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…
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…
The following is from Westby Racing… Round two of the 2020 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Road Racing Championship starts this Friday at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, and riders Mathew Scholtz and Cody Wyman, along with the entire Westby Racing team, are excited about this rare opportunity to return to the iconic, 4.05-mile, 14-turn natural road course for the…
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…
The following is from Westby Racing… On Sunday at Road America, the fate of Westby Racing’s two riders went in opposite directions. Junior Cup rider Cody Wyman improved on his seventh-place result on Saturday with a fourth-place finish on Sunday, while Superbike rider Mathew Scholtz, who was runner-up on Saturday, got caught up in a racing incident on Sunday, unfortunately…
The following is from Westby Racing… Saturday’s MotoAmerica race day at Road America was a good one for Westby Racing’s two-rider squad as Superbike rider Mathew Scholtz notched a runner-up finish and, in Junior Cup, Cody Wyman came home seventh. Mathew’s fourth-place result in Superpole gave him a second-row start in the race. Capitalizing on all the hard work that…
The following is from Westby Racing… After postponements and cancellations brought about by COVID-19 and despite a first round of the season that will have no spectators, Westby Racing is filled with joy and optimism as they travel to Road America for the start of the 2020 MotoAmerica Championship this weekend at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. The team,…
The following is from Westby Racing… With round one of the 2020 MotoAmerica season set to take place at Road America next weekend, the Westby Racing team wrapped up their preseason testing program with a visit to Talladega Gran Prix Raceway (“Little Tally”) in Alabama on Monday and Tuesday of this week. Both of the team’s riders–#11 Superbike rider Mathew…
The following is from Westby Racing… Westby Racing is proud to present the team’s livery for its 2020 Yamaha YZF-R1 Superbike that will compete in this year’s MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Road Racing Championship. Please visit the link below to download and view the Livery Reveal Video. We hope you’ll share the video on your Website, social media channels, and…
The following is from Westby Racing… Despite the challenging weather conditions and the unfortunate fractured right clavicle that Mathew Scholtz suffered this past Sunday in a training crash aboard a motocross bike, the Westby Racing team made solid progress at the two-day MotoAmerica Dunlop Official Preseason Test held at Barber Motorsports Park on Tuesday and Wednesday. The first order of…
The following is from Westby Racing… Mathew Scholtz, rider of the #11 Westby Racing Yamaha YZF-R1 Superbike, suffered one of the most untimely of injuries when he fractured his right clavicle and sustained additional bumps and bruises in a crash while training aboard a motocross bike on Sunday. The crash and resulting injuries occurred just two days prior to the…
The following is from Westby Racing… Mathew Scholtz and the Westby Racing team spent the past weekend participating in a two-day track event at Jennings GP, the 2-mile, 14-turn road course in Jennings, Florida. It was the first test of 2020 for Mathew and the team after the holiday break. Riding the 2019 version of the #11 Westby Racing Yamaha YZF-R1…
Despite the never-ending, always evolving march of technology, road racing motorcycles—as has been the case since the very beginning of road racing—still have manual transmissions, with six cogs or “speeds” to choose from. Across all five race classes, virtually all of the motorcycles competing in the MotoAmerica Series are equipped with two important innovations to their manual or “standard” transmissions:…
The following is from Westby Racing… Westby Racing is proud to announce that Attack Performance has come on board as an official team partner for the 2020 MotoAmerica Superbike season. The announcement was made by Tryg Westby, owner of Westby Racing, and Richard Stanboli, owner of Attack Performance. Based in Huntington Beach, California, Attack Performance designs, develops, manufactures, and markets…
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…
The following is from Westby Racing… Over the past weekend, Mathew Scholtz and the Westby Racing team participated in a two-day track event at the Circuit of The Americas (COTA), which was hosted by Eleven Motorsports at the 3.426-mile, 20-turn road course in Austin, Texas. The team used the valuable off-season track time to test components and settings on the…
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…
Westby Racing Superbike rider Mathew Scholtz is from South Africa, but he’s been enjoying life in Georgia for a few years now. In fact, the Peach State has been so peachy for him that he’s now in the process of buying a house there. We thought it would be a good time to ask him “The Friday Five,” so here…
Mathew Scholtz has been a busy man. How’s this sound? An engagement to his longtime girlfriend Kiara, a trip to his homeland of South Africa, and back to his U.S. home base of Woodstock, Georgia, for some pre-season testing with his Westby Racing team in preparation for the 2020 MotoAmerica Superbike Series. Scholtz, who finished sixth in the 2019 MotoAmerica…
Continuing with their off-season testing program, Mathew Scholtz and the Westby Racing team were at VIRginia International Raceway on Monday, equipped with two Yamaha YZF-R1 Superbikes: one in the team’s iconic gold-and-black livery with Mathew’s familiar #11 on it and one in non-descript white bodywork with no competition number, but fully equipped to help refine the team’s setup by comparing…
The 10th and final round of the 2019 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship begins on Friday at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama, and Mathew Scholtz and the Westby Racing team are determined to finish out the season with two podium results on Barber’s 2.38-mile, 17-turn road course. It’s a track on which Mathew has had a lot of success, highlighted by…
The following is from Andrew Lee Racing… Andrew Lee achieved the goal he set himself at the start of the 2019 MotoAmerica Superstock Championship – becoming double National Champion, a feat he managed in style, leading the race at New Jersey to wrap up the title with another stunning victory. Starting from the Pole, Lee was never headed, taking the…
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…
The following is from KWR… Kyle Wyman Racing (KWR) is proud to announce a new partnership with BlackBerry Cylance, who will join Lion Fuel as co-title sponsor for the ninth round of the MotoAmerica Superbike championship this coming weekend at New Jersey Motorsports Park. Kyle Wyman will ride the #33 Lion Fuel/BlackBerry Cylance/KWR Ducati Panigale V4 R as he chases his…
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 KWR… The KWR Ducati team heads to Pittsburgh International Race Complex this weekend for the eighth round of the MotoAmerica Superbike championship. Kyle Wyman will ride the #33 Genuine Broaster Chicken/SC Project/KWR Ducati Panigale V4 R while the team chases its first top-5 result of the season. The KWR team has had a troublesome go at…
The following is from Celtic HSBK Racing… Celtic HSBK Racing had a successful weekend with Rider PJ Jacobsen at the MotoAmerica Cycle Gear Championship of Sonoma. Landing on the box twice and finishing the weekend on the top step the team walks away ready for their next round in Pittsburgh. It was a two day event making for a fast…
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…
The following is from Westby Racing… Round seven of the 2019 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship is this Saturday at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma, California, as Mathew Scholtz and the Westby Racing team will compete in the two-day Cycle Gear Championship of Sonoma. For Mathew, the trip to California’s wine country has yielded up-and down-results. Sonoma Raceway’s 2.52-mile, 12-turn, undulating road course…
