Motorcycle Racing Podcast: Off Track With Carruthers And Bice

Mathew Scholtz is a happy guy. And he should be. The South African is coming off an 11-win season in which he earned his second successive MotoAmerica Supersport title, and the end result of those two years of domination have led him back to the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship for the 2026 season. A five-time MotoAmerica Superbike race winner, Scholtz will be aboard a Yamaha YZF-R1 with the tea...

MotoAmerica COO Chuck Aksland joins us on this episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice from the season finale at New Jersey Motorsports Park to talk about the recently completed 2025 MotoAmerica Championship, making the Daytona 200 a points-paying race, Superbike and Superbike Cup rules, the 2026 schedule and much more. Support the show

It would have taken a brave person to bet money on James Rispoli winning the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship after the first two rounds of the series at Daytona International Speedway and Road Atlanta. Rispoli was third and fifth in the two races at Daytona and those were a highlight as the two races at Road Atlanta ended with zero points for the KWR Harley-Davidson team. He left Geor...

Based on what he's accomplished, it's hard to believe that Dennis Noyes isn't a lifelong motorcyclist. But it's true as he didn't discover the sport until he was in his 20s, with a visit to the Spanish Grand Prix in 1968. That was all it took as he was immediately hooked. Noyes started riding and that quickly turned into racing. Then came the perfect job as a motojournalis...

ARCH co-founder Gard Hollinger doesn’t want to be referred to as an “engineer” or a “designer” out of respect for those in the field who have a formal degree. But whether he likes it not, Hollinger is a bit of both. He’s also actor Keanu Reeves’ partner in ARCH Motorcycle, and the pair, along with their race team, recently completed their first year in the Mission Super Hooligan National Champions...

Dunlop tire tester/part-time road racer Taylor Knapp wears many hats. This weekend he's wearing his racer hat and will do battle in the MotoAmerica Stock 1000 class on the PS² Racing Aprilia RSV4 1100 Factory as a fill-in rider for the injured Cory Ventura. Never one (or two) to miss an opportunity to chat with Knapp, we cornered the soft-spoken racing veteran to talk about racing, tire testi...

Jeremy Taubman is one of the riders in the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship Powered By Harley-Davidson. Together with Shanea Makinson, they are co-founders of the Remix Racing Project, which encompasses two of Jeremy's and Shanea's greatest passions: motorcycles and mental health. In this episode of "Off Track With Carruthers And Bice," Jeremy and Shanea talk about...

Real Steel Honda rider JD Beach is in his happy place, and it's not just at the racetrack. He's on a team with his brother Hayden Gillim, he's an uncle to Gillim's two kids, as well as other Gillim brother Frankie Lee's two kids, and he's continuing to do what he's always done and what he does best: racing motorcycles. For this episode of Off Track With Carruther...

Sam Moses worked for Sports Illustrated for 18 years, the majority of which as its motorsports writer, covering events like the Indy 500, the Daytona 500 and the Long Beach Grand Prix back when it was a round of the Formula One World Championship. But his first love was motorcycles, and motorcycle racing, so Moses pitched those stories to Sports Illustrated and, with the help of his SI editor Bob...

From fighting alcoholism as a young man who actually did hit rock bottom, to building a start-up trucking company into a $360 million success story with 3000 employees, Tim Estenson has most definitely lived. Having sold Estenson Logistics in 2017, Estenson is now "retired," and focusing his efforts on Estenson Racing, which encompasses the highly successful American Flat Track (AFT) tea...

Motorcycle companies aren’t normally owned by engineers, but maybe they should be. Joe Karvonen is the owner of Krämer Motorcycles U.S.A. and he’s an engineer who learned his trade at the Motorcycle Mechanics Institute. He’s also a club racer and a track-day rider. A perfect fit for a company that manufactures track-day and race bikes, including the purpose-built Krämer APX-350 MA that is being ra...

Five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier and four-time champion Josh Hayes are tied at the top of the all-time AMA road race win list with 89 wins apiece. That’s a combined total of 178 career wins between the two former rivals and fast friends. We wrangled both of them to join us on this week's episode of the Off Track With Carruthers and Bice podcast to talk about the past,...

