Motorcycle Racing Podcast: Off Track With Carruthers And Bice

This week's podcast episode is a special one, and not just because we recorded it at Road America. Carruthers and Bice had the distinct pleasure of talking to motorcycle road racing legend Freddie Spencer, who is currently in charge of Royal Enfield's Build. Train. Race. program, which has its first round this weekend at Road America. Spencer is also Chairman of the Track Stewards in Mot...

We have something a little different for this week’s episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice as we’ve brought in MotoAmerica Operations Manager Niccole Cox and Race Director Rick Hobbs to discuss the "controversial"  incidents at MotoAmerica’s Barber Motorsports Park round last weekend. We’ve seen and heard from the teams and riders involved and thought it appropriate to hear from...

Xavi Fores had a perfect beginning to his MotoAmerica Supersport season at Road Atlanta with victories in both races and a perfect 50-point tally at the top of the championship. This weekend, the Spaniard will do battle with America's best on an unfamiliar racetrack - Barber Motorsports Park, the site of what will be the first of the two "extended" Supersport races that will feature...

Gabriel Da Silva pulled off the surprise of the weekend in the 2021 MotoAmerica Championship finale when he won the Supersport race in a downpour at Barber Motorsports Park. Da Silva was the talk of the town after beating the man who had just won the Supersport title - Sean Dylan Kelly. But just as quickly as he arrived on the scene, Da Silva was gone and surprisingly not a part of the 2022 MotoAm...

The Mission Mini Cup By Motul series kicks off May 5-6 at Carolina Motorsports Park in South Carolina with some new classes and a new series manager, Cory Texter. A two-time AMA Production Twins Champion, Texter recently retired from racing and will be focusing his efforts on his new gig as Mini Cup series manager and the off-season flat track races he promotes via Cory Texter Productions. We caug...

Jake Gagne's defense of his MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship begins today at Michelin Raceway Laguna Seca with the two-time champ hoping to make it three straight titles. We caught up with Gagne at Road Atlanta on the eve of the opening round to chat about that and more on this episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. Support the show

Benjamin Smith has been racing in the MotoAmerica Championship for seven years and his list of accomplishments includes winning the 2017 KTM RC Cup Championship. Next week, Smith will embark on his biggest challenge to date when he makes his Superbike debut in the 2023 MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship season opener at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. We caught up with Smith for this week&...

Fortunately for the rest of us, Kevin Cameron has a passion for motorcycles and motorcycle racing because there's a good chance we'd know a lot less about the inner workings of motorcycles without him. Cameron has written books and regularly pens features and columns for Cycle World magazine that draw on his technical background from a lot more than just racing. And he does so in a way t...

This week's Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podcast takes a different twist with the pair enlisting the services of MotoAmerica Live+ analyst Roger Hayden to help break down the upcoming 2023 MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship. With just a few weeks until the opening round of the series at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, three of the smartest (okay, one of the smartest) men in the...

Fifth in last year's REV'IT! Twins Cup Championship, Hayden Schultz is hoping for more in 2023 and he's off to a good start after third- and fifth-place finishes in the opening round at Daytona International Speedway. In between Daytona and next month's round at Road Atlanta, Schultz will be back to work in his construction job that helps pay for the job he truly loves - racing...

Jackson Blackmon is coming off a successful opening round of the MotoAmerica REV'IT! Twins Cup series with second- and third-place finishes at Daytona International Speedway. In the first of the two races, Blackmon came from way back to finish second after taking evasive action early on to avoid the Dominic Doyle/Ben Gloddy crash. What makes Blackmon's Daytona even better is that it was...

If Brandon Paasch wins Saturday's 81st running of the Daytona 200, he will become the first rider in history to win the prestigious race in three successive years. Paasch, who is by no means short on confidence, knows you need a little luck to win the 200 but he also knows you need to be at the front to give yourself a chance. We chatted with Paasch about Daytona, his 2022 Stock 1000 season,...

It's not often that we have two guests on one show, but in this case it makes sense as it's the duo of Colin Barton and Dominic Doyle. Doyle tells us about his new ride for 2023 as he prepares to get the season rolling in the REV'IT! Twins Cup Championship on a Team Iso Yamaha YZF-R7 at Daytona International Speedway. Barton, meanwhile, is taking a "sabbatical" for a year...

