MotoAmerica has announced that RiderzLaw has signed on as presenting class sponsor for the Liqui Moly Junior Cup, Stock 1000 and Twins Cup classes at the Sonoma Raceway round of the 2018 MotoAmerica Series, the Cycle Gear Championship of Sonoma, August 10-12. The Cycle Gear Championship of Sonoma is round seven of the 10-round 2018 MotoAmerica Series. “Thanks to MotoAmerica,…
The following is from Suzuki… Roger Hayden, the Yoshimura Suzuki Factory Racing standout and former AMA Supersport Champion, has announced his intention of retiring from professional racing at the end of this season. Hayden, the youngest of the world-famous Hayden brothers, has been a leading racer for nearly all of his 20 seasons as a professional. Suzuki and Hayden are…
The following is from the AMA…. Members of the American Motorcyclist Association will receive discount pricing and special access at the eighth round of the 2018 MotoAmerica Series, home of the AMA Superbike Championship, on Aug. 24-26 at the Pittsburgh International Race Complex in Pittsburgh, Pa. “MotoAmerica is the premier road race series in North America, and all race fans…
Garrett Gerloff is by no means a motorcycle racing historian. But he does know a few things. For starters, he knows that two-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier won his first AMA Superbike race in just the second start of his rookie season in the class. But who’s counting? The bottom line is simple: Gerloff expects to be winning Motul…
If anyone is going to show up ready to race in the seventh round of the 2018 MotoAmerica Championship, the Cycle Gear Championship of Sonoma, it will be Liqui Moly Junior Cup racers Jackson Blackmon and Cory Ventura. After all, who else amongst us is spending five days training at Valentino Rossi’s Yamaha VR46 Master Camp before the next round,…
Josh Herrin is having a good year on the racetrack with five Motul Superbike podiums thus far. Off the track, he’s doing even better as he holds down the lead in the 2018 MotoAmerica Social Media Cup, a competition to see who rules the roost in the MotoAmerica paddock when it comes to social media. Through the first three rounds…
The following is from KWR… Kyle Wyman and Bryce Prince bested and matched their top finishes from this season at Utah Motorsports Campus during the 6th round of the MotoAmerica championship. Wyman finished 7th/6th in his races while Prince finished 6th in race one and a season-best 4th in race two. The KWR team, which was title sponsored by SC Project Exhaust…
Cameron Beaubier learned a valuable lesson yesterday. Don’t let Toni Elias stay close to you if you have the pace to put him away. Today Beaubier and his Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing YZF-R1 had the pace and he was pulling away from Elias when yesterday’s Motul Superbike race-one winner crashed out on the sixth lap of the Championship of Utah…
Did you miss the MotoAmerica Stock 1000 race today from Utah Motorsports Campus? If so, here it is.
Attack Performance/Herrin Compound’s Josh Herrin suffered a huge highside in this morning’s Motul Superbike warm-up session at the Utah Motorsports Campus. Herrin escaped injury, but his Yamaha YZF-R1 was destroyed. Herrin won’t be on the grid for today’s second Motul Superbike race in Utah.
Did you miss yesterday’s MotoAmerica Twins Cup race from yesterday at Utah Motorsports Campus? If you did here’s your chance to watch the race in its entirety. Remember today’s Stock 1000 race will air live on our Facebook page.
Yoshimura Suzuki’s Toni Elias stalked Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing’s Cameron Beaubier for 14 of the 17 laps of the Utah Motorsports Campus. Then he pounced, taking the lead with three laps to go and holding off the attacking Beaubier to win the Championship of Utah by .494 of a second on a hot sunny day on the outskirts of Salt…
The following is from Yamaha… Following a one-month break from racing, the 2018 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Road Racing Championship resumes this weekend, July 20-22, with Round 6 at Utah Motorsports Campus (UMC) in Tooele, Utah. Yamaha bLU cRUroad racers are feeling refreshed and ready to hit the pavement of UMC’s 3.048-mile road course, known for its fast, flowing and wide…
On paper, the fast layout of the Utah Motorsports Campus should favor defending MotoAmerica Motul Superbike Champion Toni Elias and his Yoshimura Suzuki teammate Roger Hayden. After all, the pair finished first and second in both races last year at the circuit on the outskirts of Salt Lake City on their new GSX-R1000s, with Elias sweeping to his second and…
MotoAmerica has announced that it will live stream its Twins Cup and Stock 1000 races from this coming weekend’s Championship of Utah at the Utah Motorsports Campus on the MotoAmerica Facebook page. Meanwhile, the two MotoAmerica Motul Superbike races, the two Supersport races and the two Liqui Moly Junior Cup races will continue to air live on beIN SPORTS and…
Two new classes were introduced at the start of the 2018 MotoAmerica Series: Twins Cup and Stock 1000 with each of those classes racing once over the course of the weekend in their season debut. Thus far, the competition has been intense in both classes with both title chases looking to go the distance. In the Twins Cup, Ghetto Customs’…
