Roadracing World - June 2023

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FEATURES Â Inside Info: Kawasaki Reboots ZX-10RR and ZX-6R Models, Toprak Razgatlioğlu Leaving Yamaha And Signing With BMW For 2024 WorldSBK 8 Tried & Tested: Shoei X-Fifteen Track Review 14 Historic Racebike Illustrations: 1973 John Player Norton 16 MotoGP Analysis: Jack And Ruby Miller's Life In Racing 18 Headquarters: KTM North America Bets On California 22 RACING Â MotoGP World Championship At Le Mans: Bez Is Back! 24 MotoAmerica at Barber: Gagne Takes Charge 32 MotoAmerica Barber Inside Info 40 Superbike World Championship At Catalunya: All Bautista. Again! 42 COLUMNS Â Letters To The Editor: On-The-Fly Adjustments 6 10 Years Ago: Marc Marquez dragged elbow on the cover of the June 2013 issue of Roadracing World. Jeremy Toye tested a new Honda CBR600RR; Cribs looked at Superbike pioneer Reg Pridmore's airport hanger home. Jorge Lorenzo won the MotoGP race in Qatar, and Marquez won his first at COTA 12 Numbers & Trivia: Marco Bezzecchi's Racing Career 29 The Kids' Page: Cole Varnes 47 Racing, School, & Track Day Calendar 48 Editor's Book Review: Tony Murphy's Life Story 53 The Crash Page: Hector Barbera In 250cc GP, 2009 54 New Products: The WagBar High-Protein Snack 55 Classified Ads/Advertiser Index 56 High Performance Parts & Services Directory 57 Chris Ulrich: Adventures Of An Ex-Racer 58 © Copyright 2023. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction of anything in this issue, by any means, is expressly forbidden without prior written permission of Roadracing World Publishing, Inc. Manufactured and printed in the United States of America. Roadracing World & Motorcycle Technology (ISSN 1056-4845) is published monthly, plus one special issue in April, by Roadracing World Publishing, Inc., 581-C Birch St., Lake Elsinore CA 92530. Regular subscription rate is $25.00 for 13 issues (one year); two-year subscription, $40.00; three-year subscription $55.00; bulk rate subscription, 5 issues per month, one year, $100. Canada and Mexico, $60 per year (13 issues); overseas airmail, $85 per year. Periodicals postage paid at Lake Elsinore, CA 92530, and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to ROADRACING WORLD & MOTORCYCLE TECHNOLOGY, P.O. Box 1428, Lake Elsinore CA 92531. June 2023 · Volume 33 · Number 6 ROADRACING WORLD & MOTORCYCLE TECHNOLOGY ™ 22 32 ON THE FRONT COVER: Jack Miller and his KTM RC16 MotoGP racebike blur the scenery during the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez. Miller is happy with his factoryteam move from Ducati to KTM. Photo by Gigi Soldano/DPPI Media. KTM Bets Big With New Headquarters In California KTM Motorsports Hallway, Race Teams On Left, Suspension Shop On Right. Photo by John Ulrich. MotoAmerica Superbikes At Barber Motorsports Park Cam Beaubier, Josh Herrin, Richie Escalante, PJ Jacobsen. Photo by Brian J. Nelson. 4—Roadracing World, June 2023

On-The-Fly Adjustability The article regarding Damon Electric Motorcycles raised a very interesting idea for sportbikes versus touring bikes: Being able to raise the handlebars and shift the foot position between a sport-riding position and a touring position on the fly, or when stationary. Not just for comfort, but for safety as well. Probably easier to achieve on an electric bike but with today's technology (as with shape shifters in MotoGP) why not on ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) bikes, too? Lots to figure out there, but as a concept, fantastic! I wonder if you are aware of any manufacturer trying this idea before? One final thought. I have to admit I was a bit skeptical when I first heard about MotoAmerica Bagger racing. And yet here I am a couple of years later finding myself watching the Baggers first and foremost. Very entertaining to watch something that started out as a straight-line touring  behemoth doing what they are doing on a racetrack. The riders are akin to gladiators!! The engineering and technological advances are plain to see and MotoAmerica is on to something here. So fair play to them, congratulations... Richard Long Morganton, North Carolina While some manufacturers have included adjustable-on-the-fly windshields, we don't know of any other bike with on-the-fly seating position adjustability...Editor. Sprocket Tooth Size I love your magazine! I am a 72-year-old who has been riding and working on motorcycles for 60+ years. My daily ride is a 1975 Honda CB400F. I have a question about a statement in an article about (winning Moto2 Crew Chief) Massimo Branchini. Great read, but the comment about chain pitch changing gearing? As long as I have been doing math, 30 divided by 15 equals 2. Changing a chain's pitch does not alter the number of teeth it has and that ultimately decides the ratio. If I am missing something please explain. And please continue to publish a paper magazine, I want my news and information in paper form. Thanks again for a great read. Charles Smith Send letters to [email protected]. All letters must be signed and must include your true name, Germantown, Ohio complete address and daytime phone number to be considered for publication. Published letters are the personal opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position of this publication. Â Send letters to [email protected]. (Above) A prototype Damon electric motorcycle, featuring an adjustable-on-the-fly riding position. (Below) Crew Chief Massimo Branchini. Photo by Michael Gougis. EDITOR John D. Ulrich RACING EDITOR Chris Ulrich ASSOCIATE EDITOR David Swarts EDITOR AT LARGE Michael Gougis MOTOGP EDITOR Mat Oxley WILD CARD EDITOR Sam Fleming SPECIAL AGENT Melissa Berkoff CONTRIBUTORS Brian J. Nelson PUBLISHER Trudy Ulrich ADVERTISING SALES DIRECTOR Anne Barnes [email protected] CUSTOMER SERVICE customerservice@ roadracingworld.com GRAPHIC DESIGN Alyssa Breymann CLASSIFIED ADS customerservice@ roadracingworld.com SUBSCRIPTIONS (909) 654-4779 or visit www.roadracingworld.com NEWSSTAND DISTRIBUTION Comag Marketing Group (770) 863-9073 Roadracing World Publishing, Inc. Trudy Ulrich, President MAILING ADDRESS P. O. Box 1428 Lake Elsinore CA 92531 Phone (909) 654-4779 FAX (951) 245-6417 ROADRACING WORLD & MOTORCYCLE TECHNOLOGY ™ GET THE LATEST MOTORCYCLE NEWS ROADRACINGWORLD.COM 6—Roadracing World, June 2023

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New Bike/Manufacturer News In celebration of “100 Years of BMW Motorrad,” BMW teased two new models, starting with the new R 12 nineT roadster, which the company says combines traditional BMW styling with modern technology. An air-andoil-cooled 1200cc Opposed Twin boxer engine is the heart of the R12 nineT, and the chassis includes beefy inverted front forks, Brembo front brake calipers, a single-sided swingarm incorporating the shaft final drive, and wide, wire-spoked wheels. Meanwhile, BMW says its new M 1000 XR is a crossover motorcycle “designed equally for high-performance road use, long-distance touring, and fast track lapping.” To back up those claims, BMW has given the M 1000 XR the 200-plus-horsepower engine from the S 1000 RR, M brakes from the M 1000 RR, downforce-producing M winglets, advanced electronics, and a claimed wet weight of 492 pounds (221 kg). Look for more information on these two machines in the second half of 2023. Ducati’s versatile 2024-model SuperSport 950 S will be available in a new Stripe Livery beginning in the third quarter of 2023. The SuperSport 950 S is powered by a Ducati Testastretta 11° V-Twin engine claimed to produce 110 horsepower at 9,000 rpm and 68.6 lbs.-ft. of torque at 6,500 rpm. The engine is carried in a tubular steel trellis main frame, which is connected to a single-sided rear swingarm and fully adjustable Öhlins front forks. Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) for the 2024 SuperSport 950 S is $18,095. Kawasaki has updated its Ninja ZX-6R with a new front fairing with a shorter windscreen, more compact LED headlights, “winglet-style inlets” that help keep air off the rider, and “angled chin spoilers” that convey an “image of downforce while cornering,” according to Kawasaki. Inside the new layered bodywork there's an updated 636cc four-cylinder engine. Bore and stroke remain 67.0mm x 45.1mm, but the profiles of the double overhead camshafts have been changed to “benefit low-rpm performance and help to meet stricter emission regulations.” New intake funnels also enhance low-to-mid rpm performance, and revisions to the exhaust system further help meet the latest emissions regulations. The chassis has new 310mm (12.2-inch) dual front brake discs, new dual radial-mounted four-piston front brake calipers, and a new Kawasaki Intelligent Anti-Lock Brake System (KIBS) on ABS-equipped models. The 2024 ZX-6R rolls out of the factory on Pirelli Diablo Rosso IV radials. ZX-6R riders will find a new 4.3-inch Thin-Film Transistor (TFT) color instrument panel with new Bluetooth connectivity built in, allowing wireless connection between the motorcycle and smartphones running RIDEOLOGY THE APP. New Integrated Riding Modes offer riders three preset modes (Sport, Road, Rain) and one manual mode (Rider). In the preset modes the Power Mode and Kawasaki TRaction Control (KTRC) settings are preprogrammed, but in the Rider mode all settings can be set independently. (Left) The 2024 BMW M 1000 XR. (Below) The 2024 BMW R 12 nineT. a THE 2024 DUCATI SUPERSPORT 950 IN THE NEW STRIPE LIVERY. PHOTO COURTESY DUCATI. 8—Roadracing World, June 2023

