The following is from Bradley Ward Racing… Returning to the track at Brainerd International Raceway this past weekend, Ward far exceeded his expectations, impressing many as he raced to tenth and ninth respectively in the two Superbike races at the 2.5-mile circuit. Unsure of how he would perform having not actively ridden a bike in more than a year, the #57…
Jake Gagne made history on Sunday at Brainerd International Raceway, the Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha man racing to his 11th straight MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike win to break a record set jointly by four-time AMA Superbike Champion Josh Hayes and five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier. The win was like most of Gagne’s other victories. Dominating. He shot off…
The following is from Team Hammer… Team Hammer enjoyed a spectacular return to Brainerd International Raceway following a 17-year absence, scoring two wins and four podiums in Saturday’s MotoAmerica races with the promise of more coming on Sunday. The headliner again was M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly, who extended his MotoAmerica Supersport win streak to five in another nail-biter.…
BRAINERD, MN (July 31, 2021) – Jake Lewis and Richie Escalante both came to Brainerd International Raceway needing race wins in order to pull back the points disadvantage they faced heading into Minnesota. Lewis did just that while Escalante was thwarted in his attempt on a sunny, yet smoky, Saturday in the resort town of Brainerd. With Lewis winning the…
Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha’s Jake Gagne has now won 10 races in a row in the 2021 MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike Championship, but this one was different. On Saturday at Brainerd International Raceway, Gagne crashed and still managed to win the first AMA Superbike race held at BIR in 17 years. Leading the race on the second lap, Gagne…
Based on Friday’s Q1 from Brainerd International Raceway on Friday, we may just have a battle or two on our hands come race time on Saturday and Sunday in the MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike class. Again, the field was led by runaway championship leader Jake Gagne on his Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha, but for the second round in a…
The following is part one of the 14th episode of our “21 In ‘21” series that highlights 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. Ben Bostrom proved that being consistent wins championships. In clinching the 1998 AMA Superbike Championship aboard his…
It’s most definitely go-time for those not at the top of their respective championship point standings in the 2021 MotoAmerica Championship as the series heads to Brainerd International Raceway for the sixth of nine rounds this weekend, July 30-August 1. That’s right. When the dust settles at BIR on Sunday afternoon, there will be just three rounds remaining in the…
The last time Brainerd International Raceway hosted an AMA Superbike race, Jake Gagne was a 10-year-old boy with dreams of being a champion. Now, 17 years later, Gagne and the MotoAmerica Series heads to Minnesota for round six with the Californian riding a nine-race win streak in the HONOS Superbike class and looking for more. If not for a mechanical…
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With his two recent second-place finishes at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Loris Baz has given those who believe he will be the first rider to beat runaway championship leader Jake Gagne a lot more hope. After all, he only lost the two HONOS Superbike races at Laguna to Gagne by 1.173 and 1.789 seconds, respectively. Baz has always had faith…
The following are a few local news stories that featured MotoAmerica and its riders from last weekend’s MotoAmerica Superbike Speedfest at Monterey. Among those featured on KION were Frankie Garcia and Rocco Landers with MotoAmerica President Wayne Rainey being interviewed on Rider Magazine’s podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-16-wayne-rainey-president-motoamerica-motorcycle/id1494161137?i=1000528143409
Broken elbow, be damned. Kyle Wyman is the 2021 MotoAmerica Mission King Of The Baggers Champion. Wyman did what was needed to do to earn the title on his factory Harley-Davidson Screamin’ Eagle Road Glide as the three-round series culminated on a sunny day on the Monterey Peninsula. Mission King Of The Baggers: Wyman Crowned! The three-round Mission King Of…
Newsflash: Jake Gagne got passed today at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in the second of two HONOS Superbike races in the MotoAmerica Superbike Speedfest at Monterey. But it only lasted two corners. Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha’s Gagne ran off the track on the run from turn five to turn six on the opening lap and the mistake allowed…
MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, is excited to announce that Medallia Inc., the global leader in customer and employee experience, has come on-board as an official partner for the GEICO Motorcycle Superbike Speedfest at Monterey, round five of the 2021 MotoAmerica Series at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, July 9-11. Medallia’s award-winning SaaS platform, the Medallia Experience Cloud,…
