AMA Supercross: Race Report And Video Highlights From St. Louis

David Swarts

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March 31, 2024

AMA Supercross: Race Report And Video Highlights From St. Louis

Eli Tomac Makes Historic Return to Top Step of the Podium in St. Louis

Levi Kitchen Sweeps 250SX Class Races

St. Louis Mo., (March 31, 2024) Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing’s Eli Tomac took his first win of the season, and his first since returning from his 2023 Achilles injury, with 1-1-1 Race scores at the St. Louis Triple Crown Supercross. With the win at Round 12, Tomac became the sixth different rider to win in this highly competitive season.

Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing’s Cooper Webb earned second overall with (5-6-2) Race finishes inside The Dome at America’s Center. With the finish Webb captured the championship-within-a-championship 3-Round Triple Crown title. In the race format that combines the finishes from three separate Races, Team Honda HRC’s Hunter Lawrence earned his career-first 450SX Class podium with (8-2-4) Race finishes. The unpredictability of the Triple Crown format showed a few new wrinkles in St. Louis with five riders getting docked positions in Race 2 due to red cross flag infractions. Also, big crash in Race 3, when Team Honda HRC’s Jett Lawrence was t-boned, caused a big change in the point standings. Cooper Webb now trails Jett Lawrence now by only eight points. In the Western Regional 250SX Class, Monster Energy Pro Circuit Kawasaki’s Levi Kitchen was nearly picture-perfect throughout the night; he took the overall win with 1-1-1 Race wins.

Eli Tomac (3). Photo courtesy Feld Motor Sports.

“I had so many questions, and honestly doubt, in my mind that at this point [in the season] before this weekend. You know, questioning the comeback and where I was. So to do this here, to feel that way, to get those rides in all through those motos, that felt like old me. So this was so awesome… Thank you to the team for believing in me, Monster Energy Star Yamaha, everyone, so thank you St. Louis.” – Eli Tomac

“It was a crazy night. The first two [Races] didn’t go my way – the second one, especially. I was running a good spot, fell over, and just – these Triple Crowns, you never know what can happen, and that’s what the team just told me, is, ‘Don’t give up. Go in there in this last one and give it your all.’ And it worked out. You know obviously I don’t know what happened to anybody yet [in terms of crashes in Race 3], but I just know me and Eli were out front – me, him and Chase – and we were in the clear. [It] just felt great to ride. I rode really well in that last one. Eli was really clicking his laps and made the pass on Chase, which was great. And I got to second and we started clicking some good laps there at the end but, you know, a second place is good tonight. I’ll take it, especially after the first two [Races]. To win this Triple Crown championship’s all new, so it’s pretty cool. Hopefully we keep the ball rolling.” – Cooper Webb

“Man, it’s awesome. We had a little bit of an upgrade, I’d say, from the second moto to the third one with the Red Cross flag [penalty on some other riders]. But hey, I’ve been on the bad end of that deal many a time, so we’ll take it. That was a pretty good feeling. I’m bummed to not have Jett up here with me. We all saw what happened, that sucks, but yeah I’m honored to be sharing the podium with Tomac and Webb. You know, I watched these guys racing on this stage when I was still in Australia as a kid, so it’s pretty cool. We’ll take it, try and build, and we’ll try and get a really legitimized one next time we’re back [after the break].” – Hunter Lawrence

The Western Regional 250SX Class held its seventh round and Levi Kitchen followed up his previous round’s win with an impressive victory in St. Louis. Team Honda HRC’s Jo Shimoda fought his way to a second-place overall result with 2-3-3 Race finishes. Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing’s Jordon Smith used 3-2-4 Race finishes to capture the final spot on the podium.

“That was insane. I mean, I’m pretty speechless right now. That was for Austin Forkner back home. I hope he’s healing up good. I know he’s the only other one to do that [sweep the 250SX Class Triple Crown], so yeah man, that was sick. Three good starts and then going into the last race – those lappers, I actually came together pretty bad with one right before the triple. And I if I would have missed the triple, RJ would have been right on me. So I had to send it – I still made it somehow. All in all though, man, what a day! Carrying the momentum from Seattle and I’m in a really good spot. I feel really good on the bike. Thanks to the whole Monster Energy Pro Circuit Kawasaki team, all my friends and family… This is pretty surreal so I’m going to soak this one in.” – Levi Kitchen

Levi Kitchen (47). Photo courtesy Feld Motor Sports.

