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After wrapping up the 2014 World Supersport title at Jerez, the Pata Honda team issued the following press release, containing a profile of Michael van der Mark, and charting his rise to become the first Dutch solo roadracing champion since Henk van Kessel in 1974:

‘MAGIC MICHAEL'

A profile of Michael van der Mark, 2014 World Supersport champion

On 7 October 2012, Michael van der Mark won that year's Superstock 600 UEM European championship in only his second season on the Ten Kate Honda Junior Team’s Honda CBR600RR.

It was an especially impressive and outstandingly mature performance from the then 19-year-old from Gouda near Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Needing only to finish ahead of his nearest rival, van der Mark rode an incredibly mature race for one so young in a ‘winner-takes-all’ final race at Magny-Cours in France in the face of some less-than-subtle intimidation.

Just seven years earlier, the Dutch flyer’s entry into motorcycle racing had been relatively late at the age of 12. Having been entered into the Dutch Junior Cup on an Aprilia RS125, he was taken to quiet industrial estate by his father, Henk, to try out the bike.

This was just a week before his first race, and he had never ridden a motorcycle before.

Year:
2014


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