Career

He currently races in the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship on a Graves Motorsports Yamaha YZF-R1. In 2009 Josh Hayes competed in the American Medical Association Pro Racing American Superbike championship alongside Ben Bostrom. He also spearheaded the Yamaha Racing effort in the annual Daytona 200 race.

Foreign 2010 Hayes returned with Yamaha in American Medical Association Superbike.

Riding for Graves Motorsports, R1 he clinched his first American Medical Association Superbike Championship for 2010, with 11 podium finishes including seven wins. Hayes made his MotoGP debut at the 2011 Valencian Grand Prix riding a Technical 3 Yamaha, replacing countryman Colin Edwards, who suffered arm injuries in the fatal crash that aborted the 2011 Malaysian Grand Prix.

Having avoided a first corner crash that eliminated four other riders, Hayes finished the race in seventh place.

Achievements

• Hayes is noted for his achievement in having won the 2003 American Medical Association Superstock Championship riding Attack Suzuki"s GSX-R750, and both the 2006 and the 2007 American Medical Association Formula Xtreme Championship for Erion Honda on board the CBR600RR, and the American Medical Association Superbike Championship three times in a row (2010, 2011, and 2012), and also won the 2014. In 2008, Hayes won the Daytona 200 but was disqualified soon after for an illegal crankshaft.