Recently celebrating 200 GP starts, Anthony West has lost 18 months worth of results.

Queensland’s Anthony West has been stripped of results attained during selected races in the 2012 and 2013 Moto2 World Championship.

On 20 May 2012, West underwent an anti doping test conducted by the FIM at the 2012 French Grand Prix. The urine sample obtained revealed the presence of a stimulant (Methylhexaneamine) prohibited in competition under the FIM Anti Doping Code in force.

West was originally handed down a one-month suspension by the FIM International Disciplinary Court (CDI) on 29 October 2012.

However the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and called for a 24-month period of ineligibility to be imposed.

A hearing was held on 21 August 2013 in Lausanne and the three-man CAS party was heard. The FIM was represented by the head of its legal department, Richard Perret.

The appeal by WADA against the CDI’s decision was only partially upheld. The panel suspended West for 18 months from which the one month’s suspension already served was deducted.

Taking into account the considerable delay in the conduct of the case before the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the CAS Panel decided to set the start of the suspension retroactively at 20 May 2012.

Subject to the lodging of any appeal by one of the parties within 30 days with the Swiss Federal Tribunal and as provided for in the CAS Award, all the sporting results obtained by West from 20 May 2012 up to the expiry of the period of ineligibility (19 October 2013) will be invalidated.

West lost his results from the Moto2 series – including his podiums at Sepang and Phillip Island – as well as results from the 2012 FIM Endurance Road Racing World Cup.