MotoAmerica

MotoAmerica is the organization that promotes the AMA Superbike Series since 2015. Sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) and the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM), it features five classes of road racing - Superbike, Stock 1000, Supersport, Twins and the Liqui Moly Junior Cup.

MotoAmerica
SportMotorcycle sport
JurisdictionNorth America
Foundedc.2014
HeadquartersCosta Mesa, California
PresidentWayne Rainey
Official website
www.motoamerica.com

MotoAmerica's primary goal was to reinvigorate motorcycle road racing in North America and ultimately send its riders to the top-level international championships - MotoGP, World Superbike, PTT BRIC Superbike Championship and Pirelli Malaysia Superbike Championship. The series is run by the KRAVE Group, a partnership led by three-time 500cc World Champion Wayne Rainey. The other three partners are energy sector investor and CEO Richard Varner, former vice president of motorsport operations at COTA and former managing director of Team Roberts in MotoGP Chuck Aksland, and the executive director of the Petersen Automotive Museum Terry Karges.

New Classes for 2018

For the 2018 season there were changes in classes. The Superstock 1000 class was dropped from the schedule, partly because there were now sufficient full Superbikes to fill a moderately sized grid (16-18 machines as opposed to as few as 9 in previous seasons) and the introduction of a relatively low cost, but still fast class. The Stock 1000 class differs from the Superstock 1000 class it replaced, by permitting very few modifications from the showroom specifications of the road legal machines. Lights, indicators, stands and mirrors must be removed and a race fairing may be fitted, but the use of expensive replacement engine and certain other parts is prohibited.

The Superstock 600 class was dropped, with its place on the program being taken by the new Twins class. In contrast to the Stock 1000 series, this is a fairly open class where development and modifications are allowed with a great degree of freedom as long as a twin cylinder machine is used.

The Liqui Moly Junior cup class was introduced as a replacement for the KTM cup. Encouraged by the success of the competitive series at world championship level this championship was introduced as a new entry-level class with an age restriction limiting competitors to 25 years old at the most. Machines eligible for the class are

  • Honda CBR500R
  • Kawasaki Ninja 300
  • Kawasaki Ninja 400
  • KTM RC390
  • KTM RC390 R
  • Suzuki GSX250R (pending homologation)
  • Yamaha YZF-R3

History

The series crowned its first champions in 2015, led by AMA Superbike Championship winner Cameron Beaubier. The other champions were Jake Gagne (Superstock 1000), J. D. Beach (Supersport), Joe Roberts (Superstock 600) and Gage McAllister (KTM RC 390 Cup).

The series consisted of nine rounds and 18 races in 2015 with the championship getting started at the Circuit of the Americas(COTA) in Austin, Texas and ending at New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville, New Jersey. MotoAmerica shared three rounds of its series with Dorna properties MotoGP (COTA and Indianapolis Motor Speedway) and the World Superbike (WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca).

In 2016 the series again operated over nine rounds despite the loss of the Indianapolis event. In 2015 MotoAmerica had run alongside the MotoGP at Indianapolis but this was dropped from the MotoGP calendar for 2016. There was an extra round in 2016 at New Jersey Motorsports Park, bringing the total back up to 9 rounds.

In 2017 it ran 10 events with a single round at New Jersey but additional rounds at Pittsburgh International Race Complex and Sonoma Raceway.

2018 Race Schedule

References
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