We've listened to them in the media center at the MotoAmerica Series rounds for long enough and the answer is simple: These two need another avenue to spew so we've decided to let them air it out in a podcast. Since both believe they know truly everything about motorcycle racing and most notably the MotoAmerica Series that employs them, they're perfectly capable of taking off the gloves to see who is right and who is wrong. Yet, they still end up sharing a meal after the smoke clears. So let's see how much trouble Paul Carruthers and Sean Bice (beauty before age) can get themselves into...
Richie Escalante is hoping everything falls into place for this year's Daytona 200 after a few years of bad luck for the Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki rider. We caught up with the popular Escalante on the eve of the 83rd running of the Daytona 200 at Daytona International Speedway to talk about the 200, the upcoming MotoAmerica Superbike Championship, and more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. Support the show...
Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati's Josh Herrin will be going for his fourth Daytona 200 victory and his third in a row on Saturday, March 8 when the MotoAmerica season opens at Daytona International Speedway. We caught up with Herrin at the recent MotoAmerica/Dunlop test at the Podium Club in Arizona to talk about all things Daytona and more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. Support the show
Loris Baz was a MotoAmerica Superbike winner in 2024 with the Frenchman riding his Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati Panigale V4 R to victory in the final race of the season at New Jersey Motorsports Park. Fast forward a few months and Baz is preparing to do something completely different in 2025. Beginning at Daytona in a few weeks time, Baz will be competing in the Mission King Of The Baggers as a member of the three-rider Indian Motorcycle "Wrecking Crew." It's a challenge that he&ap...
It's two for the price of one week with Off Track With Carruthers And Bice as they welcome both Orange Cat Racing's Jayson Uribe and Andrew Lee to the podcast on the lead up to this coming weekend's official MotoAmerica/Dunlop test at the Podium Club in Arizona. The pair talk about the seasons past, the season ahead, and how they believe the two-pronged championship attack ends up with a title for the Chicago-based Orange Cat Racing squad. All that and more on this week's Off...
Matthew Chapin earned the 2024 MotoAmerica Junior Cup Championship by 81 points after going on a run that included six wins in the final eight races of the season. Chapin was fast, consistent and he always seemed to put himself in the right place. Now, heading into the 2025 season, Chapin has again put himself in the right spot at the right time as he will move up to the SC-Project Twins Cup on a RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki GSX-8R - the bike that very nearly won last year's titl...
Jayson Uribe finished second in last year's MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Championship, and, for many, that was a surprise. Uribe started the season with a sixth, a fifth and a fourth in the first three races of the season. In race four, Uribe won his first race of the series when his title rival Hayden Gillim crashed out of race two at Brainerd International Raceway. From there Uribe never looked back, earning a second win and never finishing off the podium en route to securing second in the titl...
Since his crash at Barber Motorsports Park in 2023, Cory Ventura has been to hell and back with leg injuries that have required five surgeries. But guess what? Ventura is fit, healthy and ready to get back on the horse that threw him. We chatted with Ventura about his recovery, his hopes of a 2025 MotoAmerica comeback, his quest to get his pilot's license, and much more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. Support the show...
After three years in the Yamaha family, Cameron Petersen will be getting a fresh start in the 2025 MotoAmerica Championship with a new manufacturer, a new team and a new class. The South African, who now calls Corona, California home, will join the Celtic/Economy Lube & Tire by Warhorse HSBK Ducati team for a run at the Supersport Championship. We caught up with Cam P. to talk about his new deal, his new teammate as well as a look back at his past all on this week's episode of Off Track...
Seventeen-year-old Owen Williams has gone from kid speedway racer to MotoAmerica Junior Cup racer to MotoAmerica Supersport racer, and in 2025 he will be back for a third season of Supersport racing. And this time he will will have more help with recent announcement that he will be joining the experienced, championship-winning Altus Motorsports. We caught up with Williams from his Southern California home to talk about his speedway days, his struggles last season, his hopes for a great 2025, and...
Bobby Fong has finally achieved a "life-long dream" as he is now a full-on factory Superbike rider. It was was announced this week that the 2019 MotoAmerica Supersport Champion and five-time MotoAmerica Superbike race winner will join Jake Gagne on the Attack Performance Progressive Yamaha Racing team, winners of three of the last four MotoAmerica Superbike Championships, and arguably the most coveted ride in the paddock. We chatted with a very happy Fong for this week about his new ri...
Blake Davis first showed up for a MotoAmerica race at the ripe young age of 14 at Road Atlanta in 2020. Polite, funny and tiny, Davis was an instant hit. Fast forward four years and he's now he's a two-time MotoAmerica Twins Cup Champion and a factor at the sharp end of MotoAmerica Supersport races, In fact, Davis earned his first Supersport victory in the season's finale at New Jersey Motorsports Park en route to finishing third in the championship behind heavy hitters Mathew Sch...
Simply put, Ron Heben has been around the block a few times in the world of motorcycle racing. From the early days of racing motocross, to being a race mechanic for several of the sport’s top stars, to working as a team manager for the likes of American Honda’s road racing team, Heben has done it all and always with a smile, a smart-ass reply, and a lot of hard work. Nowadays, Heben runs the MotoAmerica VIP Superfan Experience while also running the series’ hospitality unit. Sit back and enjoy t...
Former Royal Enfield Build. Train. Race. and current Twins Cup racer Sonya Lloyd is our guest on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice where she catches us up on her plans of hopefully racing in the FIM Women's Circuit Racing World Championship (WorldWCR) in 2025 in addition to some one-off rides in the MotoAmerica Championship. In addition to filling us in on her history in the sport, Lloyd also tells us what it's like to be a chemical engineer. All that and m...
