Aaron Slight

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Aaron Tony Slight Template:Post-nominals (born 19 January 1966) is a New Zealand former professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in the Superbike World Championships from Template:SBK to Template:SBK, finishing second in the championship twice and third four times.^[1]^[2] He later competed in car racing and was a television presenter for AA Torque, a motoring show on New Zealand television.

Motorcycle racing career

Born in Masterton, New Zealand, Slight was Australian Superbike Champion in 1991, before spending most of the 1990s racing in the Superbike World Championship, amassing 87 podiums, 13 wins and 8 pole.^[1] For many years he was the only rider to win the Suzuka 8 Hours race for three consecutive years, having done so in 1993–1995.^[3]^[4]^[5] This feat has been repeated only recently by multiple Japanese Superbike Champion Katsuyuki Nakasuga in 2015–2018. Although Nakasuga was only declared a winner in 2018 due to being part of the three rider team (with Sam Lowes and Michael Van Der Mark) even though he did not ride in the race due to an injury. Officially Nakasuga is a four-time-in-a-row winner but in reality he has only matched Slight's three time record respectively.

He won his first WSB race during the 1992 season on a Kawasaki for Team Moving Kawasaki.^[1] On a factory Castrol Honda he was third overall in 1994 and 1995, taking his first Honda win at Albacete.^[1] The only real low note was Laguna Seca in 1995, where a poorly handling Honda and many local wildcards left him 18th on the grid. He was runner-up to Troy Corser in 1996, and third again in 1997 as teammate John Kocinski won the title.^[1]

In 1998 he was second to Carl Fogarty by 5.5 points (half points having been awarded in the shortened Laguna Seca race 1), only missing the title due to mishaps such as a last-lap engine failure at Monza, a last-lap incident with back-marker Jean-Marc Deletang at Philip Island, and missing race 2 at Laguna Seca due to a startline pileup on the aborted attempt to restart the first race. He did however take his first career double victory, at Misano.^[1]

Slight did not win a race in 1999; he crossed the line first in race 1 at Hockenheimring after passing Carl Fogarty on the last lap, but a red flag had been shown due to an incident elsewhere on the track, so the results were taken a lap back. Ironically, as Fogarty had already clinched the title, he did not need to win the race. Slight missed the start of the season in 2000 and then made his final appearance in the opening round of the 2001 American Superbike Championship at Daytona Speedway.

Car racing career

Slight raced in the British Touring Car Championship, ASCAR Racing Series and the British GT Championship.^[6]

Personal life

In the 2000 Queen's Birthday Honours, Slight was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to motor sport.^[7]

