According to Italian website gpone.com, Danilo Petrucci may take over the Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati New York Panigale V4 R vacated by Loris Baz for the 2022 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. Petrucci, who currently rides for the Tech 3 KTM MotoGP team, has a deal in place with KTM to contest the 2022 Dakar Rally. “I only recently heard about this…
If Sam Lochoff wasn’t the surprise of the 2021 MotoAmerica Series, we’re not sure who was. The young South African came into the Supersport class fresh off finishing third in the SportbikeTrackGear.com Junior Cup Championship where he had landed on the podium 13 times. But he didn’t win. So who knew that Lochoff would be the revelation of the Supersport…
UPDATED: Joe Roberts suffered a broken left collarbone in his crash in FP2 today at Misano. MotoAmericans Cameron Beaubier and Joe Roberts braved wet conditions today at the Misano Circuit in Italy to complete the opening day of Moto2 practice for Sunday’s Grand Prix of Italy in 21st and 29th, respectively. Roberts was the faster of the two in FP1…
The following is from 3D Motorsports… Blanchard Oklahoma-based 3D MOTORSPORTS LLC has just inked a deal with 16-year-old Australian Luke Power to race MotoAmerica in Supersport. Luke has climbed the ranks of ASBK and finished an impressive fourth in the supersport championship his first year on the 600. He is no stranger to competing away from his homeland as he…
It wouldn’t be a reach to go ahead and label Tige Daane as the Sheriff in the MotoAmerica paddock. After all, the longtime paddock stalwart serves as Technical Director and that means he, along with the FIM tech staff, helps formulate the technical rules used in the MotoAmerica Series. And when its time to go racing, Daane is the man…
Episode 9 of “Inside MotoAmerica: Pressure To Rise” focuses on the final round of the HONOS Superbike season at Barber Motorsports Park, where the weather played a critical factor in the outcome and placed even more pressure on the riders than usual.
We put 2021 MotoAmerica King Of The Baggers Champion Kyle Wyman on the hot seat and asked him to make some tough decisions in this episode of “This Or That.”
Thanks to the rousing success of the debut season of the MotoAmerica King Of The Baggers Championship, MotoAmerica, the home of the premier motorcycle road racing series in North America, is excited to announce an expanded, six-round King Of The Baggers Series for the 2022 season. Fittingly, the 2022 MotoAmerica King Of The Baggers Championship will kick off during Bike…
With Frenchman Loris Baz reportedly headed back to the World Superbike Championship for 2022 with the Bonovo BMW team, Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati issued a release today confirming their continued participation in the MotoAmerica Superbike class for 2022 while also preparing to race in the 2022 MotoAmerica Supersport class. The following is from HSBK Racing… The factory-supported Warhorse HSBK Racing…
It’s been a trial by fire this year for five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier, who is a rookie in the Moto2 World Championship. But, it all came together for him this past weekend at the Circuit of The Americas where track familiarity paid obvious dividends. Beaubier was our special guest on this episode of Off Track, and Carruthers and…
The following is from the HONOS HVMC Racing team… As the 2021 MotoAmerica season comes to a close HONOS HVMC Racing looks back at a tumultuous year filled with all of the highs and lows racing has to offer. After a late off-season decision to join forces, the team’s combined Supersport and Stock 1000cc / Superbike effort yielded great results both…
We asked some of MotoAmerica’s top Superbike riders if they think there is such a thing as a “perfect lap.” Check out their varied (and similar) answers in this episode of “Whaddya Say?”
With rain forecast for Austin, Texas, on Saturday, getting into the top 14 in today’s Moto2 practice sessions may be of the utmost importance, and Cameron Beaubier made that happen, the American Racing team rider ending up 14th in FP2 at the Circuit of The Americas on Friday afternoon. If it rains tomorrow, Beaubier will slot directly into Q2 on…
One current and one former MotoAmerica racer both finished in the top 10 of the two World Superbike races held today at the Jerez Circuit in Spain with Loris Baz ending up sixth and ninth and Garrett Gerloff racing to a pair of 10ths on the day. Baz, who finished fourth in the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship on his Warhorse…
Paul Carruthers and Sean Bice go it alone in this week’s episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice as they wrap up the recently concluded 2021 MotoAmerica Series with a look back at each of the classes and the thrilling (and very wet) season finale at Barber Motorsports Park.