The base 2024 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R is $11,299 MSRP, the ZX-6R KRT Edition is $11,299 MSRP, the ZX-6R ABS is $12,299 MSRP, and the ZX-6R KRT Edition ABS is $12,299 MSRP. The 2024 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RR, the homologation special that is the starting point for Kawasaki’s entry in the Superbike World Championship, gets a new feature but with a catch. The new Variable Air Intake (VAI) System is a two-position variable-length velocity stack system which enhances low-to-mid rpm power as well as top-end performance. The catch is the system is only activated when connected to a Kawasaki race kit Engine Control Unit (ECU) and sub-controller. As delivered in street-legal trim to retail customers at a dealership, the VAI velocity stacks are fixed in the lifted/up position to boost peak performance. Features unique to the ZX-10RR that carry over for 2024 include Pankl titanium connecting rods; lighter pistons with one less compression ring; piston pins with DLC anti-friction coating; special valve springs; a higher engine rev limit; Marchesini forged aluminum wheels; Pirelli Diablo Supercorsa SP tires; and different suspension tuning. MSRP for the 2024 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RR is $30,499. (ABOVE) THE LATEST VERSION OF THE KAWASAKI NINJA ZX-10RR, THE BIKE THE COMPANY HOMOLOGATES FOR WORLD SUPERBIKE. (BELOW) THE 2024 KAWASAKI ZX-6R KRT EDITION IN ACTION. PHOTOS COURTESY KAWASAKI. watch America’s best! Sign up today: MotoAmericaLivePlus.com PREMIER Motorcycle Road Racing Series North America’s Stream multiple classes of MotoAmerica LIVE and on demand on your web browser, Roku, Android, iOS or Apple TV! Options starting as low as $12.99! erica.com Sign up today: MotoAmericaLivePlus.com Stream multiple classes of MotoAmerica LIVE and on demand on your web browser, Roku, Android, iOS or Apple TV! Options starting as low as $12.99! MotoAmeric Roadracing World, June 2023—9

International Racing News Tito Rabat, the 2014 Moto2 World Champion and a current MotoE World Championship competitor, has signed with Kawasaki Puccetti Racing to replace Tom Sykes for the remainder of the 2023 Superbike World Championship. Sykes left Kawasaki Puccetti Racing to fill in for BMW factory rider Michael van der Mark, who broke his left femur in a crash at Assen. Glenn Irwin, riding his BeerMonster Ducati Panigale V4 R, won both Superbike races at the North West 200 in Northern Ireland. Alastair Seeley won both Superstock races on his SYNETIQ BMW M 1000 RR. Davey Todd won both Supersport races on a Milenco by Padgett’s Motorcycles Honda CBR600RR, and Richard Cooper won both Supertwin races on his KMR Kawasaki ER6 (a.k.a. Ninja 650). American Chris Sarbora, riding a Moto-Hub.co.uk BMW, finished 17th and 24th in Superbike Race One and Two, respectively, and 30th and 24th in Superstock Races One and Two, respectively. JMcC Roofing Racing’s American rider Patricia Fernandez-West finished 35th in Superbike Race One, 26th in Superbike Race Two, and 29th in Superstock Race Two on her Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R. She suffered a mechanical DNF in Superstock Race One but placed 28th and 22nd in Supersport Races One and Two, respectively, on her Yamaha YZF-R6. Fernandez-West’s teammate and husband Cory West, riding a Kawasaki ER6, finished 10th and seventh in Supertwin Race One and Race Two, respectively. West was also recognized as “Fastest Newcomer,” and the couple became the first husband-and-wife duo to compete in the North West 200. FHO Racing and riders Peter Hickman and Josh Brookes withdrew from the Superbike and Superstock races at the North West 200 when they were notified just ahead of Superstock Race One that the standard, OEM carbon-fiber wheels on the team's BMW M 1000 RR racebikes were illegal for use in Superstock. FHO Racing pointed out that even though the rules disallow carbon-fiber wheels on Superstock bikes, the rules also require the use of standard homologated wheels, which are carbon-fiber on the M 1000 RR. FHO Racing also pointed out that they raced with carbon-fiber wheels on their Superstock BMWs in 2022, when the rules were the same. When no resolution was found prior to the start of Superstock Race One, FHO Racing withdrew, packed up, left the paddock, and issued a statement that read, in part, “The effort, commitment, and logistics required to compete in the North West 200 are significant and this lack of confidence in the organization renders the team’s participation in this year’s event impossible.” Canadian Torin Collins, riding his AGR Team KTM, finished 20th in FIM JuniorGP World Championship Race One and 15th in Race Two at Valencia. American Max Toth, riding his MMR Kalex, DNF the sole Moto2 race. American Kristian Daniel Jr., riding his MRE Talent Honda, finished career-best 12th in European Talent Cup (ETC) Race One but DNF Race Two. Angel Piqueras won both JuniorGP races on his Estrella Galicia 0,0 Honda, Senna Agius won the single Moto2 race on his Liqui Moly Intact GP Husqvarna Kalex, and Aspar Junior Team Honda’s Maximo Quiles won both ETC races. American Kensei Matsudaira, 12, went from 10th on the grid to second place in wet RFME ESBK Moto4 National Championship Race One at Valencia. Matsudaira was closing on the race leader when the race was stopped prematurely and called complete due to worsening weather conditions. In dry Race Two, Matsudaira was shuffled back from second to 10th during the opening two laps, but turned the fastest Moto4 lap of the weekend, and finished seventh—0.5-second behind the race winner. American Jesse James Shedden won both wet races at round one of the CIV (Italian) Aprilia Sport Production Championship at Vallelunga Circuit. Shedden crashed out of the lead in Race One, losing several positions, but was able to remount and charge back into first place before the finish. LAMI OMG Racing Yamaha’s Kyle Ryde won British Superbike Race One at repaved Donington Park over BeerMonster Ducati’s Tommy Bridewell and third-place Leon Haslam on his ROKiT BMW. Jason O’Halloran rode his McAMS Yamaha to victory in Race Two over Ryde’s teammate Ryan Vickers and FHO Racing BMW’s Josh Brookes in third. Ryde then came through to win Race Three over Bridewell and his teammate Glenn Irwin, who placed third. American Julian Correa, 14, finished sixth and fourth in R&G British Talent Cup Races One and Two, respectively, at Donington Park. Riding his Microlise Cresswell Racing Honda, Correa finished fourth, 0.574-second behind third-place Evan Belford. Correa is currently fifth in the British Talent Cup Championship point standings after four of 18 races. Eli Banish, another 14-year-old American, missed Race One due to an illness, then finished 21st in Race Two. Alex Dumas rode his Purple Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha have received approval from the Japanese government’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to form a “technological research association called HySE (Hydrogen Small mobility & Engine technology) for developing hydrogen-powered engines,” according to a press release issued by Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. “The use of hydrogen poses technical challenges, including fast flame speed and a large region of ignition, which often result in unstable combustion, and the limited fuel tank capacity in case of use in small mobility vehicles. In addressing these issues, the members of HySE are committed to conducting fundamental research, capitalizing on their wealth of expertise and technologies in developing gasoline-powered engines, and aim to work together with the joint mission of establishing a design standard for small mobility’s hydrogen-powered engine.” The goal is to reduce emissions without completely banning internal combustion engines. (Above) Alastair Seeley (34), Davey Todd (74) and Michael Dunlop (6) lead the field off the grid at the start of a Superstock race during the North West 200 in Northern Ireland. (Below, Left) Americans Cory West and Patricia FernandezWest. Photos courtesy NW200 press office. (Left) Tito Rabat. Kawasaki photo. 10—Roadracing World, June 2023

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Ten Years Ago... Ten Years Ago... 2013 Marc Marquez is elbow-down at Circuit of The Americas on the cover of the June 2013 issue of Roadracing World. Marquez wasn't the first Grand Prix rider to touch an elbow down, said MotoGP Editor Mat Oxley, but he was "the first to make a several-times-a-lap habit of scuffing his elbows on the tarmac." Marquez pointed out that he had special magnesium elbow sliders created for his leathers, because at COTA he would wear through plastic sliders in five laps. Jeremy Toye tested the 2013 Honda CBR600RR at Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, called the experience "paradise in the desert" and declared that his destroying a set of racing boots during the test just proved how comfortable and competent the bike was at speed. A feature on Michael Woolaway followed his career from racer to Hollywood set fabricator to U.S. Motorcycle Design Director for the exclusive Deus Ex Machina shop in Venice, California. The Cribs feature looked at the airport hangar that three-time AMA Pro Superbike Champion Reg Pridmore had converted into his home. Jorge Lorenzo won the MotoGP race in Qatar, a performance overshadowed by the return of Valentino Rossi to Yamaha after two years struggling with the Ducati Desmosedici. Rossi finished second, just ahead of Marquez, who was making his MotoGP debut. At the next race, in Austin, Marquez took his first MotoGP win. In World Superbike, Chaz Davies won both races in Aragon on his BMW S 1000 RR, while Tom Sykes on a Kawasaki ZX-10R and Eugene Laverty on an Aprilia RSV4 split wins in Assen. At a Central Motorcycle Roadracing Association endurance race, 1993 500cc Grand Prix World Champion Kevin Schwantz teamed up with former AMA Pro Road Racing Champion Britt Turkington, AMA Pro Racing Superbike winner Blake Young and CMRA racer Jesse Davis on a near-stock Suzuki GSX-R600. Despite forgetting their transponder, surviving a slow leak that left the rear tire flat and stopping to fix a shifter and a battery bolt that had backed out, the team finished 19th overall. "I just wanted to have some fun, and Blake, Britt and myself really enjoyed it," Schwantz said. Skull Brewing/Liqui Moly Suzuki GSX-R1000R to win the wet opening race of the 2023 Bridgestone Canadian Superbike (CSBK) Championship, at Shannonville Motorsport Park. Defending Champion Ben Young was the runner-up on his Van Dolder’s Home Team BMW, and Tomas Casas was third on a Parts Canada Yamaha. Racing in the dry the next day, Dumas won again. Sam Guerin came back from a crash in Race One to take second place in Race Two on his EFC Group BMW. Fighting back from season-ending injuries in 2022 and serious unrelated health problems during the off-season, 14-time CSBK Champion Jordan Szoke finished third on his LDS Consultants Kawasaki. Young pitted during the race to have his crew remove his loose seat/tailsection and rejoined the race to salvage sixth place. Professional Racing in the U.S. Jared Mees used his Rogers Racing/SDI Racing Indian FTR 750 to win the Progressive American Flat Track (AFT) Mission Super Twins main event at the 57th Sacramento Mile. Mees beat out Estenson Racing Yamaha’s Dallas Daniels by 0.573-second after 24 laps. Daniels’ teammate JD Beach finished third. Estenson Racing Yamaha’s Tom Drane won the Parts Unlimited AFT Singles race over runner-up Trent Lowe and Chase Saathoff. Defending Champion Mees won again in AFT SuperTwins at The Red Mile, beating Daniels by 0.042-second with a last-lap pass. It was Mees’ 25th National Mile victory. Briar Bauman took third on his Parts Plus KTM 790 Duke. Lowe won the AFT Singles main event on his Honda CRF450R by 0.089-second over teammate Saathoff with Drane equally close in third. After eight of 18 races, Daniels led the AFT SuperTwins Championship by 16 points over Mees, while Red Bull KTM’s Kody Kopp held a 15-point advantage in the standings over D&D Cycles/Certified Racing KTM Powered by Vance & Hines’ Dalton Gauthier. Club and Regional Racing Frankie Babuksa, Jr. won in Superstock on his Kawasaki ZX10RR; Gary Yancoskie rode his Kawasaki ZX-6R to first place in Sportbike; Spencer Humphreys won the Thunderbike race on a Yamaha YZF-R7; and Mikayla Moore won the ASRA 400 race on her Kawasaki Ninja 400 during the ASRA National at Summit Point Motorsports Park. During the event a memorial was held for the late Kevin Elliott, Sr., the longtime President and owner of ASRA/CCS. The service included a memorial lap ridden by longtime ASRA/CCS racers and multi-time National Champions Eric Helmbach and David Loikits. Loikits carried a checkered flag, while Helmbach carried the special green flag used to ceremoniously start the 2023 Daytona 200 in Elliott’s honor. Elliott died of liver cap Continued on page 54 (Above) Jesse James Shedden won at Vallelunga. (Below, Left) Frankie Babuska Jr. (723) leads Mark Heckles with ASRA/CCS at Summit. Etechphoto.com. American Kensei Matsudaira on the Moto4 podium for a Spanish National after finishing second at Valencia. 0.573-second after 24 laps. Daniels’ teammate JD Beach finished third. Estenson Racing Yamaha’s Tom D th P t U li it d AFT pionship by 16 point while Red Bull KTM held a 15-point adv standings over D&D tified Racing KTM Vance & Hines’ Dalt Club and Regional R Frankie Babuks Superstock on his K 10RR; Gary Yancos Kawasaki ZX-6R to Sportbike; Spencer won the Thunderbike maha YZF-R7; and M won the ASRA 400 ra wasaki Ninja 400 dur N ti l t S it JARED MEES (1) LEADING DALLAS DANIELS (32) AT THE RED MILE. PHOTO BY SCOTT HUNTER/AFT. 12—Roadracing World, June 2023

