John Kocinski

John Kocinski is an American retired Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, born on 20 March 1968 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He became a factory Yamaha rider in the AMA Championship Cup at seventeen and won the AMA 250 Grand Prix Championship every year from 1987 to 1989, and he made his 500cc World Championship debut in 1989. In 1990 he won the 250cc World Championship in his first full season on a Team Roberts Yamaha. He then rode the 500cc class for several seasons, including with Cagiva, before returning to world level in 1996 with World Superbike. In 1997 he won the Superbike World Championship with Castrol Honda, taking nine wins and seven podium finishes.