The following is from the Ridge Motorsports Park… Major announcement for motorsports fans, the Ridge Motorsports Park announces that their tickets for the Kamatsu MotoAmerica Superbike Championship race will go on sale Friday, January 17, at 9 a.m. This follows the release of Premium RV sales the Ridge opened on Wednesday of this week. The MotoAmerica event, hosted by the…
The following is from Celtic HSBK Racing… Celtic HSBK Racing is proud to announce that for the 2020 Season they will be back with Ducati, campaigning a Ducati V4R in the MotoAmerica series. Team Principal and HSBKRacing.com owner, Bobby Shek commented, “Since 2005, we have been a leader in the aftermarket accessory business for Italian motorcycles. Ducati has been our…
If a MotoAmerica rider wins a Superbike race during the 2020 series while riding a Kawasaki ZX-10R that rider will walk away with $15,000 in Kawasaki contingency. Win both Superbike races over the course of a MotoAmerica weekend and the result is a cool $30,000 from Kawasaki. Kawasaki has announced its MotoAmerica contingency for the 2020 season and the company…
Chris Parrish won the inaugural MotoAmerica Twins Cup Championship in 2018 and ended up fourth in the series standings in 2019. For 2020, the Tennessean will be armed with Andy Palmer Yamahas and ready for an all-out assault on recapturing his crown. We took Parrish away from working on his bikes at Palmer’s shop in Minnesota to chat with Carruthers…
MotoAmerica has announced that it will host “Flat Track at the Brickyard” as part of the MotoAmerica Superbikes at the Brickyard weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, August 21-23. The two days of racing will mark the first time motorcycle flat track racing has been held at the Speedway. Held in conjunction with round eight of the 2020 MotoAmerica Series, the…
MotoAmerica has announced that Motul will be the presenting sponsor of the new MotoAmerica Mini Cup by Motul, the youth racing series that will be held in conjunction with three rounds of the 2020 MotoAmerica Series. “Motul’s sponsorship of the MotoAmerica Mini Cup is a natural fit for the company,” said Lance Bryson, MotoAmerica’s Senior Sponsorship Manager. “Their involvement in…
MotoAmerica has announced that the AMA has issued the rules package for the 2020 MotoAmerica Series, the home of AMA Superbike Championship, with regulations that feature slight changes to both the sporting and technical rules. Starting with the Superbike class, the changes are minimal and apply to both the engine and the chassis to further keep the rules in line…
The following is from Westby Racing… Westby Racing proudly welcomes iOneMoto, Inc., as a supporting team sponsor. The announcement was made by Tryg Westby, owner of Westby Racing. “We’re excited to welcome iOneMoto and (company owner) Fred Baly to the Westby Racing team,” Tryg said. “We’ve long admired iOneMoto’s products, which are race-proven with teams, and on racetracks, around the…
David Anthony is the team owner, racer and part-time crew chief for his MotoAmerica Superbike team, FLY Racing ADR Motorsports. That means he works the sponsorship front, works with the second rider on his team, spins spanners and… yes, he races. Good enough to find himself in the top 10 on most weekends in MotoAmerica Superbike while also helping make…
Is there a better way of getting over the post-holiday blues than watching nine consecutive hours of MotoAmerica Superbike racing on Fox Sports 2? We think not. Beginning at 6 a.m. (EST) and concluding at 2 p.m. (EST) on Sunday, December 29, FS2 will air nine straight hours of the 2019 MotoAmerica Superbike Series on its MotoAmerica Rewind show. That’s…
MotoAmerica is looking for racers and/or owners of vintage motorcycles to participate in its new Heritage Cup events at Road America, WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca and Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the 2020 MotoAmerica Series. Owners/racers of 1986 and older Superbikes, as well as other racing motorcycles, two-stroke or four-stroke, GP or Production, can apply to participate by sending a rider…
MotoAmerica has announced that pre-sale pricing for MotoAmerica Live+, the series’ live and on-demand streaming service, is now available for the 2020 MotoAmerica Series. In addition to the service being available for IOS and Android apps, MotoAmerica Live+ will also be available on Roku streaming media players and smart TVs prior to the start of the racing season. The pre-sale…
The following is from Yamaha… Yamaha Motor Corp., USA continued its storied tradition of recognizing Yamaha bLU cRU racers who won motorsports championships during a special Wall of Champions ceremony held in Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday, December 18. With more than 150 Yamaha employees in attendance, the company honored eight inductees who won professional championships in the 2019 racing season while competing with a Yamaha motorcycle, ATV,…
