One current and one former MotoAmerica racer both finished in the top 10 of the two World Superbike races held today at the Jerez Circuit in Spain with Loris Baz ending up sixth and ninth and Garrett Gerloff racing to a pair of 10ths on the day. Baz, who finished fourth in the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship on his Warhorse…
Paul Carruthers and Sean Bice go it alone in this week’s episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice as they wrap up the recently concluded 2021 MotoAmerica Series with a look back at each of the classes and the thrilling (and very wet) season finale at Barber Motorsports Park.
The following is from Daytona International Speedway… Daytona International Speedway today announced that tickets for the tradition-rich 81st annual Bike Week At DAYTONA (March 4-12), featuring DAYTONA Supercross and the DAYTONA 200, are on sale now. The 52nd running of DAYTONA Supercross, the most demanding course of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship season – and the only AMA Supercross event…
I first saw them when I was heading up to the media center on the third floor. They were waiting to get on the elevator next to the spiral staircase that I was about to ascend. Call it intuition or an opportunity to repeat a classic line of dialogue from one of the old “westerns” that I covet, but I…
The following is from Altus Motorsports… The unrelenting rain at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama, could not dampen the spirits of the Altus Motorsports team. For the second year in a row, the Altus team won the MotoAmerica Stock 1000 & Superbike Cup Championships. Honos Superbike & Stock 1000: After clinching the Stock 1000 Championship last round, Jake Lewis…
The following is from Westby Racing… On the final day of the 2021 MotoAmerica Championship, Mathew Scholtz and the Westby Racing team put a crescendo on their season with a Superbike victory in race two on Sunday morning at rainy Barber Motorsports Park, followed by a runner-up finish in race three on Sunday afternoon. The win and the second-place finish…
The 2021 MotoAmerica Series came to a close on a rainy day at the Barber Motorsports Park with a surprise victor in the final Supersport race of the season – Gabriel Da Silva. Da Silva went head-to-head with newly crowned Supersport Champion Sean Dylan Kelly and came out on top with Kelly crashing out of their battle on the final…
BIRMINGHAM, AL (September 19, 2021) – Despite a weekend at Barber Motorsports Park that featured horrendous weather and difficult racing conditions, the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Series ended as it should have with Jake Gagne winning a record 17th race to put an exclamation point on a season like no other. Gagne, who earlier in the season set a record with…
One of the most dramatic races in AMA Superbike history took place in a rainstorm at Barber Motorsports Park on Saturday and it’s one that won’t soon be forgotten, especially if your name is Cameron Petersen. Or Mathew Scholtz. Or Loris Baz. M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Petersen earned his first-career MotoAmerica Superbike win after surviving a crash in the downpour. Westby…
Newly crowned MotoAmerica Supersport Champion Sean Dylan Kelly will join the American Racing team for the 2022 and 2023 Moto2 World Championship, joining five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier in the two-rider team, after signing a two-year contract with the Eitan Butul-owned team. Kelly, who won the Supersport title on an M4 ECSTAR Suzuki, will become the first member of…
Believe it or not, Jake Gagne made a mistake in Friday’s Q1 session at Barber Motorsports Park, the Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha rider crashing out of the session and allowing someone else a shot at the top. When all was said and done, it was M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Cameron Petersen taking full advantage of Gagne’s miscue to snag…
The following is from Bradley Ward Racing… Following his crash at NJMP, Bradley Ward updates us on his condition: “Round eight of MotoAmerica at New Jersey Motorsports Park was an unlucky weekend for us and such a shame after having a good pace over the last three rounds in my return to racing after last year’s accident. I had a…
MotoAmerica, the home of the premier motorcycle road racing series in North America, has announced that the 2022 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship schedule, which will feature 10 rounds and 20 races on the premier racetracks in the U.S., including a return to the world-renowned Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas. The 2022 season will open with a bang, with MotoAmerica’s…
We’ve reached the ninth and final round of the 2021 season, and there a few riders aboard different motorcycles this weekend, so we thought we’d give you a rundown: Stefano Mesa, Robem Engineering/MESA37 Racing Aprilia RSV4 1100 Along with competing aboard his MESA37 Racing Kawasaki in Supersport this weekend, Mesa has put together a one-off deal to test an Aprilia…
The following is the 21st and final of our “21 In ‘21” series that highlighted one of the 21 AMA Superbike Champions as we moved through the 2021 MotoAmerica season – the 45th year of the premier class championship. To a man, the riders in the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship will tell you that Toni Elias raised the level of racing…