Racing record

Superbike World Championship

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Races by year

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

Year	Make	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		11		12		13		<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Pos.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Pts
Year	Make	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2		Pts
1988	Bimota	GBR	GBR	HUN	HUN	GER	GER	AUT	AUT	JPN 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 14Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FRA	FRA	POR	POR	AUS	AUS	NZL	NZL									42nd	5.5
1989	Kawasaki	GBR	GBR	HUN	HUN	CAN	CAN	USA	USA	AUT	AUT	FRA	FRA	JPN 9Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER	GER	ITA	ITA	AUS 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUS 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NZL 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NZL RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".					14th	54
1990	Kawasaki	SPA	SPA	GBR	GBR	HUN	HUN	GER	GER	CAN	CAN	USA	USA	AUT	AUT	JPN	JPN	FRA	FRA	ITA	ITA	MAL	MAL	AUS 8Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUS 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NZL RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NZL 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	19th	32
1991	Kawasaki	GBR	GBR	SPA	SPA	CAN	CAN	USA	USA	AUT	AUT	SMR	SMR	SWE	SWE	JPN 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MAL 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MAL 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER	GER	FRA	FRA	ITA	ITA	AUS RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUS 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	13th	65
1992	Kawasaki	SPA 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	BEL 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	BEL 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUT 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUT RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	ITA	ITA	MAL 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MAL 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NED 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NED 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	ITA	ITA	AUS 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUS 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NZL 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NZL 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	6th	249
1993	Kawasaki	IRL 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	IRL 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SMR 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SMR 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUT 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUT RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	CZE 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	CZE RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SWE 8Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SWE 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MAL 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MAL 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NED 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NED 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	ITA 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	ITA 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	POR 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	POR 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	3rd	316
1994	Honda	GBR 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	ITA 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	ITA 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUT 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUT 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	INA 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	INA 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NED 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NED 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SMR 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SMR 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	EUR 8Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	EUR 10Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUS 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUS 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".					3rd	277
1995	Honda	GER 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SMR 16Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SMR 13Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	ITA 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	ITA 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUT 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUT 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	USA 9Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	USA RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	EUR 9Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	EUR 8Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NED 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NED 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	INA 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	INA 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUS 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUS 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".			3rd	323
1996	Honda	SMR 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SMR 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	ITA 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	ITA 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	CZE 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	CZE 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	USA 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	USA 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	EUR 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	EUR 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	INA 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	INA 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NED 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NED 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA 9Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUS RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUS 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".			2nd	347
1997	Honda	AUS RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUS 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SMR 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SMR 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	ITA 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	ITA 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	USA 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	USA 10Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	EUR 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	EUR 8Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUT 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUT 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NED 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NED 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	INA 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	INA 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".			3rd	343
1998	Honda	AUS 9Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUS 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	ITA 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	ITA RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SMR 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SMR 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	RSA 8Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	RSA 8Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	USA 8Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	USA DNSScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	EUR 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	EUR 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUT 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUT 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NED 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NED 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".			2nd	347
1999	Honda	RSA 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	RSA 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUS 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUS 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	ITA 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	ITA RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SMR 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SMR 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	USA 9Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	USA 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	EUR 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	EUR 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUT RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUT 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NED 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NED 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 16Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	JPN 13Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	4th	323
2000	Honda	RSA	RSA	AUS	AUS	JPN	JPN	GBR 9Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	ITA 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	ITA 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SMR RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SMR 9Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SPA 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	USA 8Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	USA 9Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NED 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NED 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR 13Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GBR 8Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	8th	153

Complete British Touring Car Championship results

(key) Races in bold indicate pole position (1 point awarded all races) Races in italics indicate fastest lap (1 point awarded all races) * signifies that driver lead feature race for at least one lap (1 point awarded)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	Pos	Pts
2001	Peugeot Sport UK	Peugeot 406 Coupé	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />TScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	BRH 1	BRH 2	THR 1	THR 2	OUL 1	OUL 2	SIL 1	SIL 2	MON 1	MON 2	DON 1 ovr:7 cls:7	DON 2 Ret*	KNO 1	KNO 2	SNE 1	SNE 2	CRO 1	CRO 2	OUL 1	OUL 2	SIL 1	SIL 2	DON 1	DON 2	BRH 1	BRH 2	NC†	0†
2002	Barwell Motorsport	Vauxhall Astra Coupé	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />TScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	BRH 1 ovr:9 cls:6	BRH 2 ovr:12 cls:9	OUL 1 ovr:6 cls:6	OUL 2 ovr:8 cls:8	THR 1 ovr:7 cls:7	THR 2 DNS	SIL 1 ovr:10 cls:10	SIL 2 Ret	MON 1 DNS	MON 2 ovr:8 cls:8	CRO 1 ovr:7 cls:7	CRO 2 ovr:10 cls:10	SNE 1 ovr:12 cls:12	SNE 2 ovr:9 cls:9	KNO 1 Ret	KNO 2 ovr:13 cls:12	BRH 1 Ret	BRH 2 ovr:9 cls:9	DON 1 Ret	DON 2 Ret							13th	32

† Not eligible for points

Complete Porsche Supercup results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
2003	Porsche AG	Porsche 996 GT3	ITA1	ESP	AUT	MON	GER1	FRA	GBR 18Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	GER2	HUN	ITA2	USA1	USA2	NC‡	0‡

‡ – Guest driver – Not eligible for points.

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