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By Michael Gougis Shoei bills the new X-Fifteen as a "pure racing helmet boasting optimal performance, functionality and safety," so Roadracing World Racing Editor Chris Ulrich put it to the test in its intended environment—the racetrack. Riding a MotoAmerica Super sport Suzuki GSX-R750, Ulrich strapped on an X-Fifteen and lapped Nashville Superspeedway in an afternoon/nighttime track day with Sportbike Track Time. The circuit, Ulrich says, is "pretty interesting," a combination oval-road course reminiscent of several circuits familiar to U.S. road racing fans, including Loudon/New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Auto Club Speedway and the like. Overall, Ulrich, who raced in Shoei helmets at one point in his 20-year-plus racing career, was impressed, saying "On this one, right out of the box, they got it right." Ulrich rode with the helmet as delivered, a size small with 35mm cheek pads. He switched face shields to familiarize himself with the pivot mechanism and to sample clear and dark shields. The helmet's aerodynamic performance is its best feature, Ulrich says. With a narrower lower cross-section, revised rear stabilizer and flaps, Shoei claims the helmet has 6.1% less drag and 1.6% less lift than its predecessor. Ulrich confirmed that the company has really dialed in the X-Fifteen's aero performance. "It's pretty good, actually!" Ulrich says. "We're doing 140 mph on the front straight, so when you sit up to brake you've got some significant aerodynamic forces acting on the helmet. There was no lift, no buffeting, no turbulence, nothing extra when I sat up. That tells me the aerodynamics are pretty good." The helmet is also noticeably quieter than some other premium helmets, Ulrich says. Because Ulrich rides with a small or extrasmall helmet shell, fitment can be a challenge. He has a narrow jawline and, like many racers, prefers a very tight fit. The 35mm cheek pads fit him well, and the helmet was snug without any spots of excessive pressure. "When I'm going on the racetrack, I use an extra small shell with a different crown pad to move it up, and large cheek pads. I like a very tight fit on the track," he says. "The fit was good. It was tight, it didn't move on my head once I had it buckled down." Shoei says the eye port on the X-Fifteen is larger than before, with the upper field of vision increased by 5mm and a wider side-to-side field of vision as well. Ulrich says he would have preferred even more visibility at the top, but felt that configuring the helmet pads to rotate it back a bit on his head would have accomplished that goal. Peripheral vision was good, he said, and the shields themselves were clear and distortion-free. The two-stage locking system is designed to prevent the shield coming off in a crash, and Ulrich says once he got used to the system, it was easy to operate. The ventilation could be improved, Ulrich says. "I feel like it could have been a little bit better. This is the MotoGP helmet, (Marc) Marquez's helmet. Maybe I just need to go as fast as he goes!" (Marquez routinely hits 200+ mph on MotoGP tracks.) One thing that is critical for racers, especially club racers and track day riders, is the ease with which shields can be replaced. Ulrich tried it without reading the instructions to see how intuitive the process was. With a bit of practice, he was able to swap shields in 26.12 seconds, "easy, and I can probably go faster if I practice more," he says. "It's something you should know. If you're a racer, and you only have one helmet, you don't have time to (mess) around with the shield." Overall, Ulrich says the helmet worked well on the racetrack, and as he put it, "if it works well on the track, it's going to work well on the street." The X-Fifteen comes in four shell sizes (XS to XXL) features a six-ply shell; a multi-piece, multi-density EPS (expanded polystyrene) liner; an emergency release system; and a liner system that can be customized to fit the rider's head and even rotate the helmet forward or rearward to suit the rider's liking. It is ECE R22.06, DOT and Snell M2020R certified. Suggested retail starts at $899.99 and ranges up to $1049.99, from dealers. For more technical details, see the New Products feature on page 55 of the May issue. Shoei X-Fifteen - Racetrack Review: TRIED & TESTED Shoei X-Fifteen Track Review Product Evaluation Produc t Eva luat ion: Shoei X-Fifteen Track Review Racing Editor Chris Ulrich tested the new Shoei X-Fifteen during a Sportbike Track Time event at Nashville Superspeedway. The new aero worked well. Photos by Patrick Strzelecki/129photos.com. "Right Out Of The Box, Right Out Of The Box, They Got It Right..." hey Got It Right... " 14—Roadracing World, June 2023

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In 1972 the FIM, which is the world championship governing body, adopted the U.S.-based Formula 750 class to run in selected international events, and Norton decided to get back into the sport after a 20-year absence. The team’s major sponsor was tobacco giant Phillip Morris using its John Player brand! This was a first in the motorcycle world and a taste of things to come. Frank Perris (an ex-Suzuki factory rider) was the team manager with riders Peter Willams, Phil Read, and Tony Rutter. The distinctive blue and white bikes (see the August 2017 issue of Roadracing World, Historic Racebike Illustrations) produced some promising results but were cursed by recurring gearbox breakages and over-heating. During the 1972 season, engineer/rider Williams and the team sketched out the most radical racebike design ever seen. With just 75+bhp available from the archaic pushrod engine, improving handling and aerodynamics were the only areas offering race-winning potential. Williams designed a sheet metal perimeter frame incorporating pannier fuel tanks, an integral oil tank, and air ducting to help reduce the running temperature of the air-cooled engine. The engine, exhaust system, gearbox, swingarm and rear wheel sub-assembly was attached to the frame by Isolastic™ rubber mounts. This method of isolating the 360-degree Parallel Twin's inherent vibration allowed the powertrain sub-assembly to move up and down in a controlled manner with little or no sideways movement, and had been proven on Norton Commando streetbikes. A prototype frame was hand-formed using thin mild steel sheet by ace fabricator Robin Clist, and the final versions were made using stainless steel. The low-mounted pannier fuel tanks were located on either side of the engine as they were on the 1972 racebikes. Movement of the swingarm operated a mechanical pump that filled a header tank behind the headstock, which then gravity-fed the carburetors. Oil in the compartment under the seat was run through a cooler behind the rider. Overheating resulted in an additional cooler being installed in the fairing nose and an extra oil tank was mounted in front of the engine, between the header pipes. Williams had pioneered the use of cast magnesium wheels on his privateer single-cylinder Matchless G50 racebikes so it was natural for the cast wheels to be used on the Norton factory bikes. Front forks were based on AJS MX units but with magnesium sliders incorporating brake caliper mounts. To overcome the gearbox gremlins encountered during the 1972 season, the transmission was redesigned with an additional bearing supporting the long gearbox input shaft and the transmission shock absorber was moved to the crankshaft. The novel fairing design was the result of hours of testing in the MIRA (Motor Industries Research Association) wind tunnel with a rider on the bike. For quick access to the carburetors, oil tank, and spark plugs, the onepiece seat and header-tank cover hinged up and back (as shown on the main illustration). The result of this radical design was a bike with most of its heavy components close to the center of mass. This advantage was not fully understood back then, but the outcome was amazing handling. Williams could execute two-wheel drifts at will! To support Williams, John Cooper and Dave Croxford were signed up for the 1973 season. Like other companies have found though, designing a bike around the style of one rider causes problems. Cooper did not have Williams’ classic tucked-in style, never feeling comfortable on the bike, and left the team. Cooper was replaced by real-roads circuit specialist Mick Grant. While the team had a series of successes at British race meets, the icing on the cake was the 1973 Isle of Man F750 TT. For this race Grant was chosen for his island knowledge to replace Croxford who competed in the Production TT. Fuel starvation in practice was traced to an overheating fuel pump, and the problem was solved by a hastily fabricated air scoop under the gearbox. Williams and Grant finished first and second with Williams setting a new lap record of 107.27 mph and a new race average speed record of 105.47 mph. Like so many factory bikes, slightly different versions were created as the bikes evolved during the season. The machine illustrated is the one Williams rode to his TT win, while later versions had the megaphones canted up for more cornering clearance and different shapes for more power. As the performance of three-cylinder two-stroke Kawasaki and Suzuki 750s improved and Yamaha launched the four-cylinder two-stroke TZ750A, 1974 was the last year the Commando engine would be used in Norton racebikes (see the July 2019 issue of Roadracing World, Historic Racebike Illustrations). The revolutionary 1973 John Player Norton influenced the design of fairings, seats, wheels, and chassis for many years. It has only been in the last few years that the positive effect mass centralization has on handling, acceleration and braking has been appreciated. I would like to thank the late Peter Williams and classic racebike restorer Michael Braid for helping with the details of this particular illustration. For more on art-quality, 20-inch x 16- inch prints (with a choice of white or beige background) of this motorcycle and other historic racebikes, please see the "Historic Racebike Illustration Prints" ad on page 46 of this issue. historic racebike illustrations By Mick Ofield 1973 John Player Norton (Above) The 1973 John Player Norton’s sheet-metal monocoque frame designed by Peter Williams incorporated side-mounted fuel tanks, an oil tank, and air-cooling ducts. The engine/transmission/swingarm assembly bolted into the frame using Isolastic rubber mounts to reduce vibration. (Below) For 1974 the monocoque was replaced by a lighter steel-tube frame with a conventional gas tank. Isolastic mounts were still used but the engine was higher. This bike owned by Jamie Waters was shot at the 2018 Barber Vintage Festival and has been modified to use a dry clutch. 16—Roadracing World, June 2023

