The following is from HONOS HVMC Racing… Southern California-based motorsports destination Chuckwalla Valley Raceway (CVR) is proud to announce its partnership with Corey Alexander and the Honos HVMC Racing team for the 2021 MotoAmerica season. Located east of Palm Springs off the I-10 near Joshua Tree National Park, Chuckwalla Valley Raceway is ~3.5 hours from LA, San Diego, Phoenix, and Las Vegas. The…
MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, is pleased to announce that Yamaha Motor Corporation USA has returned as an official partner of the 2021 MotoAmerica Series. Yamaha YZF-R1s won the opening two races of the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, with Westby Racing’s Mathew Scholtz taking race one and Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance…
Cold weather and mixed track conditions greeted the Shark Grand Prix of France on opening day at Le Mans, though the Moto2 class was fortunate enough to get two dry sessions in on an otherwise day of changing weather. Americans Cameron Beaubier, in his first visit to Le Mans in 10 years, and Joe Roberts ended the FP2 session in…
The following is the third in our 21 in ’21 features that highlight one of the 21 AMA Superbike Champions each week as we move through the 2021 MotoAmerica season – the 45th year of the premier class championship. If the Superbikes of the early 1980s were “big ships” as Eddie Lawson refers to them, then Lawson was the captain of those…
BARTCON Racing has announced that multi-time MotoAmerica race winner Anthony Mazziotto will join the team for next weekend’s second round of the 2021 MotoAmerica Supersport Series as a replacement rider for the injured Dominic Doyle. Doyle, who suffered a broken wrist in a practice crash in the opening round of the series at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta on May 1,…
The following is from Jackson Blackmon Racing… Jackson Blackmon, a 19-year-old out of Rock Hill, South Carolina, will make his return to the MotoAmerica Twins Cup Championship at VIR aboard a 2021 Yamaha MT-07 under Jackson Blackmon Racing. Unfortunately, Blackmon had a crash while testing prior to round one, which caused him to injure his arm and miss Road Atlanta. However, Jackson…
Believe it or not, going into the 2021 season, Jake Gagne had never won a HONOS Superbike race. But that all changed last weekend when the former MotoAmerica Superstock 1000 Champion went out and got the monkey off his back in the series opener in Georgia. After earning pole position with a new lap record at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta,…
The following is the second in our 21 in ’21 features that highlight one of the 21 AMA Superbike Champions each week as we move through the 2021 MotoAmerica season – the 45th year of the premier class championship. The name Wes Cooley is synonymous with Superbike racing in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The bikes of that era were bucking…
The following is from HONOS HVMC Racing… Honos HVMC Racing leaves Road Atlanta with mixed results from riders Corey Alexander and Richie Escalante over the weekend. Riding his all new 2021 Graves Spec Kawasaki ZX-10RR for the first time ever, Corey Alexander showed good pace in practice and qualifying sessions immediately running within the top 8. Ultimately he would have…
Further scans have shown that Bartcon Racing’s Dominic Doyle suffered a fracture of the radius bone in his right wrist after crashing during a Supersport practice session on Friday, April 30 at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. Doyle will be in a cast for at least a month, according to the team, and will thus miss the VIRginia International Raceway round…
After finishing second eight times a season ago, Jake Gagne finally won his first career MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike race and he did so in style, working his way through to the sharp end of the field from his third row starting spot and pulling away to a 4.712-second victory. Gagne was fast all weekend and qualified on pole position for…
Italtrans Racing’s Joe Roberts finished eighth in the Moto2 Red Bull Grand Prix of Spain today while fellow American Cameron Beaubier crashed his American Racing Kalex on the final lap while battling for 10th place. The race was won by Federal Oil Gresini Moto2’s Fabio DI Giannantonio by 1.7 seconds over Marco Bezzecchi, who in turn was half a second…
Westby Racing’s Mathew Scholtz got the soaking-wet monkey off his back with his first dry-race HONOS Superbike victory today at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, the South African leading 18 of the 19 laps for the perfect start to his 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. Scholtz, whose previous two Superbike wins came in wet conditions in 2017 (Circuit of The America) and…
MotoAmericans Joe Roberts and Cameron Beaubier will start tomorrow’s Red Bull Grand Prix of Spain in eighth and 16th, respectively, after an eventful day for the pair on Saturday at the Jerez Circuit. Roberts looked to be on his way to a better qualifying position in Q2, but the Italtrans Racing rider suffered a crash late in the session. Although…
Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha’s Jake Gagne ended his Friday afternoon at Michelin Raceway with his YZF-R1 in the gravel trap on the outside of turn 10-B. But he also ended up on top of the timesheets in the HONOS Superbike class as the MotoAmerica Series opened its season on an overcast day in Georgia. Gagne’s best lap in…
MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, is excited to announce that the Harley-Davidson Motor Company has come on board as an official partner of the 2021 MotoAmerica Series and its Mission King Of The Baggers Series. Arguably the most iconic motorcycle brand in the world, Harley-Davidson was founded in 1903 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where its headquarters remains today.…
It was an up-and-down day for the two Americans in the Moto2 World Championship on the opening day of practice for Sunday’s Red Bull Grand Prix of Spain. Italtrans Racing’s Joe Roberts had a solid day, ending up fifth fastest after the two sessions. American Racing’s Cameron Beaubier, meanwhile, suffered a crash early in FP2 and only got back out…
Dunlop is returning as a title sponsor of Team Hammer’s Dunlop ECSTAR Two-Seat Superbike program for a fifth consecutive season in 2021. The program, now entering its 21st season of operation, expanded its scope and reach significantly in 2017 with the introduction of the partnership with Dunlop. During that span, the Dunlop ECSTAR Two-Seat Superbike program run by Team Hammer…
Even though he is just 16 years old, no one in the history of MotoAmerica’s Junior Cup and Twins Cup classes has won more races than Rocco Landers. And to the delight of the riders in those two classes in 2021, Landers is moving on and will be taking his talents to the Supersport class, beginning this weekend in the…
Hard Knocks Moto Coffee (www.hardknocksmoto.com) will sponsor the Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati Team for the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike season by fueling the team’s coffee needs throughout each race event. Hard Knocks Moto Coffee will provide ongoing supplies of its moto-centric coffee roasts. “Our Ducati Panigale V4R needs its fuel, and we need ours,” says team Principal Bobby Shek. “A big…
Twenty-six HONOS Superbike riders will take to the Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta track this weekend for the opening round of the 2021 MotoAmerica Series, and all of them will do so from the same perspective: zero pole positions, zero wins, zero championship points. In other words, a new beginning. More than anything, 2021 promises change because change in this case…
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…
Despite being a consistent top-five finisher in last year’s MotoAmerica Supersport Championship, Xavier “The X-Man” Zayat came close to not having a ride for 2021. That situation has been remedied, at least for the opening round at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, and Zayat is optimistic that he will be able to finish the season. Zayat has been a MotoAmerica regular…
In the six years since MotoAmerica took over the AMA Superbike Championship, two riders have dominated: five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier and 2017 Champion Toni Elias. Those two combined to win 83 races, or 72 percent, of the 116 races run under the MotoAmerica umbrella. That’s right – 72 percent. And 100 percent of the Superbike Championships with Beaubier…
MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, is thrilled to announce motorcycle clothing company 4SR USA Inc. as an official partner of the 2021 MotoAmerica Series. Founded in 2007 in the Czech Republic, 4SR is well established in the European markets, including supporting riders in British Superbike, World Superbike and MotoGP. In 2018, 4SR USA began exclusively importing to…
The following is from Mesa37 Racing… Mesa37 Racing is excited to announce that Xavier Zayat will join the team to contest the start of the 2021 MotoAmerca race season. Zayat will be piloting his KWS-built Yamaha YZF-R6 in this year’s premier Supersport class, while Mesa will be competing in both the Superspsort and Stock 1000 classes with both of his KWS-built…
MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, is pleased to announce that United Rentals, the largest equipment rental company in the world, will be an official partner for the 2021 MotoAmerica season. Founded in 1997, United Rentals has an integrated network of 1154 rental locations in North America and 11 in Europe. In North America, the company operates in…
MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, is proud to announce that Arai Helmets will be an official partner of the 2021 MotoAmerica Series. Makers of quality motorcycle helmets since 1953, Arai is the helmet of choice for many of MotoAmerica’s and the world’s top riders, including Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha Superbike stars Jake Gagne and Josh…
What do MotoAmerica racers Nolan Lamkin, Alex Thermiotis, Cliff Ramsdell, Edgar Zaragoza, Nate Minster and Adam Faussett have in common? They all crashed at some point last year and they all took advantage of Anthony’s Leatherworks’ ability to get their leathers back to its California shop, repaired and returned to the racers in a speedy fashion. And the 2021 season…
The following is from West Side Performance Racing… West Side Performance Racing based in Hialeah, FL is excited to announce their MotoAmerica line-up as it includes young racers who will pursue success in both the Stock 1000 and Supersport classes. Making his MotoAmerica debut next weekend, Alex Nieves Jr. will compete in Stock 1000. Nieves is a 3 time FMRRA…
