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 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…
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…
Based on the season thus far, M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly could end up driving out of New Jersey Motorsports Park on Sunday evening with the number-one plate that comes with winning the 2021 MotoAmerica Supersport Championship riding shotgun in his rental car. Oh, hold on, Kelly isn’t old enough to rent a car. If things go his way,…
MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, is pleased to announce that Suzuki Motor USA, LLC has come on-board as an official series partner for the 2021 MotoAmerica Series. Suzuki is currently leading both the 2021 MotoAmerica Supersport and Stock 1000 Championships with M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly on top of the Supersport Series while Jake Lewis leads…
If you like motorcycle road racing then Pittsburgh International Race Complex is the place to be as the MotoAmerica Series arrives, bringing six support classes to go along with the premier HONOS Superbike Series at the picturesque 2.8-mile road course in Wampum, Pennsylvania, August 13-15. In addition to the headline Superbike events, MotoAmerica’s seventh round of the 2021 series will…
The following is from Westby Racing… After finishing fifth in Saturday’s Superbike race at Ridge Motorsports Park, Westby Racing’s Mathew Scholtz improved in Sunday’s race with a fourth-place result and maintained his second-place position in the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. Starting in the middle of the second row based on his fifth-place finish in Saturday’s race, Mathew got a good jump off the line and moved…
The following is from Suzuki… Suzuki and Team Hammer upped the ante following a successful 2021 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Road Racing Championship season opener with an even stronger Round 2, notching up two victories, two pole positions, and four podiums at Virginia International Raceway. M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly continued to lead the charge, scoring the pole in…
Altus Motorsports has announced that Kevin Olmedo and Jaret Nassaney have been re-signed to compete for the team in MotoAmerica’s Supersport Series. Both riders will again be aboard Suzuki GSX-R600 motorcycles. Olmedo continues with the team after completing an impressive rookie season in which he was a top-five finisher in most of the races. He also reached the podium in…
Jake Lewis will be back in the MotoAmerica paddock in 2021 after sitting out the majority of the 2020 series. Lewis is set to headline the Altus Motorsports team, racing a Suzuki GSX-R1000 in both Stock 1000 and the Superbike Cup in the HONOS Superbike class. We spoke to the Kentuckian for this week’s episode of Off Track With Carruthers…
You can’t stop Jake “The Snake” Lewis, you can only hope to…sign him. And Altus Motorsports did. Following Altus Motorsports’ best MotoAmerica season yet, which saw Cameron Petersen race the Altus Motorsports Suzuki GSX-R1000 to eight wins, the 2020 Stock 1000 Championship, and the 2020 Superbike Cup, the team knew they have a title-winning bike, but big shoes to fill…
Celtic HSBK Racing has signed former World Superbike rider and current Ducati Corse test rider Lorenzo Zanetti to compete aboard the team’s number 87 Ducati Panigale V4 R in HONOS Superbike at the Ridge Motorsports Park on August 28-30 for round five of the 2020 MotoAmerica Championship. Zanetti will replace team rider PJ Jacobsen, who is still recovering from the…
With PJ Jacobsen still feeling the effects of the burn injuries he sustained during morning warmup at Road America 2, the Celtic HSBK Racing team has replaced the New Yorker for the PittRace round this weekend with Jake Lewis. Lewis, who raced for the M4 ECSTAR Suzuki team last year, rode a Scheibe Racing BMW in the season opener at…
Since the inaugural season of MotoAmerica, Scheibe Racing has had a one-rider team competing aboard the BMW S 1000 RR. But, when round one of the 2020 MotoAmerica season begins on May 29-31 at Road America, the team will have doubled in size. Joining Superbike rider Josh Herrin on the team is Jake Lewis, who will be aboard a second…
In the spirit of the holidays, the EBC Brakes Superbike riders had an imaginary gift exchange, in which they generously gave each other the most thoughtful of presents. We took notes, and here’s who exchanged and what was given: Cameron Beaubier > Toni Elias A Cameron Beaubier Championship t-shirt. Toni Elias > Cameron Beaubier Already gifted Cameron a Dunlop rear…
Jake Lewis is always an interesting person to talk to, whether it’s about road racing, Kentucky Wildcats basketball, hairstyles, or riding dirt bikes in the woods. We checked in with the M4 ECSTAR Suzuki Superbike rider and asked him “The Friday 5.” Here are his answers: 1. What is your favorite thing about racing a Superbike? The speed and the…
The old adage is that if you ain’t crashin’, then you ain’t tryin’. If that’s the case than those racing in the MotoAmerica Series in 2019 didn’t try hard enough. Much to the chagrin of bodywork manufacturers across the country, crashes in the 2019 MotoAmerica Series occurred less often than in 2018 with riders across five classes hitting the deck…
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…
Team Hammer started campaigning Suzuki’s latest version of the GSX-R1000R in 2017’s MotoAmerica Superstock 1000 class. In 2018, the team debuted the #85 M4 ECSTAR Suzuki GSX-R1000 in full MotoAmerica Superbike trim, including a MoTec ECU. The bike features some notable differences from the Yoshimura Suzuki Factory Racing Superbike, including bodywork that is shaped slightly different and sourced from Hotbodies,…
The following is from Team M4 ECSTAR Suzuki… Team M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Jake Lewis backed up his first top-five MotoAmerica Superbike result of the 2019 season — scored last time out at the Circuit of the Americas — with another top-five on Saturday at Virginia International Raceway. Lewis continued his determined push to the front of the field as he…
Team Hammer, Inc. is happy to confirm that it will again field Jake Lewis aboard an M4 ECSTAR Suzuki GSX-R1000 in the MotoAmerica Superbike class for the upcoming 2019 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Road Racing season. Last year, the 2015 MotoAmerica Superbike Rookie of the Year again established himself as a week-in, week-out front-runner in his full-time return to the…
Bobby Lewis, the father of MotoAmerica Superbike racer Jake Lewis, was killed in a single-car accident yesterday on Interstate 24 near his home in Princeton, Kentucky. Lewis was 59 years old. Few details about the crash have been released, but the News Edge is reporting that the accident occurred around 5:30 p.m. and that only one vehicle was involved. Lewis…
Heading into round three of the 2018 MotoAmerica Motul Superbike Championship this weekend at VIRginia International Raceway, it’s hard to believe that Yoshimura/Suzuki Factory Racing’s always-likeable Roger Hayden is currently ranked 11th in the points standings. Two DNFs and a couple of so-so results in the other two races have put Hayden on his back foot in the early going…
Cortech Performance Apparel & Gear has announced that M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Jake Lewis will wear its leathers and gloves in the 2018 MotoAmerica Motul Superbike Championship. “I’m very happy to re-sign with Cortech for my return to the Superbike class,” said Lewis. “Cortech has been an integral part of my professional road racing career. Cortech’s custom made leather and gloves,…
Team Hammer has signed 2015 MotoAmerica Superbike Rookie of the Year Jake Lewis to return to premier-class duty on an M4 ECSTAR Suzuki GSX-R1000 in 2018. Lewis is coming off a season in which he quickly came to grips with a completely redesigned GSX-R1000, piloting it to an eventual runner-up ranking in the Superstock 1000 Championship fight. He earned that…
