The team owner wants an American on the grid winning races again, and he's blunt about the timeline. "The next American MotoGP world champion is probably just three years old," Marks said on the sidelines of the Silverstone GP weekend, per SPEEDWEEK.com. The bigger goal is a successful American back in MotoGP, and he points to 2006 world champion Nicky Hayden as his model. "I grew up as a huge fan of Nicky," Marks recalled. "The infrastructure in America isn't currently in place to produce such talent," Marks admitted, though he wants Trackhouse to be part of fixing it.