Tag: pro road racing
Daytona Beach Bike Week Features Full Slate Of Two-Wheeled Fun
On Jan. 24, 1937, the first running of the Daytona 200 took place on the hard sand of Daytona Beach, Fla. Since that race, won by AMA Motorcycle Hall of Famer Ed Kretz of Monterey Park, Calif., the annual event has grown into a motorcycling mecca, packed full of racing and recreational riding events. This [...]
RoadRace Factory School To Visit Fontana, CA
RoadRace Factory School will head out west on May 4-5, 2013 to visit Fontana, California and provide two consecutive one-day camps. AMA Pro Road Racing superstars JD Beach (#95) and Jake Gagne (#132) will once again be on hand to provide thorough instruction to riders who want to get the most out of their potential. [...]
New Web Series Follows AMA Racer
Fans of AMA Pro Road Racing will get a behind-the-scenes look at motorsports with the premiere of “Following Fillmore,” a web series aimed at providing a glimpse into the series. Director Limore Shur spent time trailing professional riders to get a feel for their lives on and off the track, and the results will be aired [...]
Speed TV To Air AMA Pro Road Racing Daytona 200
AMA Pro Racing and SPEED Release Broadcast Schedule for GEICO Motorcycle AMA Pro Road Racing and AMA Pro Flat Track’s 2013 Season-Opening Daytona 200 Week SPEED will once again serve as GEICO Motorcycle AMA Pro Road Racing and AMA Pro Flat Track’s broadcast partner for the 2013 season opening DAYTONA 200 Week at Daytona International [...]
AMA Welcomes Roadracing Series As Featured Series
American Motorcyclist Association Welcomes Roadracing Series As AMA Featured Series The American Motorcyclist Association is pleased to announce that the American SportBike Racing Association and U.S. Grand Prix Riders Union Championship Series have joined the AMA sanctioned events calendar as AMA Featured Series. The events, which feature some of the country’s most competitive amateur roadracing, [...]
Harley-Davidson Museum Opens New Motorsports Exhibit
Harley-Davidson is continuing its 110th anniversary celebrations with the opening of a new exhibit at its official museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The display will give museum guests a behind-the-scenes look at the design and manufacturing processes used to create Harley-Davidson‘s anniversary model motorcycles and the special logos they bear. Sketches, cruiser gear and limited edition motorcycles [...]
Army National Guard Extends Partnership With AMA Racing
AMA Pro Racing and the Army National Guard have reached an agreement that will extend their partnership through the 2013 season. This will be the fifth straight year that the two organizations have worked together. The team effort began in 2009, when racing fans at live events were treated to promotions and outreach programs from the [...]
Marin Cardenas Joins Yoshimura Suzuki SBK Team
AMA SportBike Champion Martin Cardenas will join returning rider Chris Clark in the Yoshimura Suzuki AMA Pro Superbike Championship this season. Cardenas comes to Yoshimura Suzuki after securing the AMA Pro Daytona SportBike titles in 2012 and 2010 while riding for a Suzuki satellite team contributing to Suzuki’s sweep of the last three championships. Cardenas [...]
Blake Young Ready For MotoGP Debut
Blake Young is making the move from AMA Superbike to MotoGP, where he will ride for Attack Performance as a wild-card entrant in several of the rounds. Young, who was the AMA Superbike runner-up in the past season, wasn’t re-signed by his Suzuki team after the 2012 motorsports series came to a close. Instead of [...]
Michael Gentry Joins The AMA In Executive Role
AMA Pro Racing recently started the 2013 season for several of its motorsports series, but those aren’t the only new beginnings for the organization. One of the major additions is the arrival of Michael Gentry, who will be taking over the role of chief operating officer for the AMA. Gentry is a former executive with [...]
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