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Benjamin Bostrom (born May 7, 1974) is an American former professionalmotorcycle racer. From 1995 to 2011 he competed in theAMA Superbike Championship, theWorld Superbike Championship and theMotoGP world championship.

The son of Dave Bostrom and nephew of Paul Bostrom, both successfuldirt track racers, Bostrom began his motorcycle racing career in the same fashion by winning theAmerican Motorcyclist Association (AMA) 600 Dirt Track National Championship in 1993. He switched toroad racing in 1995.

Bostrom captured the AMA Superbike national championship as aHonda rider in 1998, without winning a race. A year later Bostrom, astride aDucati and still racing full-time in the AMA series, won aLaguna Seca Raceway World Superbike race (and finished second in another) as awild card entry.

Bostrom first raced full-time in theSuperbike World Championship in2000 on a factoryDucati. In2001 he won an unexpected 6 races, including 5 in a row on a factory L&MDucati, to finish third overall. Bostrom did not win a race in2002, and scored weaker results as the season progressed.

For 2003 Bostrom returned to the domestic series for American Honda on anRC51, staying there in 2004 on the brand newHonda Fireblade CBR1000RR. He finished 4th in AMA Superbike in both years. He made a return to international racing for2005, with the Renegade Honda team in the World Superbike Championship, but was not successful. He qualified slowest of the 28 international entries inQatar at the first round, but scored a few top ten finishes during the season to come 14th overall.

Bostrom returned to Ducati asNeil Hodgson's teammate for the 2006 AMA Superbike Championship. Ducati withdrew from the AMA Superbike Championship at the end of 2006, leaving Bostrom to join theYamaha/Graves Motorsports team in 2007 for a rebuilding year, riding in the AMA Superstock Championship, where he finished second in points, though unable to score a win.

In 2008, Ben Bostrom switched from Superstock to Supersport and led the Graves MotorsportsYamaha team to an AMA championship in the 600cc class. AtVirginia International Raceway that year, Bostrom finished 2nd and gave his trophy to Sam Koup (the Grandson of racer Larry Koup), and distributed his champagne bottle and hats to others. Bostrom went on to win the 2008 Supersport Championship for under the Graves Motorsports banner. This was the last year of the AMA series before ownership transferred to the Daytona Motorsports Group, and the 600cc class was renamed AMA Daytona Sportbike.

For 2009, Bostrom raced a 1000cc Yamaha YZF-R1 in the American Superbike class. He also moonlighted in select 600cc events, including the season opener,Daytona 200, in which he took 1st place.

In addition to Superbike, Bostrom racesSupermoto- a multi-discipline format involvingoff-road,flat track and road-racing in one event. Bostrom won the 2003AMA Supermoto Championship^[1] and the gold medal at the inauguralX-Games Supermoto competition. The X-Games race (whose field included European Supermoto Champion Eddy Seel and seven-time Supercross champ,Jeremy McGrath) saw Bostrom win after nearly tipping over five laps from the finish. Ben also dabbles in journalism with an article entitled "Boz Bros Chronicles" which is featured in 2Wheel Tuner Magazine each month as well as Sportbikeclub.com.

In 2011 Ben Bostrom made hisMotoGP class début as a wildcard rider during the2011 United States motorcycle Grand Prix in aHonda-backedLCR Team and thus became the oldest rookie to début in MotoGP class era at 37 years old (similar toToshio Suzuki's feat at1993 Japanese Grand Prix inFormula One).

In 2014 Bostrom was part of a winning team in theRace Across America, cycling alongsideDave Mirra, Micky Dymond andDave Zabriskie.^[2]

His brother,Eric Bostrom, is also a professional motorcycle racer.

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Class	Team	Bike	DAY		FON		RAT		INF		RAM		M-O		LAG	VIR		N-J		BAR		Pts	Pos
				R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2
2010	SBK	Pat Clark Motorsports	Yamaha R1	18	3	8	6	4	Ret	2	2	7	6	2	4	1	2	2	3	Ret			295	5th

Year	Class	Team	Bike	DAY	FON		RAT		BAR		INF		RAM		LAG	M-O		HRT		VIR		N-J		Pts	Pos
				R1	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2
2009	SBK	Graves Motorsports	Yamaha R1	6	7	5	8	8	3	3	9	2	3	5	5	4	2	2	19	3	3	4	23	333	5th

Year	Class	Team	Bike	DAY	BAR	FON	INF	MIL	RAM	LAG	M-O	VIR	RAT	LAG	Pts	Pos
2008	SS	Graves Motorsports	Yamaha R6	1	2	1	1	21	1	1	1	2	3	2	361	1st

Year	Class	Team	Bike	DAY	BAR	FON	INF	RAM	MIL	LAG	M-O	VIR	RAT	LAG	Pts	Pos
2007	SStk	Graves Motorsports	Yamaha R1	2	3	4	3	4	2	N/A	C	4	2	3	264	2nd

Year	Class	Team	Bike	DAY	BAR		FON		INF		RAM		MIL		LAG	M-O		VIR		RAT		M-O	Pts	Pos
				R1	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1
2006	SBK	Parts Unlimited Ducati	Ducati 999R	7	9	6	7	7	6	7	8	7	3	DNF	7	20	26	11	6	20	7	4	391	9th

Year	Class	Team	Bike	DAY	FON		INF		BAR		PPK	RAM		BRD	LAG	M-O		RAT		VIR		Pts	Pos
				R1	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R1	R2	R1	R1	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2
2004	SBK	Parts Unlimited Honda	Honda CBR1000RR	DNF	DNF	5	4	5	DNF	5	5	4	5	5	1	4	2	3	3	3	3	422	4th

• BozBros.com - Official Bostrom Brothers site
• www.gravesport.com - Official Graves Motorsports site

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