Riders Who Won in MotoGP and WSB?

[Yorick]

Saw this when reading about Danilo Petrucci who has a dream of winning in WSB to achieve this.

I could only think of a few until I saw the list

Go on, have a guess ?

Answers below

[Yorick]

Mick Doohan: Won for Yamaha in WSB before becoming 500GP champion five times
Kevin Magee: Won home ground WSB races before heading to GPs
Regis Laconi: Won on a 500cc two-stroke before starting his glorious WSB career
Makoto Tamada: Won three WSB races at Sugo as a wildcard then went to MotoGP and won there as well
Garry McCoy: Yamaha two-stroke winner in GPs, Ducati winner in WSB
Troy Bayliss: Second most wins in WSB, he got his MotoGP win at Valencia as a stand-in rider
Alex Barros: Veteran GP rider scored a win for Klaffi Honda at Imola
John Kocinski: Champion in WSB, and a winner in 500GPs too
Marco Lucchinelli: World Champion in GPs, and winner in WSB's early years
Chris Vermeulen: Honda winner in WSB, Suzuki winner in MotoGP
Pierfrancesco Chili: One-off 500 GP winner, serial WSB successes
Max Biaggi: Race winner wherever he goes, Max has several of each
Carlos Checa:
And
Ben Spies
Nicky Hayden
Marco Melandri
Max Biaggi
Cal Crutchlow

[KungFooBob]

A long time a go, in a galaxy very very near, I was in the queue for the burger van at Mallory behind Chris Vermeulen, he was sat on a BMX, I was so tempted to shout 'mole' and point.

[wull]

Troy is the only person to ever win both a WSBK and MotoGP race in the same season.