About Michael van der Mark

Michael van der Mark (born 26 October 1992) is a Dutch motorcycle racer.
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 Honda CBR1000RRW. In 2014 he won with PATA Honda the Supersport World Championship. In 2015 he moved to the Superbike level continuing with the Pata Honda team. In 2017 made is 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 aboard a Yamaha YZF-R1 with Alex Lowes and Katsuyuki Nakasuga.