The following is from Vance & Hines… The Vance & Hines Racing Team will return to the road courses for MotoAmerica’s three-race King of the Bagger series, leveraging the staff at the company’s new Racing Development Center (RDC) to build this year’s entry. Fielding one of the highest performance Harley-Davidson touring bikes ever assembled, the team is building off of their…
The overwhelming success of last year’s King of the Baggers Invitational held during the final round of the 2020 MotoAmerica season was undeniable. Among the riders, media and spectators in attendance as well as on MotoAmerica Live+, and also the hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide who have commented favorably on our social media channels, the inaugural KOTB event was…
Bristling with components sourced from Graves Motorsports, the #69 RiCKdiculous Racing R6 is the product of Chuck Graves’ and company’s more than two decades of research and development work on Yamaha middleweight machines. Aboard the R6, and with recently retired crew chief Robert Ward by his side, Hayden Gillim notched five race wins and nine podium finishes in MotoAmerica Supersport…
The Nicky Hayden AMA Horizon Awards are given each year to the top amateurs in three motorcycle racing disciplines: road racing, flat track racing, and motocross. The purpose of the Awards is to recognize amateur racers who demonstrate the skills and traits indicative of potential future success in professional racing. This past season, there were a total of six racers…
The Haydens: Tommy, Nicky, Roger; JD Beach and Hayden Gillim; Jake Lewis and Nick McFadden… we figured there had to be something in the water in Owensboro, Kentucky, to spit out the sort of speed, race wins and championships that the area has produced. So we sent a film crew down to the OWB to see what exactly is going…
Today was all about JD Beach at VIRginia International Raceway as the two-time MotoAmerica Supersport Champion put a smile on everybody’s face when he earned his first career AMA Superbike victory with a 3.7-second win in the Championship of Virginia. A week after winning his first career AMA Grand National Flat Track at the Super TT in Arizona, Beach went…
His name is Hayden and his number is 69, but how well do you know this MotoAmerica Supersport star? All the way from Africa, Hayden Gillim joins Paul Carruthers & Sean Bice for this episode of “Off Track.” But what’s a motorcycle racer doing in Africa? Give it a listen and find out.
RiCKdiculous Racing arrived on the scene in MotoAmerica a few years ago, and the team has grown by leaps and bounds to where it is today. One of the premier race teams in the paddock, and operating out of a large semi, RiCKdiculous fielded a MotoAmerica Supersport team this past season that featured Hayden Gillim, who very nearly stole the…
Make no bones about it, every time JD Beach throws his leg over his Monster Energy/Y.E.S./Graves Yamaha R6 he does so with a purpose: To earn himself a Superbike ride in 2018. So far that effort has put him at the top of the MotoAmerica Supersport Championship as the series readies to start its second half at the Utah Motorsports…
