After a one-year hiatus from VIRginia International Raceway due to the COVID-19 pandemic, MotoAmerica returns to VIR next weekend for round two of the 2021 HONOS Superbike Championship. It’s a favorite track for many current riders, as well as a fan favorite. After all, the 14-turn, 2.25-mile natural road course has served up some very memorable AMA road races over…
The following is from Suzuki… Suzuki Motor USA, LLC and Team Hammer kicked off the 2021 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Road Racing Championship in midseason form, racking up a pair of victories, three podiums, and a pole position in the ‘21 opener at Road Atlanta. The weekend’s leading man was undoubtedly M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Sean Dylan Kelly, who made good…
Sunday was a day of first-time winners at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta with Ben Gloddy and Teagg Hobbs joining HONOS Superbike winner Jake Gagne in winning their first MotoAmerica races on a sunny Sunday in Georgia. After finishing on the podium eight times last year, Gloddy finally took to the top step with a hard-fought win in the SportbikeTrackGear.com Junior…
After finishing second eight times a season ago, Jake Gagne finally won his first career MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike race and he did so in style, working his way through to the sharp end of the field from his third row starting spot and pulling away to a 4.712-second victory. Gagne was fast all weekend and qualified on pole position for…
The following is from Westby Racing… Scholtz Strikes Gold, Wins Saturday’s Superbike Race At Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta; Roach Finishes Eighth In Junior Cup Just a little more than six months after suffering serious injuries to his right leg in a crash at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Westby Racing’s Mathew Scholtz notched the victory in Saturday’s Superbike race one at Michelin…
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…
Twenty-six HONOS Superbike riders will take to the Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta track this weekend for the opening round of the 2021 MotoAmerica Series, and all of them will do so from the same perspective: zero pole positions, zero wins, zero championship points. In other words, a new beginning. More than anything, 2021 promises change because change in this case…
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…
Supersport was, without a doubt, the most consistently compelling, must-see championship of the 2020 MotoAmerica season. In virtually every one of the 18 middleweight-class races held last year, the action was breathtaking and the display of talent and racecraft was world-class. In the end, it was HONOS Kawasaki rider Richie Escalante who took the championship, and he did so by…
We’ve received word from Altus Motorsports team owner George Nassaney that their Supersport rider Kevin Olmedo was been sidelined due to an injury that he sustained while training on a motocross bike. Former Twins Cup rider Cooper McDonald will fill in for Olmedo while he recovers, and the expectation is that McDonald will race the team’s Suzuki GSX-R600 in at…
Loris Baz took very little time acclimating to his Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati New York Panigale V4 R, the Dunlop tires and the MotoAmerica paddock today, the Frenchman leading the way with a 2:08.595 on a cloudy afternoon at the Circuit of The Americas in what was his series debut. Baz’s best lap came in the fourth and final 45-minute…
A MotoAmerica Superbike part-timer for the most part, Jayson Uribe is going all in for the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Series with a full-time ride on David Anthony’s FLY Racing ADR Motorsports team. Uribe will be armed with a Suzuki GSX-R1000 that he’s been testing and racing in California in preparation for the season. We caught up with Uribe for this…
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…
Only one rider will line up for the opening round of the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta with the knowledge that he won HONOS Superbikes races in 2020. That rider is Bobby Fong. Only two others tasted victory last year: Cameron Beaubier and Lorenzo Zanetti. Beaubier, who dominated the season with 16 wins en route to…
The following is from Suzuki Motor of America, Inc… Suzuki Motor of America, Inc. announces the return of Team Hammer as its official road racing partner for the 2021 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Road Racing Series. Team Hammer will field premier Superbike, Supersport and Stock 1000 class riders using Suzuki GSX-Rs for 2021. The team returns to the 2021 MotoAmerica…
FLY Racing ADR Motorsports team owner David Anthony has announced that he has signed 21-year-old Jayson Uribe to compete in the HONOS Superbike series. Anthony will continue his dual role as team owner and rider for the team, and both he and Uribe will be aboard Suzuki GSX-R1000 Superbikes. Uribe, who is from Napa Valley, California, began riding and racing…
Altus Motorsports has announced that Kevin Olmedo and Jaret Nassaney have been re-signed to compete for the team in MotoAmerica’s Supersport Series. Both riders will again be aboard Suzuki GSX-R600 motorcycles. Olmedo continues with the team after completing an impressive rookie season in which he was a top-five finisher in most of the races. He also reached the podium in…
The following is from Team Hammer, Inc…. 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…
When a motorcycle road racing organization, like AMA road racing and its current form MotoAmerica, requires that the motorcycles competing in the series be production-based streetbikes that have been adapted for closed-course competition, the motorcycle manufacturers sometimes produce a limited run of high-spec units for public sale so that they can legally be raced. Such motorcycles are commonly called “Homologation Specials.”…
A lot of work goes into each MotoAmerica season, and for the riders, teams, and especially the MotoAmerica staff, that work begins pretty much right after the previous season ends. There are racetracks to negotiate with, schedules to make, old rules to be revised, new rules to be made, and new motorcycles to be approved for racing in the MotoAmerica…
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…
You can’t stop Jake “The Snake” Lewis, you can only hope to…sign him. And Altus Motorsports did. Following Altus Motorsports’ best MotoAmerica season yet, which saw Cameron Petersen race the Altus Motorsports Suzuki GSX-R1000 to eight wins, the 2020 Stock 1000 Championship, and the 2020 Superbike Cup, the team knew they have a title-winning bike, but big shoes to fill…
A three-time AMA 750 Supersport Champion, 1992 AMA Superbike Champion, 1993 World Superbike Champion, two-time 500cc Grand Prix podium finisher, Suzuka 8 Hour winner…oh, and five-time Daytona 200 winner, Scott Russell had a hell of a career. Now a competitive cyclist, the Screaming Chief is this week’s guest on Off Track With Carruthers And Bice where the 2005 AMA Motorcycle…
In 2020, Oklahoma-based Altus Motorsports had their best-year ever, winning the Stock 1000 Championship with South African rider Cameron Petersen aboard their Suzuki GSX-R1000. And, as 2021 rapidly approaches, the team, which has one of the largest footprints in the entire MotoAmerica paddock, has announced two of their riders for the upcoming season. Back aboard his #59 Altus Motorsports Suzuki…
#12DaysOfMotoAmerica Day 3 Bobby Fong
#12DaysOfMotoAmerica Day 4 Toni Elias
#12DaysOfMotoAmerica Day 8 Cameron Petersen
#12DaysOfMotoAmerica Day 10 David Anthony
In the 1990s and early-to-mid 2000s, before the days of the “Big Kahuna” events that introduced Superbike doubleheaders that are the way of the world in the MotoAmerica era, it was very common for riders to compete in AMA professional road racing’s two major classes: Superbike and Supersport. Some of the riders of that era, most notably AMA Hall of…
