Alex Barros' Estrella Galicia team, and in August 2016, he made his second Super Street debut, this time in the Yamaha R3 Cup, for the Fast Kids team, supported by PRT.
In 2017, Humberto made his debut as a Yamaha rider, competing in the 300cc category in Super Bike Brasil for the PlayStation Racing Team, Yamaha's official team in the Yamaha R3Cup STK category.
In the 2019 Yamaha R3 Cup season, Humberto became the Brazilian champion of the category, a feat he repeated in 2020, becoming a two-time Brazilian champion.[1]
He made his international debut in the 2019 MotoGP World Championship in Argentina in the GP3 of the Americas championship, where he won the GP3-R3 Super Sport 300cc category.[2]
In 2021, the rider traveled to Europe with Yamaha to compete in the R3 bLU cRU European Cup, where he had an excellent championship, leading several races, winning in the Netherlands, and finishing second in France. He finished sixth overall. In 2021, he was selected as a standout rider in Europe and, as a result, was selected for the Mastercamp training, held at Valentino Rossi's Ranch. Once a year, the world's top young riders are selected for a week of training with Valentino Rossi and his team.[3]
In 2022, he competed in the World Superbike Championship for Yamaha in the WSSP300 category, a highly competitive championship in which he excelled in several races. In the Portuguese round, in Portimão, he finished third and finished thirteenth.
Statistics in the Supersport 300 World Championship
| Season | Team | Moto | Run | Wins | Second | Third | Poles | FL Round |
Points | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | AD78 Team Brasil by MS Racing | Yamaha YZF-R3 | 16 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 69 | 13. |
| 2023[4] | 16 | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | 113 | 7. | ||
| 2024 | MS Racing | 10 | – | – | – | – | – | 31 | 22. | |
| 2025 | AD78 Team Brasil by MS Racing | 16 | – | 1 | 2 | – | – | 139 | 8. | |
| Total | 58 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 352 | |||
References
- ^ Comunicação, Grelak (October 21, 2024). "MOTO1000GP proporciona disputas acirradas para público do GP Cascavel". MOTO1000GP (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved October 22, 2024.
- ^ Comunicação, Grelak (October 17, 2024). "Treinos livres do MOTO1000GP têm início nesta sexta-feira (18)". MOTO1000GP (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved October 22, 2024.
- ^ Moto, Pró (October 26, 2022). "Jovens pilotos brilham na quarta etapa da Yamalube R3". Pró Moto (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved October 15, 2025.
- ^ "2024 WorldSBK calendar announced, two new circuits ready for action". WorldSBK.com. Dorna Sports. October 26, 2023. Retrieved October 27, 2023.