“Honestly that was the main thing for me [getting good starts finally]. It’s just, like, I just couldn’t do it [at previous rounds]. And then today – three good starts; still not a Holeshot or anything like that, but I think once I can get a start I know I can fight with those guys. The track was gnarly. I had a couple of sketchy moments, I think everybody did, but yeah thanks so much to my [team]. We’re getting better each week and so it’s a good confidence booster and yeah [next up is] Nashville [for the 250 West class].” – Jo Shimoda

“Last weekend was tough, man, that crash was gnarly, and throughout the week I was pretty sore. So I’m just glad to be here in front of the fans and riding the tough track again. These tracks have been really, really tough this year, and soft, and man it’s kind of survival [mode] out there at times… I’m happy to come away with the third. Congrats to Levi, he rode awesome tonight. Man, it’s hard to beat a guy that gets three holeshots, you know?… We’re going to go back and do our homework with this couple of weeks off and see if we can’t come back a little better for these last three. I’d just like to give it up to the whole team… It takes a tribe to be out here, so thank you guys, and we’ll be back next week.” – Jordon Smith, when asked about his crash at Seattle.

In the third SX Futures race, where top amateur racers compete for points toward their pro license, Monster Energy Kawasaki Team Green’s Drew Adams took back-to-back wins after his victory at the Daytona SX Futures round; Adams took the win just one day shy of his 16th birthday. Rockstar Husqvarna’s Landon Gibson finished in second place in the St. Louis single-race format event. Troy Lee Designs GASGAS’s Cole Davies took the final podium spot with a late-race pass for the position.

“Yeah, it was definitely a pretty bad start, [that’s] on me. But I just tried to work through [the pack] really good. And I got the triple on the first lap; that was probably the whole race right there. Then I just got up front and just started riding smooth, you know? I didn’t have to really do the big lines or [anything] but just stay smooth, and [make] no mistakes, and it worked out well.” – Drew Adams, when asked about his start.

The 17-round Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship takes next weekend off before resuming for the final five rounds on five consecutive weekends. Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts hosts Round 13 on Saturday, April 13th. The event will mark the return of the Eastern Regional 250SX Class for its Round 6. The SX Futures will also race in Foxborough in their fourth event before the SX Futures championship race at the final Supercross event inside Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Every Supercross race also pays points toward the 31-round SuperMotocross World Championship. The SMX post-season racing venues have recently been announced and tickets go on sale this coming Tuesday, April 2.

Every SuperMotocross round will be available to watch live on Peacock TV; each is also available on-demand to catch up or rewatch rounds of the thrilling 2024 season. Select Supercross races are also available streaming or via broadcast on NBC, USA Network, CNBC, NBCSports.com, and the NBC Sports app. Live audio coverage for each Supercross race can be heard via NBC Sports Audio on SiriusXM Channel 85. International coverage, in both English and Spanish, can be found live and on-demand through the SuperMotocross Video Pass (supermotocross.tv).

Nothing matches the excitement and all-day fun of attending a Monster Energy AMA Supercross event. Tickets are available now for the remaining rounds. To purchase tickets and for race results, video highlights, feature stories, and expert insights, please go to SupercrossLIVE.com.

Army of Darkness: A Drowning Pool & Pole Position, In The March Issue

Trudy Ulrich

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March 30, 2024

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Army of Darkness: A Drowning Pool & Pole Position, In The March Issue

Featured In the March 2024 issue of Roadracing World:

“Roebling Road has been a tough track for us for years. The unique characteristics of the pavement, the weather, and the hydrogeology of the underlying terrain combine to cold-tear tires in the morning, but by the afternoon everything has changed, requiring different compounds or pressure or suspension or all three.

“In the past we were always having to walk a very fine line between choosing a tire that would allow us to push for a full hour-long stint versus an absolute lap time. Choose a tire that is too durable and we might be giving up a few 10ths each lap; choose a tire too fast and then we’re losing two seconds a lap for the last 15 minutes of the stint when the tire goes off…”

“Army Of Darkness: A Drowning Pool & Pole Positions,” by Sam Fleming

Roebling Road threw a new challenge at Army of Darkness: How to remove mud from every crevice of a racebike that had submerged so deeply in a “muddle” (mud puddle) that the team had to suspend the motorcycle upside-down to rinse off and out the muck… And that’s ignoring the fact that the rider nearly suffocated due to the mud packed into his helmet! Read the dirty details in the latest issue of Roadracing World!

