Already a three-time AFT Singles champion, Kody Kopp has long since transformed his impressive lineage as the son of 2000 Grand National Champion Joe Kopp into a secondary note rather than his primary claim to fame. The latest in a long line of flat trackers hailing from the Northwest, the Washington native first started riding when he was just three-and-a-half and was racing a few months after that. Following a spectacular amateur career that culminated in the 2020 Nicky Hayden AMA Flat Track Horizon Award, Kopp’s ascension to the professional ranks was anticipated in a manner reserved for only the sport’s most highly rated prospects. Kopp proved he was fully deserving of that considerable hype during his rookie campaign, notching up a trio of second-half podium finishes, while also demonstrating his innate skills with a physics-defying save of a near-crash in Peoria. But as impressive as his rookie season was, it proved to be but a tease when Kopp arrived as a genuine power in 2022. He secured the AFT Singles title two rounds early with a dominant seven-win, ten-podium campaign that left the remainder of the field battling over second. And even with the target of the #1 plate squarely in his opponents’ sights, Kopp not only repeated the feat in ‘23, he improved upon his prior campaign with a record-equaling eight-victory season to become just the second rider to claim back-to-back AFT Singles championships. And in 2024, became the first-ever thee-time AFT Singles champion while also claiming the class’ all-time wins mark among numerous other honors. Kopp will not defend his #1 plate in ‘25 as he tries his hand on pavement, but the two-wheeled superstar will still make select Progressive AFT appearances.