| Marco Borciani | |||||||||||
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| Nationality |  Italian | ||||||||||
| Born | December 7, 1975 Desenzano del Garda, Province of Brescia, Lombardy | ||||||||||
| Website | http://www.marcoborciani.com | ||||||||||
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Marco Borciani (born 7 December, 1975 in Desenzano del Garda) is an Italian motorcycle racer and sports team manager.
Borciani started racing in the Italian Sport Production Championship, gaining 8th place in 1994, and 4th in 1995. He the moved to the Italian Honda GP 125 championship in 1996, while still continuing with rounds of the Sport Production series.
In 1997 he debuted in the European 125cc Championship, and in 1998 competed for the title against Marco Melandri, but after an accident and resultant damage to his had, his season ended early with three more rounds to complete.
In 1999 he raced in the World Supersport Championship, competing on a Honda CBR600F4, gaining a single point at the Nurburgring.
From 2000 to 2007, he competed in the Superbike World Championship:
- 2000: Team Pedercini, Ducati 996RS, 46th
- 2001: Team Pedercini, Ducati 996RS, 27th
- 2002: Team Pedercini, Ducati 998RS, 15th
- 2003: Team DFXtreme, Ducati 998RS, 10th
- 2004: Team DFXtreme/Sterilgarda, Ducati 998RS, 10th
- 2005: Team DFXtreme/Sterilgarda, Yamaha YZF-R1/Ducati 999RS, 27th
- 2006: Team Sterilgarda-Berik, Ducati 999 F05, 25th
- 2007: Team Sterilgarda, Ducati 999 F06, 20th
From the 2003 season, he also raced in part of the Italian Superbike Championship, coming 10th in both 2003 and 2004. He returned to the Italian SBK from the 2006 season, joining the works Ductai team for two seasons.
BRC Racing
In the 2005 season, Borciani had started his own BRC Racing team, managing other riders competing in series from junior Italian-based series, through WSBK and Superstock.
Having been released from the Italian SBK Ducati-works team, he raced his own privateer Ducati in the 2008 series coming 8th, and the 2009 series, coming 4th.
- 2006: Team Sterilgarda-Berik, Borciani/Ruben Xaus, Ducati 999 F05
- 2007: Team Sterilgarda, Borciani/Xaus, Ducati 999 F06
- 2008: Team Sterilgarda, Xaus, Ducati 1098
- 2009: Team Sterilgarda, Shane Byrne, Ducati 1098
Due to the 2008 world economic slump, in 2010 the team merged with Guandalini Racing to create PATA B&G Racing.