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Oxley Bom MotoGP Podcast: Listener Questions And Damn Good Coffee

David Swarts

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March 30, 2024

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Oxley Bom MotoGP Podcast: Listener Questions And Damn Good Coffee

Roadracing World MotoGP Editor and Isle of Man TT winner Mat Oxley and two-time World Championship-winning Crew Chief Peter Bom have started “The Oxley Bom MotoGP Podcast,” which will be focused on the FIM MotoGP World Championship.

This podcast is “Listener Questions And Damn Good Coffee.”

The original podcast can be found on BuzzSprout.com or listened to via other places you get podcasts.

From the Oxley Bom Podcast:

The end is nigh!

Yes, dear people, this is the end – the end of the long winter, and the return of a brand new season of MotoGP! But before we take you to the deserts of Qatar, Mat and Peter set out into the wastelands of social media to answer your most burning questions. Who’s the most underrated rider? Will Disney buy MotoGP? And who serves the best coffee in the paddock? There’s only one way to find out, so come join us!

Want more? Visit our website or support us on Patreon. With big thanks as always to Brad Baloo from The Next Men and Gentleman’s Dub Club, who wrote our theme song. Check out The Nextmen for more great music!

MotoGP Analysis: Ducati’s MotoGP Secret, In The March Issue

Trudy Ulrich

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March 29, 2024

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MotoGP Analysis: Ducati’s MotoGP Secret, In The March Issue

Featured In the March 2024 issue of Roadracing World:

Nothing succeeds like excess and no one succeeds in MotoGP like Ducati: The most bikes, the most top riders, the most horsepower, the most engineers, the most data and so on. That’s why MotoGP is so deep in the Ducati era right now, like once it was in the Honda era and the MV Agusta era.

At MotoGP’s traditional first tests at Sepang, Malaysia, the fastest five bikes were all Ducati GP24s and GP23s and there was a total of seven Desmosedicis in the top 10. In other words, not much has changed since last season.

This year’s GP24 is a subtle development of the bike that won the 2022 and 2023 MotoGP riders titles and the 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 constructors crowns. Despite that remarkable run of success, Ducati has been super-careful this year because the GP22 and GP23 had Ducati engineers in a panic at the first races and tests…

“Ducati’s MotoGP Secret: Nothing Succeeds Like Excess,” by MotoGP Editor Mat Oxley

The opening pre-season tests at Sepang suggest that the Bologna brand still rules MotoGP with an iron fist. So what are Aprilia, KTM, Honda, and Yamaha going to do about it? MotoGP Editor Mat Oxley looks at the plans of the rest of the field to catch the flying red (and blue and white, and yellow, and pale blue) Ducatis that dominate Grand Prix racing, in the latest issue of Roadracing World.

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NJminiGP Says Track Priced Them Out To Start Its Own Mini Racing Series (Updated)

David Swarts

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March 29, 2024

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NJminiGP Says Track Priced Them Out To Start Its Own Mini Racing Series (Updated)

Update: Early Saturday morning, New Jersey Motorsports Park announced via Facebook that it was cancelling its new mini motorcycle road racing series. Scroll down to see that announcement.

NJminiGP, a.k.a. New Jersey miniGP, has been holding mini road races and schools for 15 years on the kart track at New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP), in Millville, New Jersey.

MotoAmerica Pros Anthony Mazziotto, Brandon Paasch, Gus Rodio, and Tyler Scott are just a few of the riders who started their road racing careers with NJminiGP.

In 2024, however, NJminiGP will not be holding mini road races at the south New Jersey racing facility and New Jersey Motorsports Park will instead be running its own mini road racing series called NJMP Mini Sprint Series.

“The strong interest among riders and their families was clear when an organization that ran youth races on the east coast [NJminiGP] announced their 2024 schedule without a sprint racing program,” Brad Scott, President and COO of New Jersey Motorsports Park, was quoted as saying in a press release issued March 29 by New Jersey Motorsports Park. “Riders and their families reached out to us, expressing their concerns, and seeking a sprint race series for young people to develop their skills and passion for the sport.”

