Motorcycle Racing Podcast: Off Track With Carruthers And Bice

Scoring points in the MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Championship isn’t an easy accomplishment these days. Case in point: Last year only 34 riders scored at least one point in the title chase and 64 of them tried at least once. If you’re a privateer racing well behind the likes of Hayden Gillim, you’re working towards earning those valuable championship points. Red Lobo Racing’s Manny Segura is one of tho...

Jensen Beeler is the CEO of Krämer Motorcycles USA so who better to pose questions to when it comes to the recent announcement that MotoAmerica will replace its Junior Cup class with the 2025 MotoAmerica Talent Cup, a single-make series featuring Kramer/s APX-350 MA race bikes? We asked and Beeler answered. Support the show

Minnesotan Justin Miest will make his 2024 Stock 1000 debut next weekend, June 14-15, at his home track of Brainerd International Raceway and going into this podcast we honestly didn't know much more about him than that. We knew he was fifth in the Stock 1000 race at Road America last year, but that was about it. Miest changed all that in this week's Off Track With Carruthers And Bice as...

Frenchman Loris Baz is back in his happy place. He's in the MotoAmerica paddock and racing a Ducati Panigale V4 R with his friends and crew on the Warhorse HSBK Ducati Racing team. And those friends include his teammate Josh Herrin. Baz and Herrin are an unlikely pair on the surface. Dig a bit deeper and they are the same. We chatted with Baz about life with Herrin, his return to MotoAmerica...

There's a good chance we won't see much of Michael Gilbert in the MotoAmerica Championship in 2024 as he and his brother have taken over the running of the family business. That being said, he has leathers, a helmet and a Honda Fireblade at his disposal just in case. And there's also the fact that Laguna Seca Raceway is only a five-or six-hour drive north from Gilbert's Souther...

Geoff May has been around the racing game for a long time. As a racer. This time around, May will come at it from a different direction as he makes his team-owner debut at Barber Motorsports Park, May 17-19, as the man behind the GMR/Jones Honda effort that will field Gabriel Da Silva in the MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Championship. We caught up with May this week to get some background on the new team...

It's not how you start, it's how you finish. Jaret Nassaney is definitely hoping that's the case as he heads to Barber Motorsports Park, May 17-19, with zero points in the bank after a difficult opening Supersport round at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. We chatted with Nassaney about his rough start, his interesting second career, the inner workings of Altus Motorsports, and more on...

Two-time MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Champion Andrew Lee will begin what he is hoping will be the start of a successful campaign to win a third title when the Stock 1000 Championship kicks off at Barber Motorsports Park, May 17-19. In the meantime, the ever-fit Lee has been keeping himself busy and track ready. We chatted with Lee about that and more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carrut...

Last year, Nolan Lamkin won the MotoAmerica Superbike Cup Championship and finished fifth in the Stock 1000 title chase. This year, rider/team owner Lamkin go at it again and he began his defense of the Superbike Cup title win a win and a second place in the class within a class, while also finishing inside the top 10 in the second of two Steel Commander Superbike races. We caught up with Lamkin f...

With the Steel Commander Superbike Championship getting underway at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Paul and Sean are joined by former MotoAmerica Superbike race winner and current Live+ commentator Roger Hayden. The trio provides an in-depth rider-by-rider discussion and analysis of MotoAmerica's premier class, so be sure to check out this episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. Suppor...

Travis Wyman has gotten used to wearing different team shirts, remembering to change his leathers for almost every session on track, and adapting to different motorcycles quickly over the course of a race weekend. This year, Wyman will be at it again, racing in three different classes - Stock 1000, Mission King Of The Baggers and Mission Super Hooligan National Championship - for two different tea...

MotoAmerica Mission King Of The Baggers racer Kyle Ohnsorg has landed his dream job. Armed with an engineering degree, Ohnsorg not only races an Indian Challenger, he also plays a major role n the development of the bikes raced by Tyler O'Hara and Troy Herfoss as an employee of Polaris, the parent company of Indian Motorcycles. Throw in the fact that his engineer wife is also big part of his...

It was already a good time to be Hayden Gillim as he went into the off-season with not one but two championships in the 2023 MotoAmerica Championship - Mission King Of The Baggers and Stock 1000. With his RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Motorsports Harley-Davidson deal intact for 2024, Gillim announced this week that he will also have a promising program for Stock 1000 as he will defend his title...

