Ilya Mikhalchik

Ilya Mikhalchik, whose name is also romanized as Illia Mykhalchyk, is a Ukrainian motorcycle racer born on 17 August 1996. He began racing internationally in 2012 in the European Junior Cup with Wind Racing, finishing tenth in the standings that first year, and raced in the European Superstock 600 Championship with Team GoEleven in 2014 and 2015 before stepping up to the Supersport World Championship in 2016 with the DS Junior Team. After a ninth place in the European Superstock 1000 Championship in 2017 he moved to the German IDM Superbike Championship with Alpha Van-Zon BMW, winning nine of fourteen races to take the 2018 title and defending it in 2019 with eleven wins in fifteen races. In 2022 he replaced the injured Michael van der Mark for part of the Superbike World Championship season with Shaun Muir Racing, and he also competed in the FIM Endurance World Championship. In 2025 he moved to the British Superstock Championship with the ROKiT BMW Motorrad team.