But that’s misleading, says Nathan Granoff, who co-owns NJminiGP with Ryan Fleming and oversees several miniGP franchises (SFLminiGP, SCminiGP, DMVminiGP) that have scheduled sprint races in the eastern U.S. in 2024. In fact, Granoff is accusing New Jersey Motorsports Park of intentionally pricing NJminiGP out so the track can run its own mini racing series.

“In November, when our season ended, New Jersey Motorsports Park came to us and basically gave us [2024] rates that were four times what we were paying [in 2023],” Granoff told Roadracingworld.com in a March 29 telephone interview. “And we were very suspicious, like this doesn’t seem right and we’ve seen them do these things before to push people out. And what made us more suspicious was that not only did they do that, but the rates for the schools that we run, those were only marginally higher. It seemed like they were only jacking the sprint races really high.”

Granoff said he was told by Scott that the cost of ambulance service as well as the cost of providing New Jersey Motorsports Park staff members for events had doubled. When Granoff pushed the issue, NJMP came back with a reduced 2024 rate offer for NJminiGP.

“The final numbers were still more than double,” said Granoff. “I can’t double rates on our members. We don’t have that big of a [membership] to make up. It’s not like we have 100 plus riders where we could do a marginal increase and cover that.”

Scott confirmed that all prices for most things at New Jersey Motorsports Park, including track rental rates, are going up to pay for the $3 million bill for repaving Thunderbolt Raceway and making additional improvements, but he disagrees with Granoff’s math.

“Yeah, that’s not accurate at all,” Scott told Roadracingworld.com. “I mean, to give you a little background story. When we rent out to groups, whether they’re karting groups or bike groups or even, you know, MotoAmerica does their [Mini] Cup series, our rate to rent half the [kart] track for weekends is about $10 to $15,000. And throughout the years we’ve given them [NJminiGP] a very, very reasonable rate with moderate increases, you know as we went on, due to the increases of expenses and so forth.

“Moving from ’23 to ’24, unfortunately with everything going up [in cost] in this world that we’re all familiar with–insurance, we repaved Thunderbolt–we went up on everything that we do business in, whether it’s renting the track, the membership fees, our hotel room rentals, food and beverage. And included in that was increases for groups who rent the karting facility. Yeah, the numbers that he’s using are extremely inflated.”

Scott didn’t want to make public the rate he offered NJminiGP for 2024, but the numbers he shared with Roadracingworld.com represented a 50% increase over 2023.

As to Granoff’s claim that New Jersey Motorsports Park was pricing NJminiGP out just so the track could start its own mini motorcycle road racing series, Scott said, “It’s completely false. You know, honestly, we prefer they would continue. It’s not something we traditionally do. Our relationship is mostly we want to rent the property out, as we do for all the racing organizations. It’s something we’re probably gonna lose money doing, but we listen to our members and their families and the outpouring and [we] just kind of wanted to help and give back something that’s been here and that went away.”

Scott added that New Jersey Motorsports Park will re-assess the mini road racing situation at the end of the 2024 season and see if it’s something they want to continue doing.

As for NJminiGP, Granoff said they will spend 2024 focusing on their mini road racing schools at New Jersey Motorsports Park (which only saw a modest rental rate increase due, Scott said, to not needing cornerworkers and ambulance service), including the addition of a two-day invitation-only school August 24-25, and creating new options and new programs for the 2025 season.

The full press release announcing New Jersey Motorsports Park new mini road racing series is included below.

Exciting News for Young Motorcycle Racers and Their Families

New NJMP Mini Sprint Series Announced:

Five Weekends of Practice and Racing for Riders Aged 5-17

MILLVILLE, N.J. (March 2024)

New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP) has announced the launch of the NJMP Mini Sprint Series – five weekends of practice and racing at NJMP’s Tempest Raceway facility, created to provide a competitive and fun racing program for riders aged 5-17 years old.

“The strong interest among riders and their families was clear when an organization that ran youth races on the east coast announced their 2024 schedule without a sprint racing program,” said Brad Scott, President and COO of NJMP. “Riders and their families reached out to us, expressing their concerns, and seeking a sprint race series for young people to develop their skills and passion for the sport.”

The NJMP Mini Sprint Series will include five classes of racing including stock and Ohvale bikes of various displacements, with the option to run multiple classes.

