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
MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, is pleased to announce that Ducati North America has come on board as an official series partner as well as an official manufacturer of the GEICO Motorcycle Superbike Speedfest at Monterey – round five of the 2021 MotoAmerica Series, July 9-11, at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. For the 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 fourth 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 1983 AMA Superbike Championship wasn’t one that Wayne Rainey was supposed to win. With Honda bringing its brand-spanking-new VF750F to the party,…
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…
There’s an old saying that goes, “Those who can, do, and those who can’t, teach.” For obvious reasons, it’s not a saying that’s espoused—or believed to be true—by any teachers I’ve ever met. It’s certainly not espoused by my…spouse, who is an 8th-grade language arts teacher as well as an accomplished poet. The saying is also not embraced by one…
MotoAmerica’s Superbikes at The Brickyard race event starts on Friday and runs through Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Racing Capital of the World. Indianapolis Motor Speedway is providing a MotoAmerica spectator zone in the Turn 1 grandstands during all three days of the event, which offers really good sightlines of the road course. Unfortunately, fans will not be permitted…
Among the multitude of American motorcycle road racing fans who were beaming with Yankee pride over Garrett’s Gerloff’s podium finish in Sunday’s World Superbike race were MotoAmerica President, two-time AMA Superbike Champion, and three-time 500cc Grand Prix World Champion Wayne Rainey, along with three-time AMA Superbike Champion, 2009 World Superbike Champion, and MotoGP race winner Ben Spies. Spies called Gerloff…
Thirty years ago today, MotoAmerica President and three-time 500cc World Champion Wayne Rainey could have taken the cautious approach. After all, he only needed to finish third in any of the final three races to earn the first of his three 500cc World Championships. But that’s not the Rainey way. Instead, he took the lead from Rothmans Honda’s Wayne Gardner…
It’s been “a few years” since AMA Superbikes turned their wheels in anger in America’s Pacific Northwest, but exactly how long has it been, you might ask. To be precise, it was a 35-year hiatus. Almost exactly three-and-half decades ago was the last time there was an AMA Superbike race in Washington State, and it was held on August 17,…
The following is from Motorcycle Racer… The very first edition of “Motorcycle Racer On Air,” the Audio Visual version of Motorcycle Racer magazine, is now available free of charge, thanks to Pocketmags. Featuring MotoAmerica, it includes exclusive audio interviews with a plethora of race photographs that you can see – and listen to – free of charge. You can get…
When the right clip-on came loose on Josh Herrin’s Scheibe Racing BMW S 1000 RR Superbike on the final lap of Saturday’s HONOS Superbike race one at Pittsburgh International Race Complex, a lot of fans were surprised by what transpired and wondered how something like that could ever happen on a racebike. We checked into it and discovered that the…
The following is from Faster Movies… July 12 is the 15th anniversary of MotoGP’s arrival in the USA. We’re celebrating the 2005 Laguna Seca race and, especially, the life of Nicky Hayden with a special free screening online of The Doctor, The Tornado & The Kentucky Kid. July 12, 2020 all day all around the world. This is a new, re-mastered…
The following is from Yamaha… Description: When you think of the great Grand Prix Yamaha riders, Wayne Rainey is always amongst the first on the list. Six years in the 500cc class brought three riders’ world championships for the American, and he will forever be known as a legend of the sport. His career was tragically cut short when he…
BT Sports’ MotoGP commentators Gavin Emmett and Suzi Perry recap what was a tumultuous 1992 GP500 season for three-time World Champion and MotoAmerica President Wayne Rainey.
After completing a one-day test at Buttonwillow Raceway Park in California, MotoAmerica President and three-time 500cc World Champion Wayne Rainey (https://motoamerica.com/2019/11/video-wayne-rainey-rides-again/) headed to Japan where he rode a motorcycle again – this time in front of a huge crowd of Japanese race fans at the Suzuka Circuit, the site of one of his four GP victories in his final season…
Twenty six years after suffering his crash in the Italian Grand Prix, Wayne Rainey was back on a motorcycle for the first time this week at Buttonwillow Raceway Park in California. The three-time 500cc World Champion rode a modified Yamaha YZF-R1 and ended the day all smiles.
