Barber Motorsports Park News and Notes… Since 2017, Barber Motorsports Park has played host to the MotoAmerica season finale. That won’t be the case this year as COVID-19 forced schedule changes that pushed both the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca rounds to the end of the season. Barber is now the seventh round with Indy and Laguna…
It’s been “a few years” since AMA Superbikes turned their wheels in anger in America’s Pacific Northwest, but exactly how long has it been, you might ask. To be precise, it was a 35-year hiatus. Almost exactly three-and-half decades ago was the last time there was an AMA Superbike race in Washington State, and it was held on August 17,…
When Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing’s Cameron Beaubier crossed the finish line at Barber Motorsports Park on the final day of the 2019 MotoAmerica EBC Brakes Superbike season, it increased Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. (YMUS)’s all-time Superbike Championship tally to a nice, round 10 titles. For long-time YMUS Racing employees Tom Halverson and Rick Hobbs, Superbike Championship number 10 had to…
OK, MotoAmerica fans, let’s play a quick game of “Who Am I?” I’m a lanky kid from Texas who won a professional motorcycle road racing championship aboard a Yamaha, then I moved up to a Yamaha Superbike, had a solid rookie year, and in my second year on the bike, I won three races. Who am I? If your answer…
It’s the off-season. So what’s a man with an iPhone supposed to do other than wear out his Instagram account? Well how about use the calculator to calculate interesting things as they relate to the MotoAmerica Series. It’s why they pay me the big bucks. And it’s why they gave me the biggest phone. So, on a quiet afternoon in…