The format consists of a Saturday practice day with six 15-minute sessions for each of the five classes, followed by a Sunday race day with each class having morning practice, two qualifying sessions, two races, and of course podium celebrations to end the day!

“These will be professionally run events,” commented Charity Giovanelli, Director of New Jersey Motorsports Park’s Riders Club and Two-Wheel Event Operations. “From Tech Inspection to on-track operations and the racing rules, our young riders will have the same high-quality experience that we offer across all of our motorcycle events here at NJMP.”

Glenn Jazikoff has been named as Race Director for the NJMP Mini Sprint Series. Glenn is an experienced rider and coach at NJMP, and the parent of a young aspiring racer. “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to help grow youth road racing, and I am looking forward to a great season,” Glenn commented.

“We had to act quickly to fill a gap and respond to our customers’ needs,” added Scott. “We believe the resulting NJMP Mini Sprint Series will become a staple in the regional racing scene and provide a fantastic venue for young riders up and down the east coast.”

The series schedule consists of four events on Tempest Raceway’s Liberator circuit: April 20-21, May 18-19, June 15-16, and July 13-14. The season series finale will take place on Tempest’s full 1.1-mile track on September 28-29.

Registration is required and is available on Motorsportreg.com, where full information about the classes, rules, and event schedules can be found.

Interested participants can contact Race Director Glenn Jazikoff at [email protected] for more information in preparation for the events.

The following was posted to New Jersey Motorsports Park’s Facebook page at 6:00 a.m. Eastern Time March 30:

News Announcement

We have heard concerns regarding our recent announcement about the Sprint Race program at New Jersey Motorsports Park.

Due to a number of factors, we have decided not to run the program at this time. We appreciate all the support and requests and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. We are always evaluating our racing options to serve our customers and supporters.

Video: Garrett Gerloff “My Bike Won, But I Wasn’t Riding It – Catalunya”

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March 29, 2024

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My Bike Won, But I Wasn’t Riding It – Catalunya

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Intro: 2024 Harley-Davidson CVO Road Glide ST, In the March Issue

Trudy Ulrich

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March 29, 2024

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Intro: 2024 Harley-Davidson CVO Road Glide ST, In the March Issue

Featured In the March 2024 issue of Roadracing World:

“It was the phrase ‘performance floorboards’ that really caught my attention during the tech briefing on the new Harley-Davidson CVO Road Glide ST. Moto3 race teams worry about the weight of the footrests, to the point where they are so shaved down and lightened that they sometimes break mid-race. Harley-Davidson engineers typically have not.

“So when they started describing how the floorboards on the CVO ST are shorter and have cutaways to lighten them, it really drove home the point that on this model, Harley-Davidson engineers really went through the motorcycle from stem to stern with the goal of making it perform better…”

“Intro: 2024 Harley-Davidson CVO Road Glide ST,” by Michael Gougis

Harley-Davidson, a.k.a. The Motor Company, invited journalists to Las Vegas for a day of controlled lapping around the Classic Course at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on the new CVO Road Glide ST, part of the revamped lineup of what Harley-Davidson calls Grand American Touring motorcycles. The venue underscored a focus on performance with this model. Read how it was ripping a big, bad, performance bagger around the track, in the latest issue of Roadracing World!

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YCRS Hosting Yamaha R-World Track Experience At MotorSport Ranch

David Swarts

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March 29, 2024

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YCRS Hosting Yamaha R-World Track Experience At MotorSport Ranch

Yamaha R-World Track Experience – Cresson, TX

The Yamaha R-Series motorcycles were born on the track and the track is the only place to explore the limits of these amazing machines.

Everyone is interested in trying their motorcycles on the track, but getting on track can be intimidating and expensive. Yamaha would like to give you an amazing motorcycle track experience with world-class instruction from Yamaha Champions Riding School at an affordable price, regardless of your riding experience.

Join us Thursday, April 11, at Motorsport Ranch in Cresson, TX, just outside of Fort Worth, for the Yamaha R-World Track Experience featuring Yamaha Champions Riding School.

This is a Bring Your Own Bike Event!

The R-World Track Experience will run all day between 8am and 5pm, with three groups and 20-minute rotations between track, paddock, and classroom. You are welcome to bring any type or brand of street bike. Cruisers, baggers, ADV, standards, and sportbikes are all welcome. Full safety gear is required for the Novice and Intermediate groups, but more relaxed street gear is acceptable in the Street Group with a minimum of a full-face helmet, riding boots, long pants, riding jacket, and gloves required.