MotoAmerica honored its five 2019 MotoAmerica Champions and those who pushed them the hardest on Monday night, September 23, at a gala event in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, a day after the battles had been won and lost at Barber Motorsports Park. The list of champions from 2019 is impressive: Twins Cup Champion Alex Dumas, Stock 1000 Champion Andrew Lee, Liqui…
You can’t spell “KRAVE” without the “R” and the “V,” and in this week’s episode of Off Track, Carruthers and Bice talk with Wayne Rainey and Richard Varner, two members of the KRAVE Group, which launched MotoAmerica five years ago. The new schedule, two new racetracks, and the lots of other MotoAmerica topics are discussed, so be sure to check…
MotoAmerica is proud to announce its 2020 MotoAmerica Series with a 10-round schedule that includes a round at a new venue and a revisit to one of the most famous racetracks in the world. For its sixth season of running the AMA Superbike Series, the MotoAmerica Series will consist of 10 rounds from California to New Jersey and eight places…
Cycle World Magazine’s Technical Editor Kevin Cameron penned a feature article that was posted on the magazine’s website today that’s based on an interview with MotoAmerica’s four partners – Richard Varner, Wayne Rainey, Chuck Aksland and Terry Karges. The article can be found at http://bit.ly/2mfpiz4
Roadracingworld.com featured a story on its website today chronicling the comments made recently by Ben Spies in regard to the future of U.S. road racing and MotoAmerica. Here’s a link to that story. https://www.roadracingworld.com/news/motoamerica-president-and-three-time-world-champion-wayne-rainey-says-were-here-to-stay/
Jay Leno recently talked to MotoAmerica’s Wayne Rainey and Richard Varner about the custom-built, TZ750-inspired Yamaha that fueled the birth of the MotoAmerica motorcycle road racing series.
Greg’s Garage Pod with Co-Host Jason Pridmore – A motorcycle racing Pod about MotoGP, MotoAmerica and World Superbike. Supercross, American Flat Track and more. In this episode Co-Hosts Greg White and Jason Pridmore talk: This one is all about the North American Road Racing Championship, MotoAmerica. We talk with MotoAmerica President Wayne Rainey about what is new for 2019 and more.…
MotoAmerica is looking for experienced corner marshals to work at the opening round of the 2019 MotoAmerica Series at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, April 5-7. MotoAmerica will pay $100 a day plus a guest pass for experienced marshals who want to assist at the Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta round. The series is looking for marshals for all three…
You can run, but you can’t hide: Wayne Rainey was always able to run away from the pack at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, but he couldn’t run from Paul Carruthers and Sean Bice in last week’s “Off Track” podcast. Listen in to see what the Prez has to say about TV, etc.
MotoAmerica is planning to jump start your week tomorrow with an announcement regarding its 2019 television and digital programming. The series embarks on its fifth season of racing in just 53 days and it promises to be the best yet for so many reasons. One of those reasons will be released tomorrow with others following throughout the week. It looks…
First things first, Happy New Year. Last year was good, this year is going to be even better and I’m excited for the 2019 MotoAmerica season. In fact, I’m ready for the racing to get started now. For starters, we are very close to announcing a new television package for the 2019 season and we’re taking the production of the…
When JD Beach announced that he would compete in both the MotoAmerica Championship and the American Flat Track Championship in 2019, no doubt, those among us “of a certain age” immediately harkened back to the halcyon days of the original AMA Grand National Championship. Founded and sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association in 1954, the AMA Grand National Championship encompassed five…
WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca is an 11-turn, 2.238-mile road course on California’s Monterey Peninsula, and the track is a favorite of racers and fans worldwide. Three-time 500cc Grand Prix World Champion and two-time AMA Superbike Champion Wayne Rainey won a grand total of six races at WeatherTech Laguna Seca, including the 1983 AMA Superbike race on a Kawasaki, the 1984…
