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Name: Anthony Gobert
Date of Birth: 5/Mar/1975
Nationality: Australian

The Australian hails from a racing family and is the eldest of three brothers (also Alex and Aaron) currently competing in AMA events. Anthony began competing in motocross at age 11 and won numerous titles by the age of 16, including the Australian 125 Supercross Championship. He joined Honda Racing Australia in 1993 and competed in the national Superbike series at age 17.

In 1994 he won the Australian Superbike Championship, he also had his World Superbike debut (in Japan) and won his first World Superbike race in Australia where he was entered as a wild card entry.

He raced a full World Superbike Championship season in 1995 for Team Muzzy, struggling earlier in the season with a number of qualifying crashes, but winning one race at each of the Phillip Island and Laguna Seca rounds, taking two 2nds (Salisburg and Laguna Seca) and two 3rds (Salisburg and Brands Hatch) to finish the season a respectable 4th overall and best placed Kawasaki rider.

In 1996 Gobert had three wins in WSB riding a Kawasaki for Team Muzzy, two at Phillip Island and one at Laguna Seca, also a 2nd at Brands Hatch and two 3rds at Donnington to finish the season 8th overall just behind teammate Simon Crafar. In 1996 he also took 2nd in the Suzuka 8-Hour endurance race paired up with with Crafar.

He switched to Ducati in 1999 Tossed from the US World Superbike round for testing positive for marijuana, Gobert then found himself tossed from the AMA series when he flunked drug screening tests.

Only quick work by his attorneys, led by Willow Springs fast guy Stephen Hewitt and his team of legal experts, and a well-timed appeal put Gobert back in the series at the end of the 1998 season. spent time in a clinic wins '99 AMA Road America Superbike race raced a Yamaha R7 in AMA in 2001

Erion Racing announced this February the signing of Anthony Gobert to compete in the AMA's 2004 Superstock series on the new Honda CBR1000RR.

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