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…
The following is from Yoshimura Suzuki… The 2019 MotoAmerica Superbike season finale will go down as one of supreme disappointment for Yoshimura Suzuki Factory Racing. Toni Elias, who led the standings nearly the entire season, and had a 16-point advantage coming into the event, suffered a challenging weekend, chasing bike setup all along the way. He managed a podium on…
What seemed like the improbable just three days ago turned into reality for Cameron Beaubier on a sunny Sunday in Alabama, the Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing rider winning a fourth MotoAmerica Superbike crown by five points over his rival Toni Elias with a sweep of the two EBC Superbike races at Barber Motorsports Park. Beaubier did everything he needed to…
The newly resurfaced Barber Motorsports Park was the main talking point on the opening day of the Championship of Alabama as riders took to the billiard-table smooth surface for the first time on a sunny and warm Friday. The fastest of the fast on the day was Garrett Gerloff, the Monster Yamaha/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing-mounted Superbike rider lapping at 1:23.915 in…
The 10th and final round of the 2019 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship begins on Friday at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama, and Mathew Scholtz and the Westby Racing team are determined to finish out the season with two podium results on Barber’s 2.38-mile, 17-turn road course. It’s a track on which Mathew has had a lot of success, highlighted by…
It all comes down to this. With just two races left in the 2019 MotoAmerica EBC Brakes Superbike Championship, Yoshimura Suzuki’s Toni Elias leads Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing’s Cameron Beaubier by 16 points as the series heads to the season finale this weekend – the Championship of Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park. By virtue of his eight wins and 14…
Beginning as a Yamaha production motorcycle, the 2019 Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing YZF-R1 Superbike retains standard OEM pistons, rods, and valves per MotoAmerica Superbike regulations, while camshaft profiles, cylinder head decking, and porting are open for modification. The bike features a sophisticated Magneti Marelli MLE 240 electronics system that enables precise adjustment of the fuel and spark maps, performance strategies,…
Cameron Beaubier will need a little help from his friends in the final round of the 2019 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship at Barber Motorsports Park in two weeks, but he at least has a chance after winning the second EBC Brakes Superbike race in the Championship of New Jersey on Sunday. Beaubier, who finished second on Saturday and won on Sunday…
The following is from Attack Performance Estenson Racing… JD Beach ran a smart race to take his third podium of the season aboard the Attack Performance Estenson Racing Yamaha YZF-R1 in MotoAmerica Superbike race one at New Jersey Motorsports Park on Saturday, September 7. After a frustrating few race weekends, the team’s hard work paid off as Beach found his…
Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing’s Garrett Gerloff continued to hold the hot hand in the MotoAmerica EBC Brakes Superbike Series, the Texan winning race one in the Championship of New Jersey for his fourth win in the last six races. Gerloff had his hands full for the entire 23 laps of the New Jersey Motorsports Park race with his teammate Cameron…
As if we all needed further proof that Twins Cup is decidedly different than the other four race classes in the MotoAmerica Championship, defending Twins Cup Champion Chris Parrish, who has raced and developed his #1 Ghetto Customs Suzuki SV650 for the past couple of years, will be aboard a Team AP MotoArts Yamaha FZ-07/MT-07, which is painted in Parrish’s…
EBC Brakes Superbike rider Sam Verderico is the perfect ambassador for the Pacific Northwest. The FLY Racing Yamaha rider is a free spirit who is always ready for any adventure. Already the owner of three speedboats, including an outrageous hydroplane that goes from zero to 150 miles per hour in around three seconds, Verderico recently bought a $50 raffle ticket…
The following is from KWR… Kyle Wyman Racing (KWR) is proud to announce a new partnership with BlackBerry Cylance, who will join Lion Fuel as co-title sponsor for the ninth round of the MotoAmerica Superbike championship this coming weekend at New Jersey Motorsports Park. Kyle Wyman will ride the #33 Lion Fuel/BlackBerry Cylance/KWR Ducati Panigale V4 R as he chases his…
While two riders are on the verge of capturing titles in the 2019 MotoAmerica Series, the other three classes are still wide open with gaps ranging from 11 to 35 points – including the premier EBC Brakes Superbike Championship – as the series heads to New Jersey Motorsports Park this weekend for the MotoAmerica Championship of New Jersey. With his…
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…