KTM Orange Brigade/JP43’s Alex Dumas has been dominant thus far in the debut season of the MotoAmerica Liqui Moly Junior Cup. When he starts and finishes, he wins. At least so far. Dumas has five victories as the series readies to start its second half of the season. In fact, he’s won every race he’s started. And finished. His only…
Make no bones about it, every time JD Beach throws his leg over his Monster Energy/Y.E.S./Graves Yamaha R6 he does so with a purpose: To earn himself a Superbike ride in 2018. So far that effort has put him at the top of the MotoAmerica Supersport Championship as the series readies to start its second half at the Utah Motorsports…
Anyone who has attended school has lived through mid-terms. It often-times marks the middle of the semester, or term (get it?), or even the middle of the entire school year. Your performance at mid-term offers the chance to reflect on where you are and what you need to do to get to where you want to be at the end.…
Are you a fan of Toni Elias who lives in Spain? How about a Valentin Debise fan in France? Maybe you live in South Africa and want to watch Mathew Scholtz race in the MotoAmerica Series from the comfort of your home? Well, hola Spain. Bonjour, France. Howzit, South Africa. Now you can all watch MotoAmerica. How so? Well,…
Cameron Beaubier completely turned the tables on his competition for the 2018 MotoAmerica Motul Superbike Championship in the last two rounds, the Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing rider going from 32 points behind in the points chase to 29 ahead in the span of two rounds and four races Beaubier completed his perfect weekend in the MotoAmerica Championship of Monterey on…
Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing’s Cameron Beaubier won his third race in a row today, the two-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion winning race one of the Championship of Monterey on a hot, sunny day at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Beaubier, who won the Motul MotoAmerica Superbike title in 2015 and 2016, beat early race leader Josh Herrin by 5.403 seconds with the…
Kyle Wyman Racing has announced a partnership with Cycle Gear, a national network of motorcycle gear and accessories retail stores, as title sponsor for the MotoAmerica Championship at Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca this coming weekend. Kyle Wyman will ride the #33 Cycle Gear/KWR Yamaha YZF-R1 Superbike, while Bryce Prince competes on his #74 Cycle Gear/KWR Yamaha YZF-R6 in the Supersport category. Cycle…
Two points. After four rounds and eight races in the 2018 MotoAmerica Motul Superbike Championship, just two points separate two-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier from defending series champion Toni Elias. That’s right. Two measly points. And now the battle heads to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for this weekend’s Championship of Monterey in Northern California with all the ingredients in…
The Genuine Broaster Chicken Honda team has announced that it is adding Californian Jayson Uribe to its team for the next three rounds of the Motul MotoAmerica Superbike Championship, beginning next weekend at WeatherTech Raceway of Laguna Seca. Uribe will team with Cameron Petersen on the team’s Honda CBR1000RR SP2s. Uribe comes to the team with a wealth of racing…
The following is from Yamaha… It was a near-perfect weekend at Road America for Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing’s Cameron Beaubier, who came away from Round 4 of the MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Road Racing Championship with a double-victory in the Superbike class and a two-point lead in the championship standings. Meanwhile, Monster Energy/Yamaha Extended Service/Graves/Yamaha Racing’s JD Beach notched his…
Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing’s Cameron Beaubier came into the Dunlop Championship at Road America winless, 35 points behind Yoshimura Suzuki’s Toni Elias. And desperate. He leaves Wisconsin with pole position, two Motul Superbike wins, a two-point lead in the championship and feeling pretty good about things. With his double win combined with Elias’ crash on Saturday and fourth-place finish on…
The following is from Yoshimura Suzuki… Yoshimura Suzuki Factory Racing is disappointed with MotoAmerica and FIM officials for not issuing a penalty for the last-lap incident in MotoAmerica Superbike race one Saturday at Road America. The incident resulted in a crash by series points leader Yoshimura Suzuki’s Toni Elias. The episode at Road America’s Canada Corner saw Elias committed to…
In a race that ranked among the best in series history, Cameron Beaubier beat Josh Herrin by just .002 of a second in the Dunlop Championship at Road America after a dramatic last lap that saw Motul Superbike Championship points leader Toni Elias crash out of the race with just a handful of corners to go. Those three fought for…
The following is from Kyle Wyman Racing… The KWR team heads into round four of the MotoAmerica Championship this weekend at Road America, in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Print supplier Excelsus Solutions will title sponsor KWR as Kyle Wyman continues his assault on the 2018 Superbike series. Wyman will ride the #33 Excelsus Print Solutions/KWR Yamaha YZF-R1 and sits sixth in…