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Jack and Ruby Miller got married last year and are expecting their first kid, plus Jack has switched from Ducati to KTM, where he’s working to transform the RC16 into a MotoGP title winner. They’ve got lots to talk about: Racing, romance, and much, much more... MotoGP one-to-one interviews are a game, like everything else in the paddock, so I’ve devised a new tactic to discombobulate my victims. Because, maybe, just maybe, if I mess with their heads they’ll actually say something interesting. So, I'm sitting with the rider in the team hospitality unit, switching on my voice recorder, when a hospitality staffer arrives and asks, “What would you like to drink?” The rider says, “Water, please.” I say, “A beer, please.” The rider looks at me like I’m insane, or an alcoholic, or both. “This guy’s drinking a beer at 4:30 on a Thursday afternoon, WTF?” Meanwhile I’m thinking, “Mate, it’s 35 degrees C (95 degrees F) outside—you’re the weirdo, not me!" Last time I interviewed Jack Miller, when he was at Ducati, I ordered a glass of wine. “Bastard!” he said, grinning. Miller isn’t like most MotoGP riders. This Miller interview is a bit different. I’m sitting on the first floor of Red Bull’s over-the-top MotoGP paddock "energy station," a vast, alpine-style pinewood palace that’s bigger than most people’s houses. Opposite me sit Jack and his pregnant wife Ruby. No, this isn’t a new genre of Hello! magazine MotoGP interview—I just thought Mr. and Mrs. Miller would provide some interesting MotoGP chat, from both sides of the guardrail. The hospitality staffer arrives. Mr. and Mrs. Miller order their sparkling waters. I order a beer. As I quaff the amber nectar, the 28-yearold Aussie smiles and says, “You’re only trying to make me jealous!” Jack was once MotoGP’s wild young man, charging around the paddock on Sunday nights, full of vodka and mischief. Then good-friend Cal Crutchlow told him he had the talent to go all the way, so long as he fully dedicated himself to the cause. “Last year I didn’t drink from the start of the season until the wedding in October,” says Jack. “That was a big one…” grins Ruby. “Being sober helps me with the pressure, the stress, and the anxiety,” Jack explains. “Plus, the hangovers get worse as I get older. I was trying to go the full nine months with Ruby, but we had a KTM team dinner the other night and everyone was cheers with the beers, so I thought I’d have a couple.” Although Miller rarely drinks, he has his moments, usually when he’s on the lash with Crutchlow, another expert at falling off the wagMEET THE MILLERS! JACK AND RUBY MILLER'S LIFE IN RACING G P Moto hhh hhh ANALYSIS NALYSIS By Mat Oxley (Left) Jack and Ruby Miller on a MotoGP grid. KTM photo. (Above) Their wedding in Australia. Vicki Miller Photography. (Right) Miller (43) leading Brad Binder (33), Jorge Martin (89) and Aleix Espargaró (41) at Jerez. Photo by Gigi Soldano/DPPI Media. I ask Ruby if Jack’s ever told her just how wild he was... 18—Roadracing World, June 2023

on. At Valencia in 2020 the pair went to congratulate Joan Mir on his first MotoGP win—in the early hours of Monday morning! “Me, Jack, Tom [van Leeuwen, Jack’s assistant], Sam and Alex Lowes, and Dakota [Mamola, Randy’s son] all got blasted,” Crutchlow recalls. “We wanted to get Joan’s race win trophy and take a picture of him asleep with it. So we got into his motorhome but he wasn’t there and someone else was in his bed. That was about a 10th of what went on that night...” Not the maddest Miller story by a long way, but at least we won’t get letters from lawyers. I ask Ruby if Jack’s ever told her just how wild he was. “I’ve seen lots of that because we’ve been friends for years!” she laughs. Oh, I’d heard via the paddock grapevine that they got together via a dating app…“Definitely not,” says Jack. “She’s a friend of my sister’s.” “We’ve known each other a very long time,” adds Ruby. “And I’ve had my eye on her for a very, very, very long time. But she had a boyfriend, so I was waiting, waiting, waiting…” “Then last year I bit the bullet and made the move,” says Ruby. Mrs. Miller ran a store in Townsville, Queensland; Jack’s hometown, too. They’re both part of an extended 20-something gang. “Every time Ruby and I hung out we’d always have good talks, just like friends. She was a good friend and then she wanted to not just be friends! Then I made her quit her job. I said, ‘F--k that— you’re coming with me!’ It took a lot of persuading to get her to come (Above) Jack Miller with Crew Chief Christian Pupulin during pre-season MotoGP testing at Sepang, Malaysia. Red Bull photo. (Left) Miller (43) chasing Red Bull KTM teammate Brad Binder (33) and leading defending World Champion Francesco "Pecco" Bagnaia (1) at Jerez. Photo by Gigi Soldano/DPPI Media. ...“I’ve seen lots of that because we’ve been friends for years!” she laughs. Roadracing World, June 2023—19

and try this life.” My next question is stolen from a British comedian, who hosted a chat show in which she eviscerated her interview victims. Basically I’m going to ask Ruby if she’s a gold digger, because I’ve seen many gold diggers in MotoGP over the decades, because that’s how the big-time works: Horny young racers in their Lamborghinis, hot grid girls, all of that. “This question might get me a punch from one of you… So, Ruby, what first attracted you to the millionaire Jack Miller?” They both laugh. Phew! “It actually would’ve been easier if Jack wasn’t always on the other side of the world—I think we would’ve been together before now.” So what is the attraction? “He’s very passionate about everything he does, like he’ll never do anything half-arsed. Also, he’s very soft. I think it’ll be good if we have a girl because he’d be a good girl dad.” “I’m soft to a degree,” adds Jack. “When s--t gets on my nerves I’ll be laid back to a certain degree but if I see something that’s not right I always stand up. I’m a big softie when it comes to certain things and super-hard when it comes to others.” Miller raced his first GP season in 2012, so he’s been in the Moto GP cauldron for 12 years. Somehow he lets all the bad stuff —the pressures, the hassles, the stresses, the sponsor duties, the idiot journos, all the distractions that get in the way of his real job, which is working on his bike and racing his bike—wash over him. How? “Whether it’s my job or anything else in life I try to approach it in a calm manner. I think it’s a coping mechanism, more than anything. It works for me; it makes me focus. And in a world full of chaos it’s nice to be sort of calm." Miller’s calmness and his willingness to answer pretty much any question, with no filter, make him a journalist’s dream. So when he signed for KTM I was concerned. The Austrian factory had had a grim 2021 and 2022, so maybe this would be his fade-away deal: Two years of struggle and then another character leaving a paddock that’s increasingly devoid of characters. “I think many people thought that and it was a valid thought, but I believed in the project and we’re making it work,” Miller says. Miller is a (mostly) happy, laid-back racer but this year he seems more so than ever, so is that the bike, the team, or the missus? “It’s everything, all combined, but having Ruby to talk to when s--t’s not going right, having someone you can rely on, someone you can bounce ideas off, late at night or whatever, makes a big difference in this world. It’s also moving across to KTM, working with these guys, all having a common goal and starting something fresh, where I can take my role. That’s been really re-energizing for me. “Everyone wants to win, but maybe the approach is different here in terms of the way we work, the strategy with the bike, trying to shape the bike in your own direction and having a bit more input, in terms of what’s going on (with) bike setup. I’m not saying I’m a crew chief, but trying to recall all my years of experience, really digging into my mind and trying to give as much information as possible to these guys So what is the attraction? “He’s very passionate about everything he does, like he’ll never do anything half-arsed. Also, he’s very soft. I think it’ll be good if we have a girl because he’d be a good girl dad.” “I’m soft to a degree,” adds Jack. “When s--t gets on my nerves I’ll be laid back to a certain degree but if I see something that’s not right I always stand up. I’m a big softie when it comes to certain things and super-hard when it comes to others.” Miller raced his first GP season in 2012, so he’s been in the MotoGP cauldron for 12 years. Somehow he lets all the bad stuff —the pressures, the hassles, the stresses, the sponsor duties, the idiot journos, all the distractions that get in the way of his real job, which is working on his bike and racing his bike—wash over him. How? “Whether it’s my job or anything else in life I try to approach it in a calm manner. I think it’s a coping mechanism, more than anything. It works for me; it makes me focus. And in a world full of chaos it’s nice to be sort of calm." Young Miller: (Above) Honda RS125, IDM series, 2011. (Right) KTM 250, Moto3, 2014. KTM photo. (Below) Honda 600, Moto2, 2017. Marc VDS photo. “It’s everything, all combined, but having Ruby to talk to when s--t’s not going right... makes a big difference in this world." (Left) Jack Miller (43) on his KTM RC16 at Le Mans. Photo by Gigi Soldano/DPPI Media. ht get me a punch from hat first attracted you to er?” hew! ve been easier if Jack er side of the world—I ogether before now.” Ruby to talk to when s--t’s ing someone you can rely bounce ideas off, late at nig a big difference in this w across to KTM, working having a common goal an fresh, where I can take my ly re-energizing for me. “Everyone wants to approach is different he we work, the strategy w shape the bike in yo having a bit m what’s goi up. I’m chief, b my year digging ing to g tion as p nda RS125, IDM series, oto3, 2014. KTM photo. oto3, 2014. KTM photo. 2, 2017. Marc VDS photo. “It’s everything Its everything, but having Ru when s t’s not 20—Roadracing World, June 2023