A lot of people say they're living the dream, but defending MotoAmerica Mission King Of The Baggers Champion Tyler O'Hara truly is. A journeyman racer early in his career, O'Hara heads to Daytona International Speedway in a few short weeks with two number-one plates on his factory Indian motorcycles - one in the Baggers class, the other earned by taking the Mission Super Hooligans N...

If we were handing out an award for the smartest guest in the history of the Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podcast, Jason Kehl would likely win. With a resume that includes everything from designing dialysis machines to being the lead engineer on a team that delivered the world's most advanced cruise missile, to his current role as team principle of Harley-Davidson's factory team in...

Ben Gloddy didn't have his best season in 2022 as he attacked the REV'IT! Twins Cup Championship with his Robem Engineering Aprilia RS 660, but it ended on a high with two podium finishes in the final two races of the season in New Jersey and in the finale at the Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama. Gloddy and the Robem team will be back at it in the 2023 MotoAmerica Championship with an...

Other than getting engaged to his now-fiancee Kaitlyn, Michael Gilbert had a pretty awful 2022. It started with a broken ankle in the MotoAmerica round at Road America and ended with the broken femur he suffered at Ridge Motorsports Park. The ankle should have ended his season and the femur most definitely did. But Gilbert is back,  the femur is healed and recent surgery on his ankle has fixed all...

Twenty-year-old Teagg Hobbs has been in the MotoAmerica paddock since he was 15, competing in the Junior Cup class before graduating to the REV'IT! Twins Cup Championship in 2020 where he has finished ninth, fourth and seventh in the title chase the past three years. Well, all that is about to start paying dividends as Hobbs will be playing with the big boys this season as he moves to the Mot...

There is smart and then there is SMART. Chloe Lerin is the latter. A data engineer who can be found under many a team awning during MotoAmerica race weekends, Lerin comes to the paddock armed with a Masters Degree in internal combustion engines. In addition to her weekend duties, Lerin is also the test engineer for Harley-Davidson's King Of The Baggers big V-twin program. Let's just say...

James Rispoli has been around the racing block. He started in dirt track, went road racing (and won two AMA Supersport titles), went to England to road race in BSB in both Supersport and Superbike, came back to race more dirt track, won the 2020 AFT Production Twins title,  dabbled a bit more in road racing and, lo and behold, discovered the MotoAmerica Mission King Of The Baggers Championship. Lo...

New year, new beginning: Off Track With Carruthers And Bice is back after a short break and they are joined in the first episode of 2023 by everyone's favorite World Superbike racer, Garrett Gerloff.  Gerloff is fresh off a very wet preseason test at Jerez in Spain as he begins a new phase of his career with a switch from the GRT Yamaha squad to the Bonovo BMW team for the coming season. Gerl...

Just when most of us thought that Josh Herrin was going to defend his MotoAmerica Supersport Championship in 2023, everything changed in just a few short weeks. Ducati brought Xavi Fores into the Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati NYC team and announced that the Spaniard was going to race the Panigale V2 in the Supersport class. Herrin, meanwhile, was getting bumped up to the premier MotoAmerica Medallia...

Kyle Wyman finished third in the 2022 MotoAmerica Mission King Of The Baggers Championship - just 12 points from taking the title despite a non-finish and a non-start in the seven races. Although he didn't earn the championship, he did win more races than any other racer in the series with his three victories. Wyman also moonlighted in the Medallia Superbike class six times with the highlight...

Cory Ventura finished sixth in the MotoAmerica REV'IT! Twins Cup Championship in 2022 with three podiums - all of them victories - in what was an up-and-down year for the 20-year-old. Ventura also raced six times in the MotoAmerica Supersport series as a fill-in rider for the injured Sam Lochoff and it was enough to turn some heads. In his first race at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Ventur...

Hayden Gillim rode his Disrupt Racing Suzuki GSX-R1000 to second in the 2022 MotoAmerica Yuasa Stock 1000 Championship and piloted a second GSX-R1000 to eighth in the 2022 MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship. Not a bad season for a team that was making its Superbike debut in just its second season of MotoAmerica. We chatted with team owner Jesse Hwilka for the newest episode of Off Track W...