Carey Hart

Carey Hart is an American off-road truck racer, former professional freestyle motocross competitor and former motorcycle racer, born on July 17, 1975. He became a professional motorcyclist at eighteen and started competing on the AMA supercross circuit, and he was among the first riders to compete in freestyle motocross, in 1996. In 1999 he took bronze at the Summer Gravity Games and gold at the Australian X Games, and at the 2000 Gravity Games he made the first attempt at a backflip on a 250cc motorcycle in competition. At the 2002 X Games he completed the backflip in the Best Trick contest and won silver behind Mike Metzger. He was the first to perform the invert superman seat grab, a trick now known as the Hart Attack.