Ai Ogura is a Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle racer, born on 26 January 2001 in Kiyose, Japan, who competes in the MotoGP World Championship for the Trackhouse MotoGP Team. The son of a motorcycle enthusiast, he rode a pocketbike at the age of three and began racing at four. He was picked for the second Asia Talent Cup season in 2015, joined the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup in 2016 and then raced in the FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship before making his Moto3 World Championship debut as a wildcard in 2018. He finished 2022 as Moto2 runner-up with Idemitsu Honda Team Asia and was crowned 2024 Moto2 World Champion with MT Helmets MSi, the first Japanese rider to win a world championship in fifteen years. He is also the first Asia Talent Cup graduate to reach MotoGP.
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