There’s an old racing adage that goes something like this… “if you ain’t crashin,’ you ain’t tryin’.” So, without further ado, it’s time for our MotoAmerica season crash review for the recently completed 2020 season. Okay, let’s get this out of the way early: if you’re on this list, don’t get your feelings hurt. One hundred and 27 of your…
Italian Lorenzo Zanetti has raced all over the world, as evidenced by the fact that he’s been in this racing business long enough to have competed in two 125cc World Championship rounds at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the site of round eight of the 2020 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship this past weekend. So, how does the Italian feel the competition stacks up…
Three things of note jump out after a three-HONOS Superbike race weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway: for starters, Italian Lorenzo Zanetti ended a winless drought for Ducati in AMA Superbike racing that dated back to 2010. Then there was Bobby Fong’s arrival as a bonafide MotoAmerica Superbike star with a weekend that saw him win two races and finish second…
The following is from Westby Racing… After a very solid Friday of practice and qualifying at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Westby Racing’s Mathew Scholtz was injured in a crash during Saturday’s Superbike race one, while Mathew’s teammate Cody Wyman nearly had a podium finish in Junior Cup race one to conclude what was a tumultuous day for the team. Mathew was…
M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Bobby Fong wasn’t surprised when Lorenzo Zanetti and his Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati New York Panigale V4 R Superbike shot past him and took the lead in the first HONOS Superbike race yesterday at The Brickyard. Although the lead was short-lived when Zanetti missed a shift and ran off track, giving the lead back to Fong, yesterday’s…
If you wanted some drama in the MotoAmerica Superbike Series, your wish was granted in the first of three HONOS Superbike races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Bobby Fong emerging from the melee at The Brickyard with his second-career AMA Superbike victory. In circumstances eerily similar to his first win of the year and first of his…
Cautiously optimistic is the best way to describe Toni Elias’ mindset after the Spaniard earned pole position for this weekend’s three HONOS Superbike races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It was the first pole position of the 2020 MotoAmerica season for the M4 ECSTAR Suzuki rider. Elias knew that luck was on his side with runaway championship points leader Cameron Beaubier…
The following is from KWR… Kyle Wyman came home with two top-ten finishes this past weekend at Barber Motorsports Park in a trying weekend, posting 7th and 10th places in races one and two, respectively. The KATO Fastening/KWR Ducati Team maintained 6th in series standings with points scoring finishes in both Superbike races. The weekend started off strong with the…
The following is from Westby Racing… On Saturday at New Jersey Motorsports Park, both of Westby Racing’s riders competed in their respective race classes, and the team came away with a second-place result for Mathew Scholtz in Superbike and a top-ten finish for Cody Wyman in Junior Cup. After only a one-race hiatus from the podium, Mathew started from the…
Iffy conditions ruled the day on a damp Friday at New Jersey Motorsports Park with Monster Energy Attack Performance Yamaha’s Cameron Beaubier tip-toeing through the puddles better than the rest to lead the first day of practice and qualifying in the HONOS Superbike class. Beaubier lapped at 1:23.802 in qualifying practice two to lead M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Bobby Fong by a…
M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Bobby Fong is hopeful that his injured left hand/wrist will benefit from the 11 days off the motorcycle after the Californian turned in two strong performances at the Ridge Motorsports Park this past weekend. “Hopefully, it will be better,” Fong said on Sunday in Washington. “I’m just going to baby this thing. I’ve been doing a lot…
To say that Cameron Beaubier is on a roll would be a gross understatement. The Monster Energy Attack Performance Yamaha won his ninth HONOS Superbike race of the season, his sixth in a row and the 47th of his career today at the Komatsu MotoAmerica Superbikes At The Ridge. In easily winning today’s 17-lap final, Beaubier eclipsed his season best…
Despite a multi-rider crash in the new chicane on the opening lap of the HONOS Superbike race at the Ridge Motorsports Park on Saturday, four-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion and Saturday’s race winner Cameron Beaubier and third-place finisher Bobby Fong weren’t reversing their opinion of the riders’ suggestion to MotoAmerica that the chicane be used on the opening lap. “I do,”…
This weekend the 2020 MotoAmerica Series rolls into the Ridge Motorsports Park for the first time for round five of the championship. Here are some pre-event notes on the eve of tomorrow’s official MotoAmerica Dunlop test day at the facility in Shelton, Washington… Toni Elias, the 2010 Moto2 World Champion and 2017 MotoAmerica Superbike Champion, is on the worst run…
