Can Öncü
Can Alexander Öncü is a motorcycle racer. After spending the 2019 season in Moto3, for 2020 he is contracted to race in World Supersport with Turkish Racing Team, a new venture headed by Turkish former racer Kenan Sofuoğlu and supported by Pucetti Kawasaki and Orelac Racing.
After a change in regulations during 2018, he became the youngest Grand Prix motorcycle racing winner when he won the 2018 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix aged 15 years, 115 days, and the first Turkish winner of a GP motorcycle road race.
In late 2018, he was included into the provisional entry list for the 2019 Moto3 season with the Red Bull KTM Ajo team, despite being younger than the usual minimum age requirement of 16.
His twin brother, Deniz, is also a motorcycle racer. Both brothers are mentored by Turkish multi-world champion motorcycle racer, Kenan Sofuoğlu.Career
Can and his twin brother, Deniz, competed in the Asia Talent Cup in 2016 and 2017. Both entered the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup in 2017 and Can became the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup champion in 2018, while Deniz finished in second place.
For 2018, as well as competing in the Rookies Cup, both Can and Deniz joined Ajo Motorsport and also raced in the FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship. Later that year Can became the first rider to win on his Grand Prix debut since Noboru Ueda in 1991. He also broke the record, held for ten years by previous youngest Grand Prix race winner Scott Redding, at age 15 years, 115 days at the Valencian GP, when he was entered as a wildcard rider. Öncü benefited from a 2018 change to the FIM regulations, that added the current Red Bull Rookies Cup Champion to an exemption already given to the FIM Junior World Championship winner allowing them to compete in Moto3, a series normally requiring an adult licence, at a minimum age of 15 years rather than the usual 16 years.Career statistics
Races by year
| Year | Class | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | Pos | Pts |
| 2018 | Moto3 | KTM | QAT | ARG | AME | SPA | FRA | ITA | CAT | NED | GER | CZE | AUT | GBR | RSM | ARA | THA | JPN | AUS | MAL | VAL
1 | 24th | 25 |
| 2019 | Moto3 | KTM | QAT
18 | ARG
26 | AME
Ret | SPA
18 | FRA
16 | ITA
18 | CAT
Ret | NED
16 | GER
14 | CZE
14 | AUT
Ret | GBR
24 | RSM
WD | ARA | THA | JPN
18 | AUS
16 | MAL
20 | VAL
12 | 31st | 8 |
Races by year
| Year | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Pos | Pts |
| 2020 | Kawasaki | AUS
11 | SPA
| NED
| ITA
| SPA
| ITA
| GBR
| GER
| POR
| SPA
| FRA
| ARG
| QAT
| 11th* | 5* |
* Season still in progress.
