{"id":43571,"date":"2023-01-05T04:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motoamerica.com\/?p=43571"},"modified":"2023-01-05T10:06:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T18:06:48","slug":"going-the-distance-motoamerica-adds-endurance-racing-to-the-2023-supersport-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motoamerica.com\/going-the-distance-motoamerica-adds-endurance-racing-to-the-2023-supersport-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Going The Distance: MotoAmerica Adds “Extended Races” To The 2023 Supersport Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cameron Petersen and his Attack Performance Yamaha team perform a pit stop during last year’s Daytona 200. Photo by Brian J. Nelson.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>

Endurance racing has been part of the storied history of AMA-sanctioned road racing since pretty much the beginning of the American Motorcyclist Association. In fact, the AMA was barely a teenager–just 13 years old–when the Daytona 200 began on the Daytona Beach Road Course, a 3.2-mile circuit that incorporated a little less than two miles of the asphalt-paved Florida State Road A1A going south and a little less than two miles of the sandy beach surface going north to create a 200-mile endurance race. Then, in 1961, AMA officials agreed to move the annual race to the recently built Daytona International Speedway, which is, of course, where MotoAmerica held its first Daytona 200 just last year.<\/p>

Beyond Daytona, endurance racing has existed in AMA-sanctioned road racing in the form of GTU Endurance, GTO Endurance, Middleweight Team Challenge, Unlimited Team Challenge, SuperTeams, and Moto-ST. Yet, each and every one of those race classes came and went long before MotoAmerica took the reins of AMA-sanctioned motorcycle road racing.<\/p>

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