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, has announced that in addition to airing live coverage of the 2021 MotoAmerica Supersport Series as it did in 2020, MAVTV Motorsports Network will feature the MotoAmerica SportbikeTrackGear.com Junior Cup Series in its new kids programming block called “After School Next Gen Racing.” Along with “After School Next Gen Racing,”…
The following is from Landers Racing… Rocco Landers is coming off of two stunning seasons, where he was able to break many records, get 38 wins, 45 Podiums, both 2019 and 2020 Junior Cup Championships, and the 2020 Twins Cup Championship. He will compete aboard the proven Yamaha YZF-R6 in the 600 supersport class in 2021. In addition, MotoAmerica Junior…
By definition, a turning point is the point of highest tension in a narrative work. It’s also the exact moment where the protagonist finally overcomes the obstacles, sees the light at the end of the tunnel, and heads toward triumph. We’ve seen it in thousands of cinematic productions, from every single Rocky movie ever made, to countless war films, to…
The teams and riders in the MotoAmerica series are a highly competitive lot. They race each other hard on the track. But, in the paddock, there is a lot of benevolence where everything from spare parts to suspension settings is freely shared. The lessons in “sharing” that Supersport rider Nolan Lamkin learned in kindergarten clearly stayed with him because the…
Two-time MotoAmerica Liqui Moly Junior Cup Champion and 2020 MotoAmerica Twins Cup Champion Rocco Landers made his 600cc Supersport debut this past weekend at Chuckwalla Valley Raceway in Desert Center, California, and it was a good one. Landers made his debut on Melissa Paris’ Yamaha YZF-R6, a motorcycle formerly raced by her husband, four-time AMA Superbike Champion Josh Hayes. The…
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…
The following is from Topbox Road Racing… After exploading onto the scene at the club level and winning multiple championships with WERA in his first year, Mark Faulkner will make his professional debut this weekend for round 7 at Barber Motorsports Park with MotoAmerica. Supported by friends and small business owners in his childhood hometown of Savannah, GA. he will…
Richie Escalante and Cameron Beaubier now have two things in common: Neither are perfect, but both are in control. Just like Beaubier in the HONOS Superbike class, Escalante has won five of the six Supersport races held in the 2020 MotoAmerica Series. And while Beaubier controls the Superbike title chase with a 19-point lead and in seemingly unbeatable form, Escalante…
MotoAmerica is pleased to announce that its new partnership with MAVTV will start with a bang at round one of the 2020 MotoAmerica Series with the motorsports network set to air the first two Supersport races of the season live from Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, May 30-31. The opening round of the 2020 MotoAmerica Series at Road America…
MotoAmerica has announced an agreement with television network MAVTV Motorsports Network to air coverage of the 2020 MotoAmerica Supersport Series. MAVTV’s coverage will feature 18 one-hour programs, plus a re-air for each show, with the races set to air approximately two weeks after each event. MAVTV, which is owned and operated by Lucas Oil and located in Corona, California, airs…
Despite the never-ending, always evolving march of technology, road racing motorcycles—as has been the case since the very beginning of road racing—still have manual transmissions, with six cogs or “speeds” to choose from. Across all five race classes, virtually all of the motorcycles competing in the MotoAmerica Series are equipped with two important innovations to their manual or “standard” transmissions:…
In the currently running movie Ford v Ferrari, which stars academy award winners Matt Damon as the legendary Carroll Shelby and Christian Bale as race car driver Ken Miles, there is a subplot where Miles contemplates, and discusses, “the perfect lap.” It’s a somewhat quixotic concept that resonates with racers of virtually every discipline. So, for this week’s edition of…
The following is from Tuned Racing… Attention race fans! Tuned Racing is proud to announce that we will be fielding two premier Supersport riders for the last rounds of the MotoAmerica series. Starting at the MotoAmerica Championship of New Jersey in Millville, New Jersey, we are happy to say that Braeden Ortt is coming home and will be aboard the…
Midwesterner Nolan Lamkin is another one of the original MotoAmerica riders who has been with us since the series began in 2015. He started out in the KTM RC Cup class and, after two seasons, moved up to Supersport. We caught up with the Cycle Gear Racing Yamaha rider and asked him “The Friday Five.” Here are his answers: 1.…
It seems that the demise of middleweight motorcycle road racing has definitely been greatly exaggerated. As we head into round four of the 2019 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North America Road Racing Championship, the entry list for the Supersport class is 32 riders strong and chock-full of talent. Along with current championship leader PJ Jacobsen, current second-place challenger Richie Escalante, 2018 championship…
Rickdiculous Racing has announced that it has signed two-time MotoAmerica Supersport Champion JD Beach to a contract that will see the former Yamaha factory rider campaign the Rickdiculous Yamaha R6 alongside Hayden Gillim and Gauge Rees. “The RiCK family is so excited that JD Beach has joined our team for 2019 – creating a dream team for 2019,” said team…
