After the revised version of the Yamaha YZF-R1 Superbike debuted in 2015, Josh Hayes’s chassis man Steve Rounds seemingly spent every spare moment of his time (at least while at the racetrack) working on the seat on Hayes’s #1 machine during the 2015 season. Shaving, gluing, and clamping down the neoprene on countless iterations of the seat, Rounds focused tirelessly…
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.
Ask any of the riders in the MotoAmerica Series which race they’d want to win if they had to name just one, and chances are the response would be the same: Laguna Seca. Or, more accurately, WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca has a history that runs deep, most notably when it comes to motorcycle racing. And with…
Yoshimura Suzuki’s Toni Elias lost a boatload of points when he crashed out of race two at Road America two weeks ago, but he almost made all of those back up today with a thrilling victory in race one of the Championship of Utah at the Utah Motorsports Campus. In a race that featured as many as eight riders in…
“If you want something to happen, sometimes you just have to will it to come true.” Those are the words of Melissa Paris, team owner of MP13 Racing as she announced that she and her husband Josh Hayes, the four-time AMA Superbike Champion, have secured the last-minute financial support they needed to compete at round four of the 2019 MotoAmerica…
It seems that the demise of middleweight motorcycle road racing has definitely been greatly exaggerated. As we head into round four of the 2019 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North America Road Racing Championship, the entry list for the Supersport class is 32 riders strong and chock-full of talent. Along with current championship leader PJ Jacobsen, current second-place challenger Richie Escalante, 2018 championship…
Fast racetracks breed close races. And there are none faster on the MotoAmerica schedule than Road America. Thus, there is nowhere like the iconic racetrack in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, where the difference between happiness and heartbreak is so minute. Just ask Cameron Beaubier and Roger Hayden – two riders on the opposite end of the Road America winning/losing spectrum. Since…
He’s back… four-time AMA Superbike Champion and former Yamaha factory rider Josh Hayes will compete in the two Supersport races this weekend at VIRginia International Raceway, the legendary racer riding the MP13 Racing Yamaha YZF-R6 that he raced in the Daytona 200. “After a successful Daytona 200, we got to thinking about the all-time AMA wins record, and it’s well…
“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor… and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.” Gladiator, Universal Pictures 2000 What do you do when you’re a four-time AMA Superbike Champion, a former Yamaha factory rider, and for the first time…
While we motorcyclists and motorcycle road racing fans in the Northern Hemisphere muddle through the winter months, occupying our time in the garage or bench racing with our two-wheel-obsessed cohorts, it’s midsummer on the continent of Australia, and smack-dab in the middle of the road racing season. The 26th International Island Classic takes place this weekend at Australia’s Phillip Island…
In this post-Halloween episode of “Off Track with Carruthers & Bice,” we’re treated with four-time AMA Superbike rider Josh Hayes as our guest. The “Mississippi Madman” shares his thoughts on his year-long hiatus from racing and if he’ll return to turning a wheel in anger in 2019, his role as a mentor for young riders, what he thinks of the…
Four-time AMA Superbike Josh Hayes has said, on many occasions, that he’ll stop racing when someone “pries his cold-dead fingers from the handlebars.” The Mississippi Madman got kind of a late start in motorcycle road racing – not getting involved until after he graduated from high school – and he was bound and determined to not have an early exit.…
Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. (YMUS), has announced that two U.S. road racers will be attending this year’s Yamaha VR46 Master Camp that will take place in Tavullia, Italy, in July. 16-year-old Jackson Blackmon and 15-year-old Cory Ventura, both Graves/Yamaha-supported YZF-R3 riders in the 2018 MotoAmerica Junior Cup Championship, will make the trip to receive specialized training from Movistar Yamaha MotoGP…
