Newsflash: Jake Gagne got passed today at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in the second of two HONOS Superbike races in the MotoAmerica Superbike Speedfest at Monterey. But it only lasted two corners. Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha’s Gagne ran off the track on the run from turn five to turn six on the opening lap and the mistake allowed…
There are two things that seem to be predictable in the 2021 MotoAmerica Series: Sean Dylan Kelly and Richie Escalante will battle in every Supersport race and Tyler Scott And Ben Gloddy will do likewise in the SportbikeTrackGear.com Junior Cup. It was no different today at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Supersport: Kelly Wins Another Battle One thing that has been…
Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha’s Jake Gagne won his eighth straight MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike race today at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, but this one was different. This one was close. How close? Just a tick over a second and that was the biggest lead of the race as Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati New York’s Loris Baz finished just 1.173…
The following is from Westby Racing… Round five of the 2021 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Road Racing Championship starts this Friday at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California, and Westby Racing Yamaha YZF-R1 Superbike rider Mathew Scholtz and Yamaha YZF-R3 Junior Cup rider Jack Roach, along with the entire crew, always enjoy their annual visit to California’s Monterey Peninsula…
Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha’s Jake Gagne had a normal Jake Gagne day on Friday at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Go fast, earn provisional pole, get ready for tomorrow’s first of two HONOS Superbike races in the MotoAmerica GEICO Motorcycle Superbike Speedfest at Monterey. Gagne lapped at 1:24.371 in Qualifying 1 and that put him .338 of a second…
MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, is excited to announce that Medallia Inc., the global leader in customer and employee experience, has come on-board as an official partner for the GEICO Motorcycle Superbike Speedfest at Monterey, round five of the 2021 MotoAmerica Series at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, July 9-11. Medallia’s award-winning SaaS platform, the Medallia Experience Cloud,…
The following is the 12th in our “21 In ‘21” features that highlights one of the 21 AMA Superbike Champions each week as we move through the 2021 MotoAmerica season – the 45th year of the premier class championship. Doug Polen’s riding style was basic and old-school. He sat up tall in the saddle, elbows in, knee out. Compare it…
Last year, Richie Escalante came to the season finale at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca with the Supersport Championship already in his pocket after a dominating season that saw him win 13 races. Sean Dylan Kelly, meanwhile, came to Monterey hoping for a few victories to end a season in which he came out second-best to Escalante. By the end of…
Time for a pop quiz: Quick, which bone do motorcycle road racers fracture more frequently than any other? If you got the not-so-subtle hint from the title of this story, the equally not-so-subtle hint from the X-ray image provided to us by MotoAmerica Stock 1000 rider Jeremy Cook, you’ve suffered the injury yourself while road racing, you’re a medical physician,…
Last year the MotoAmerica paddock showed up for the 2020 season finale at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in October and it was a bit underwhelming. After all, the MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike Championship was already wrapped up and COVID-19 restrictions meant that the racing went on without fanfare as the normally packed hills and grandstands were, for the most part, empty.…
MotoAmerica, the premier motorcycle road racing series in North America, is pleased to announce that Russ Brown Motorcycle Attorneys is again an official supporting partner of the MotoAmerica GEICO Motorcycle Superbike Speedfest at Monterey, scheduled for July 9-11, at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Russ Brown Motorcycle Attorneys will have staff on hand at their trackside booth offering the Free Nationwide…
GRT Yamaha’s Garrett Gerloff matched his best-career World Superbike finish today at Donington Park, the Texan ending up second behind Pata Yamaha’s Topak Razgatlioglu in the 23-lap race two in England. Gerloff, who started fifth on the grid after finishing fifth in the morning Superpole race, was in a solid third place when six-time World Champion Jonathan Rea crashed out…
GRT Yamaha’s Garrett Gerloff had an eventful World Superbike race one today at Donington Park, the Texan crashing out of third place on the 16th of 23 laps, but remounting to finish seventh. Gerloff, who qualified fifth in the morning’s wet Superpole session, got shuffled back early in the race as the ever-changing British weather saw the race start in…
You can count on one finger the number of riders who have raced a Honda MotoGP bike and a King Of The Baggers Harley-Davidson around WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. That one rider is Ben Bostrom. Simply put, Bostrom and WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca go together like fine wine and cheese. From winning both races in the World Superbike event at…
Hot off his one-off MotoGP outing at Assen last weekend, GRT Yamaha’s Garrett Gerloff owned the day at Donington Park on Friday in England, the Texan leading the way with the fastest lap of the day set in the closing stages of FP2 despite it being his first visit to the British track. “It’s funny to say, but I get…
