Motorcycle Racing Podcast: Off Track With Carruthers And Bice

2008 AMA Formula Xtreme Champion and a five-time AMA Superbike race winner, Jake Zemke had a stellar racing career that lasted for some 18 seasons. And the always-smiling Zemke is still in the MotoAmerica paddock as the manager of several current racers and the manager, rider coach and confidant of five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier.  We caught up with Zemke for this week&ap...

Bradley Ward's debut 2020 MotoAmerica Superbike season ended early with a horrific crash at New Jersey Motorsports Park that left him with a broken leg, wrist and other injuries. But the big Brit is undeterred and is working to get himself back to full fitness so he can be on the grid when the 2021 HONOS Superbike Series gets rolling again. Ward chatted with us in this week's episode of...

Prior to Joan Mir winning the MotoGP World Championship a few weeks ago in Spain, the last premier class World Champion to capture the crown on a Suzuki was Kenny Roberts Jr. in 2000. Roberts Jr. joined his father Kenny Roberts in becoming the only father/son duo to win 500cc World Championships. We caught up with Roberts Jr. for this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers and Bice to di...

Josh Hayes is a busy man at the MotoAmerica races with the four-time AMA Superbike Champion watching over several riders, including Bobby Fong and Cameron Petersen, in their quest for stardom as their rider coach. If you watch him during the race weekends, he spends his time trackside and bouncing back and forth between his riders as he imparts his words of wisdom. In this week's episode of O...

If you want to learn a lot from a couple of guys who know very little, then you will enjoy this episode of Off Track With Carruthers and Bice as they go it alone. The topics range from Garrett Gerloff to Josh Herrin to Cameron Beaubier to Mathew Scholtz to MotoGP to World Superbike and back to where it all belongs - MotoAmerica. So give this one a listen. If you like it, thank Carruthers. If you h...

Cameron Petersen had quite a season in the 2020 MotoAmerica Series, winning eight Stock 1000 races en route to taking his first MotoAmerica Championship. If that wasn't enough, he also got engaged to his long-time girlfriend, Nina, in the days leading up to the Road America round. Now he finds himself as hot property for a MotoAmerica Superbike ride in 2021. We broke up Petersen's online...

The voice probably sounds familiar and that's because Rob Buydos has announced nearly every form of motorcycle racing on the planet - from motocross to road racing to pit bikes to motorcycle shows and more. But he's not a guest on this week's Off Track with Carruthers and Bice because of his announcing prowess. He's our guest because he's the man behind the Drag Specialtie...

When Toni Elias announced that he is leaving the Team Hammer M4 ECSTAR Suzuki team at the end of this season, a lot of people took it that he is retiring. But, as Carruthers and Bice found out on this video episode of Off Track, news of Toni's retirement has been greatly exaggerated. Be sure to check this one out. Support the show

Former AMA Harley-Davidson Series star Tyler O'Hara was the first person Indian thought of when it came time to pick a rider to race its entry in the Drag Specialties King of the Baggers event, which will be held in conjunction with the final round of the 2020 MotoAmerica Series next weekend at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. O'Hara jumped at the opportunity and he's been all-in ev...

HONOS Superbike rider Mathew Scholtz has had a long and fruitful relationship with Westby Racing...and it keeps getting better. This season, with a new YZF-R1 Superbike, new electronics, and more, Mathew and the team are firing on all cylinders, and The Scholtz Kid has been a fixture on the Superbike podium all season long. Carruthers and Bice talk with Scholtz about his season, his career...and e...

In Episode 101 of Off Track, Carruthers and Bice catch up with Team Hammer's Chris Ulrich, who has his hands full this season with six, and sometimes seven, riders. Plus it's M4 ECSTAR Suzuki's first year as Suzuki's go-to Superbike team in the U.S. We had a lot to talk about in this one, including a discussion about what's going on in Supersport, as well as recent specula...