Brandon Paasch is hopeful that the Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki team has him back for a second full season in the MotoAmerica Superbike wars. Paasch was ninth in last year's title chase with a best result of fifth, a spot he earned twice in 2024. He also made some rookie mistakes and crashed a few times along the way. We caught up with the 23-year-old Paasch for this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to talk about the season past and what might come next for the pop...
Welcome to our 300th episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice, and we can't think of a better guest to share the milestone episode with than Rahal Ducati Moto's Kayla Yaakov. When we started this podcast in 2018, Yaakov was 11 years old and now she's a top-level racer in the MotoAmerica Supersport Championship. Yaakov has moved up through the MotoAmerica ranks quickly, beginning in Mini Cup before a move to Junior Cup, Twins Cup and now to Supersport. She's only one step...
It's been more than three decades since Kevin Schwantz won the 500cc Grand Prix World Championship, and the man still remains one of the world's best-known and most-beloved motorcycle racers. He spends a lot of time fishing and enjoying the company of his two dogs these days, but he's still imparting heaping helpings of insight about going fast on a motorcycle. We had the distinct pleasure of spending some quality time with Schwantz, and it's a gem of an episode of Off Track ...
As one of the partners in the KRAVE Group, former road racer Chuck Aksland has served as Chief Operating Officer for MotoAmerica over the past 10 seasons. Every day brings more challenges and opportunities for Chuck as he works tirelessly to grow the series, including its video production, broadcast, and live streaming capabilities. He's also been instrumental in creating a viable pathway for young racers to follow on their way to the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship, the Superbike World ...
Harley-Davidson Factory Racing's Kyle Wyman leads the Mission King Of The Baggers Championship heading into this weekend's final round of the series at New Jersey Motorsports Park. Wyman leads S&S/Indian Motorcycle's Troy Herfoss by just two points with the two races at Wyman's home track of NJMP left to run. We caught up with the winningest King Of The Bagger racer in the class on the eve of qualifying for the finale to talk about the title chase, his season, the future,...
Australian Troy Herfoss will arrive at New Jersey Motorsports Park next week two points behind Kyle Wyman in their battle for the 2024 Mission King Of The Baggers Championship. Two points basically equals winner-take-all. For the umpteenth time this season, Herfoss will have to learn a new track in the first practice session, get up to speed, and ready himself and his S&S/Indian Motorcycle's Challenger for two races that will determine the outcome of the championship. It's going to...
Rahal Ducati Moto's PJ Jacobsen rolls into this weekend's penultimate round of the MotoAmerica Supersport Championship trailing his season-long rival Mathew Scholtz by 25 points. To have any real chance of taking the title, Jacobsen probably needs to win all four of the remaining races, including this week's two races at Circuit of The America. We caught up with Jacobsen prior to the start of the weekend to chat about the title chase, his first season with the Rahal team, his two ...
Strack Racing's Mathew Scholtz heads to Circuit of The Americas in Austin Texas, next week with a 25-point lead in the 2024 MotoAmerica Supersport Championship. Left without a ride when the Westby Racing Superbike team folded at the end of last season, Scholtz took a step back to race in the Supersport class. And it's worked to perfection. The South African, who now calls Georgia home, has won seven races and has stood on the podium in 13 of 14 races. He's also had some battles ro...
If you want to learn more about the black art of motorcycle racing tires, then listening to his episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice is a must. The guys are joined this week by Dunlop Senior Race Technician Tony Romo, who does a great job of explaining Dunlop's role in the MotoAmerica paddock, why tires work, how they work and everything in between. Support the show
This week's Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podcast features a chat with five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier between sessions at the Dunlop Official test day at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Thursday, the eve of the series' return to the iconic track for round seven of the MotoAmerica Championship, August 16-18. Beaubier talks about returning to the site of one of his 2014 victories, his season thus far, his heel injury and much more. Support the show...
Spend any time with Larry Pegram and there's one thing that's certain - you're gonna laugh. But in case you don't know, Pegram is no joke when it comes to racing a motorcycle. Any kind of motorcycle. Case in point: Pegram has won three AMA Superbike races and multiple AMA Grand National Flat Tracks. At the ripe young age of 51, Pegram recently raced in the MotoAmerica Supersport class at our WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca round, finishing 15th and 11th in the two races. Next...
Richie Alexander has been round the racing block more than a few times and always with success. Let's see... the New Yorker raced, winning an AMA Supersport Championship in 1998, he was instrumental in bringing Michael Jordan into the AMA paddock as a team owner, he's managed teams with his nephew Corey Alexander as the rider, and he's currently playing a big role in helping Rahal Ducati Moto succeed it in its first year of MotoAmerica racing with PJ Jacobsen, Kayla Yaakov and Cor...
If you race motorcycles in the MotoAmerica Championship, chances are you have Dr. Tom Bryan's phone number on speed dial. If you don't, you should. Bryan is basically our surgeon to the stars and his list of patients reads like a who's who of motorcycle racing. We caught up with Bryan for this week's Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to talk about things of which we had very little knowledge. And we're now the wiser for it. Support the show...
Intelligent and well-spoken, Jayson Uribe may be the perfect podcast guest. He's also pretty handy on a motorcycle. Oh, and he's also a fire fighter and an entrepreneur. We caught up with Uribe hot off his two second-place finishes in the Stock 1000 class at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca and leading into a break for the Californian before the Stock 1000 Championship showdown at New Jersey Motorsports Park in September for this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice...
Ben Spies modestly calls himself the "team mascot" for the Rahal Ducati Moto team in the MotoAmerica Supersport Series but, with all self-deprecation aside, Spies plays a big role in the success of the newest team in the paddock. We caught up with Spies on the eve of the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca round of the championship to discuss the team's success and more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. Support the show...
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 those riders who scored points last year and is trying to do the same this year. We were able to track ...
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