has been good. And to see the results improve, session-by-session, (pit-lane) exit-by-exit, has been great.” Miller wasn’t the only Ducati man to move from Borgo Panigale in Italy to Mattighofen in Austria for 2023. He brought with him his Crew Chief Christian Pupulin and Enea Bastianini’s Crew Chief Alberto Giribuola. These two are the latest of many boffins that KTM has lured from Italy, because when one manufacturer is way ahead, you need to find out why. “When a team is winning it’s hard to get people to leave, because who wants to leave a winning project? But I think that anyone with a bit of understanding can see what KTM are doing. They’re pushing 100%,” Miller says. KTM, backed by fizzy-energy- drinks superpower Red Bull, certainly doesn’t lack money. Which is why this year’s RC16 looks similar to last year’s but is very different—from engine configuration to chassis balance to down-force aerodynamics, created with help from Red Bull Formula 1 (car-racing) aerodynamicists. It’s also very different to the various Ducati Desmosedicis Miller rode from 2018 to 2022. “This bike doesn’t do anything too similar to my old bike. It’s different: The feedback, everything. Of course, at the end of the day the lap times are nearly the same, but it does the lap in a different way, so you pick up time in different areas. It feels quite agile, I feel really in control of it. If I want to slide the bike I can put the bike like that... And if I’m stopping the bike sideways, I can do things with the bike more freely. “That gives you an extra tool to use in that area, whereas with the Ducati—and don’t get me wrong, because the Ducati does everything very well—it kind of felt like you were on top of the bike and riding the bike, but you weren’t in charge of it all the time. The grey area with the Ducati is very narrow. The front connection I feel with the KTM is unreal. The Honda [RC213V, which he raced from 2015 to 2017] never had any front feeling and sometimes the Ducati was the same, whereas this thing really gives you a solid reading where the front tire is at.” So what does the RC16 need to win the World Championship? “Just time. The electronics are getting fixed, we’ve got more power coming, we’ve got more aero updates in the pipeline and we’re well on our way to getting a decent base package for approaching every single race weekend. Then a heap of little things—here, there and everywhere—are going to make this thing one of the most desired bikes on the grid.” Back to Ruby… The Miller romance is surely the stuff of dreams: Knight in shining armor sweeps beautiful young woman off her feet, saves her from her workaday life and shows her the world in all its glory. Or is it? The paddock isn’t an easy place to live, because everyone—metaphorically speaking—is out to kill everyone else. Not only the riders, but also the engineers, the team managers, the journalists, the PR people. So what does Mrs. Miller miss about home? “Everything!” she says. “Everyone’s there, all my friends, my family, everyone speaks English. I could go on all day…” Ruby has already worked out the most vital part of paddock life: When and when not to be in the garage. “On bad days you don’t want to be in the box,” she laughs. “I’m like, 'I don’t want to hear this! I’m out of this one!'” Jack first came to Europe when his mother and father put their two aging Honda RS125s on a boat in 2011. “I’ve been here a f--king long time, but I still get excited by it, even though s--t’s not new anymore,” says Miller. “I still enjoy it as much as I did back then, if not more. “Obviously, it’s different ends of the scale. When I first came here we were swiping the credit card and we didn’t know if we were going to be able to pay for the fuel or the food. Now it’s changed from being one of those guys that were like, ‘Oh my God, he’s on our plane!’ That was me in the beginning. I couldn’t believe it when I first started traveling with the circus. You’d see the MotoGP guys on the plane, obviously in first class, and you’re walking past them, going, ‘I can’t believe it’s him!’ And of course you’re walking all the way to the back, next to the toilets.” Miller junior is due in September, when Jack will be racing in Spain or Italy or India or Japan, so Ruby will give birth in Australia. And next year the wee Miller girl or boy will join the world tour with mom and dad, with the family based in Andorra, Spain. “I know I won’t need earplugs because I can sleep though a hurricane,” says Jack. “But we’re sort of trying to understand what the go is and what we’re going to need.” And that’s the interview done. “Maybe we’ll go up on the roof of the hospitality and drink an Aperol,” says Jack, hopefully. “I wish, I wish,” says Ruby as the pair are whisked off to Jack’s next media appointment. Roadracing World, June 2023—21

At a time when some high-profile companies, including powersports companies, are moving operations out of California, Pierer Mobility AG—the parent company of KTM, Husqvarna, GASGAS, and other brands—has invested in California and bet its future on motorsports, and on its people. After originally setting up shop in Amherst, Ohio, just outside of Cleveland, KTM North America moved to Murrieta in Southern California in 2008. The company quickly outgrew its five separate leased buildings scattered in an industrial park. With even more growth projected, Pierer Mobility decided to made the single biggest investment in the Austrian company’s 31-year history—in Southern California. “We knew we wanted to be in this area,” said John Hinz, CEO of KTM North America and CEO of the newly formed Pierer New Mobility North America. “This area is important to our business. It's where our employees live, and the employees are the heart and soul of the company. They're the most important asset in our organization. We knew we wanted to be located in a place that was close to where we currently are and be able to keep and continue to grow our employee workforce here. “And also, we love this area. This is our home. We feel it's kind of the heart and soul of our organization, because we can be at half a dozen motocross tracks within an hour. We can be riding on worldclass roads right from the front door of our facility. There're so many dual sport and adventure trails, all the hills here, the fire roads. We've got our R&D Field, our Supercross, motocross, endurocross, and trials competition area a quarter-mile from here. For our employees, for our R&D efforts, for our race teams, this is our home.” After about six months of searching, Hinz said the company bought 56 acres of vacant land just a half mile from the company’s previous location in 2018. “Shortly after that, we worked with our headquarters in Austria and their architecture team as well as a local architecture firm here, designed some different concepts and started to get ideas down on paper on what the future of the organization should look like,” said Hinz. “What are the needs today? What do we believe the needs are going to be in the future? And how should we organize? “The idea was to centralize functions of the company together and really share resources, knowledge, and improve communication to make the business better and to provide better support for our dealers and have an incredible work environment for our employees. So, that was the ethos of the project itself, and through the next couple of years we refined the layout of the campus and what we wanted, as well as started to work on the relationship with the county and all of the organizations that that you have HEADQUARTERSBy David Swarts Pierer Mobility AG/ KTM North America (Left) This new 58,000-square-foot headquarters building in Murrieta, California is home to Pierer Mobility and its associated brands including KTM, Husqvarna, GASGAS, MV Agusta, and Felt Bicycles. Photo by David Swarts. (Above) Pierer Mobility AG CEO Stefan Pierer (left); KTM North America and Pierer New Mobility North America CEO John Hinz (center); and Florian Kecht (right), a member of the Executive Board of KTM AG, pose together in the new headquarters building’s central atrium. Photo courtesy KTM North America. (Above) Motorcycles and bicycles from Pierer Mobility AG brands are displayed in the headquarters building’s atrium, including the MV Agusta Superveloce seen in the foreground. KTM North America photo. (Below) The new 71,000-squarefoot Pierer Mobility motorsports building houses race teams competing in 12 different National Championships in North America. Photo by David Swarts. 22—Roadracing World, June 2023

