Son of American racer-journalist Dennis Noyes, Kenny will make his world championship debut this season in Moto2. He began riding dirt bikes at the age of four but didn’t start racing Dirt Track until he was seventeen and didn’t get on the pavement until 2001.

Kenny started racing Dirt Track in California on a Honda XR100 at the legendary Lodi Cycle Bowl. After working his way up to the 600 class and through the ranks from amateur to professional on the west coast, he got his chance to race the Nationals on the factory Lineaweaver Husaberg. In his rookie season Noyes won the 2000 Formula USA Pro Singles National Dirt Track Championship, against the likes of current AMA Grand National 750 stars J.R. Schnabel and Bryan Smith, among others.

Although he planned to continue racing Dirt Track, an unexpected chance to try his hand at road racing came up with BQR Honda in Spain. With absolutely no roadracing experience, he started from scratch in the ultra-competitive Spanish CEV series and, in 2003, still riding with BQR, won the Bancaja Superseries 1000cc (Superstock) title. He moved to Yamaha for the next two seasons, winning the National Endurance Series on his Folch R1.

During the following seasons Noyes has become one of the top riders in Spain’s premier class, the CEV 1000cc Formula Extreme. He won his first FX National at Jerez for Motorrad Suzuki in 2008 and continued to score wins, poles and podiums with Palmeto Kawasaki in 2009. As one of the most promising riders in the prestigious Spanish FX championship and with plenty of four-stroke experience Kenny was a clear candidate to be among the ranks of the new Moto2 class and was signed by Team Jack & Jones by Antonio Banderas to race their new Harris-framed prototype in 2010.