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.…
In the currently running movie Ford v Ferrari, which stars academy award winners Matt Damon as the legendary Carroll Shelby and Christian Bale as race car driver Ken Miles, there is a subplot where Miles contemplates, and discusses, “the perfect lap.” It’s a somewhat quixotic concept that resonates with racers of virtually every discipline. So, for this week’s edition of…
MotoAmerica honored its five 2019 MotoAmerica Champions and those who pushed them the hardest on Monday night, September 23, at a gala event in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, a day after the battles had been won and lost at Barber Motorsports Park. The list of champions from 2019 is impressive: Twins Cup Champion Alex Dumas, Stock 1000 Champion Andrew Lee, Liqui…
The following is from Yoshimura Suzuki… The 2019 MotoAmerica Superbike season finale will go down as one of supreme disappointment for Yoshimura Suzuki Factory Racing. Toni Elias, who led the standings nearly the entire season, and had a 16-point advantage coming into the event, suffered a challenging weekend, chasing bike setup all along the way. He managed a podium on…
The following is the explanation for the decision to declare Bobby Fong the winner of Sunday’s Supersport race at Barber Motorsports Park. Fong crashed out of the lead with four laps to go, remounted and had started to ride his motorcycle back to the pits prior to the red flag being thrown because of debris on the track from Fong’s…
The following is from Attack Performance Estenson Racing… JD Beach ran a smart race to take his third podium of the season aboard the Attack Performance Estenson Racing Yamaha YZF-R1 in MotoAmerica Superbike race one at New Jersey Motorsports Park on Saturday, September 7. After a frustrating few race weekends, the team’s hard work paid off as Beach found his…
If you saw Bobby Fong crash out of the lead in the Supersport race on Saturday at PittRace, you knew it was bad. You also knew he’d be lucky to race at all on Sunday. But race he did, the M4 ECSTAR Suzuki rider not only racing but nearly winning. We caught up with Fong to find out how he’s…
The following is from Attack Performance Estenson Racing… Attack Performance Estenson Racing’s JD Beach overcame adversity at the Pittsburgh International Race Complex to score another top 10-finish in MotoAmerica Superbike race one on Saturday, August 24. Beach got off to a decent start from the seventh spot on the grid and advanced to fourth after an incident between two riders…
The following is from Westby Racing… On a track that’s yielded good and not-so-good results for Mathew Scholtz, Saturday’s MotoAmerica Superbike race at Sonoma Raceway definitely falls under the “good” column for the Westby Racing rider as he finished third for his third podium result of a somewhat difficult season. Starting from the inside of the second row for the…
Josh Hayes has won four AMA Superbike titles. Now he’s sharing his immense knowledge of the sport, and his training methods, with racers like Garrett Gerloff, Bobby Fong, Cameron Petersen, Cory Ventura and Hunter Dunham at his J4orce Training Camp in Southern California. Here’s a video from our visit to the Hayes Compound in Oceanside.
With a heritage of racing Suzuki motorcycles that goes all the way back to 1980, Team Hammer, Inc., is based in Alabama, but owned and managed in California. The team’s #50 M4 ECSTAR Suzuki GSX-R600 Supersport machine, with Bobby Fong in the saddle, is currently leading the 2019 MotoAmerica Supersport Championship by 18 points. Meanwhile, Fong’s teammate Sean Dylan Kelly,…
The following is from Team Hammer… M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Bobby Fong concluded the combined WorldSBK/MotoAmerica Superbike weekend at Laguna Seca in spectacular fashion with a wire-to-wire victory in a one-sided MotoAmerica Supersport race. Fong sprinted into the lead from the start and never looked back. The Californian shot to an immediate gap on the opening lap as he hustled his…
The following is from Yoshimura Suzuki… It was a big weekend for Yoshimura Suzuki Factory Racing’s Toni Elias at Utah Motorsports Campus. Elias won Saturday’s race convincingly, but had to fight hard to take a thrilling victory in Sunday’s race two. It was a major bounce back for Elias after crashing in race two at Road America a couple of…
The following is from Westby Racing… At Road America, affectionately known as “America’s National Park of Speed,” Westby Racing’s Mathew Scholtz raced to a solid fifth-place finish in MotoAmerica Superbike race one, while Junior Cup rider Sam Lochoff crossed the stripe for an eighth-place result in his race. After qualifying on the second row in Saturday morning’s wet Superpole…
The following is from Team Hammer… Team Hammer came out swinging as the 2019 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Road Racing season got underway on Saturday at Road Atlanta. The new-look Team M4 ECSTAR Suzuki Supersport duo of Bobby Fong and Sean Dylan Kelly continued to show enormous potential as a pairing, backing up a double podium performance in last month’s…
The following is from Team Hammer Inc. Team Hammer, Inc. is thrilled to announce the signing of Bobby Fong to contest the MotoAmerica Supersport Championship aboard an M4 ECSTAR Suzuki GSX-R600 in 2019. Fong has long been recognized as one of the most talented, exciting, and flat-out fastest riders in the MotoAmerica paddock. Throughout his career, Fong has logged nearly…
Bobby Fong made his debut with the Genuine Broaster Chicken Honda on August 16, the Californian turning in 64 laps at High Plains Raceway in Colorado and breaking Jake Gagne’s track record in the process. The test was slated to be a familiarization test for Fong, who had never ridden the Honda CBR1000RR SP2 prior to yesterday. “What a bike,”…
The following is from Roadrace Factory… In what is probably the worst kept secret in the paddock over the last few days, we are pleased to announce the addition of Bobby Fong as the second rider for the remainder of the 2018 Season. We’d like to thank Jayson Uribe for all his hard work during the west coast rounds. He…
MotoAmerica has announced that it has extended its agreement with Dainese USA, Inc. (Dainese and AGV) to continue as an Official Safety Partner and Supporting Partners of the 2018 MotoAmerica Series. The partnership includes having a service-provider presence in the paddock, where the Dainese support team helps racers with their needs during race weekends. For 2018, all Dainese-sponsored riders will…
