Michael van der Mark
Michael van der Mark (born 26 October 1992) is a motorcycle road racer based in the Netherlands. He competes in the Superbike World Championship with a BMW M1000RR. He was the 2012 European Superstock 600 champion. In 2013 and 2014 he won the Suzuka 8 Hours with Takumi Takahashi and Leon Haslam in the Endurance FIM World Championship on a Honda CBR1000RRW. In 2014 he won the Supersport World Championship with PATA Honda. In 2015 he moved to the Superbike level continuing with the Pata Honda team. In he made his debut in the MotoGP class  of Grand Prix motorcycle racing at Sepang as a replacement for ill rider Jonas Folger in the Tech 3 satellite Yamaha team. In the same year he won his third Suzuka 8 Hours, this time on a Yamaha YZF-R1 with Alex Lowes and Katsuyuki Nakasuga.