MotoAmerica, the premier motorcycle road racing series in North America, is pleased to announce that the 2021 Aprilia RS 660 has met the AMA’s homologation requirements and is approved to compete in the 2021 MotoAmerica Twins Cup Championship. “We are excited to have Aprilia race in our Twins Cup series with its new RS 660,” said MotoAmerica President Wayne Rainey.…
Öhlins, the world’s leading motorcycle and automotive suspension brand, will return as an official partner of MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series. The 2021 MotoAmerica season begins at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, April 30-May 1, and concludes at Barber Motorsports Park, September 17-19. “We are committed to MotoAmerica and our support vehicle and technical staff will again be…
Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, BARTCON Racing owner Colin Barton was left with some soul searching in regard to his 2021 MotoAmerica racing plans and his star rider Dominic Doyle. Turns out, Barton has opted to step up and move Doyle to the MotoAmerica Supersport Series on a Kawasaki ZX-6R. “Knowing that the next step in Dominic’s career had…
Team Hammer, Inc. is thrilled to announce the signing of top prospect Sam Lochoff to contest the 2021 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Road Racing series. The 18-year-old South African will step up to MotoAmerica Supersport competition in 2021 aboard a Team Hammer-built M4 ECSTAR Suzuki GSX-R600. Lochoff turned heads by landing on the podium in his MotoAmerica debut in 2019, finishing third…
MotoAmerica, the premier motorcycle road racing series in North America, is pleased to announce that aRacer SpeedTek has come on board as a sponsorship partner for the 2021 season. The Taiwanese engineering company specializes in engine management systems, including the design and manufacture of engine control units (ECUs), electronic fuel injection units, and other electronic parts for motorcycles and automobiles.…
The following is from Jason Aguilar Racing… Jason Aguilar reluctantly announces that due to a change in circumstance he will no longer compete in this year’s MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. The news, which comes only a short time after the exciting announcement that was set to see the rider who placed fourth overall in Supersport last year, is disappointing for all concerned…
The following is from Pure Attitude Racing… Pure Attitude Racing is pleased to announce that Trevor Standish will remain with the team for the 2021 season. Trevor, a former podium finisher in the MotoAmerica Junior Cup series, stepped up to the Twins Cup in 2020, finishing equal seventh overall, with a best result of sixth at the season finale at…
Mathew Scholtz was having a hell of a season on his Westby Racing Yamaha YZF-R1. Right up until the point when he wasn’t. It all went horribly wrong at Indianapolis Motor Speedway when Scholtz and Cameron Beaubier crashed and Beaubier’s bike struck Scholtz’ leg. The result was surgery, the end of the South African’s season, and a lot of off-season…
Due to COVID-19 and the uncertainty of the Circuit of The Americas round of its 2021 series, MotoAmerica, the premier motorcycle road racing series in North America, has announced it will add a third HONOS Superbike race to the final two rounds of the championship at New Jersey Motorsports Park (September 10-12) and Barber Motorsports Park (September 17-19). The third…
The following is from Pure Attitude Racing… Pure Attitude Racing is delighted to announce that they will be on track and competing in at least three categories of MotoAmerica racing this season, in addition to expanding their Academy Program. Podium finishers with Trevor Standish in the Junior Cup category in recent years, Pure Attitude Racing will be represented on track…
MotoAmerica, the premier motorcycle road racing series in North America, is pleased to announce that it will be the Race portion of Royal Enfield’s Build, Train, Race (BTR) program with a group of women selected by Royal Enfield to prepare and race its Continental GT 650 motorcycles in three rounds of the 10-round 2021 MotoAmerica series. Royal Enfield’s BTR program…
The Super Bowl is this Sunday, and who do two of the Wyman Brothers think will win? Kyle Wyman and Cody Wyman may agree on MotoAmerica, but they don’t agree on who this year’s Super Bowl Champion will be. Check out the video, and comment with your own prediction and final score.
