Leandro Mercado
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Mercado in 2012
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| Nationality |
 Argentine
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| Born |
15 February 1992 Córdoba, Argentina |
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| Current team | IodaRacing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bike number | 36 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Leandro Denis Mercado (born 15 February 1992) is a motorcycle racer from Argentina. In 2017 he competes in the Superbike World Championship aboard a Aprilia RSV4. He won the National title of the AMA Supersport Championship in 2009 and the in .
After finishing third in the Red Bull AMA Rookies Cup in 2008, the following year he achieved the same result in the East division of the AMA Supersport Championship and won the National title in the Shootout race held in Daytona. In 2010 he was seventh in the CIV Stock 600 Championship and contested three races of the on a Kawasaki ZX-6R, while in 2011 he finished sixth in the CIV Stock 1000 Championship and sixteenth in the on a Kawasaki ZX-10R. In 2012 he raced in the Superbike World Championship for eight rounds before moving back to the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup; he was twenty-sixth and fifteenth in the relevant standings. For the following two seasons, he continued competing in the latter category, finishing fourth in 2013—when he was also runner-up in the CIV Superbike Championship—with Kawasaki machinery and winning the 2014 title on a Ducati 1199. For 2015, he returned to the Superbike World Championship, finishing eighth in the final standings. In he was the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup runner-up.
* Season still in progress.
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