Toby Price

Toby Joseph Price OAM is an Australian off-road and enduro motorcycle racing world champion.

As a junior, living in Roto and then Hillston, Price frequently won New South Wales and Australian junior titles from around 1994 to 2003.

In 2003, Price won both of the two top divisions in the Australian Junior Motocross Championships, the 15 Years 125cc class and the 13–16 years 250cc 4-stroke, 12 weeks after breaking both wrists in a training accident.

After winning two Australian junior titles in 2003 he was signed by Kawasaki Australia and then moved from Hillston to Singleton.

Injuries kept him from competing for much of this time.

Riding for Kawasaki, he won the Australian Off-Road Championship in his first year of competition.

He was awarded the Australian Dirt Bike magazine Rookie of the Year title.

Price began his professional career in Australia in 2004, aged 16.

Chosen to ride for Australia in the 2009 Enduro in Portugal, Price was the fastest under-23 years rider and was 14th in the world.

Riding for KTM, Price won most of the major Australian Off-Road titles of 2010: AORC, Finke (on first attempt), Hattah (on first attempt), A4DE.

Except for a fuel mishap in round one of the 2011 AORC, and a mechanical failure in the Finke Desert Race, Price again won most of the major off-road races in Australia.

He won rounds 2, 3 and 4 of the AORC, Hattah and the A4DE.

A mid-season injury put him out of the AORC title chase, leaving him in ninth place overall.

Selected for the Australian team to compete in the 2011 International Six Days Enduro (ISDE) competition in Finland from 8 to 13 August, Price finished fourth in the E2 class of the ISDE and eighth overall, making him the highest finishing Australian.

Price took first place Pro Class Melbourne Enduro-X and won the Finke Desert Race and Hattah Desert Race He also won AORC, the first time it had been won from the E3 class, winning eight of the ten rounds, and finishing second in the other two.

He was selected for the Australian team to compete in the 2012 International Six Days Enduro competition in Germany from 24 to 29 September, leading the Australian team to second place in the world.

After the first couple of days, Price was leading the E3 class and was fifth overall, despite a bent front wheel from the first day.

Near the halfway mark of the event, he suffered broken ribs in an incident.

He continued despite the injuries, finishing second in the E3 class and tenth overall.

Two weeks after returning from the ISDE, Price won the E3 class in the A4DE, coming second overall, still riding with broken ribs.

Riding for KTM, Price won rounds 2, 3 and 4 of the AORC, leading the E3 class and Outright.

While in California riding for KTM America in the AMA Hare and Hound National Championship in April, Price was involved in a crash, breaking three bones in his neck, and his thumb.

After a major operation to repair his neck, Price was unable to ride until September.

Following intensive rehabilitation, he returned to America and joined the KTM America team (though not riding) for the November Baja 1000 in which his teammate Kurt Caselli was killed.

Price's first major race after the broken neck was the December Red Bull Day In The Dirt in California, where he came second.

Price won round 1 of the AORC, but suffered a crash that put him out of round 2.

Less than a month later, still suffering the effects of the crash, he came second in rounds 3 and 4.

He placed first in rounds 5, 6, 9, 10 and 11, becoming the only rider to win the AORC four times.

In June, he won the Finke Desert race for the third time, followed by the Hattah Desert Race again in July.

He won all three rounds of the Western Australian Desert Tri-Series, the Kumarina 500 in June, Doorawarrah 500 in July and Indee 500 in August.

Trying International Cross-country Rallying for the first time, Price showed his versatility by gaining 8th place in the Morocco Rally.

In November, he won the E3 class at the International Six Days Enduro (ISDE) in Argentina, coming second overall by 45 seconds, after 6 days' racing.

Returning to California for the Red Bull Day In The Dirt, Price took out first place for 2014.

In his debut attempt at the Dakar Rally, Price achieved a win in Stage 12, and finished in third place overall.

Price was a guest driver at the Clipsal 500 Stadium Super Trucks race at Adelaide Street Circuit.

He lives in Gold Coast, Queensland, and rode for the KTM Off-Road Racing Team until October 2015.

He now represents the Red Bull Factory KTM Rally Team.

Price is a two-time winner of the Dakar Rally, taking out the Bikes class in 2016 and 2019.

Raised in a family that loves motorsports, he started riding motorbikes aged 2 years and started winning races at four.

His father, John Price, is a former off-road buggy Australian champion.