Motorcycle Racing Podcast: Off Track With Carruthers And Bice

Let's say you crash at a recent track day and scuff up that new set of leathers. You're crushed because you spent a lot of money for not only the protection leathers provide, but also the fact that they make you look like Jake Gagne. Well, don't panic. This is where Greg Sermabeikian and crew come to the rescue at  Anthony's Leatherworks in Southern California. You send your le...

It's not every day that we get to actually speak with someone from the MotoAmerica fan base, but we did this week for the newest episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. Shannon Utz is a relatively new fan to the MotoAmerica Championship, but she's jumped in with both feet and her enthusiasm for our series is hopefully contagious. Utz completed her first season of fandom in 2022 an...

As MotoAmerica's COO, one of Chuck Aksland's key responsibilities is to put together a schedule of events that works not only for the championship and the tracks, but also the teams, the riders and the fans. It's an arduous job and one that he knows isn't going to be done to everyone's liking. This week MotoAmerica released its provisional 2023 calendar and we were able to...

Aaron Yates ranks in the top 10 of all-time AMA race winners across all classes with victories in virtually every category during a career that saw him win his first race in 1994 and his last in 2008. Along the way, Aaron won four AMA Championship, raced factory Suzuki Superbikes with the Yoshimura team, and earned a reputation as hard-working rider with gobs of talent. For today's generation...

With the recent release of the 2023 MotoAmerica rulebook, we thought it was a perfect time for a little sit-down chat with MotoAmerica's Technical Director Tige Daane for this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. Daane will be starting his third season on the job when the series kicks off in March and he was accommodating to all our questions, ranging from more details o...

A close third in the 2022 MotoAmerica SportbikeGear.com Junior Cup Championship with four victories and 11 total podium finishes out of 18 races, Kayla Yaakov had quite the season. But it turns out the 15-year-old wasn’t done yet. A few weeks after the lights went out on a MotoAmerica season that saw her just eight points short of winning the championship, Yaakov was on a plane and headed to Portu...

Max Flinders may be the happiest guy in the MotoAmerica paddock as evidenced by a face that wears a smile each and every day. And why not? After all, he's racing in the MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship with his friendly little Thrashed Bike Racing team and he is quite literally living his best life. Flinders and his all-yellow Yamaha YZF-R1 have quite a following in the MotoAmerica...

Gus Rodio scored 285 points in the 2022 MotoAmerica SportbikeTrackGear.com Junior Cup Championship. Unfortunately for him, Cody Wyman also scored 285 points and won the title in a tiebreaker due to the fact that he had more victories. Still, it was a heck of a year for Rodio and his farewell to Junior Cup racing as he will move to the REV'IT! Twins Cup class next year. First things first, how...

Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code OFFTRACK at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod On Sunday afternoon, one of these two will be crowned as the 2022 MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Champion. So what's better than having Jake Gagne and Danilo Petrucci in the same room, at the same table and in the same Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podcast? Gagne and Petrucci talk about th...

Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code OFFTRACK at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod Sometimes the racetrack isn't the only place where things can get a bit hairy. Off Track With Carruthers And Bice welcomes new sponsor - Manscaped - to the show with a little help from newly crowned MotoAmerica Supersport Champion Josh Herrin. We also took the opportunity to chat with Herrin ab...

Since the 2022 Mission King Of The Baggers Championship will be decided on Sunday afternoon at New Jersey Motorsports Park, who better to have on this week’s episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice then the two men who will fight for that title – Travis Wyman and Tyler O’Hara. It’s Wyman and his H-D Screamin' Eagle Harley-Davidson Road Glide who will start Sunday’s race with a three-poi...

Former MotoAmerica Superbike rider and multi-time race winner Garrett Gerloff is now in his third year of racing in the  FIM Superbike World Championship and with the GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team. After an impressive 2020 rookie season, 2021 was a sophomore struggle for Gerloff. The Texan has also had more than his fair share of adversity in 2022, but he loves his team, and he maintains a hopeful...