Jake Lewis will be back in the MotoAmerica paddock in 2021 after sitting out the majority of the 2020 series. Lewis is set to headline the Altus Motorsports team, racing a Suzuki GSX-R1000 in both Stock 1000 and the Superbike Cup in the HONOS Superbike class. We spoke to the Kentuckian for this week’s episode of Off Track With Carruthers…
Veteran rider Walt Sipp announced today that he has once again teamed with Thrashed Bike Racing to contest select MotoAmerica Stock 1000 and Superbike Cup events on a Yamaha R1. Despite learning an all new bike to him, Walt was able to show good pace and hovered inside and around the top 10 in Stock 1000 at nearly every race…
Jeff Purk is the racing dentist. That’s right. A dentist. When he’s not blazing around racetracks as a regular in the MotoAmerica Series, Purk is a practicing dentist in Iowa. We caught up with “the racing dentist” this week for our 118th episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to see what it takes to do two completely different…
The highs and the lows for PJ Jacobsen in 2020 were definitely more on the low end of the scale. After winning the opening round of the MotoAmerica Stock 100 Series at Road America 1, Jacobsen had a frightening crash when he had to jump off his Ducati at speed when it caught fire during morning warmup for round two.…
MotoAmerica, the premier motorcycle road racing series in North America, is pleased to announce that Sportbike Track Gear, the family owned and operated motorcycle apparel and parts specialists, will be the title sponsor of the 2021 MotoAmerica Junior Cup Series with the class titled the SportbikeTrackGear.com Junior Cup, effective immediately. Owned by the Vandenbrouck family (commonly known as the Vans),…
Jason Aguilar finished on the Supersport podium three times in 2020 en route to fourth in the championship. This week, the 2017 MotoAmerica Superstock 600 Champion announced that six years of racing a 600 are behind him as he made it public that he was going Superbike racing in 2021. Aguilar will race a RiderzLaw-backed Yamaha YZF-R1 in the 2021…
Long-time Supersport specialist Jason Aguilar is jumping off his middleweight machine and swinging his leg over the #96 RiderzLaw Aguilar Racing Yamaha YZF-R1 Superbike for the 2021 MotoAmerica season. MotoAmerica Communications Manager Paul Carruthers was the first to talk with Aguilar about his new venture in America’s premier motorcycle road racing class, and here’s the interview.
The following is from Top Pro Motorsports… While most of the U.S. slumbers through the colder months and off-season doldrums, things are happening in fast forward in Florida with the 2021 race season already under way and with MotoAmerica preparation in full swing for the Top Pro Motorsports Team and rookie rider Alex Arango. While Arango enjoyed his debut ride…
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Keith McCarty, Motorsports Racing Division Manager for Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., is retiring from his position after 44 years. He joined Carruthers and Bice on this episode of Off Track to talk about his incredible career in which he worked with legendary racers from Bob “Hurricane” Hannah to Josh “Hurricane” Hayes. We also asked him about his love of road…
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The following is from Suzuki Motor of America… Executing a comprehensive plan to build a strong foundation for the future, Suzuki Motor of America, Inc. has announced it will restructure its operations in the United States. This new direction will reorganize the Suzuki Motorcycle/ATV and Marine Divisions into two separate companies set to begin operations on April 1, 2021. This…
The following is from Suzuki Motor of America, Inc… Suzuki Motor of America, Inc., bids a fond farewell to Toni Elias, as the two will conclude their extraordinarily successful five-year partnership at the end of the 2020 season. Elias took the American championship by storm in 2016, winning the first three races of his MotoAmerica Suzuki career on the then…
The following is from Brandon Paasch… Brandon Paasch is excited to announce that he will join HONOS Racing for the final Supersport race with MotoAmerica at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca the weekend of October 23-25. After racing a Yamaha R6 and securing third place in the 2020 championship with Celtic HSBK Racing, Paasch was released early from his contract to…
The two men who duked it out for the 2020 MotoAmerica Supersport Championship, Richie Escalante and Sean Dylan Kelly, will get to see just how good they are in the series finale at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca when JD Beach, the winningest rider in MotoAmerica Supersport history, returns to action. Beach will ride the Celtic HSBK Yamaha YZF-R6 ridden all…
