Joe Kopp is an American motorcycle racer. He has competed in the AMA Pro Flat Track Racing Championship since 1993, winning the AMA Pro Grand National Championship in 2000.

AMA Pro Flat Track

Kopp is one of 15 riders to complete the Dirt Track "Grand Slam"—victories on short track, TT, half-mile, and mile courses. In addition to his 2000 AMA Grand National Championship, he earned the 1999 and 2000 AMA 600 Hotshot and Supertracker Championships.

F-USA Dirt Track

Kopp raced Clear Channel's F-USA Dirt Track series in 2002 and 2003, winning the 2002 Plymouth, Wisconsin Short Track on a KTM.

AMA Pro Supermoto Championship

Kopp raced in the

AMA Supermoto Championship The AMA Supermoto Championship was an AMA Pro Racing-sanctioned Supermoto motorcycle racing series that ran from 2003 through 2009. AMA Pro Racing was a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Motorcyclist Association. An amateur national champi ...

in 2003 with the HMC KTM Team. He qualified for a chance at the championship by being one of the 74 riders who qualified for the winner-take-all final.

Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

Kopp competed in the 2011

Pikes Peak International Hill Climb The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC), also known as The Race to the Clouds, is an annual automobile hillclimb to the summit of Pikes Peak in Colorado, USA. The track measures and has over 156 turns, climbing from the sta ...

on a Team Latus Triumph Speed Triple. He was the second-fastest motorcycle racer up the mountain, and won the Exhibition Class with a time of 11:26.530.

AMA Vance & Hines XR1200 Championship

Koop raced in the AMA Vance & Hines XR1200 Championship in 2011, earning a third-place finish at the series opener in Daytona Beach, Florida. The top four finishers in the race were separated by only two-tenths of one second.http://www.amaprolive.com/live/archives/rr/2011/01-daytona/xrr1ovr.pdf

Career highlights

2000- AMA Grand National Champion, Supertracker Champion, Hotshoe Champion Corbin

Harley-Davidson XR-750 The Harley-Davidson XR-750 is a racing motorcycle made by Harley-Davidson since 1970, primarily for dirt track racing, but also for road racing in the XRTT variant. The XR-750 was designed in response to a 1969 change in AMA Grand National Champio ...

KTM KTM AG (Kraftfahrzeug Trunkenpolz Mattighofen, formerly KTM Sportmotorcycle AG) is an Austrian motorcycle, bicycle and sports car manufacturer owned by Pierer Mobility AG and the Indian manufacturer Bajaj Auto. It was formed in 1992 but traces ...

505, Suzuki TL1000
2001- 3rd, AMA Grand National Championship Corbin

505
2003- 3rd, AMA Grand National Championship

450
2004- 2nd, AMA Grand National Championship

450
2005- 3rd, AMA Grand National Championship Latus H-D

, Honda CRF450
2006- 3rd, AMA Grand National Championship Latus H-D

, Honda CRF450
2008- 2nd, AMA Grand National Championship Latus H-D

, Honda CRF450
2009- 2nd, AMA Grand National Championship Latus H-D

, Honda CRF450
2010- 2nd, AMA Grand National Championship Latus H-D

, Lloyd Bros. Ducati 1000, Honda CRF450
2016- Kopp is selected by Indian Motorcycle Company to be the first to race the all-new Indian Scout FTR750

References

External links

"Smokin’" Joe Kopp Official Site {{DEFAULTSORT:Kopp, Joe 1969 births Living people American motorcycle racers AMA Grand National Championship riders Sportspeople from Spokane, Washington