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…
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…
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…
ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly drew first blood in the 2021 MotoAmerica Supersport Championship with his victory over rival Richie Escalante in the season-opener at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, but in the other support classes it was mostly new blood taking advantage of the class champions exiting stage left. Supersport: Here We Go Again The tight battles at the front…
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…
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…
The following is from Scott Powersports… Scott Powersports is excited to announce that with the support of KTM North America, Tyler Scott will race aboard the KTM RC 390 R in his first MotoAmerica Sportbike Trackgear Junior Cup season in 2021. “KTM is thrilled to have Tyler and Scott Powersports flying the orange flag this year in MotoAmerica,” Chris Fillmore,…
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…
The following is the first in our 21 in ’21 features that highlight the 21 AMA Superbike Champions each week as we move through the 2021 MotoAmerica season – the 45th year of the premier class championship. Reg Pridmore was the first-ever AMA Superbike Champion in 1976. And the second and the third in ’77 and ’78. The Brit, who…
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…
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…
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…
The following is from GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team… For the final test session ahead of the beginning of the 2021 FIM Superbike World Championship, the GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team made the most out of two days of on-track activity at the Motorland Aragón circuit. Good weather conditions helped the team work on understanding how to help the riders gain confidence…
Tortilla chips, wraps, dips, salsas… and King of the Baggers V-twin motorcycle road racing. Does it get any better than that? MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, is thrilled to announce Mission Foods, the world’s leading brand for tortillas and wraps, as the title sponsor of its highly anticipated three-round 2021 Mission King of the Baggers Series. Last…
MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, is proud to announce that Indian Motorcycles has come on board as an official partner of the 2021 MotoAmerica Series. Indian Motorcycles, America’s first motorcycle company, came away with a win in the debut of the King of the Baggers at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca last year with Tyler O’Hara riding his…
The following is from Harley-Davidson… A new Harley-Davidson® Screamin’ Eagle® factory racing team will compete in the MotoAmerica King of the Baggers Championship, a road racing series held in conjunction with the 2021 MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike Series. The team is preparing a Harley-Davidson Road Glide® Special powered by a race-modified Screamin’ Eagle® Milwaukee-Eight 131 Performance Crate Engine for pro rider…
Richie Escalante had an incredible season in 2020, the Mexico City resident dominating the MotoAmerica Supersport Championship with 13 victories on his HONOS-backed Kawasaki. And it doesn’t look like success has gone to Escalante’s head as he showed up at this week’s Dunlop Preseason Test in shape and very, very fast as he led all eight of the Supersport sessions…
M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Bobby Fong ran through the gamut of emotions in the final session of the two-day Dunlop Preseason Test at the Circuit of The Americas (COTA) on Wednesday – elation, disappointment and, ultimately, happiness. Fong turned in the best lap of the test in the eighth and final session today, but the lap was taken away when it…
MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, is pleased to announce that Motion Pro will again be a sponsorship partner for the 2021 MotoAmerica Championship. Motion Pro, which was founded in 1984 by 6-day ISDT gold medalist Chris Carter, designs innovative tools and products that help owners maintain and repair their motorcycles. From top-tier racers to casual weekend riders,…
Cameron Petersen has to pinch himself every morning when he wakes up at his home in Southern California. Suddenly, despite some potholes in the road from South Africa to a full-time racing career in America, Petersen has hit the motherlode – a contract to race a full-blown Superbike in the MotoAmerica Superbike Series for the M4 ECSTAR Suzuki team. “I…
