All four of the MotoAmerica support classes feature close battles in the chase for class championships as the series brings the fight to the Pacific Northwest and Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton, Washington, with first and second in those four separated by a total of just 43 points. The closest championship fight in the 2021 MotoAmerica Series as we get…
Last year marked the debut of MotoAmerica in the Pacific Northwest with the first-ever HONOS Superbike race at Ridge Motorsports Park and Cameron Beaubier left Washington State with two more wins as he approached the middle of a 10-race win streak that ultimately led him to a fifth MotoAmerica Superbike title. Although that was then and this is now, you’d…
The following is from Yamaha… GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team’s Garrett Gerloff will make his MotoGP race debut this weekend at TT Circuit Assen, riding for PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team at the Dutch TT in place of the injured Franco Morbidelli. With Morbidelli sustaining a knee injury during training on Tuesday, Gerloff was called up to race at the Dutch…
In driving distance, Bellingham, Washington, is about 170 miles from Shelton, Washington, where Ridge Motorsports Park is located. As the crow flies, the distance is substantially shorter than that because, by car, to get from Bellingham to Shelton, you drive south, curl west around the southern tip of Puget Sound, and head a little bit north. The reason I mention…
GRT Yamaha WorldSBK’s Garrett Gerloff came within .048 of a second of recording the fastest lap time on day two of the two-day World Superbike test at the Navarra circuit in Spain. Gerloff, who led day one, finished just behind Pata Yamaha’s Toprak Razgatlioglu with the Turk lapping at a best of 1:36.877 to Gerloff’s 1:36.925. Razgatlioglu did 190 laps…
The men of the World Superbike Series visited the Circuit de Navarra in Spain for the first time today, and MotoAmerican Garrett Gerloff led the way with the fastest time in the afternoon session. Navarra, which is located near Los Arcos in northern Spain, will play host to the seventh round of the World Superbike Championship for the first time,…
The following is from Panera Bread/KWR Ducati… The Panera Bread/KWR Ducati Superbike team has withdrawn from this weekend’s MotoAmerica Superbike event at Ridge Motorsports Park. After the crash and subsequent injury of rider and team owner Kyle Wyman, the team will forgo participation in round four of the championship to focus on the following round at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.…
American Racing’s Cameron Beaubier came through from 25th on the grid to finish 10th in today’s German Moto2 Grand Prix, the Californian earning six championship points for his efforts at the Sachsenring. While it was a good day for Beaubier, it was a difficult one for fellow MotoAmerican Joe Roberts with the Italtrans Racing rider crashing out of the battle…
In advance of next month’s MotoAmerica round at Brainerd International Raceway (BIR) in Minnesota, Calishine Racing’s Aden Thao participated in this weekend’s Central Roadracing Association (CRA) event at BIR. For 17-year-old Thao, it was his first time at the Minnesota racetrack, and to say he likes it would be an understatement. Thao competed in the CRA’s Ultralight Cup Expert class…
MotoAmericans Joe Roberts and Cameron Beaubier both slotted themselves into the top 25 on the opening day of Moto2 practice for the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring with Roberts 16th and Beaubier 22nd after the first two sessions on Friday. Both Roberts’ and Beaubier’s best laps came in FP2 on Friday afternoon. Italtrans Racing’s Roberts’ best lap was a…
Imagine riding your motorcycle through some of the most picturesque areas of California’s Central Coast on a Friday in July, ending up at the iconic WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, having your day culminate with a Q&A session with three-time World Champion and MotoAmerica President Wayne Rainey, four-time World Champion Eddie Lawson and other surprise guests before enjoying nonstop racing action…
The following is the eighth in our 21 in ’21 features that highlight 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. Much like the Bubba Shobert, who preceded him two years earlier in the list of AMA Superbike Champions, Doug Chandler was…
The following is from Jeremy Cook Racing… Jeremy Cook had a weekend to forget at Road America, but – despite a broken collarbone and heavily damaged motorcycle – he is raring to be back on his BMW S 1000 RR at MotoAmerica’s next event. The Marylander struggled during his second time racing at Road America in five years to get the…
Editor’s Note: the following story was researched and written by Matt LeVene, who is a student at Concordia University in Wisconsin and is majoring in Sport and Entertainment Business. Matt is working this summer as an intern for Road America Communications Director John Ewert. Tony and Janet Blackall are relatively new to MotoAmerica. In only their second full Supersport season,…
Road America has always been a popular venue with the MotoAmerica regulars. It’s fast, it’s four-miles long, it has good flow… well, it’s a riders’ racetrack and, as is the case with fast racetracks all over the world, it offers up close racing. One Road America first-timer has ridden at racetracks all over the globe, from Phillip Island to Mugello…
