17-year-old Xavier Navand is one of the youngest riders to debut in the FIM Supersport World Championship. Born in France he started his career in national championships before moving to Italy last year to race in the Supersport 600 categories of the National Trophy and the Pirelli Cup.
For 2019 Navand will be joining DK MOTORSPORT and he will race all the European rounds of WorldSSP with the Yamaha of the Italian based squad.