Colin Barton is the colorful, larger-than-life motorcycle racing fanatic who is the man behind BARTCON Racing, which currently competes in the MotoAmerica REV'IT! Twins Cup Championship with South African Dominic Doyle at the controls of the team's Yamaha R7. Oh, and Barton is as Irish as they come as you'll no doubt notice when you start listening to this week's episode of Off...

Anthony Mazziotto and Jody Barry are separated by just one point in the battle for the MotoAmerica REV’IT! Twins Cup Championship going into this weekend’s round at Pittsburgh International Race Complex. So, in classic “hold my beer and watch this” fashion, Carruthers and Bice came up with the idea of having the two on the same podcast, separated by mere inches and on video. What could be better f...

 In 2020, Attack Performance took over the running of Yamaha’s "factory" team in the MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship. The results have been impressive. How’s this? Forty-two wins in 54 races for a 77 percent win ratio as of the recent round at Brainerd International Raceway. The man behind the team, known as Fresh N Lean Progressive Yamaha Racing, is Richard Stanboli. Thus, t...

We sometimes forget that Rocco Landers is just 17 years old. Perhaps that stems from the fact that the "kid" has been winning in the MotoAmerica Championship since he was 14. And he's done quite well, thank you very much. How well? How about 40 total victories: 29 in Junior Cup, nine in Twins Cup and, thanks to his two wins at Brainerd International Raceway last weekend, two in Supe...

You can hear it when he speaks, and you can see it in his smile: Cameron Petersen is truly living his best life in 2022. Now a factory rider on inarguably the best team in the MotoAmerica paddock, the Fresh N Lean Progressive Yamaha squad, Petersen is most definitely living the dream. Currently third in the MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship with eight podiums, including a victory at Road...

Three-time 500cc World Champion and MotoAmerica Wayne Rainey really needs no introduction so we'll jump right into it. The boys were fortunate enough to tie Rainey down for this week's episode of the Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podcast  with a not-so-quick chat in which Rainey talked about his recent trip to England for the Goodwood Festival Of Speed, his ride on his 1992 World Ch...

If you want to know what's going on in the MotoAmerica paddock, you go see Chuck. Who is fighting with whom? Go see Chuck. Chuck is Chuck Giacchetto, the hyper-active, fast-talking team manager of Westby Racing - one of the premier MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike teams that is in the battle for podium finishes week in and week out. We caught up with Giacchetto for this week's episode of t...

You just never know who you're gonna run into when you venture to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for a MotoAmerica event. Well, Carruthers and Bice struck oil on move-in day when they not only found three-time World Champion Kenny Roberts Sr. but were able to wrangle him into joining them for a sit-down interview for this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers and Bice. Roberts doe...

This week the boys are going it alone with a 'We don't need no stinkin' guest" episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. The dynamic duo chat about all things MotoAmerica with the series reaching its halfway mark and a trip to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca just around the corner. Carruthers also has to get on a knee and apologize to Bice, but you'll have to listen t...

Italian Danilo Petrucci currently leads the 2022 MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship by seven points as the fifth round of the championship gets started at Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton, Washington, this weekend. We sat down for a lengthy discussion with the former MotoGP racer to talk about everything from the MotoAmerica Championship, track safety, life in America and much more on th...

If you currently subscribe to MotoAmerica Live+ then you are familiar with the post-racing career of Roger Hayden with the former AMA Supersport Champion and MotoAmerica Superbike race winner providing color commentary from each and every round of the MotoAmerica Championship. If you don't subscribe, you should because you'll not only see all the races live, you'll learn a lot from...

Westby Racing's Mathew Scholtz rolls into Road America this weekend trailing Danilo Petrucci by just four points in the MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship. Although he's happy with where he sits in the title chase, Scholtz isn't stoked on the five second-place finishes on his scorecard. He'd like to fix that this weekend. We chatted with Scholtz about the desire to win...

Corey Alexander won the opening round of the MotoAmerica Yuasa Stock 1000 Championship at Road Atlanta after a race-long battle with his friend and fellow JP43 instructor Michael Gilbert. The new Tytler Cycle team, of which Alexander is a big part, tasted success again when fill-in rider Kyle Wyman rode PJ Jacobsen's BMW to third in the Medallia Superbike race. The team left Georgia on a high...