Hawk Mazzotta not only has cool name, but he's a cool dude. Raised on a cattle ranch in Northern California, Mazzotta rode motorcycles as a youngster more so for transportation on the family's land than for recreation. That finally changed with Mazziotta getting involved in the sport at a later than normal age, but with plenty of success. Today, the Californian has revitalized his career...

Niccoló Canepa is a two-time World Endurance Champion, a test rider for Yamaha, and a riding coach for Yamaha's World Superbike team. This week, Canepa has his race face on as he prepares to battle, along with his two World Endurance YART Yamaha teammates, in Daytona 200 for the first time. We caught up with Canepa this week at Daytona International Speedway for the newest Off Track With Carr...

JD Beach is back as a full-time MotoAmerica Superbike racer for the 2024 season and he couldn't be happier. Armed with a Tytlers Cycle Racing BMW M 1000 RR, Beach is confident of being in the fight at the front of the Steel Commander Superbike pack when the series gets rolling at Road Atlanta in April, and he can't wait for the season to get started. We caught up with Beach from his rent...

Rocco Landers can breathe easy for the first time in his short but successful career as he will show up to Daytona International Speedway with a contract to race for one of the best teams in the paddock - Vance & Hines Motorsports. Landers, who at just 19 has 48 MotoAmerica wins (29 in Junior Cup, 15 in Twins Cup and four in Supersport) on his resume, will make his debut in the Mission King Of...

Peter Hickman is the all-time Isle of Man TT lap record holder at 136.358 mph. He's also won 13 TTs, putting him ninth all-time. And now he's coming to Daytona International Speedway to race in his first Daytona 200 on his PHR Performance Triumph. We caught up with the Brit during his pre-Daytona visit to Texas and the Colin Edwards Texas Tornado Boot Camp to talk about his Daytona debut...

So, who is Troy Herfoss, you ask? The newest member of the Indian Motorcycle/Progressive/Mission Foods team is a three-time Australian Superbike Champion, an AMA Supermoto Champion (during Supermoto’s heyday) and an XGames silver medalist in Supermoto. And now he’s making a change. A big change. With his debut set to come in the Mission King Of The Baggers races at Daytona, Herfoss will embark on...

Alex Arango may end up being the busiest man in the MotoAmerica paddock during the 2024 season. With a gaggle of as many as eight riders on his TopPro Motorsports team, including former MotoAmerica Supersport Champion Sean Dylan Kelly, Arango will also be joining Kelly on the team's BMW M 1000 RRs in the Steel Commander Superbike Championship. We caught up with Arango from his dealership in F...

Jake Lewis will be busy doing what he loves most this coming MotoAmerica season... racing motorcycles and living life in the paddock. And he'll definitely be spinning a lot of laps with the Kentuckian set to grid up in three drastically different classes this season - Mission King Of The Baggers, Supersport and Super Hooligan National Championship. To be ready for the challenge his Altus Moto...

It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. There are times when a racer wins a championship and finds himself without a ride for the following year. It happens to the best of them, including Wayne Rainey who won a Superbike title for Kawasaki only to watch as the team disbanded for the following season. Well, Xavi Forés finds himself in the unenviable position of looking for a ride after wi...

Cameron Petersen had a horrible 2023 season in the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship with a badly injured wrist ruining his year. With surgery and rehab behind him, Petersen is ready for the 2024 Steel Commander Superbike series and his testing program starts next week in Arizona. We caught up with the South African for this week's Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podcast to discuss the in...

To say that Ben Gloddy had a rough 2023 MotoAmerica season would be an understatement. As one of the favorites to challenge for the Twins Cup Championship, Gloddy's season unraveled before it really got started as a crash in the first race of the season at Daytona left him with severe injuries. It wasn't until the final round of the season at New Jersey Motorsports Park that Gloddy retur...

Josh Herrin has been around a long time and he's hopeful of being around a lot longer. Using his old teammate Josh Hayes for inspiration, Herrin says he would like to race for another 10 years. in 2023, Herrin finished second in the 2023 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship with two wins and 12 podiums on the Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati NYC Panigale V4 R and although he's not completely su...