Motorcycle Racing Podcast: Off Track With Carruthers And Bice

Graham Rahal is the co-owner of the Rahal Ducati Moto team that will make its MotoAmerica debut in the Daytona 200 in March. At just 34 years old, Rahal is not only a six-time winner in IndyCar, but he's also a hugely successful business owner, including his ownership of Ducati Indianapolis and Ducati Cleveland. He's a die-hard motorcycle fanatic and loves the Ducati brand. In 76 days, h...

MotoAmerica fans got good news this week with the announcement that 2021 MotoAmerica Supersport Champion Sean Dylan Kelly will return to the series in 2024. Even better news was the fact that Kelly will do so on a TopPro Racing BMW M 1000 RR in the premier Steel Commander Superbike Championship. We caught up with the Floridian this week for the Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podcast to talk ab...

They say that timing is everything and that was definitely the case with Max Flinders earning his first career MotoAmerica podium finish in the very last race of the season at New Jersey Motorsports Park. Flinders finished third in the finale of the Mission King Of The Baggers Championship behind Kyle Wyman and Hayden Gillim and his popularity within the paddock spilled over as it was as popular w...

Avery Dreher burst onto the scene in a big way in 2023. The 17 year old earned his first Junior Cup podium in style in the opening round with a win at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. From there he didn't look back, winning the next day and taking four wins out of the first five races of the season. Dreher wrapped up the title early, ending the year 43 points clear of his nearest competitor. We...

Right now is a pretty good time to be James Rispoli. Rispoli finished second in the 2023 Mission King Of The Baggers Championship after being in the title fight to the bitter end in the season finale at New Jersey Motorsports Park. Although he finished runner-up to his Vance & Hines/Mission/Harley-Davidson teammate Hayden Gillim, Rispoli parlayed his results from the 2023 season into the big p...

Seventeen-year-old Blake Davis isn't messing around. The Virginian started his MotoAmerica career as soon as he turned 14, making his debut at Road Atlanta with a ninth-place finish. Davis finished 10th in the 2020 Junior Cup Championship and was eighth in the 2021 title chase. But it mattered not. Although Davis didn't win a race and didn't win a title, hanging around in Junior Cup...

With three Junior Cup victories and multiple podium finishes on his resume, it's time for Max Van to make a move up in class and he will do exactly that with a jump to the MotoAmerica Supersport Championship in 2024. Max took time out of his job as sales manager for his father's company, SportbikeTrackGear.com , to chat with us about the past, the present the future, his love of doing pu...

Ben Spies is a three-time AMA Superbike Champion, the 2009 World Superbike Champion and now the team principal for the Rahal Ducati Moto team that will make its debut in the Daytona 200 in March. Spies is about to be a busy man, but he's excited at the opportunity to work with IndyCar legend Bobby Rahal and his son Graham and the challenge of putting together a MotoAmerica team from the groun...

Joe LaMandri Jr. is an up-and-coming MotoAmerica rider who made his Supersport debut earlier this year as a fill-in rider for the injured Michael Gilbert. We chatted with the native New Yorker on the eve of his home race at New Jersey Motorsports Park to discuss the move up in class and more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.  Support the show

The 2024 MotoAmerica Championship will be here before we know it and we caught up with MotoAmerica COO Chuck Aksland, the man behind the schedule, to chat about the addition of Mid-Ohio and more on this episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. Support the show

Dallas Daniels recently finished second to nine-time AMA Grand National Champion Jared Mees in the 2023 AFT Mission Twins Championship. But this weekend, Daniels is back in the MotoAmerica Championship for the first time since 2019 as he's set to race in the REV'IT! Twins Cup class on an Estenson Racing Yamaha YZF-R7 at New Jersey Motorsports Park. We caught up with the former Junior Cup...

If you're a fan of MotoAmerica's behind-the-scenes show "Pressure To Rise" then you are unknowingly a fan of Steve Radley, the man behind the show. Radley is the Show Runner for Pressure To Rise, which means he's the man who locks himself in a dark room and doesn't come out until the show that portray's MotoAmerica in the best possible light is ready to air. We c...