M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Bobby Fong says he will be back in action at the Ridge Motorsports Park for round five of the 2020 MotoAmerica Series, despite a big crash in race one at PittRace on Saturday that left him with a battered and bruised left hand and wrist. “A lot of people were saying it was my thumb, but it…
With a new track comes new hope for those trying to stop the Cameron Beaubier runaway freight train that is the 2020 MotoAmerica Superbike Series with Pittsburgh International Race Complex set to host round four of the championship this coming weekend, August 7-9. Six HONOS Superbike races have been held thus far in 2020 and Beaubier and his Monster Energy…
The following is from KWR Ducati… Kyle Wyman (OneCure/KWR Ducati Team) salvaged 10 vital championship points in race two after a tough weekend at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta for the third round of the 2020 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. In a weekend that saw heavy rains play havoc with the race program on Friday and a crash in Superpole on Saturday,…
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…
With the two-day MotoAmerica test session at the Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton, Washington, concluding today, the overall consensus from the riders taking part is that the newest addition to the MotoAmerica calendar is going to be a great place to race when the series heads there, August 28-30. After two days of testing on the 16-turn, 2.47-mile racetrack, it…
The following is from Roswell Bicycles… GoPivot is proud to announce that it has taken on the primary sponsorship role of the Next Moto Champion presented by Roswell Bicycles Cycling team. The team was formed in 2013 and is comprised of top professional and former professional racers. The 2020 team includes former World Superbike Champ Scott Russell; FIM Superbike World…
Bobby Fong has won 16 MotoAmerica races across three classes but none were bigger than his first career HONOS Superbike victory a few weeks ago at Road America. In taking victory on his M4 ECSTAR Suzuki, Fong became the 59th rider to win an AMA Superbike race and he did so in what was MotoAmerica’s 100th Superbike race. We caught…
The following is from Suzuki… Suzuki Motor of America, Inc. and M4 ECSTAR Suzuki returned to Road America for Round 2 of the 2020 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Road Racing season where they scored four podium finishes, capped off in spectacular fashion by Bobby Fong’s maiden MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike class victory. In addition, Altus Motorsports’ Cameron Petersen and Roadracing World Young Guns…
M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Bobby Fong won the first HONOS Superbike race of his career today, the Californian taking full advantage of Cameron Beaubier’s only miscue of the young season to become the 59th rider in history to win an AMA Superbike National. Fong was in second, a few seconds adrift of Beaubier, when the previously unbeaten Beaubier hit a bump…
The following is from Westby Racing… On Saturday at Road America, MotoAmerica’s first race day of the 2020 season with spectators, Westby Racing’s Superbike rider Mathew Scholtz finished fifth and, in Junior Cup, Cody Wyman was seventh. The results weren’t what either rider had hoped for, but Mathew, Cody, and the team gained valuable information that should help them improve…
Going into the 2020 MotoAmerica season, most of the talk centered around the two biggest teams in the paddock changing hands. The Yoshimura Suzuki team switched to the Team Hammer-run M4 ECSTAR Suzuki team and the in-house factory Yamaha team moved to Attack Performance, retaining its Monster Energy sponsorship. So far, all that talk has amounted to much ado about…
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…
Monster Energy Attack Performance Yamaha’s Cameron Beaubier started the 2020 MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike Series in the best possible way at Road America, the defending four-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion leading both sessions by a comfortable margin and smashing the outright lap record on Friday afternoon. Beaubier started strongly in the morning session with his 2:12.151 putting him 1.3 seconds clear of…
M4 ECSTAR Suzuki is excited to finally kick-off the delayed 2020 MotoAmerica Season next weekend at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Toni Elias will spearhead Suzuki’s new premier Superbike team alongside teammate and 2019 MotoAmerica Supersport Champion Bobby Fong aboard their Suzuki GSX-R1000s. Suzuki GSX-R600 riders Sean Dylan Kelly and Lucas Silva will contest the Supersport class while 2019 MotoAmerica Twins…
MotoAmerica Supersport Champion Bobby Fong joins Paul Carruthers and Sean Bice for this week’s Off Track Podcast and our chat is hot on the heels of news that Fong has inked a deal to race an M4 ECSTAR Suzuki in the 2020 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. That’s right, Superbike. With plenty to talk about, Fong fills us in on life as…
The following is from Suzuki… Suzuki Motor of America, Inc. (SMAI) is proud to confirm ECSTAR Genuine Oil & Chemical as co-title sponsor for its premier road race team for 2020. Team Hammer, Inc. won the 2019 MotoAmerica Supersport Championship as M4 ECSTAR Suzuki and is adding Suzuki’s Superbike program to its Supersport, Stock 1000, and Twins Cup responsibilities in 2020.…