MotoAmerica is proud to announce that its broadcast TV ratings, live and on-demand streaming numbers, social media presence and race attendance grew by leaps and bounds in 2019, with the broadcast TV audience alone up more than double from 2018. In total, viewership for race programming alone averaged over 400,000 viewers per race weekend for a total that topped 4.2…
The following is from the Petersen Automotive Museum… The Petersen Automotive Museum has announced the promotion of Richard Varner to chairman of its board of directors, effective January 2020. Having served as treasurer since 2013, Varner brings more than 40 years of experience as a respected business leader, car collector, vintage racer and professional motorsports series co-owner to his new…
MotoAmerica has announced that Suzuki Motor of America, Inc. has reached an agreement with Team Hammer to become its official team for the 2020 MotoAmerica Series. In addition to its continued participation in Supersport and Twins Cup, Team Hammer will now field Suzuki’s premier Superbikes and add the Stock 1000 class to its list. The team enters the series as…
The following is from Westby Racing… Westby Racing is proud to announce that, for 2020, the road racing team—which competes in the MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Championship—will continue their long-standing partnership with Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. (YMUS). Officially formed in 2014 when Dane Westby was the team’s rider aboard a Yamaha YZF-R6, Westby Racing’s partnership with YMUS resulted in three…
He’s big in Japan. And soon he’ll be big in San Diego. Meet Andrew Lee, the two-time MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Champion. Lee tells us about his recent move down south, his season that was, and the season he’s hopeful of having as we caught up with the 20 year old between training sessions on this week’s Off Track Podcast with…
The following is from Road America… Make sure to mark your calendars as Road America’s Vintage MotoFest has moved to the MotoAmerica Series Superbike Weekend May 29-31. The true spirit of Vintage MotoFest is the bike show on Saturday, May 30, which includes a ride-in bike show and competition showcasing the greatest in classic style and fresh customization, plus all that…
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…
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…
Two-time MotoAmerica Supersport Champion Garrett Gerloff made a good impression in his first World Superbike test, the Texan ending the second day of testing with the sixth best time at the MotorLand Aragon circuit in Spain. Gerloff also had his first crash since joining the GRT Yamaha team, the tip-over taking place late in the final session. Gerloff improved his…
MotoAmerica and FOX Sports are pleased to announce that FS2 will continue to be the “Home of MotoAmerica Superbike Racing” for the 2020 MotoAmerica Series with one-hour shows set to air live on both Saturday and Sunday from each of the 10 rounds. Additionally, the Liqui Moly Junior Cup Series will also be shown on FS2 in 2020 with 30-minute…
Twenty six years after suffering his crash in the Italian Grand Prix, Wayne Rainey was back on a motorcycle for the first time this week at Buttonwillow Raceway Park in California. The three-time 500cc World Champion rode a modified Yamaha YZF-R1 and ended the day all smiles.
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…
MotoAmerica has announced that Indianapolis Motor Speedway will begin selling tickets to MotoAmerica Superbikes at the Brickyard event today, November 1. The event, round eight of the 2020 MotoAmerica Series, will be held August 21-23 at the Speedway. Tickets to the MotoAmerica Superbikes at the Brickyard event will be discounted starting on November 1 but will increase in price up…
Are you ready for this? Here’s the debut of our newest MotoAmerica project, The Rider’s Turn, and our first episode features Yoshimura Suzuki’s Josh Herrin. Watch Herrin as he methodically goes about his job at Circuit of the Americas in the opening round of the 2019 MotoAmerica EBC Brakes Superbike Series… and listen to Herrin as he explains his thought…
The following is from the AMA… Blake Davis was named the 2019 Nicky Hayden AMA Road Race Horizon Award winner and was one of four riders to receive AMA Racing Awards at the 2019 AMA Road Race Grand Championship on Oct. 27 at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala. Other riders to win AMA Racing Awards included AMA Youth Road…
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 following is from KWR… In July, we announced the giveaway of a Two-Day school with Champions Riding School, and the Grand Prize of an all-expenses paid trip to Arizona to train with Kyle at Inde Motorsports Ranch. We are pleased to announce the following winners! 2019 Grand Prize Winner: Army member #16 – Justin Passanise 2019 Yamaha Champions Riding…
