Hafizh Syahrin

Hafizh Syahrin bin Abdullah (born 5 May 1994) is a Malaysian motorcycle racer, who most recently competed in WorldSBK in 2024 on a Ducati in JDT Racing Team colors.

In 2007, at the age of 13, Hafizh made his debut in the Cub Prix championship in dominating style, finishing his first year on the Yamaha LC135 Cup class second overall.

His form continued the following year, as Petronas Sprinta Raceline team's youngest rider, taking 3rd overall in the Yamaha Givi Cup in 2008, and in the process also making waves through his entries in the Novice category, with similarly impressive results.

Graduating to take on the expert category in 2010, the switch was seamless as Hafizh literally broke down all the barriers, and tore the competition apart.

2010 was also significant as the 16-year-old made the step up to the bigger league, the Petronas Asia Road Racing Championship aboard a 600cc SuperSport bike.

In 2012, wild-card Hafizh led during the middle stages of his home Malaysian Grand Prix, on his way to a fourth place.

[3] In the 2013 Moto2 World Championship, Hafizh made four more wildcard appearances, scoring a point at his home race in Malaysia.

Just a week before the 2018 MotoGP Sepang pre-season test, Jonas Folger made a surprise announcement that he would not compete in the 2018 season, in order to recover from his Gilbert's syndrome health problems.

On 6 June 2018, Tech3 announced that they would retain Hafizh for 2019, in a new era for Hervé Poncharal's team, that would see him make the switch to a factory spec KTM machine.

Hafizh struggling with the Honda machinery but made a decent start ahead of his Superbike World Championship debut.