In this special edition of Off Track, Carruthers and Bice talk with veteran road racer and current MotoAmerica Rider Representative Michael Martin, who made a successful career out of racing ultra-fast Team Hammer Suzukis in the WERA Endurance Series and also in Formula USA. Martin is a man of many words, and we caught a few of them, so be sure to check this one out. Support the show

Two-time Stock 1000 rider Andrew Lee is back in MotoAmerica and making his debut in HONOS Superbike at Barber Motorsports Park. Carruthers and Bice sat down with the charismatic Californian to catch up on what he's been up to and how he put together his ride aboard the Superbike Unlimited Franklin Armory Kawasaki. Lots of great content in this one, so don't miss it. Support the show

For Episode #98 of Off Track with Carruthers and Bice, the boys had a conversation with four-time HONOS Superbike Champ and current points leader Cameron Beaubier about how his season is going and what his desires are for the future. Beaubier was surprisingly candid in this video version of the podcast, so you need to check this one out. Facebook: cameronbeaubier Instagram: cameronbeaubier Twitter...

MotoAmerica held its fifth round at the Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton, Washington, last weekend. It was the series first visit to the facility in the Pacific Northwest and most of the riders and teams came away impressed. We thought it was a good time to get to know the General Manager of the Ridge - Tracie Schmitt - so we scheduled her to be on this week's episode of Off Track With Carru...

Rocco Landers is a busy young man. Hot off his five Liqui Moly Junior Cup wins in a row, Landers headed to Austria to take part in the first two Red Bull Rookies Cup rounds in Austria. Now he's back at it in the MotoAmerica Series this weekend at the Ridge Motorsports Park in Washington as the championship leader in Liqui Moly Junior Cup. And he's also second in the Twins Cup title chase...

Dominic Doyle is one of the rising stars in the MotoAmerica Series, the young South African riding his BARTCON Kawasaki Ninja 400 to three straight Liqui Moly Junior Cup wins to start his 2020 season. Doyle is second in the series point standings heading to the Ridge Motorsports Park next weekend where he hopes to gain ground on series rival Rocco Landers. Doyle chatted with Carruthers and Bice in...

Paul Carruthers and Sean Bice go it alone in this week's Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podcast after two hectic weekends of back-to-back MotoAmerica rounds at Road Atlanta and Pittsburgh International Race Complex. Not that they need much to get them going, but there was plenty to chat about and the pair bring it all out in this, their 94th podcast. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/m...

Kaleb De Keyrel is smack dab in the middle of a MotoAmerica Twins Cup Championship battle with Rocco Landers and we caught up with the Minnesotan who now calls Texas home to chat about racing, his training with his friend Garrett Gerloff and the torture of coming back from injury in this edition of Off Track With Carruthers and Bice on the eve of racing action at Pittsburgh International Race Comp...

Former Suzuki Factory Superbike rider Roger Hayden had a graceful retirement from racing, but the youngest of the three Hayden brothers is still very much involved in the sport not only as a riding coach but also as a color commentator on MotoAmerica's broadcast team. Carruthers and Bice talked with Rog about a variety of subjects, and it also happened to be brother Nicky's birthday. Che...

Believe it or not, Ashton Yates has competed in six different MotoAmerica classes in his young career thus far: KTM RC Cup, Liqui Moly Junior Cup, Stock 600, Supersport, Stock 1000 and HONOS Superbike. He's also had podium finishes in four of those classes and in 2018 became the first rider in the MotoAmerica era to finish on the podium in two different classes on the same day. Fittingly, he...

Jason Madama has been a MotoAmerica Twins Cup fixture since the class started 2018. His 2020 season got off to a good start with a podium finish in the very first race of the year at Road America and the Coloradan heads to Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta in a few weeks sitting third in the series point standings behind Kaleb De Keyrel and Rocco Landers. We chatted with Madama on this week's epi...

Bobby Fong has won 16 MotoAmerica races across three classes but none were bigger than his first career HONOS Superbike victory a few weeks ago at Road America. In taking victory on his M4 ECSTAR Suzuki, Fong became the 59th rider to win an AMA Superbike race and he did so in what was MotoAmerica's 100th Superbike race. We caught up with the Fonger to chat about all things racing and life in...

Guests? We don't need no stinkin' guests. Paul Carruthers and Sean Bice go it alone in this week's Off Track Podcast with the duo breaking down all that happened in the Great State of Wisconsin in round two of the MotoAmerica Series from Road America.  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motoamerica/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MotoAmerica1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MotoA...

Brandon Paasch's first race in the MotoAmerica Series was in 2015, and he was an immediate podium finisher at Utah Motorsports Campus in the KTM RC Cup race. It became abundantly clear right away that the kid is not only fast but he has charisma. In 2015, Paasch came back and won the KTM RC Cup title before heading off to England to contest the Moto3 class in the British Superbike Championshi...