It's hard to argue against Road America being one of the best racing facilities in the world. The track itself is long, it's fast, and it always produces close races. As for the rest of it... well, you'd have to look long and hard to find even a blade of grass that's out of place. A favorite of MotoAmerica's racers, teams and fans, the series is excited to be heading to th...

It would be difficult to find a more suited MotoAmerica Chief Medical Officer than Dr. Carl Price. Who better to assist an injured motorcycle racer than a doctor who has been riding and racing motorcycles since his childhood? We got the chance to chat with the personable Dr. Price on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to talk about the serious side of our sport - injuri...

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Laid-back South African Dominic Doyle, who now calls Columbus, Indiana, home, is a bonafide championship contender in the 2025 MotoAmerica SC-Project Twins Cup Championship. With two rounds and four races in the bank, Doyle is third in the championship with three podiums out of the four races. Unfortunately, mechanical issues kept him from scoring points in race one at Barber Motorsports Park or h...

Mallory Dobbs is living the dream. Despite getting a late start to motorcycling and ultimately motorcycle racing at the age of 22, Dobbs is most definitely making up for lost time. In 2023, Dobbs raced in both MotoAmerica Supersport and the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship. And the next thing you know, she's off racing in Europe in the new FIM Women's Circuit Racing World Cha...

Peter Clifford is the director of rider development and media for the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, or, as he refers to it, the "Headmaster." Prior to being the man in charge of the Rookies Cup program, Clifford was a motojournalist who covered MotoGP before it was called MotoGP. He was also the team manager for Bob MacLean's World Championship Motorsports (WCM)  team that fielded su...

The 2025 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship gets started this week with two races at Barber Motorsports Park, April 4-6, so who better to talk to than MotoAmerica Live+ lead analyst Roger Hayden to see what he thinks about the coming season. To listen in and see what Hayden, Paul Carruthers, and Sean Bice have to say, watch and/or listen to this week's Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podca...

The statement "needs no introduction" is somewhat overused. But in the case of this week's guest on Off Track With Carruthers And Bice, it's accurate. Three-time AMA Grand National Champion and three-time 500cc GP World Champion Kenny Roberts truly needs no introduction. We were fortunate enough to catch up with Roberts at Circuit of The Americas with the legend in Texas for Mo...

In a class that's sure to be full of surprises in its debut season, Chase Black threw the first Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul curveball when he came out on top of the timesheets in the two-day Dunlop preseason test at Motorsport Ranch in Cresson, Texas, this week. Black and his Chase Black Racing Krämer APX-350 MA led the way on both days and was the only rider to crack the 1:21 barrier...

Jake Lewis's 2024 MotoAmerica season was what you could call sneaky good. Until you look at the results, you probably don't know that Lewis ended the season ranked fourth in Supersport (with four podiums and a win), third in the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship (with a win), and seventh in the Mission King Of The Baggers title chase. And Lewis has kept that momentum going wit...

Richie Escalante is hoping everything falls into place for this year's Daytona 200 after a few years of bad luck for the Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki rider. We caught up with the popular Escalante on the eve of the 83rd running of the Daytona 200 at Daytona International Speedway to talk about the 200, the upcoming MotoAmerica Superbike Championship, and more on this week's episode of O...

Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati's Josh Herrin will be going for his fourth Daytona 200 victory and his third in a row on Saturday, March 8 when the MotoAmerica season opens at Daytona International Speedway. We caught up with Herrin at the recent MotoAmerica/Dunlop test at the Podium Club in Arizona to talk about all things Daytona and more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers...

Loris Baz was a MotoAmerica Superbike winner in 2024 with the Frenchman riding his Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati Panigale V4 R to victory in the final race of the season at New Jersey Motorsports Park. Fast forward a few months and Baz is preparing to do something completely different in 2025. Beginning at Daytona in a few weeks time, Baz will be competing in the Mission King Of The Baggers as a mem...