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Torrance, CA: Honda Red Riders took on round two of the AMA Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship and Women’s Motocross Championship this weekend at Freestone Raceway in Worthman, TX. GEICO Honda’s Eli Tomac dominated both 250 motos to take the overall win. For the second week in a row, Ashley ...    Read more

TOOELE, UT (May 28, 2012) – For Team SuzukiScoopFans SportbikeTrackGear.com Suzuki rider Elena Myers, the weekend’s AMA Pro SuperSport race at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, UT, was a confidence-builder. Myers raced her SuzukiScoopFans Suzuki GSX-R600 to a commendable seventh place on Sunday afternoon. This marks her best result since ...    Read more

Yukio Kagayama is joining the Suzuki Endurance Racing Team for three of the four remaining World Endurance Championship rounds this year. The former MotoGP, World Superbike and British Championship Suzuki racer and development rider will team-up with the reigning 11-times World Champions SERT at the Losail 8-Hour second round of the ...    Read more

TOOELE, Utah (May 25) – Martin Cardenas made a bold move for the lead with just three corners left in Sunday's GoPro AMA Daytona SportBike race at Miller Motorsports Park's BigM Weekend and then held off Jason DiSalvo to pick up his fourth victory of the season.   Cardenas said DiSalvo was ...    Read more

TOOELE, Utah (May 27, 2012) - Martin Cardenas ripped win number four of the 2012 season away from Jason DiSalvo on Sunday during The BigM Weekend presented by Lucas Oil at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah. Cardenas, who races for GEICO Suzuki, led only the very last section of track after ...    Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (May 27, 2012) - The Illinois Motorcycle Dealers Association (IMDA) welcomed AMA Pro Flat Track as the AMA Pro Harley-Davidson Insurance Grand National Championship presented by Motorcycle-Superstore.com and Lucas Oil rolled into the Illinois State Fairground for round four of the 19 race season.   The 90+ degree Memorial Day ...    Read more

TOOELE, UT (May 28, 2012) – Team Yoshimura Suzuki Racing turned in another successful performance in the AMA Pro Superbike Championship this Memorial Day weekend. Yoshimura Suzuki’s Blake Young made his seventh visit to the podium at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, UT, on Monday afternoon. In the seven ...    Read more

EUGENE LAVERTY FINISHES FIFTH AND SIXTH IN THE TWO RACES AT MILLER MOTORSPORTS PARK. Tooele (Utah), 28 May 2012 – The United States was the venue for yet another great Superbike race. Two spectacular races, especially for the lead pack, which the Aprilia Racing Team left with good spoils thanks to ...    Read more

Yoshimura Suzuki's James Stewart raced to his fourth-consecutive race victory on the RM-Z450 at the 2012 Lucas Oils AMA Motocross Championship second round at Freestone in Texas at the weekend. Sporting the points leader's red number plate for the first-time ever, Stewart was a force to be reckoned with in Texas: ...    Read more

Miller Motorsports Park (USA), Monday 28 May 2012 – On a sunny race day at Miller Motorsports Park the sixth round of the eni FIM Superbike World Championship delivered some great action and two different race winners to the 49,000 strong weekend crowd. In a landmark day for the series, ...    Read more

TOOELE, Utah (May 28, 2012) - Two-time champion Josh Hayes reclaimed the 2012 AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike points lead he surrendered with his Infineon Raceway crash thanks to a decisive, perfect-points performance in the BigM Weekend presented by Lucas Oil at Miller Motorsport Park.   The Monster Energy Graves Yamaha ace raced ...    Read more

Tooele, UT May 28, 2012 – Other than their first names, there was no Joshing about the performance that the Monster Energy/Graves/Yamaha team showed at Miller Motorsports Park. Two-time reigning AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike Champion Josh Hayes got the holeshot in the Memorial Day SuperBike race at Miller, and ...    Read more

Wortham, TX – Red Bull/KTM Factory riders Ryan Dungey and Ken Roczen came away from the second round of the MC Nationals at Freestone in Texas with second and third placed podium respectively. Both are now second in the points in their respective standings. Roczen’s French teammate Marvin Musquin, still riding in ...    Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (May 26, 2012) - Near record heat hit Round Three of the AMA Pro Harley-Davidson Insurance Grand National Championship presented by Motorcycle-Superstore.com and Lucas Oil as the Series resumed at the Illinois State Fairgrounds. The Illinois Motorcycle Dealers Association built a very challenging TT track inside the beautiful ...    Read more

WORTHAM, Texas (May 26) – GEICO Honda's Eli Tomac conquered a track that has been his nemesis over the years by winning both 250cc motos in the Texas heat at the Freestone National in the Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship on Saturday.   "Man, this is the greatest turnaround in my ...    Read more

Yamaha’s Chiara Fontanesi continues to stamp her authority on the 2012 FIM Women’s Motocross World Championship. The Italian claimed both motos on her YZ250F at Arco di Trento on home turf last weekend for the third round of eight in the current campaign.   ‘Fonta’ has been superlative so far this season ...    Read more

KTM’s three times Dakar winner and factory rider Marc Coma has been drafted into the rider line-up for the Factory FMF/Bonanza Plumbing/KTM/Baja Team to compete in the 44th Annual running of the Tecate SCORE/Baja 500 event held in Ensenada, Mexico June 3-5, 2012. He joins leader Kurt Caselli and teammates Mike ...    Read more

The sun was out for the second and final day of a test at Mugello for the two Ducati Team riders, allowing them both to work hard the entire day, with just one break when the temperature was highest. Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden turned 76 and 81 laps, ...    Read more

Rome, Georgia, May 25, 2012 – Pirelli Moto celebrates the return of World Superbike to the United States during Memorial Day weekend, which honors the nation’s past and present military personnel. Following excitement delivered by bothBMW’s first win in WSBK and the last corner melee at Donington Park Circuit in ...    Read more

Team Suzuki Press Office - May 24. Rockstar Energy Suzuki MX1 rider Tanel Leok talks about the Motocross GP season so far, the factory RM-Z450 and his fight to regain full fitness. So far my season has been all about catching up. Ever since I landed on a fallen rider after ...    Read more

TOOELE VALLEY, UTAH (May 24, 2012) — Miller Motorsports Park will again host the USA Round of the FIM Superbike World Championship on The BigM Weekend, May 26-28. As was the case last year, we will visit with race winners and other notable riders participating in the championship after each ...    Read more

Cypress, CA May 24, 2012 – The Yamaha U.S. Road Racing Teams are traveling to the Salt Lake City area for the BigM Weekend at the 3.05-mile, 15-turn Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, UT.   MONSTER ENERGY/GRAVES/YAMAHA: HAYES & HERRIN Two-time reigning AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike Champion Josh Hayes already ...    Read more

May 24, 2012 - Winchendon, MA  –  AMA Superbike star, Eric Bostrom, and Ducati Icon and Hall of Fame member, Cook Neilson, will join the Penguin Roadracing School’s staff for a special Ducati track day event at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) on June 25, 2012.  Students will have an ...    Read more

CORONA, Calif. (May 23) – GEICO Honda's 2013 AMA Supercross roster is starting to take shape with the addition of Zach Osborne to its Lites lineup.   Osborne, a Virginia native, made a splash in Supercross during the 2012 season when he finished on the podium twice racing while in the first ...    Read more

The first day of a two-day test for the Ducati Team at the Mugello circuit started off rainy, keeping Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden in the garage. Fortunately, the sun broke through the clouds at around 10:30 and, over the course of the next couple of hours, completely dried the ...    Read more