Hayden Gillim, Kyle Wyman and James Rispoli will enter this weekend's two Mission King Of The Baggers races at the Circuit of The Americas separated by just three points so we decided to chat with all three of them for this week's Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. Support the show

Stefano Mesa won his first MotoAmerica Supersport race of the year in race one at Pittsburgh International Race Complex a few weeks ago. The next day he followed up his victory with another podium finish - his sixth of the year - to end the weekend third in the championship and only 13 points out of second. This week the news broke that Mesa was foregoing the Supersport class after getting a once-...

You might know him as “Mike On The Mic” on MotoAmerica Live+ or Michael Hill, the host of World Superbike’s The Paddock Show, but this week we’ve let him loose on the mic for the newest episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to chat about MotoAmerica, World Superbike, the Americans racing abroad, and more. Support the show

JD Beach is back in the MotoAmerica paddock and will ride a Fresh N Lean Progressive Yamaha Racing YZF-R1 in the three Medallia Superbike races this weekend at Pittsburgh International Race Complex as a replacement rider for the injured Cameron Petersen. We caught up with Beach at Pitt Race to chat about his flat track season and his return to Superbike racing on this week’s episode of Off Track W...

Last year, young Spencer Humphreys made a surprise visit to the podium after finishing third in the first of two MotoAmerica Junior Cup races at New Jersey Motorsports Park. We'd never seen him before, but he made an impression both on the track and off as he took to the post-race press conference like a seasoned pro. Well, Humphreys will be back in the MotoAmerica series at both the Pittsbur...

Josh Hayes won his first AMA road race in 1999 at Daytona International Speedway. Ten years later he won the first of four of his AMA Superbike titles. In 2014, he won the "last" of his Superbike Championships. Now this: On July 29, at the tender age of 48 years old, Hayes won the Supersport race at Brainerd International Raceway for a record-setting 87th career AMA road race victory. Li...

No matter what motorcycle Jake Lewis throws his leg over, he goes fast. Whether it's flying through the woods on a motocross bike, racing around in circles on a dirt tracker or road racing against the best MotoAmerica has to offer, Lewis has found success. In 2023, Lewis is learning something new: The art of going fast on a King Of The Baggers Harley-Davidson Road Glide. And that's not a...

Cory West has been around the racing block a few times. He's raced an EBR in AMA Superbike. He's raced in a Honda 600 in Spain for a guy named Kenny Roberts with current MotoAmerica Supersport points leader Xavi Fores as a teammate. He's raced flat track, two-stroke 250cc GP bikes back when that was a class in AMA racing and even the Pikes Peak Hillclimb. And the ever-smiling racer...

We're 11 races into a 20-race MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship and things are tight at the top between Jake Gagne, Cameron Beaubier and Josh Herrin. There's been some surprises and some disappointments, but the season has been stellar and the second half is shaping up to be a thriller. What better time than now for Paul Carruthers and Sean Bice to chat with MotoAmerica Live+ a...

With three wins and five total podiums in the four rounds (eight races) held thus far in 2023, Cameron Beaubier and his Tytlers Cycle Racing team have a lot to be happy about. They've won races - even at tracks where most thought they would struggle - and sit second in the championship, 23 points behind Jake Gagne, as the series heads to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for round five. Beaubie...

Northern Californian Bobby Fong will race any motorcycle. His dirt track roots taught him how to steer with the rear end, and it's fueled his versatility. Now, he's back in the Medallia Superbike Championship, and aboard Aussie Dave Anthony's Wrench Motorcycles Yamaha YZF-R1. On this episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice, Bobby explains how he divides his time between his &q...

If there's a week that Andy DiBrino circles on his MotoAmerica calendar of events, it's the one at Ridge Motorsports Park in Washington State. Although Portland International Raceway in Oregon is technically DiBrino's "home track," Ridge is a close second as it's just a two-and-a-half hour drive north from DiBrino's home in Tualatin, Oregon. This year's roun...

If you've ever wandered through the paddock at a MotoAmerica event, you may have seen certain riders either getting a post-session massage or using a variety of tools designed to get the brain up to speed prior to a heading out on track. The man responsible for all that is Ethan Chapluk of  Southern Pride Performance. We caught up with Chapluk for this week's episode of Off Track With Ca...