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…