to have relationships with when you do a project like this. We did studies on the property, on antiquities, on wildlife, on vegetation, on water and everything with the property itself, as well as soil and soil composition. And we started construction in the fall of 2021.” In spite of post-pandemic supply shortages, volatile prices on building materials, and logistical issues, the 15-month construction project was completed on-time on December 22, 2022, and came in on-budget at $53 million for everything from the land to the buildings to the parking lot striping. As for Pierer Mobility’s new facilities, it seems like the company got a lot for $53 million. Currently, there are three buildings on 20 acres of the property. The warehouse stores motorcycles and equipment primarily for R&D and motorsports purposes. The 58,000-square-foot headquarters building is home to administrative offices, conference rooms, and dealer training facilities for Pierer Mobility’s various brands, which include FELT Bicycles, GASGAS motorcycles, GASGAS Bicycles, Husqvarna E-Bicycles, Husqvarna Motorcycles, KTM North America, MV Agusta, and WP Suspension. Here, most of Pierer Mobility’s 360 U.S. employees enjoy natural light from a seemingly endless expanse of windows and glass walls. In fact, it's possible to see completely through the building at several points. The jewel of the campus is the motorsports building. If there was any doubt as to Pierer Mobility’s commitment to racing consider that in this $53 million investment the largest building, covering 71,000 square feet, is dedicated to motorsports and R&D! As in the headquarters building, great care and consideration was put into the design to enhance work flow and efficiency. With a lobby full of trophies and racebikes and offices for race team managers at the front, the building is set up around two wide hallways that run parallel down its length. Outside of these hallways are where the Supercross, motocross, GNCC, flat track, rally, and other race teams’ motorcycle workspaces are located. Each of these workspaces are very similar in layout with counters at just the right height to make work and concealment of work convenient. Each workspace has an exit to the outside so team members can quickly load their motorcycles into one of the company's 35 Sprinter vans for testing or into one of the firm's 11 semi-truck race transporters. Each workspace also has its own dedicated storage area for quick-access to parts and tires. Every part in the building, in a workspace or on a transporter, has a bar code, and that bar code is recorded when the part enters the building, is installed on a motorcycle, or when it reaches the end of its service life and is discarded. This record allows, among other things, for the performance of a part, or the lack thereof of, to be recorded and shared throughout KTM’s global racing organization. In between the hallways in the center of the building are the WP Suspension and the engine building shops. In the past, WP was located in a building separate from the workspaces, forcing team members to walk components back and forth for service. Now, they walk across the hallway. The same goes for engine services. During off-season testing, each rider selects the engine build they prefer. Everything about that build spec is digitally recorded, from the cam profiles to the combustion chamber shape to the head porting for purposes of repeatability, and one engine builder is assigned to build and rebuild engines for the same one or maybe two riders throughout an entire season. And like the suspension components, the engines are dyno tested before and after use to ensure ev- (Above) The lobby of the motorsports building is decorated with trophies and racebikes, including Sam Sunderland’s GASGAS Dakar Rally racebike seen here. (Above, Left) The motorsports building includes identical workshops for each race team, including the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing American Flat Track Singles team fielding Kody Kopp (1) and Max Whale. Photos by John Ulrich. _The motorsports building dyno department. Engines are bolted into the same designated chassis each time they're tested, to eliminate that variable. Continued on page 46 Roadracing World, June 2023—23

By Michael Gougis Since Marco Bezzecchi's first win in the wet in Argentina, he has shown flashes of speed but hasn't qualified on the front row nor finished on the podium. But the Mooney VR46 Racing Team rider walked away from the field in the Shark Grand Prix de France, taking full advantage of chaos behind him to break away and earn an uncontested win in the Grand Prix main race on Sunday. Jorge Martin won Saturday's Sprint race and added a Grand Prix podium to his haul of Sprint race successes this season, taking second behind Bezzecchi and jumping from seventh to fourth in the overall Championship standings. Defending World Champion Francesco Bagnaia took pole and looked solid if not spectacular in the Sprint race, finishing third, but wound up on the ground during a Grand Prix for a third time this season. At least it wasn't due to rider error this time, but rather a collision with Maverick Viñales, which left both riders in the gravel trap, shoving and slapping. After five rounds, Bagnaia led the World Championship by a single point, 94-93, over Bezzecchi, with Brad Binder in third with 81 points after he finished second in the Sprint race and sixth in the Grand Prix. Marc Marquez arguably turned in the ride of the weekend. Back from injury again, the eight-time World Champion qualified second, then wrestled his Honda RC213V into the lead at the start and battled for the podium positions nearly the entire race, until the beast tossed him off with the finish line nearly in sight. Bez Is Back! FIM MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Le Mans, France (Above) Marco Bezzecchi won the 1000th GP race, with Jorge Martin (left) second and Johann Zarco (right) third. (Right) Bezzecchi (72) leads Marc Marquez (93), Jack Miller, and Martin. (Below) Bezzecchi and Martin (89) carry on after Luca Marini (10) and Alex Marquez (73) collide and crash. Photos by Gigi Soldano/DPPI Media. 24—Roadracing World, June 2023

Practice & Qualifying The 1000th Grand Prix in the current era of motorcycle road racing started off with the factory KTM riders picking up their scorching pace from the current round at Jerez. Jack Miller topped the first practice session ahead of Luca Marini, with Miller's KTM teammate Brad Binder in third. Home town hero Johann Zarco was fourth, ahead of Alex Marquez and Repsol Honda's Joan Mir, who was showing his best form of the season. Miller was quickest in the second practice session. Aleix Espargaró was second, ahead of Bezzecchi, Martin, Zarco and Viñales. Bagnaia pulled into the pits rather than tow Marc Marquez around, but both of them managed to squeeze into the top 10 and go straight to the final qualifying session. Saturday saw Viñales quickest in the morning practice, with Bagnaia, Miller, Marc Marquez, Espargaró and Franco Morbidelli filling out the top six positions. It wasn't a huge surprise to see Marini top the first qualifying session—the Mooney VR46 rider has been on the podium already this year, in Austin. What was a huge surprise was seeing The MotoGP Sprint Race podium at Le Mans, winner Jorge Martin flanked by second-place Brad Binder (left) and third-place Francesco Bagnaia. Marc Marquez (93) leads The MotoGP race early-on, from Jack Miller (43), Luca Marini (10), Francesco Bagnaia (1), Jorge Martin (89), Marco Bezzecchi (72), Maverick Viñales (12), and Alex Marquez (73). Roadracing World, June 2023—25

rookie Augusto Fernandez on the satellite-team GasGas (a rebranded KTM RC16) second, making it into the final qualifying session in only his fifth MotoGP race. What wasn't a surprise at all, but heartbreak for the French fans, was seeing former World Champion Fabio Quartararo third and out of contention for pole. It was a grim day for Yamaha, with Morbidelli only seventh and also out of the final qualifying session. But it was nearly as bad over at Honda, with three of its four riders—Takaaki Nakagami, Mir and Austin winner Alex Rins—failing to advance to final qualifying. Rins was only 0.133-second quicker than Danilo Petrucci, on loan from a satellite Ducati WorldSBK team to fill in for injured Enea Bastianini. Viñales set the early pace in the final qualifying session, then beat his own time before Martin lowered the mark once again. Viñales snatched it back, then Martin turned 1:31.023 before Marc Marquez fired in the first 1:30 lap of the session. Bagnaia waited until the last moment before he edged Marquez off pole with a 1:30.705. Marini completed the first row, ahead of Miller, Martin, and Viñales on row two. MotoGP Sprint Race Bagnaia led the first lap of the Sprint race, chased by Martin leading Miller, Marquez and Marini. Miller's race ended in the gravel trap on the next lap, and Binder passed Marini. On the fourth lap, Martin threw a perfect block pass into the first chicane at Le Mans, and Bagnaia had no choice but to yield the lead. Instead of fighting back, Bagnaia surrendered positions to Binder and Marquez over the next two laps. The defending World Champion got his tires into their proper operating range and was able, on lap 10, to get back past Marquez. On the penultimate lap, Marini also got past Marquez, the Honda rider fifth on his return. It was Martin's first MotoGP win since Austria in 2021; it was Binder's third podium in five sprint races. MotoGP Main Race Sunday's Grand Prix started ugly and stayed chaotic. Marc Marquez surged to the fore and led the first two laps, while an errant move by Alex Marquez left Binder down in 16th and earned the Gresini Ducati rider a grid penalty for the next race. Miller took the lead on lap three and he and Marquez held station while Bezzecchi moved forward from a poor start. Bezzecchi's progress was helped by Viñales' attempt to pass Bagnaia; Aprilia's Viñales made the pass cleanly but ran wide, leaving the door open for Bagnaia to come back through, which he almost did. The two collided as they attempted to set up for the next corner, then collided again and both crashed out. Viñales ran over to Bagnaia in the gravel trap, slapped Bagnaia's arm, then as Bagnaia struggled to his feet, the two exchanged angry words and shoves before corner workers intervened. Their tempers quickly cooled, and the pair shared a scooter ride back to the pits. Two laps later, a truly scary crash started when Marini lost the front of his Desmosedici and saved it on his elbow. As he righted his bike, it lurched to the right, where he and it were collected by Alex Marquez, who came to rest in the middle of the circuit as the field streamed past. Neither were hurt. Up front, Bezzecchi got past Marquez for second with a desperate lunge that shoved the Honda rider clear off the track. Bezzecchi knew that he would be ordered to drop a position, and he did so, falling in behind Martin, who had also passed Marquez. Bezzecchi then regrouped, surged into second on lap 10 and into the lead a lap later. Miller had fallen to fourth, and Marquez and Martin, who have exchanged angry words in the past, spent several laps fighting for second. It was intense but clean, and both riders would praise each other afterward. That battle, combined with Miller slowly losing pace, gave Bezzecchi the opportunity to bolt— which he did. After five laps in the lead, his gap was 1.7 seconds, and he just kept extending his advantage, which ultimately grew to more than 4.5 seconds. Miller slid back through the field, fading to seventh before falling. Martin made a move stick on Marquez, who seemed to be battling his Honda as much as he was battling the other riders. A corner later, Marquez and the Honda were in the gravel trap. Martin consolidated second place, ahead of teammate Zarco. KTM's grim day was rescued by none other than rookie Fernandez, who was quick, consistent, and didn't fall. It was enough for Fernandez to finish fourth, ahead of Espargaró in fifth, Binder in sixth, and Quartararo in a miserable seventh. Only 13 riders finished, with Petrucci in 11th the highest-finishing replacement rider in the field, ahead of Aprilia's Lorenzo Savadori and KTM's Jonas Folger. MotoGP Sprint Race Bagnaia led the first lap of the Sprint race, chased by Martin leading Miller, Marquez and Marini. Miller's race ended in the gravel trap on the next lap, and Binder passed Marini. On the fourth lap, Martin threw a perfect block pass into the first chicane at Le Mans, and Bagnaia had no choice but to yield the lead. Instead of fighting back, Bagcollided again and both crashed out. Viñales ran over to Bagnaia in the gravel trap, slapped Bagnaia's arm, then as Bagnaia struggled to his feet, the two exchanged angry words and shoves before corner workers intervened. Their tempers quickly cooled, and the pair shared a scooter ride back to the pits. Two laps later, a truly scary crash started when Marini lost the front of his Desmosedici and (Above) American Joe Roberts (16) was 12th in Moto2; here, he leads Jake Dixon (96), Barry Baltus (7), Ai Ogura (79), Lukas Tilovic (3) and others. (Right) Moto2 winner Tony Arbolino (14) beat Filip Salac (12). (Above) Daniel Holgado (96) won the Moto3 race with Ayumu Sasaki (hidden) second and Jaume Masia (5) third. Deniz Öncü (53) was sixth. Photos by Gigi Soldano/DPPI Media. 26—Roadracing World, June 2023

