UPDATE: Technical issues continued to vex the Ducati Richmond/KWR Ducati Team on Friday at the Ridge Motorsports Park. Kyle Wyman was unable to complete a lap in either of the two HONOS Superbike Qualifying Practice sessions. He has one more chance tomorrow morning to make the grid for Saturday’s and Sunday’s two races. Per MotoAmerica rules, Wyman must participate in…
Part-time MotoAmerica Superbike rider Jayson Uribe was a late addition to the HONOS Superbike entry list for round five of the MotoAmerica Championship. Uribe and his Rock & Sons team are participating in today’s Official Dunlop MotoAmerica test at the Ridge Motorsports Park, and Uribe will be aboard his red, white, and blue #36 Honda CBR1000RR for this weekend’s Komatsu…
It’s been “a few years” since AMA Superbikes turned their wheels in anger in America’s Pacific Northwest, but exactly how long has it been, you might ask. To be precise, it was a 35-year hiatus. Almost exactly three-and-half decades ago was the last time there was an AMA Superbike race in Washington State, and it was held on August 17,…
With Ducati Corse test rider Lorenzo Zanetti set to compete aboard a Celtic HSBK Racing Ducati in HONOS Superbike next weekend at the Ridge Motorsports Park, we are struck by a strong feeling of déjà vu, especially as it relates to Celtic HSBK team advisor Eraldo Ferracci. In 1996, midway through the AMA Superbike season, the Fast by Ferracci team…
Celtic HSBK Racing has signed former World Superbike rider and current Ducati Corse test rider Lorenzo Zanetti to compete aboard the team’s number 87 Ducati Panigale V4 R in HONOS Superbike at the Ridge Motorsports Park on August 28-30 for round five of the 2020 MotoAmerica Championship. Zanetti will replace team rider PJ Jacobsen, who is still recovering from the…
Just before the trackside light goes green to signal to the riders poised on the grid that the race is starting, it is a tense moment where nothing moves. The riders’ right hands are holding the throttle at the proper revs (and some are also simultaneously applying the front brake), while their left hands are feathering the clutch just enough…
Colin Barton was an even busier man than usual at last weekend’s round four of the MotoAmerica Championship at PittRace. The team owner of BARTCON Racing, which fields riders Dominic Doyle in Liqui Moly Junior Cup and Cooper McDonald in Twins Cup, hosted four Wounded Warriors on his team, while also making a couple of very generous philanthropic contributions, as…
When the right clip-on came loose on Josh Herrin’s Scheibe Racing BMW S 1000 RR Superbike on the final lap of Saturday’s HONOS Superbike race one at Pittsburgh International Race Complex, a lot of fans were surprised by what transpired and wondered how something like that could ever happen on a racebike. We checked into it and discovered that the…
HONOS Superbike rider Josh Herrin is coming to terms with his Scheibe Racing BMW S 1000 RR, and the fan favorite has been having a good weekend at Pittsburgh International Race Complex. He qualified sixth in Saturday morning’s Superpole and, in race one, Herrin was ahead of M4 ECSTAR Suzuki rider and former class champion Toni Elias and looking for…
Stock 1000 rider PJ Jacobsen, who is unable to ride at round four of the MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Championship due to injuries he sustained in an on-track incident that occurred at Road America 2, arrived at PittRace on Saturday at around 1 p.m. We caught up with Jacobsen, who was in his Celtic HSBK Racing team’s pit box after HONOS…
You may have been wondering what the issue was that vexed HONOS Superbike rider Josh Herrin on the starting grid of Saturday’s race one at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. On Thursday during Move-In Day for the Superbikes at Pittsburgh event at Pittsburgh International Race Complex, we talked with Herrin’s team owner Steve Scheibe, who told us that the #2 Scheibe…
Defending Liqui Moly Junior Cup Champion Rocco Landers will compete in the opening round of the Red Bull Rookies Cup in the Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg the weekend after this weekend’s MotoAmerica round at Pitt Race. Landers missed the opening test of the Rookies Cup at the Red Bull Ring, August 3-4, but will…
Friday Update: Alex Dumas’ M4 ECSTAR Suzuki team has decided that he will not race in Superbike Cup this weekend at PittRace so that he can continue to concentrate on the Stock 1000 Championship. Look for Dumas on the starting grid in both of this weekend’s Stock 1000 races. The Superbike Cup is proving to be a popular option for…
Roger Hayden retired from MotoAmerica Superbike racing after the 2018 season, but the youngest Hayden brother is still very much involved in the Series now as a color commentator for Live+. Sean Bice and Paul Carruthers talked with him recently, and here’s how the conversation went: Sean: I almost wanted to call you an elder statesman of our sport, but…
The following is from Bays Racing… This weekend, Twins Cup rider Chris Bays will return to MotoAmerica competition aboard a Suzuki SV650 as the series heads to Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. Bays is no stranger to the Twins Cup Championship. He finished on the podium in his MotoAmerica debut at Pittsburgh International Race Complex in 2018. In 2019, Bays contested…