The Street Group at the Yamaha R-World Track Experience YCRS event offers riders a taste of riding on the racetrack with minimum investment. Photo courtesy YCRS.

Street Group: This half-day group is for riders who have never been on a track, don’t have full safety gear and would like to explore the track without the chaos of a normal track day. This group will be limited to highway speeds with instructors in a lead / follow formation and no pressure to go fast. Any street-legal motorcycle is welcome, with no requirements for safety wires, taped lights, or other modifications. The only technical requirement is that the motorcycle must be in perfect working condition with nothing leaking, nothing falling off, good tires, and good brakes. Riders must have a DOT-legal full-face helmet, jacket, over-the-ankle boots, gloves, and long pants. The Street Group will run 20-minute sessions every hour with 20 minutes of instruction from professional instructors at Yamaha Champions Riding School. Thanks to Yamaha, the cost for this group is only $49 with a discount code from your participating Yamaha dealer. Do not miss this unique opportunity to get on track with world-class instruction. The Street Group is limited to 16 people per session. The morning session will be from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm, and the afternoon session from 1 pm to 4:30 pm.

Novice Group: The Novice Group will be all day from 8:00 am until 5 pm and is for new track riders with full safety gear, or track riders with less than five track days’ worth of experience. Any street-legal motorcycle is welcome with no requirements for safety wire, taped lights, or other modifications. The only technical requirement is that the motorcycle must be in perfect working condition with nothing leaking, nothing falling off, good tires and good brakes. Full, track safety gear (leathers) is required, and the sessions will not be speed-limited. The Novice Group will run 20-minute sessions every hour with 20 minutes of instruction from the professional instructors at Yamaha Champions Riding School. Thanks to Yamaha, the cost for this group is only $149 with a code from your participating Yamaha dealer. The Novice Group is limited to (25) people.

Intermediate Group: The Intermediate Group is also run all day and is for experienced track day riders with full safety gear and traditionally prepared track day motorcycles. Although The Intermediate Group will not be speed-limited in any way, it is not for racers or A-Group track day riders. The Intermediate Group will feature 20-minute on-track sessions with some of the fastest instructors in the country, followed by 20-minute classroom sessions from Yamaha Champions Riding School. Thanks to Yamaha, the cost for this group is only $149 with a code from your participating Yamaha dealer. The Intermediate Group is limited to (25) people.

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MotoAmerica: OrangeCat Racing Fielding Uribe, Travis Wyman In Stock 1000

David Swarts

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March 29, 2024

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MotoAmerica: OrangeCat Racing Fielding Uribe, Travis Wyman In Stock 1000

Travis Wyman, Jayson Uribe to race for OrangeCat Racing in 2024 MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Championship

Two-time Stock 1000 runner-up, European road racing journeyman to compete aboard BMW M 1000 RRs in team’s second season

CHICAGO — OrangeCat Racing had a promising first season competing in MotoAmerica’s Stock 1000 Class in 2023, and the team’s sophomore season will feature an all-new rider lineup of two-time Stock 1000 runner-up Travis Wyman and former CEV Moto2 rider Jayson Uribe.

The duo – which boasts about 25 years of combined pro road racing experience — will compete aboard a pair of BMW M 1000 RRs and aim to build upon the team’s immediate success in 2023 that saw its riders finished second and fourth in the Stock 1000 points standings.

For Wyman, winning in Stock 1000 started from the class’ very first race in 2018. Wyman won the first two Stock 1000 races that year and finished runner-up in the Stock 1000 Championship in 2018 and 2021. He also finished third in the Stock 1000 points standings in 2020, 2022 and 2023 and has logged six victories, 19 additional podium finishes and 20 more top five finishes in Stock 1000 competition.

“I am excited to return to racing in Stock 1000 for the seventh consecutive season,” Wyman said. “The OrangeCat team made incredible progress in 2023, and, with my years of experience racing BMWs, I’m confident we will be a contender for the 2024 Stock 1000 title.”

