Larry Pegram

Larry Pegram is an American motorcycle racer, born on 5 September 1973 in Columbus, Ohio. He has raced in the AMA Superbike series since first entering the championship in 1996, and his best season came in 2009, when he finished fourth overall with three wins and five podiums. He made a wildcard appearance in the Superbike World Championship at Laguna Seca on 13 July 2014; after retiring from race one he scored two points in race two, becoming the first rider in history to take an American machine into the points. In 2015 he was manager and a team rider for Team Hero EBR alongside Niccolò Canepa. Pegram has raced flat track since the age of five, has three Grand National Flat Track wins, and as an amateur won more than 33 national championships, an AMA record. He and his family also appeared for three seasons in the television show Superbike Family.