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...
Nov 08, 2024•45 min•Ep 301•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Nov 02, 2024•58 min•Ep 300•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Oct 11, 2024•50 min•Ep 299•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Oct 04, 2024•54 min•Ep 298•Transcript available on Metacast 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,...
Sep 27, 2024•37 min•Ep 297•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Sep 20, 2024•46 min•Ep 296•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Sep 12, 2024•40 min•Ep 295•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Sep 06, 2024•49 min•Ep 294•Transcript available on Metacast 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
Aug 30, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep 293•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Aug 15, 2024•30 min•Ep 292•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Aug 09, 2024•1 hr•Ep 291•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Aug 02, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep 290•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jul 26, 2024•55 min•Ep 289•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jul 19, 2024•47 min•Ep 288•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jul 11, 2024•41 min•Ep 287•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Jul 06, 2024•42 min•Ep 286•Transcript available on Metacast 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
Jun 21, 2024•49 min•Ep 285•Transcript available on Metacast Minnesotan Justin Miest will make his 2024 Stock 1000 debut next weekend, June 14-15, at his home track of Brainerd International Raceway and going into this podcast we honestly didn't know much more about him than that. We knew he was fifth in the Stock 1000 race at Road America last year, but that was about it. Miest changed all that in this week's Off Track With Carruthers And Bice as we delved into his racing career, his working life and his new company. Support the show...
Jun 08, 2024•32 min•Ep 284•Transcript available on Metacast Frenchman Loris Baz is back in his happy place. He's in the MotoAmerica paddock and racing a Ducati Panigale V4 R with his friends and crew on the Warhorse HSBK Ducati Racing team. And those friends include his teammate Josh Herrin. Baz and Herrin are an unlikely pair on the surface. Dig a bit deeper and they are the same. We chatted with Baz about life with Herrin, his return to MotoAmerica and much more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. Support the show...
May 30, 2024•34 min•Ep 283•Transcript available on Metacast There's a good chance we won't see much of Michael Gilbert in the MotoAmerica Championship in 2024 as he and his brother have taken over the running of the family business. That being said, he has leathers, a helmet and a Honda Fireblade at his disposal just in case. And there's also the fact that Laguna Seca Raceway is only a five-or six-hour drive north from Gilbert's Southern California home. In the meantime, Gilbert is going racing in the World Endurance Championship roun...
May 24, 2024•41 min•Ep 282•Transcript available on Metacast Geoff May has been around the racing game for a long time. As a racer. This time around, May will come at it from a different direction as he makes his team-owner debut at Barber Motorsports Park, May 17-19, as the man behind the GMR/Jones Honda effort that will field Gabriel Da Silva in the MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Championship. We caught up with May this week to get some background on the new team while also chatting about some stuff from the past on this week's episode of Off Track With Ca...
May 14, 2024•41 min•Ep 281•Transcript available on Metacast It's not how you start, it's how you finish. Jaret Nassaney is definitely hoping that's the case as he heads to Barber Motorsports Park, May 17-19, with zero points in the bank after a difficult opening Supersport round at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. We chatted with Nassaney about his rough start, his interesting second career, the inner workings of Altus Motorsports, and more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers and Bice. Support the show...
May 10, 2024•35 min•Ep 280•Transcript available on Metacast Two-time MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Champion Andrew Lee will begin what he is hoping will be the start of a successful campaign to win a third title when the Stock 1000 Championship kicks off at Barber Motorsports Park, May 17-19. In the meantime, the ever-fit Lee has been keeping himself busy and track ready. We chatted with Lee about that and more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. Support the show
May 03, 2024•41 min•Ep 279•Transcript available on Metacast Last year, Nolan Lamkin won the MotoAmerica Superbike Cup Championship and finished fifth in the Stock 1000 title chase. This year, rider/team owner Lamkin go at it again and he began his defense of the Superbike Cup title win a win and a second place in the class within a class, while also finishing inside the top 10 in the second of two Steel Commander Superbike races. We caught up with Lamkin for this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to talk about that and more. Suppo...
Apr 25, 2024•36 min•Ep 278•Transcript available on Metacast With the Steel Commander Superbike Championship getting underway at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Paul and Sean are joined by former MotoAmerica Superbike race winner and current Live+ commentator Roger Hayden. The trio provides an in-depth rider-by-rider discussion and analysis of MotoAmerica's premier class, so be sure to check out this episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. Support the show
Apr 19, 2024•36 min•Ep 277•Transcript available on Metacast Travis Wyman has gotten used to wearing different team shirts, remembering to change his leathers for almost every session on track, and adapting to different motorcycles quickly over the course of a race weekend. This year, Wyman will be at it again, racing in three different classes - Stock 1000, Mission King Of The Baggers and Mission Super Hooligan National Championship - for two different teams. We chatted with Wyman for this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice about t...
Apr 05, 2024•43 min•Ep 276•Transcript available on Metacast MotoAmerica Mission King Of The Baggers racer Kyle Ohnsorg has landed his dream job. Armed with an engineering degree, Ohnsorg not only races an Indian Challenger, he also plays a major role n the development of the bikes raced by Tyler O'Hara and Troy Herfoss as an employee of Polaris, the parent company of Indian Motorcycles. Throw in the fact that his engineer wife is also big part of his tight-knit RydFast Racing crew and you can see why the life-long Minnesotan is living his best life....
Mar 28, 2024•46 min•Ep 275•Transcript available on Metacast It was already a good time to be Hayden Gillim as he went into the off-season with not one but two championships in the 2023 MotoAmerica Championship - Mission King Of The Baggers and Stock 1000. With his RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Motorsports Harley-Davidson deal intact for 2024, Gillim announced this week that he will also have a promising program for Stock 1000 as he will defend his title on a Steel Commander/Comstock Energy/Southern Honda Powersports/American Honda CBR1000RR-R Fireblad...
Mar 23, 2024•47 min•Ep 274•Transcript available on Metacast Hawk Mazzotta not only has cool name, but he's a cool dude. Raised on a cattle ranch in Northern California, Mazzotta rode motorcycles as a youngster more so for transportation on the family's land than for recreation. That finally changed with Mazziotta getting involved in the sport at a later than normal age, but with plenty of success. Today, the Californian has revitalized his career in the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship and he's fresh off fifth- and seventh-plac...
Mar 16, 2024•46 min•Ep 273•Transcript available on Metacast Niccoló Canepa is a two-time World Endurance Champion, a test rider for Yamaha, and a riding coach for Yamaha's World Superbike team. This week, Canepa has his race face on as he prepares to battle, along with his two World Endurance YART Yamaha teammates, in Daytona 200 for the first time. We caught up with Canepa this week at Daytona International Speedway for the newest Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podcast to talk about his three different careers in racing and more. Support the sh...
Mar 07, 2024•30 min•Ep 272•Transcript available on Metacast 
