Hafizh Syahrin

Hafizh Syahrin bin Abdullah is a Malaysian motorcycle racer, born on 5 May 1994 in Selangor. He started at the age of nine on pocket bikes, earning the nickname King of Pocket Bikes, and became the youngest ever CP130 champion in the Malaysian Cub Prix in 2010. He stepped up to the Petronas Asia Road Racing Championship in 2010, rode the Spanish Moto2 series in 2012 and raced full time in the Moto2 World Championship from 2014 to 2017 with Petronas Raceline Malaysia, taking podiums in 2017. In 2018 he became the first Southeast Asian to race in the MotoGP category, replacing Jonas Folger at Monster Yamaha Tech3 and finishing sixteenth in the standings, then rode a KTM for Tech3 in 2019. He returned to Moto2 in 2020 and 2021, and raced in WorldSBK from 2022, most recently in 2024 on a Ducati.