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Cal Crutchlow ( Yamaha ) showed up to be champion in 2009 , it was Ten Kate Hondas winning titles from 2002 to 2008 . They have won nine in all . After Foret , Chris Vermeulen won , then Karl Muggeridge , then Sebastien Charpentier ( twice in succession ) then Kenan Sofuoglu and Andrew Pitt - adding a Honda title to Kawasaki one from 2001 . Jump back to that era ’ s most dramatic finish and a certain Charpentier looked down and out until championship favourite and points leader Kevin Curtain fell at the last round and no scored . Charpentier swept in and made it a double haul of championships that even two rounds earlier looked frankly , impossible . Sofuoglu would win the title again for Honda in 2010 , before Chaz Davies blasted in with another convincing win for Yamaha . Sofuoglu , back from his Moto2 misadventures , placed his hands on the trophy once again in 2012 , but he lost out to Sam Lowes and Yamaha in 2013 . WorldSSP has clearly been a breeding ground through the ages and former
Superstock 600 champion Michael van der Mark won the WorldSSP title in 2014 . If ever a championship and a rider were made for each other then it was WorldSSP and Kenan Sofuoglu . Honda or Kawasaki , he was always a threat and anybody who beat him to the championship really deserved it . His last two championships came for Kawasaki again in 2015 and 2016 . He fought for the 2017 championship right to the end in the final round under the floodlights in Qatar . Even with a broken pelvis , he walked into the paddock , without crutches , rode through the pain and nearly deprived Yamaha rider Lucas Mahias of the championship . But not quite , and hence Frenchman became the champion in a class where French riders have dominated over the years , the way British riders have done of late in WorldSBK . The run of WorldSSP riders winning races , and especially titles as products of their own paddock , has been fairly heavily reversed of late . It is to Moto2 that
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