Greg Albertyn (born October 13, 1973 in Johannesburg, South Africa), is a
former World Champion motocross racer. He is now a real estate developer in
Riverside, California.
Affectionately nicknamed "Albee", Greg won several South African and Dutch
national motocross championships before moving onto the World Motocross
Championship Grands Prix. Based in Europe, Greg and Belgian Stefan Everts
had a fierce rivalry in the early part of their careers, with Albertyn usually
getting the upper hand. Greg won the 125cc World Championship in 1992,
and moved to the 250cc class for 1993. Greg won that premier class in his
first attempt. He successfully defended his championship for '94. By that time
he was already fielding offers to race in America for the National motocross
and supercross championships.
Suzuki team manager Roger DeCoster hand picked Albertyn to return his
team to the top. Greg came over for the 1995 season. Supercross racing was
completely foreign to Albertyn, as he crashed his way through that series, his
injuries hampered him for the outdoors where he was expected to shine. He
did score and handful of podiums, showing his potential.
1996 was more of the same, with Greg only scoring a handful of top-tens in
supercross. However, he did manage to stay relatively injury-free, and by the
time the outdoors rolled around, Greg scored his first win at Unadilla and a
few more podiums.
Teamed with Jeremy McGrath on Suzuki for 1997, Greg greatly improved his
supercross technique, and had finally begun to adapt. He won the Supercross
season opener in Los Angeles, and scored many other podium finishes. He
won the Hangtown National and was very competitive outdoors, but DNFs
riddled his season. For '98, Greg improved his consistentcy to finish second
outdoors behind Doug Henry. full story on wikipedia.org - pic from RacerX