Since his first pro road racing season in 2013, Uribe has raced in several European championships and MotoAmerica’s premier class. He started his pro racing career in the British Superbike Championship’s Motostar Class in 2013. He then finished third in the class standings in 2014 before moving to the 600 Cup in the French Superbike Championship for 2015 — where he became the first American to notch a race win in that series. Uribe then raced in the FIM CEV Moto2 European Championship for AGR Racing in 2016 and 2017 before returning to the United States to take part in five MotoAmerica Superbike races during the 2018 season. Uribe also worked as a test rider for Pirelli Tire North America in 2020 and competed in several FIM Superbike World Championship races in 2021.

Jayson Uribe. Photo courtesy OrangeCat Racing.

“I’m very happy to be able to work with OrangeCat Racing for the 2024 MotoAmerica Stock 1000 campaign,” Uribe said. “Being reunited with my former crew chief, Kirk Korenko, and riding a motorcycle that has all the support needed to win races is a dream come true. The BMW is a big change from the bikes I’ve been riding in recent years, but I felt comfortable with it in the first few sessions we had during testing. We were able to throw down some lap times that are up there with the Superbike boys after we found some setups we liked. Additionally, having a teammate like Travis who is very knowledgeable about the BMW M 1000 RR has been great. This year will be stacked in the Stock 1000 Class, but I’m confident that we have a winning package. I’m excited to bang bars and put OrangeCat on the top step!”

OrangeCat Racing also is happy to announce it has renewed its technical and promotional partnerships with the Chicago-based motorcycle dealership Motoworks, Ohlins USA, and alpha Racing.

The arrival of Wyman and Uribe to the team’s ranks also marks the end of OrangeCat Racing’s collaborations with Kaleb De Keyrel and Ezra Beaubier. The team is grateful for the victories and championship runs both riders had in 2023 and wishes them well on their future endeavors.

The 2024 edition of MotoAmerica’s Stock 1000 Championship features 10 races at five rounds like it did in 2023 – though several rounds are scheduled for different venues than last year. The Stock 1000 season kicks off May 17-19 at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala., followed by rounds at Brainerd International Raceway in Brainerd, Minn. (June 14-16), The Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton, Wash. (June 28-30), Laguna Seca in Monterey, Calif. (July 12-14) and New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville, N.J. (Sept. 27-29).

To follow Uribe and Wyman’s quest to clinch their first MotoAmerica Stock 1000 title, subscribe to MotoAmerica’s live streaming service, MotoAmerica Live Plus. Subscribers can watch races in all MotoAmerica classes live or on-demand, as well as view highlights, interviews and races from years past. To learn more about MotoAmerica Live Plus, visit http://motoamericaliveplus.com.

To learn more about OrangeCat Racing, visit the team’s website at http://orangecatracing.com and follow the team on Instagram at @orangecatracing.

Travis Wyman’s promotional partners for the 2024 MotoAmerica season include SP Connect, Klingler Thrillers, Fast Line Motorcycle Performance, Stomp Grip, On Any Moto, Bilmola USA and Alpinestars.

Jayson Uribe’s promotional partners for the 2024 MotoAmerica season include CT Racing, 4SR, San Jose Motorsport and Red Engine Brewing.

WorldSBK: Bulega Undergoes “Arm Pump” Surgery In Italy

David Swarts

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March 28, 2024

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WorldSBK: Bulega Undergoes “Arm Pump” Surgery In Italy

Nicolò Bulega underwent surgery for compartment syndrome

Nicolò Bulega underwent surgery today at the Oglio Po Hospital (Cremona), performed by Professor Alessio Pedrazzini to address the issue of chronic exertional forearm compartment syndrome (arm pump).

This pathology, now very common in the world of motorcycling, has been present since last winter and worsened during the Australian Round. It aggravated last weekend in Barcelona, where severe pain threatened to limit the performance of the reigning Supersport World Champion and current leader of the Superbike World Championship standings.

For this reason, in agreement with the Aruba.it Racing – Ducati team, the decision to perform surgery on Nicolò Bulega’s right forearm has been made.

The rider will now have plenty of time to recover from the operation and to get in the best condition for the third round of the 2023 WorldSBK season scheduled for April 19-21 at the TT Circuit in Assen, Netherlands.

AMA Supercross: Race Report And Video Highlights From St. Louis

March 31, 2024

The Dome at America’s Center hosted what will be the final 2024 race under a covered stadium. The soil was soft but dry for great racing at Round 12 of the 17-round season. Photo courtesy Feld Motor Sports.