The following is from Daytona International Speedway… Daytona International Speedway today announced that tickets for the tradition-rich 81st annual Bike Week At DAYTONA (March 4-12), featuring DAYTONA Supercross and the DAYTONA 200, are on sale now. The 52nd running of DAYTONA Supercross, the most demanding course of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship season – and the only AMA Supercross event…
The 2021 MotoAmerica Series came to a close on a rainy day at the Barber Motorsports Park with a surprise victor in the final Supersport race of the season – Gabriel Da Silva. Da Silva went head-to-head with newly crowned Supersport Champion Sean Dylan Kelly and came out on top with Kelly crashing out of their battle on the final…
BIRMINGHAM, AL (September 19, 2021) – Despite a weekend at Barber Motorsports Park that featured horrendous weather and difficult racing conditions, the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Series ended as it should have with Jake Gagne winning a record 17th race to put an exclamation point on a season like no other. Gagne, who earlier in the season set a record with…
One of the most dramatic races in AMA Superbike history took place in a rainstorm at Barber Motorsports Park on Saturday and it’s one that won’t soon be forgotten, especially if your name is Cameron Petersen. Or Mathew Scholtz. Or Loris Baz. M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Petersen earned his first-career MotoAmerica Superbike win after surviving a crash in the downpour. Westby…
Newly crowned MotoAmerica Supersport Champion Sean Dylan Kelly will join the American Racing team for the 2022 and 2023 Moto2 World Championship, joining five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier in the two-rider team, after signing a two-year contract with the Eitan Butul-owned team. Kelly, who won the Supersport title on an M4 ECSTAR Suzuki, will become the first member of…
Believe it or not, Jake Gagne made a mistake in Friday’s Q1 session at Barber Motorsports Park, the Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha rider crashing out of the session and allowing someone else a shot at the top. When all was said and done, it was M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Cameron Petersen taking full advantage of Gagne’s miscue to snag…
MotoAmerica, the home of the premier motorcycle road racing series in North America, has announced that the 2022 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship schedule, which will feature 10 rounds and 20 races on the premier racetracks in the U.S., including a return to the world-renowned Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas. The 2022 season will open with a bang, with MotoAmerica’s…
The following is the 21st and final of our “21 In ‘21” series that highlighted one of the 21 AMA Superbike Champions as we moved through the 2021 MotoAmerica season – the 45th year of the premier class championship. To a man, the riders in the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship will tell you that Toni Elias raised the level of racing…
With the MotoAmerica Superbike, Supersport, Stock 1000 and Twins Cup Championships all decided last week in New Jersey, all eyes will be on the SportbikeTrackGear.com Junior Cup Championship this weekend at Barber Motorsports Park as it will be the last class to crown a champion. Scott Powersports KTM’s Tyler Scott arrives in Alabama with a 30-point lead over Landers Racing’s…
MotoAmerica, home of AMA Superbike and North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, is thrilled to announce that it will partner with Daytona International Speedway to host one of the world’s most prestigious races – the DAYTONA 200 – during the weekend of March 10-12, 2022, in Daytona Beach, Florida. The 2022 DAYTONA 200, set for the green flag on…
The curtain will officially come down on the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship this weekend, September 17-19, at Barber Motorsports Park, but not before the series attempts to answer a burning question for the final time: Can anyone beat Jake Gagne? So far in 2021, the answer to that has been a resounding no. After suffering an engine failure in race…
The following is from Yamaha… Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha Racing’s Jake Gagne continues to raise the bar in the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship, securing his first title in the premier class at the penultimate round at New Jersey Motorsports Park. After sealing the deal earlier today in Race 2 of the tripleheader, the newly crowned champ pulled off an…
After the disappointment of having to withdraw from the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship, Jason Aguilar is delighted to announce that thanks to Superbike Unlimited Racing he will be back on track at the season finale at Barber Motorsport Park this coming weekend. Aguilar, a multiple podium finisher in Supersport last season and the former Stock 600 Champ, has been on…
Sean Dylan Kelly has been chasing a championship since he was five years old. On Sunday at New Jersey Motorsports Park, Kelly got what he’s been chasing with the 19-year-old wrapping up the 2021 MotoAmerica Supersport Championship. Kelly didn’t win Sunday’s race, but he didn’t need to. Instead, victory went to his rookie M4 ECSTAR Suzuki. teammate Sam Lochoff with…
Jake Gagne wrapped up the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship on a record-setting, two-race Sunday at New Jersey Motorsports Park, the Californian winning his 16th race of the season to match the record held jointly by Josh Hayes and Cameron Beaubier for Superbike wins in a single season while also tying three-time 500cc World Champion Wayne Rainey’s mark for career victories.…