The following is from Suzuki… Suzuki Motor USA, LLC and Team Hammer reeled in another bountiful trophy harvest as the 2021 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Road Racing Championship wrapped up its doubleheader weekend at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. The weekend performance of M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Cameron Petersen headlined the combined four-podium showing for Team Hammer. In addition, Altus Motorsports…
Kyle Wyman was under a tad bit of pressure to give Harley-Davidson its first Mission King Of The Baggers victory at its home race at Road America and he came through in a big way on a sunny Sunday in Wisconsin. Wyman not only gave Harley the victory it wanted, but the Motor Company swept the podium with new recruit…
Cameron who? Okay, it’s a bit early to say that Jake Gagne is reminding us an awful lot of Cameron Beaubier, but let’s go ahead and say it: Jake Gagne is reminding us an awful lot of Cameron Beaubier. Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha’s Gagne won his fifth consecutive HONOS Superbike race today at Road America, the Californian sweeping…
GRT Yamaha WorldSBK’s Garrett Gerloff ended his weekend at the Misano Circuit in Italy with a fighting fifth-place finish in race two, the Texan coming from eighth on the grid after finishing eighth in the morning Superpole race. Superbike race two was won by Pata Yamaha with BRIXX’s Topak Razgatlioglu, the Turk passing Aruba.it Racing Ducati’s Michael Ruben Rinaldi mid-race…
As the first of two Supersport races was reaching its crescendo, the math was being done. If Sean Dylan Kelly beat Richie Escalante, his championship points lead would grow to 22 points. If Escalante won the race that was going back and forth between the two with more passes than you could keep track of, Kelly’s lead would be cut…
Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha’s Jake Gagne continued his domination of the 2021 MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike class, the Californian winning a fourth straight race while also taking over the lead in the championship on a hot and sunny day at Road America. In a carbon copy of his three other victories, Gagne led from pole position and was never…
GRT Yamaha WorldSBK’s Garrett Gerloff served his penalty for taking out Michael Ruben Rinaldi in the last round of the World Superbike Championship in Estoril by starting on pit road for race one at Misano and he made the most of it, finishing 12th after a hard ride through the field. Gerloff completed the first lap in 21st place, moved…
Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha’s Jake Gagne has been on pole position for the first two rounds of the 2021 MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike season. Based on his performance today in Q1, it would be hard to bet against him doing that again this weekend in round three at Road America. Gagne best lap, a 2:11.426, came on his eighth…
GRT Yamaha’s Garrett Gerloff ended the opening day of World Superbike practice with the fifth-fastest time at the Misano Circuit in Italy, the Texan just .589 of a second from the top of the timesheets. Gerloff’s best lap came in FP1, his 1:34.923 putting him third at the end of the first session. Gerloff, however, didn’t improve in the second…
The following is from Harley-Davidson… The Harley-Davidson® Screamin’ Eagle® factory racing team will field multi-talented racer Travis Wyman as a second entry in its MotoAmerica King of the Baggers road racing series. Travis Wyman will race a factory-prepared Harley-Davidson Road Glide® Special powered by a modified Screamin’ Eagle® Milwaukee-Eight 131 Performance Crate Engine. He joins his brother, Kyle Wyman, on…
The four miles of Road America racetrack will definitely not be lonely this weekend as the 2021 MotoAmerica Series brings its high-speed show to Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, for round three of the nine-round championship, with a record-breaking 214 entries set to battle in America’s Dairyland. In addition to being round three of the 2021 MotoAmerica Series for HONOS Superbike, Supersport,…
The following is the seventh in our 21 in ’21 features that highlight 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. Jamie James was the epitome of a slow-talking, fast-riding motorcycle racer and one of the most popular riders in the AMA…
MotoAmerica has held 14 Superbike races at Road America since it took over the AMA Superbike Series in 2015. The average margin of victory from those 14 races is just 2.49 seconds, and that includes Cameron Beaubier’s three runaway wins last year of 7.8, 14.4 and 6.32 seconds. Plain and simple: those three races were anomalies. So, if we throw…
In 1990, the AMA capitalized on the popularity of the Harley-Davidson Sportster 883 when they launched the Harley-Davidson Twin Sports Series. It was a spec racing class made up of equally prepared 883cc air-cooled V-twin Harleys, and while it was initially scoffed at by road racing purists, fans loved the class, and it helped launch the road racing careers of…
MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, is thrilled to announce that the opening round of the Roland Sands Design 2021 Super Hooligan National Championship (SHNC) will be run in conjunction with round five of the 2021 MotoAmerica Championship in the GEICO Motorcycle MotoAmerica Superbike Speedfest at Monterey at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, July 9-11. The Super Hooligan National…
