Roger De Coster

Roger De Coster, born in 1944, is a Belgian former professional motocross racer and now Motorsport Director of KTM and Husqvarna North America. He competed in the Motocross World Championships from 1966 to 1980, most prominently with the Suzuki factory team, where he won five FIM 500cc Motocross World Championships. He scored a record 36 500cc Grand Prix victories, and his stature in the sport was such that he was often simply called The Man. He received the Belgian National Sports Merit Award in 1973. As a team manager he captained the first American team to win the Motocross des Nations in 1981, and he was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999, named Motocrosser of the Century by Cycle News in 2000 and made an FIM Legend in 2010.