COLIN EDWARDS

Class: MotoGP
Number: 45
Team: Alice Aprilia Racing
Bike: Aprilia
Date of birth: 27/2/1974
Place of birth: Houston
Age: 29
Nationality: UNITED STATES

Colin Edwards II started out as a promising motocrosser, winning the 80cc US National Championship. Before switching to road racing at the age of 16. The youngster won every race he contested in his first year on a 600 Honda, RC30 Honda, and a TZ250 Yamaha and remained unbeaten in his amateur career, winning a record thirteen national titles in the AMA/CCS Race of Champions at Daytona and the WERA/GNF meeting at Road Atlanta. In 1992 he turned pro, winning the AMA 250cc title ahead of Kenny Roberts Jr., and spent two further years in AMA Superbike before clinching a factory Yamaha WSB ride. A move to Grand Prix collapsed in `97 and he returned to WSB with Honda, going on to clinch the title twice - in 2000 and 2002. This year the `Texan Tornado´ finally realises his MotoGP dream with Aprilia, teaming up with his Suzuka 8 hour winning partner from 1996, Nori Haga.