Josh Herrin

Joshua James Herrin, known as Josh Herrin, was born on 23 May 1990 and is an American motorcycle racer who grew up in Glendale, California. He is the older brother of the stock car driver Zach Herrin. After winning the 2004 USGPRU 125 title at fourteen, and a WERA 600 National Championship in 2005, he turned professional in 2006 and soon became a front runner in AMA road racing, taking a Supersport win at Laguna Seca in 2007 and second place in the 2009 AMA Pro Daytona Sportbike Championship with four victories. In March 2010 he won the Daytona 200 at nineteen, then the second youngest winner of that race. He won the AMA Superbike Championship in 2013 with the Monster Energy Graves Motorsports Yamaha team and moved to the Moto2 World Championship with the Caterham Air Asia team in 2014. Later he competed in the MotoAmerica Supersport Championship, mentoring younger riders for Rahal Ducati Moto.