Moto2: Arbolino Again! Tony Arbolino won the Moto2 World Championship race after pole-sitter Sam Lowes crashed out, restarted after a red flag and took 15th and the final point on the last lap from American Sean Dylan Kelly. Filip Salac and Alonso Lopez finished second and third. American Joe Roberts finished 12th. Moto3: Holgado Takes Moto3 Win Daniel Holgado won a typically frantic Moto3 World Championship scramble in France, with Ayumu Sasaki and Jaume Masia in second and third, less than a second back. It was Holgado's second win of the season, Masia's third podium in a row, and Sasaki's first podium of the year. MotoE: Torres, Ferrari Split Wins Jordi Torres won the first race of the new era of MotoE racing, (with Ducati now supplying the racebikes), beating Hector Garzo and Randy Krummenacher. Matteo Ferrari won Race Two, ahead of Torres, who once again finished in front of Garzo. RESULTS LE MANS MOTOGP RACE (All on Michelin Tires) (May 14): 1. Marco Bezzecchi, Italy (Duc), 27 laps, 41:37.970, 101.159 mph; 2. Jorge Martin, Spain (Duc), -4.256 seconds; 3. Johann Zarco, France (Duc), -4.795; 4. Augusto Fernandez, Spain (KTM), -6.281; 5. Aleix Espargaró, Spain (Apr), -6.726; 6. Brad Binder, Republic of South Africa (KTM), -13.638; 7. Fabio Quartararo, France (Yam), -15.023; 8. Fabio Di Giannantonio, Italy (Duc), -15.826; 9. Takaaki Nakagami, Japan (Hon), -16.370; 10. Franco Morbidelli, Italy (Yam), -17.828; 11. Danilo Petrucci, Italy (Duc), -29.735; 12. Lorenzo Savadori, Italy (Apr), -36.135; 13. Jonas Folger, Germany (KTM), -49.808; 14. Marc Marquez, Spain (Hon), -2 laps, DNF, crash; 15. Jack Miller, Australia (KTM), -3 laps, DNF, crash; 16. Alex Rins, Spain (Hon), -13 laps, DNF, crash; 17. Joan Mir, Spain (Hon), -15 laps, DNF, crash; 18. Luca Marini, Italy (Duc), -22 laps, DNF, crash; 19. Alex Marquez, Spain (Hon), -22 laps, DNF, crash; 20. Francesco Bagnaia, Italy (Duc), -23 laps, DNF, crash; 21. Maverick Viñales, Spain (Apr), -23 laps, DNF, crash. Race Distance, 27 laps, 70.212 miles; Race Time, 41 minutes, 37.970 seconds; Race Average Speed, 101.159 mph; Victory Margin, 4.256 seconds; Fastest Lap, Bezzecchi, 1:31.855, 101.905 mph, Lap 15. MOTOGP SPRINT (May 13): 1. Martin, 13 laps, 19:59.037, 101.470 mph; 2. Binder, -1.840 seconds; 3. Bagnaia, -2.632; 4. Marini, -3.418; 5. M. Marquez, -3.541; 6. Zarco, -4.483; 7. Bezzecchi, -5.224; 8. Espargaró, -6.359; 9. Viñales, -8.336; 10. Nakagami, -9.439; 11. Rins, -12.388; 12. Di Giannantonio, -14.125; 13. Morbidelli, -15.121; 14. Mir, -15.383; 15. A. Marquez, -15.591; 16. Petrucci, -19.415; 17. Savadori, -26.992; 18. Quartararo, -4 laps, DNF, crash; 19. Folger, -5 laps, DNF, crash; 20. A. Fernandez, -8 laps, DNF, crash; 21. Miller, -12 laps, DNF, crash. Race Distance, 13 laps, 33.806 miles; Race Time, 19 minutes, 59.037 seconds; Race Average Speed, 101.470 mph; Victory Margin, 1.840 seconds; Fastest Lap, Bezzecchi, 1:31.343, 102.464 mph, Lap 4. MOTOGP QUALIFYING (May 13): 1. Bagnaia, 1:30.705, 103.148 mph; 2. M. Marquez, 1:30.763; 3. Marini, 1:30.842; 4. Miller, 1:30.984; 5. Martin, 1:31.023; 6. Viñales, 1:31.120; 7. Bezzecchi, 1:31.173; 8. A. Marquez, 1:31.275; 9. Zarco, 1:31.298; 10. Binder, 1:31.445; 11. Espargaró, 1:31.523; 12. A. Fernandez, 1:31.596; 13. Quartararo, 1:31.366; 14. Nakagami, 1:31.545; 15. Di Giannantonio, 1:31.718; 16. Mir, 1:31.810; 17. Morbidelli, 1:31.886; 18. Rins, 1:31.959; 19. Petrucci, 1:32.092; 20. Savadori, 1:32.410; 21. Folger, 1:33.605. MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS AFTER SPRINT: 1. Bagnaia, 94 points; 2. Binder, 71 points; 3. Bezzecchi, 68 points; 4. Martin, 60 points; 5. Marini, 54 points; 6. Zarco, 50 points; 7. TIE, Viñales/Miller, 49 points; 9. Rins, 47 points; 10. A. Marquez, 41 points. MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP POINT STANDINGS (After 5 of 21 rounds): 1. Bagnaia, 94 points; 2. Bezzecchi, 93 points; 3. Binder, 81 points; 4. Martin, 80 points; 5. Zarco, 66 points; 6. Marini, 54 points; 7. TIE, Viñales/ Miller/Quartararo, 49 points; 10. Rins, 47 points. MOTO2 RACE (All on Dunlop Tires and Triumph Engines) (May 14): 1. Tony Arbolino, Italy (Kalex), 14 laps, 22:34.233, 96.748 mph; 2. Filip Salac, Czech Republic (Kalex), -0.620-second; 3. Alonso Lopez, Spain (Boscoscuro), -1.537; 4. Celestino Vietti, Italy (Kalex), -2.193; 5. Jake Dixon, Great Britain (Kalex), -3.041; 6. Somkiat Chantra, Thailand (Kalex), -4.175; 7. Barry Baltus, Belgium (Kalex), -8.853; 8. Fermin Aldeguer, Spain (Boscoscuro), -9.437; 9. Ai Ogura, Japan (Kalex), -10.696; 10. Sergio Garcia, Spain (Kalex), -10.817; 12. Joe Roberts, USA (Kalex), -12.128; 16. Sean Dylan Kelly, USA (Kalex), -14.633. Race Distance, 14 laps, 36.406 miles; Race Time, 22 minutes, 34.233 secMatteo Ferrari (11) won the second MotoE race at Le Mans and catapulted himself into third in the point standings. Photo courtesy MotoGP.com. Roadracing World, June 2023—27