The following is the 12th in our “21 In ‘21” features that highlights 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. Doug Polen’s riding style was basic and old-school. He sat up tall in the saddle, elbows in, knee out. Compare it…
Last year, Richie Escalante came to the season finale at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca with the Supersport Championship already in his pocket after a dominating season that saw him win 13 races. Sean Dylan Kelly, meanwhile, came to Monterey hoping for a few victories to end a season in which he came out second-best to Escalante. By the end of…
MotoAmerica, the premier motorcycle road racing series in North America, is pleased to announce that Russ Brown Motorcycle Attorneys is again an official supporting partner of the MotoAmerica GEICO Motorcycle Superbike Speedfest at Monterey, scheduled for July 9-11, at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Russ Brown Motorcycle Attorneys will have staff on hand at their trackside booth offering the Free Nationwide…
Kyle Wyman Racing has announced that the team will field 2017 MotoAmerica Superbike Champion and 2010 Moto2 World Champion Toni Elias on its Panera Bread Ducati Panigale V4 R at next weekend’s MotoAmerica GEICO Motorcycle Superbike Speedfest at Monterey as a replacement rider for the injured Kyle Wyman. Elias will replace injured team owner/racer Kyle Wyman, who will be focusing…
This video is part of our “21 in ’21” series that highlights 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. Scott Russell will always be known as “Mr. Daytona” and for good reason. After all, he did win five of what used…
The most positive of the wannabe challengers to Jake Gagne in the 2021 MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike Series can take a smidgen of hope to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in two weeks that the Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha rider only beat his teammate Josh Herrin by 4.4 and 5.6 seconds, respectively, in the two races at Ridge Motorsports Park.…
SHELTON, WA (June 26, 2021) – Fresh N’ Lean Attack Performance Yamaha’s Jake Gagne’s plan doesn’t change from race to race. And why would it? It’s simple, really. Qualify on pole position, get the jump on everyone off the start and put the race out of reach in the first handful of laps. Such was the case again on a…
You have to walk before you can run and today Loris Baz started to jog as he earned provisional pole for the weekend’s two MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike races on a scorching-hot afternoon at Ridge Motorsports Park by out-qualifying Jake Gagne, a task that has proven to be virtually impossible thus far in 2021. Frenchman Baz and his Warhorse HSBK Racing…
All four of the MotoAmerica support classes feature close battles in the chase for class championships as the series brings the fight to the Pacific Northwest and Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton, Washington, with first and second in those four separated by a total of just 43 points. The closest championship fight in the 2021 MotoAmerica Series as we get…
Last year marked the debut of MotoAmerica in the Pacific Northwest with the first-ever HONOS Superbike race at Ridge Motorsports Park and Cameron Beaubier left Washington State with two more wins as he approached the middle of a 10-race win streak that ultimately led him to a fifth MotoAmerica Superbike title. Although that was then and this is now, you’d…
The men of the World Superbike Series visited the Circuit de Navarra in Spain for the first time today, and MotoAmerican Garrett Gerloff led the way with the fastest time in the afternoon session. Navarra, which is located near Los Arcos in northern Spain, will play host to the seventh round of the World Superbike Championship for the first time,…
The following is from Panera Bread/KWR Ducati… The Panera Bread/KWR Ducati Superbike team has withdrawn from this weekend’s MotoAmerica Superbike event at Ridge Motorsports Park. After the crash and subsequent injury of rider and team owner Kyle Wyman, the team will forgo participation in round four of the championship to focus on the following round at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.…
Imagine riding your motorcycle through some of the most picturesque areas of California’s Central Coast on a Friday in July, ending up at the iconic WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, having your day culminate with a Q&A session with three-time World Champion and MotoAmerica President Wayne Rainey, four-time World Champion Eddie Lawson and other surprise guests before enjoying nonstop racing action…
The following is the eighth 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. Much like the Bubba Shobert, who preceded him two years earlier in the list of AMA Superbike Champions, Doug Chandler was…
Kyle Wyman was under a tad bit of pressure to give Harley-Davidson its first Mission King Of The Baggers victory at its home race at Road America and he came through in a big way on a sunny Sunday in Wisconsin. Wyman not only gave Harley the victory it wanted, but the Motor Company swept the podium with new recruit…