One of the absolute joys of the MotoAmerica Series is welcoming new riders into the fold. That phenomenon happens in at least one of the five MotoAmerica race classes at almost every round. In the Liqui Moly Junior Cup class, new riders often join MotoAmerica right after they become 14 years old, which is the minimum age requirement to race…
Former AMA Superbike and World Superbike competitor Geoff May, who raced in MotoAmerica’s Stock 1000 class last year aboard the number 99 Ameris Bank Kawasaki ZX-10R and won Saturday’s race one at Road America, will make his 2020 MotoAmerica debut at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta on July 31 through August 2. May will race the number 54 Disrupt Racing CCFOfficeSolutions.com…
Before the 2020 MotoAmerica Superbike season began, a lot of people—including riders, team personnel, MotoAmerica staff members, and informed fans—felt that the “playing field” had the potential to be its most level in a very long time. With Yamaha and Suzuki re-structuring their factory teams into factory-supported teams with new companies and personnel taking the helm in the form of…
Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Burleson is a second-generation road racer from Arkansas. A product of the CMRA (Central Motorcycle Roadracing Association), Burleson started racing in MotoAmerica last year, and just barely missed out on a top-10 finish in the 2019 Liqui Moly Junior Cup Championship by a single point. He is the subject of this edition of “The Friday 5”: 1. Your…
During the five-and-a-half-year history of MotoAmerica, the phrase “they’re going faster” has been uttered many times, at most of the tracks, and in all five of the Series’ race classes. Just two rounds into the 2020 season, four-time and defending HONOS Superbike champion Cameron Beaubier broke and re-broke the outright lap record at Road America virtually every time he was…
The following is from Westby Racing… Round two of the 2020 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Road Racing Championship starts this Friday at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, and riders Mathew Scholtz and Cody Wyman, along with the entire Westby Racing team, are excited about this rare opportunity to return to the iconic, 4.05-mile, 14-turn natural road course for the…
Bring us your KZ’s and GPz’s, your GS’s and CB-F’s, your TZ’s, and even your Brittens yearning to be revved. Round one of the MotoAmerica Heritage Cup is coming to Road America for round two of the MotoAmerica season and, like a canoe-sized banana split with everything, the Heritage Cup is like the cherry on top of an already tasty…
In motorcycle road racing, it is an absolute certainty that riders are going to occasionally fall down. Crashing is as much a part of motorcycle road racing as qualifying, obeying the safety flags, winning, etc. And, like all the other aspects of motorcycle road racing, there are right ways and wrong ways to crash a motorcycle. Riders must learn proper…
The following is from Celtic HSBK Racing… Celtic HSBK Racing had a nearly perfect weekend at round one of the 2020 MotoAmerica Championship at Road America, beginning with a solid performance from the team’s Liqui Moly Junior Cup entrant Sam Lochoff, who scored a third and fifth in his respective races. Returning to the U.S., Brandon Paasch rode to an…
The following is from Robem Engineering… Jackson Blackmon, Toby Khamsouk, and Carl Price successfully debuted their Robem Engineering MotoAmerica-spec Suzuki SV650’s last weekend at the opening round of the 2020 MotoAmerica Twins Cup Championship as the series kicked off at scenic Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. The pace was fast all weekend, as expected, and Blackmon’s charge to second…
The following is from Westby Racing… After postponements and cancellations brought about by COVID-19 and despite a first round of the season that will have no spectators, Westby Racing is filled with joy and optimism as they travel to Road America for the start of the 2020 MotoAmerica Championship this weekend at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. The team,…
The following is from Celtic HSBK Racing… Celtic HSBK Racing has announced that they will be fielding a third rider in the 2020 MotoAmerica Championship. The team had the fastest Yamaha YZF-R6 in last year’s Supersport Championship, finishing second in season points. With unfinished business in the Supersport class, the team looks to bring home the Championship with Brandon Paasch.…
APEX Motorsport Agency and American Racing Academy are excited to announce the signing of American road racer Rocco Landers to a rider management contract. Landers is scheduled to participate in selected races aboard his Landers Racing Kawasaki as part of the 2020 MotoAmerica Liqui Moly Junior Cup Championship. He will also compete in the MotoAmerica Twins Cup Championship on a…
For Los Angeles-based real estate developer Eitan Butbul, “American Racing” is not just the name of the Moto2 racing team that he owns and manages, it is an entire philosophy. Butbul’s passion project and mission are the same as MotoAmerica’s: to develop U.S. motorcycle road racers into World Champions. We talked with Butbul and learned about him, his U.S. patriotism,…
The following is from Robem Engineering… Twins Cup racers Jackson Blackmon and Toby Khamsouk successfully tested their Robem Engineering MotoAmerica-spec Suzuki SV650’s with WERA last weekend at Roebling Road Raceway in advance of the MotoAmerica season getting underway at Road America next weekend. Blackmon and Khamsouk each ran a hot pace all weekend long, matching the south Georgia weather, as…