Fourteen-year-old Kayla Yaakov made her MotoAmerica debut last weekend at Ridge Motorsports Park in the SportbikeTrackGear.com Junior Cup class, and Colin Barton, owner of BARTCON Racing, the team Yaakov races for, sent word to us about how pleased he was with her first weekend racing with his team. “I couldn’t be prouder of this young girl who started her MotoAmerica…
Kyle Wyman Racing has announced that the team will field 2017 MotoAmerica Superbike Champion and 2010 Moto2 World Champion Toni Elias on its Panera Bread Ducati Panigale V4 R at next weekend’s MotoAmerica GEICO Motorcycle Superbike Speedfest at Monterey as a replacement rider for the injured Kyle Wyman. Elias will replace injured team owner/racer Kyle Wyman, who will be focusing…
This video is part of our “21 in ’21” series that highlights one of the 21 AMA Superbike Champions each week as we move through the 2021 MotoAmerica season – the 45th year of the premier class championship. Scott Russell will always be known as “Mr. Daytona” and for good reason. After all, he did win five of what used…
MotoAmerica, the premier motorcycle road racing series in North America, is pleased to announce that Shark Squad Motorcycle Attorneys will be the host sponsor of the V-Twin Visionary Performance Bike Show presented by Harley-Davidson and Shark Squad Motorcycle Attorney’s during the 2021 MotoAmerica GEICO Motorcycle Superbike Speedfest at Monterey, scheduled for July 9-11, at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Additionally, Shark…
The following is from Westby Racing… After finishing fifth in Saturday’s Superbike race at Ridge Motorsports Park, Westby Racing’s Mathew Scholtz improved in Sunday’s race with a fourth-place result and maintained his second-place position in the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. Starting in the middle of the second row based on his fifth-place finish in Saturday’s race, Mathew got a good jump off the line and moved…
The most positive of the wannabe challengers to Jake Gagne in the 2021 MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike Series can take a smidgen of hope to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in two weeks that the Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha rider only beat his teammate Josh Herrin by 4.4 and 5.6 seconds, respectively, in the two races at Ridge Motorsports Park.…
Chances are if you won on Saturday at Ridge Motorsports Park, you won on Sunday at Ridge Motorsports Park. As he did on Saturday in the Pacific Northwest, Corey Alexander won the Stock 1000 race to open the festivities and he set the tone for what was a scorching hot day in Shelton, Washington. Jackson Blackmon Racing Yamaha’s Jackson Blackmon…
Former Yamaha teammates and roommates Cameron Beaubier and Garrett Gerloff went to work today in the Dutch Grand Prix with both missing out on scoring World Championship points in the Moto2 and MotoGP classes, respectively, on the historic Assen Circuit. American Racing’s Beaubier was in 15th place on the final lap of the Moto2 GP but was beaten to the…
SHELTON, WA (June 26, 2021) – Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha’s Jake Gagne’s plan doesn’t change from race to race. And why would it? It’s simple, really. Qualify on pole position, get the jump on everyone off the start and put the race out of reach in the first handful of laps. Such was the case again on a…
– With temperatures soaring into the triple digits in the Pacific Northwest, nothing came easy for those trying to win races on Saturday at Ridge Motorsports Park. But win they did. In Supersport, Sean Dylan Kelly got the better of his rival, Richie Escalante to win for a fourth time on the season; Jackson Blackmon won his first-career Twins Cup…
Italtrans Racing’s Joe Roberts and American Racing’s Cameron Beaubier will start from the seventh and ninth rows, respectively, in tomorrow’s Dutch Moto2 Grand Prix after a difficult day of qualifying for the two Americans. Petronas Yamaha’s Garrett Gerloff, meanwhile, will start on the eighth row for his MotoGP debut tomorrow at the Assen circuit. Roberts’ best lap was a 1:37.041…
You have to walk before you can run and today Loris Baz started to jog as he earned provisional pole for the weekend’s two MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike races on a scorching-hot afternoon at Ridge Motorsports Park by out-qualifying Jake Gagne, a task that has proven to be virtually impossible thus far in 2021. Frenchman Baz and his Warhorse HSBK Racing…
The MotoAmericans competing in the World Championship faced mixed conditions in today’s FP1 and FP2 sessions at the Circuit van Drenthe in Assen, Holland on Friday with sessions held on both a wet and dry racetrack. In Moto2, Italtrans Racing’s Joe Roberts ended the day ninth fastest overall with his 1:37.622 coming on a dry racetrack in FP1. Roberts led…
MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, is pleased to announce that Ducati North America has come on board as an official series partner as well as an official manufacturer of the GEICO Motorcycle Superbike Speedfest at Monterey – round five of the 2021 MotoAmerica Series, July 9-11, at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. For the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca…
The following is the ninth in our “21 in ’21” features that highlights one of the 21 AMA Superbike Champions each week as we move through the 2021 MotoAmerica season – the 45th year of the premier class championship. With all due respect to every motorcycle racer in the world, Thomas Stevens always seemed too smart to be a motorcycle…