With the MotoAmerica Superbike, Supersport, Stock 1000 and Twins Cup Championships all decided last week in New Jersey, all eyes will be on the SportbikeTrackGear.com Junior Cup Championship this weekend at Barber Motorsports Park as it will be the last class to crown a champion. Scott Powersports KTM’s Tyler Scott arrives in Alabama with a 30-point lead over Landers Racing’s…
The following is from Pure Attitude Racing… Pure Attitude Racing is delighted to announce that Kiwi Liam MacDonald will remain with the squad for the 2022 MotoAmerica season. For MacDonald it will the first time in his short but successful racing career that he will remain with the same team and it’s something that both he and Pure Attitude Racing…
MotoAmerica, home of AMA Superbike and North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, is thrilled to announce that it will partner with Daytona International Speedway to host one of the world’s most prestigious races – the DAYTONA 200 – during the weekend of March 10-12, 2022, in Daytona Beach, Florida. The 2022 DAYTONA 200, set for the green flag on…
The curtain will officially come down on the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship this weekend, September 17-19, at Barber Motorsports Park, but not before the series attempts to answer a burning question for the final time: Can anyone beat Jake Gagne? So far in 2021, the answer to that has been a resounding no. After suffering an engine failure in race…
The following is from Yamaha… Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha Racing’s Jake Gagne continues to raise the bar in the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship, securing his first title in the premier class at the penultimate round at New Jersey Motorsports Park. After sealing the deal earlier today in Race 2 of the tripleheader, the newly crowned champ pulled off an…
After the disappointment of having to withdraw from the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship, Jason Aguilar is delighted to announce that thanks to Superbike Unlimited Racing he will be back on track at the season finale at Barber Motorsport Park this coming weekend. Aguilar, a multiple podium finisher in Supersport last season and the former Stock 600 Champ, has been on…
Sean Dylan Kelly has been chasing a championship since he was five years old. On Sunday at New Jersey Motorsports Park, Kelly got what he’s been chasing with the 19-year-old wrapping up the 2021 MotoAmerica Supersport Championship. Kelly didn’t win Sunday’s race, but he didn’t need to. Instead, victory went to his rookie M4 ECSTAR Suzuki. teammate Sam Lochoff with…
Jake Gagne wrapped up the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship on a record-setting, two-race Sunday at New Jersey Motorsports Park, the Californian winning his 16th race of the season to match the record held jointly by Josh Hayes and Cameron Beaubier for Superbike wins in a single season while also tying three-time 500cc World Champion Wayne Rainey’s mark for career victories.…
The following is from Yamaha… Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha Racing’s Jake Gagne scored another dominant victory in today’s race one of the MotoAmerica Superbike tripleheader at the New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville, New Jersey. His impressive 14th-straight win moves him closer to his first title in the premier class. Toni Elias joined him on the podium in…
Both Americans finished in the points today in the Motoi2 Grand Prix of Aragon with Italtrans Racing’s Joe Roberts and American Racing’s Cameron Beaubier battling to the end to finish 13th and 14th, respectively, on Sunday in Spain. At the end of the Grand Prix, it was Roberts taking the top American spot as he beat Beaubier to the finish…
Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis wrapped up the 2021 MotoAmerica Stock 1000 title with a relatively stress-free victory while Robem Engineering’s Kaleb De Keyrel finished second later on a sunny Saturday to earn the 2021 MotoAmerica Twins Cup Championship at New Jersey Motorsports Park. M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly, meanwhile, took a giant step toward capturing the 2021 Supersport title…
If Jake Gagne manages to get out of bed tomorrow and make it to the grid for the first of two HONOS Superbike races at New Jersey Motorsports Park, he will be crowned as the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Champion. Nuff said. In HONOS Superbike race one on Saturday afternoon, Gagne and his Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha again made…
Italtrans Racing’s Joe Roberts and American Racing’s Cameron Beaubier will line up oine row apart in tomorrow’s Moto2 Grand Prix at Motorland Aragon after the pair took different paths to the 18th and 19th spots on the grid. Roberts was able to make the cut from Q1 to Q2 by posting the second fastest time, a 1:52.400, in Q1, but…
As he has done all season long, Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha’s Jake Gagne led the opening day of qualifying for this weekend’s MotoAmerica round at New Jersey Motorsports Park, the Californian besting the rest of the HONOS Superbike field in Q1 on Friday. Gagne lapped the 2.25-mile NJMP in 1:20.910 to top M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Cameron Petersen by…
The following is the 20th of our “21 In ‘21” series that highlights one of the 21 AMA Superbike Champions as we move through the 2021 MotoAmerica season – the 45th year of the premier class championship. As far as racers go, it’s fair to say that Cameron Beaubier is the face of the MotoAmerica Series. After all, his five…
