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A Soaking Weekend At The Barber

Posted by Road Dirt Crew | Sep 20, 2021 | Industry & Racing | 0 |

MotoAmerica Rides The Ridge

Posted by Ted Edwards | Aug 31, 2020 | Industry & Racing | 0 |

Austrian Armageddon

Posted by Rob Brooks | Aug 21, 2020 | Industry & Racing | 0 |

A Soaking Weekend At The Barber

by Road Dirt Crew | Sep 20, 2021 | Industry & Racing | 0 |

Despite a weekend at Barber Motorsports Park that featured horrendous weather and difficult racing conditions, the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Series ended as it should have with Jake Gagne winning a record 17th race to put an exclamation point on a season like no other.

MotoAmerica Rides The Ridge

by Ted Edwards | Aug 31, 2020 | Industry & Racing | 0 |

The Ridge Motorsports Park opened to the MotoAmerica road racing series this past weekend, a first for both. Teams rolled in early last week to familiarize themselves with the track, which only a handful of racers had ever ridden on. And it showed. Numerous riders crashed and crunched up their bikes, before even the first green flag on Saturday. The problem wasn’t so much the track itself, which the majority of racers and MotoAmerica personnel said they loved, but their unfamiliarity with it. At 2.47 miles in length, 16 dramatic turns and over 300 feet of elevation change across the track, including a 50 foot plunge down the Ridge Complex of switchbacks, a lap on the Ridge tarmac is filled with high speed straights, sweeping turns, huge compressions, weightless crests and hard esses that challenge and exhaust racers like few tracks in the States.

Austrian Armageddon

by Rob Brooks | Aug 21, 2020 | Industry & Racing | 0 |

The now infamous crash in the premier class began with a high speed collision between Petronas Yamaha rider Johann Zarco and Avintia Ducati’s Franco Morbidelli down the long stretch toward the circuit’s sharp right turn 3. At over 180 mph the riders tangled then tumbled out into the gravel and grass, while their bikes careened toward the right hander, even as other riders were negotiating the turn. As can be seen from the footage, both bikes rocketed back across the track at still well over 100 mph, trailing debris in their wake, narrowly missing Monster Energy Yamaha riders Maverick Vinales and 7-time world champion Valentino Rossi.