As teams, riders, and MotoAmerica officials and personnel begin their trips to New Jersey for round nine of the 2019 MotoAmerica Championship, news has broken that a couple of riders will be racing in different environs this weekend. Travis Wyman will move up to the EBC Brakes Superbike class for the final two rounds of the season, and he’ll be…
Omega Moto Racing is a Northern California-based team that was founded by team owner Ken Chewey a couple of years ago. Chewey has been part of the MotoAmerica paddock for several years, having worked for another team prior to striking out on his own, and he is very familiar with Yamaha equipment. For 2019, Omega Moto stepped up to 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.…
OK, MotoAmerica fans, let’s play a quick game of “Who Am I?” I’m a lanky kid from Texas who won a professional motorcycle road racing championship aboard a Yamaha, then I moved up to a Yamaha Superbike, had a solid rookie year, and in my second year on the bike, I won three races. Who am I? If your answer…
The following is from Yoshimura Suzuki… It was a great day Sunday for Yoshimura Suzuki Factory Racing at Pittsburgh Motorsports Race Complex as Toni Elias scored a come-from-behind victory aboard the Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000. His teammate Josh Herrin also had a strong race, moving up to finish third, putting both Yoshimura Suzukis on the podium. The win for Elias, his…
Yoshimura Suzuki’s Toni Elias thought he had two chances of winning the second EBC Brakes Superbike race in the Championship of Pittsburgh – slim and none. But Elias is Elias and by the time the dust had settled around him, he was at the front of the field and en route to his seventh win of the 2019 MotoAmerica Series.…
The following is from Attack Performance Estenson Racing… Attack Performance Estenson Racing’s JD Beach overcame adversity at the Pittsburgh International Race Complex to score another top 10-finish in MotoAmerica Superbike race one on Saturday, August 24. Beach got off to a decent start from the seventh spot on the grid and advanced to fourth after an incident between two riders…
Garrett Gerloff is most definitely on a roll, the Texan riding his Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing YZF-R1 to his third victory in the last five races with the latest one coming on Saturday in the Championship of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh International Race Complex. Gerloff came out on top of a race-long battle in the first of two EBC Brakes Superbike…
Garrett Gerloff continues to hold the hot hand in the 2019 MotoAmerica EBC Brakes Superbike Series, the Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory-backed Texan leading the way on opening day in the Championship of Pittsburgh at the Pittsburgh International Race Complex. Gerloff, who has won two of the last four races and finished second in the other two, was fast in both sessions…
Caroline Olsen is one of the original MotoAmerica riders, having raced in the Series since the inaugural 2015 season. This year, she races a Yamaha YZF-R6 for Team Norris Racing, which is co-owned by Angie Norris (pictured on the left) and her husband Kelly (pictured on the right). Olsen is a protégé of Jason Pridmore, and she is a riding…
Going into turn seven at Sonoma Raceway on the third lap in race two a few weeks ago, Toni Elias led the 2019 EBC Brakes Superbike Championship by a healthy 59 points. Milliseconds later, Elias was sliding across the tarmac watching and praying his Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000 stayed intact. It didn’t. When the Spaniard got to the bike, he found…
MotoAmerica Supersport racer Caroline Olsen, who hails from Halden, Norway, has added a sponsor from her homeland to her support team. Rider of the #43 Team Norris Racing Yamaha, Olsen welcomes Nordic Naturals, which is the number one fish oil company in the United States and sources its ingredients from Northern Norway. “I grew up with parents who used to…
The following is from KWR… The KWR Ducati team heads to Pittsburgh International Race Complex this weekend for the eighth round of the MotoAmerica Superbike championship. Kyle Wyman will ride the #33 Genuine Broaster Chicken/SC Project/KWR Ducati Panigale V4 R while the team chases its first top-5 result of the season. The KWR team has had a troublesome go at…
And just like that, the 2019 MotoAmerica Series is headed into its final three races of the season with so much to play for as Pittsburgh International Race Complex beckons with the Championship of Pittsburgh, August 23-25. With rounds six and seven held in California, the series heads east this week for three straight races on the “East Coast” –…
The following is from MP13 Racing… Current MotoAmerica Junior Cup competitor Hunter Dunham will pull double duty this weekend at Pittsburgh International Race Complex and also at New Jersey Motorsports Park on September 7 and 8 as he will race the #12 MP13 Racing Yamaha YZF-R6 in MotoAmerica’s Supersport class in addition to racing the #17 Hunter Dunham Racing Kawasaki…