onds; Race Average Speed, 96.748 mph; Victory Margin, 0.620-second; Fastest Lap, Pedro Acosta, Spain (Kalex), 1:36.068, 97.431 mph, Lap 3, New Record. MOTO2 QUALIFYING (May 13): 1. Sam Lowes, Great Britain (Kalex), 1:35.791, 97.680 mph; 2. Lopez, 1:36.036; 3. Arbolino, 1:36.053; 4. Salac, 1:36.135; 5. Pedro Acosta, Spain (Kalex), 1:36.169; 6. Vietti, 1:36.178; 7. Chantra, 1:36.180; 8. Dixon, 1:36.225; 9. Manuel Gonzalez, Spain (Kalex), 1:36.354; 10. Baltus, 1:36.437; 17. Roberts, 1:37.005; 19. Kelly, 1:36.726. MOTO2 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP POINT STANDINGS (After 5 of 21 rounds): 1. Arbolino, 99 points; 2. Acosta, 74 points; 3. Lopez, 61 points; 4. Salac, 60 points; 5. Aaron Canet, 52 points; 6. Dixon, 47 points; 7. Lowes, 44 points; 8. Chantra, 39 points; 9. TIE, Vietti/Aldeguer, 28 points; 18. Roberts, 10 points. MOTO3 RACE (All on Dunlop Tires) (May 14): 1. Daniel Holgado, Spain (KTM), 20 laps, 34:07.176, 91.404 mph; 2. Ayumu Sasaki, Japan (Husq), -0.150-second; 3. Jaume Masia, Spain (Hon), -0.946; 4. Ivan Ortola, Spain (KTM), -1.113; 5. Ryusei Yamanaka, Japan (GasGas), -2.409; 6. Deniz Öncü, Turkey (KTM), -2.521; 7. Xavier Artigas, Spain (CFMoto), -3.280; 8. David Alonso, Colombia (GasGas), -9.372; 9. Jose Antonio Rueda, Spain (KTM), -11.930; 10. Stefano Nepa, Italy (KTM), -14.318. Race Distance, 20 laps, 52.009 miles; Race Time, 34 minutes, 7.176 seconds; Race Average Speed, 91.404 mph; Victory Margin, 0.150-second; Fastest Lap, Sasaki, 1:41.476, 92.212 mph, Lap 18, New Record. MOTO3 QUALIFYING (May 13): 1. Sasaki, 1:41.630, 92.807 mph; 2. Diogo Moreira, Brazil (KTM), 1:41.939; 3. Holgado, 1:41.958; 4. Öncü, 1:42.101; 5. Andrea Migno, Italy (KTM), 1:42.128; 6. Ortola, 1:42.332; 7. Masia, 1:42.369; 8. Artigas, 1:42.619; 9. Romano Fenati, Italy (Hon), 1:42.667; 10. Syarifuddin Azman, Malaysia (KTM), 1:42.685. MOTO3 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP POINT STANDINGS (After 5 of 21 rounds): 1. Holgado, 84 points; 2. TIE, Ortola/ Masia, 63 points; 4. Moreira, 55 points; 5. Artigas, 50 points; 6. Sasaki, 43 points; 7. TIE, Tatsuki Suzuki/Alonso, 38 points; 9, Rueda, 37 points; 10. Öncü, 33 points. MOTOE WORLD CUP RACE ONE (All on Ducati electric motorcycles and Michelin tires) (May 13): 1. Jordi Torres, Spain, 8 laps, 13:29.947, 92.460 mph; 2. Hector Garzo, Spain, -0.092 second; 3. Randy Krummenacher, Switzerland, -7.539; 4. Kevin Zannoni, Italy, -7.827; 5. Hikari Okubo, Japan, -9.138; 6. Tito Rabat, Spain, -10.933; 7. Kevin Manfredi, Italy, -11.198; 8. Alessandro Zaccone, Italy, -12.488; 9. Alessio Finello, Italy, -14.578; 10. Luca Salvadori, Italy, -14.818. Race Distance, 8 laps, 20.804 miles; Race Time, 13 minutes, 29.947 seconds; Race Average Speed, 92.460 mph; Victory Margin, 0.092-second; Fastest Lap, Matteo Ferrari, Italy, 1:40.350, 93.268 mph, Lap 2, New Record. MOTOE WORLD CUP RACE TWO (All on Ducati electric motorcycles and Michelin tires) (May 13): 1. Ferrari, 8 laps, 13:28.079, 92.646 mph; 2. Torres, -0.712 second; 3. Garzo, -1.693; 4. Mattia Casadei, Italy, -3.145; 5. Nicolas Spinelli, Italy, -3.781; 6. Andrea Mantovani, Italy, -6.052; 7. Krummenacher, -6.555; 8. Zannoni, -7.517; 9. Zaccone, -10.143; 10. Okubo, -13.561. Race Distance, 8 laps, 20.804 miles; Race Time, 13 minutes, 52.528.079 seconds; Race Average Speed, 92.646 mph; Victory Margin, 0.712-second; Fastest Lap, Ferrari, 1:40.101, 93.516 mph, Lap 6, New Record. MOTOE QUALIFYING (May 13): 1. Ferrari, 1:40.971, 92.709 mph; 2. Garzo, 1:40.993; 3. Torres, 1:40.996; 4. Krummenacher, 1:41.480; 5. Manfredi, 1:41.497; 6. Spinelli, 1:41.646; 7. Casadei, 1:41.690; 8. Zannoni, 1:41.714; 9. Miguel Pons, Spain, 1:42.081; 10. Mantovani, 1:42.261. MOTOE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP POINT STANDINGS (After 2 of 14 rounds): 1. Torres, 45 points; 2. Garzo, 36 points; 3. TIE, Ferrari/Krummenacher, 25 points; 5. Zannoni, 21 points; 6. Okubo, 17 points; 7. Zaccone, 15 points; 8. Casadei, 13 points; 9. Finello, 12 points; 10. Spinelli, 11 points. MOTOGP NOTES hRecord Attendance: Organizers of the Shark Grand Prix de France claimed a weekend attendance of 278,805 fans, with Saturday alone drawing nearly 90,000 fans. Sunday's attendance was 116,692, organizers said. hA. Marquez Penalized: Gresini Ducati rider Alex Marquez was penalized with a three-place grid drop for his next Grand Prix after his mistake on the first lap of Sunday's race pushed several riders off track, including Brad Binder. hM. Marquez Saves Honda: Marc Marquez may have left Le Mans with zero points, but a frontrow start and running in the podium positions for most of the weekend left him head and shoulders ahead of the other riders on the RC213V. Running a chassis built for Honda by Kalex, Marquez was third when he crashed out of the Grand Prix, but Joan Mir and Alex Rins had crashed long before, and Takaaki Nakagami was the only Honda rider to finish the Grand Prix, ninth and more than 16 seconds behind the winner. hYamaha's Downward Spiral: Only riders crashing out in front of him have kept Fabio Quartararo's season from being even more of a disaster than it has become. With a tight, twisty circuit like Le Mans expected to favor the Yamaha, his finish back in seventh (more than 15 seconds behind winner Marco Bezzecchi) left the Yamaha camp dispirited and scrambling back through its records to find set-up notes from months ago. hSatellite Success: For the second time this season, the podium for the Grand Prix race was made up entirely of riders on satellite-team machines. Marco Bezzecchi won on the Mooney VR46 Racing Team Ducati Desmosedici, while second and third went to Jorge Martin and Johann Zarco on Prima Primac Racing Ducatis. he only Grand 16 secSpiral: front of rtararo's ore of a me. With Le Mans aha, his ore than Marco a camp g back d set-up machines. Marco Bezzecchi won on the Mooney VR46 Racing Team Ducati Desmosedici, while second and third went to Jorge Martin and Johann Zarco on Prima Primac Racing Ducatis. (Above) The Shark Grand Prix de France drew a claimed weekend record crowd of 278,805 fans. Here, Luca Marini (10) leads Maverick Viñales (12), Alex Marquez (73) and Marco Bezzecchi (72). (Left) Ducati's Paolo Ciabatti and car racing legend Jacky Ickx in the Ducati garage. Photos by Gigi Soldano/DPPI Media. Danilo Petrucci (9) subbed for injured Enea Bastianini and finished 11th, well within the points. Fabio Quartararo (20) had a miserable home Grand Prix, finishing seventh only due to attrition. 28—Roadracing World, June 2023

#NUMBERS& TRIVIAZ UMarco Bezzecchi and his Mooney VR46 Ducati GP22 racebike. 2014 2nd Italian Moto3 Championship 2015 1st Italian Moto3 Championship 2016 16th Moto3 Jr. World Championship 2017 23rd Moto3 World Championship 2018 3rd Moto3 World Championship 2019 23rd Moto2 World Championship 2020 4th Moto2 World Championship 2021 3rd Moto2 World Championship 2022 14th MotoGP World Championship Born: November 12, 1998 Lives: Rimini, Italy MARCO BEZZECCHI'S RACING CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Marco Bezzecchi won three races and finished on the podium nine times in the 2018 Moto3 World Championship and finished second in the title chase to Jorge Martin. Riding for the SKY Racing VR46 Racing Team in 2021, Bezzecchi finished third in the Moto2 World Championship behind Champion Remy Gardner and runner-up Raul Fernandez. In 2022, Bezzecchi moved up to the MotoGP World Championship with Mooney VR46 Racing Team and won Rookie of the Year honors. In 2023, the 24-year-old Italian claimed his (and his team’s) first MotoGP race win in Argentina and backed it up with another at Le Mans. After five of 20 rounds, Bezzecchi, or “Bez,” was one point behind his good friend and Championship leader Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia. Roadracing World, June 2023—29

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By David Swarts In spite of undergoing arm pump surgery just two weeks before the event, two-time and defending Champion Jake Gagne was back to his winning ways, taking two convincing MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike race wins at Barber Motorsports Park. Medallia Superbike Race One Gagne won Race One in the opening laps, grabbing the holeshot from pole position on his Fresh N Lean Progressive Yamaha YZF-R1, building a 0.4-second lead on the first lap over his teammate Cameron Petersen, and then doubling that gap on lap two by breaking his own Race Lap Record of 1:22.917 with a 1:22.806. The Colorado resident added to his advantage until he led by 2.5 seconds on lap seven. At that point, Gagne’s lead over Petersen stabilized as did the gap between Petersen and Westby Racing Yamaha’s Mathew Scholtz, who had worked during the first four laps to recover from a sub-par start to get into third place. As the race wound down, Petersen started nibbling away at his deficit, taking it down from 2.5 to 1.6 seconds behind Gagne, but that’s as close as he got. Gagne held on to win by 1.869 seconds over Petersen, and Scholtz was third, giving Yamaha a sweep of the podium. Five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier was sixth early on but worked his way forward to finish fourth on his Tytlers Cycle Racing BMW M 1000 RR. Beaubier’s teammate PJ Jacobsen also had to fight through the field to earn his fifth place finish. Josh Herrin got a good start on his Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati NYC Panigale V4 R, but gradually dropped back through the field due to what he said were rear tire grip issues that caused other problems with his bike's electronics. Once in sixth, Herrin had just enough to hold off Richie Escalante, who was dealing with similar grip and electronics issues on his Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki GSX-R1000R. Ashton Yates finished eighth on his Aftercare Scheibe Racing BMW S 1000 RR, just ahead of Corey Alexander on the third Tytlers Cycle Racing BMW. Hayden Gillim rounded out the top-10 finishers on his Disrupt Racing Suzuki GSX-R1000R. Medallia Superbike Race Two At the start of Race Two, Gagne led the field into Turn Five, the tight downhill left-hand hairpin sometimes referred to as Charlotte’s Web because of the large spider sculpture nearby and the large MOTOAMERICA AMA/FIM GOING INTERNATIONAL: NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACING SERIES/ MotoAmerica Superbikes at Barber Motorsports Park BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA CHARGE AGAIN GAGNE TAKES Defending Champion Jake Gagne (32) leads teammate Cam Petersen (45), Josh Herrin (2), Richie Escalante (54), Mathew Scholtz (11) and the rest in Superbike Race One at Barber Motorsports Park. Photos by Brian J. Nelson. BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA g lems with his bike's electronics. Once in sixth, Herrin had just enough to hold off Richie Escalante, who was dealing with similar grip and electronics issues on his Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki GSX-R1000R. Ashton Yates finished eighth on his Aftercare Scheibe Racing BMW S 1000 RR, just ahead of Corey Alexander on the third Tytlers Cycle Racing BMW. Hayden Gillim rounded out the top-10 finishers on his Disrupt Racing Suzuki GSX-R1000R. Medallia Superbike Race Two At the start of Race Two, Gagne led the field into Turn Five, the tight downhill left-hand hairpin sometimes referred to as Charlotte’s Web because of the large spider sculpture nearby and the large 2) leads teammate Cam Petersen (45), ), Mathew Scholtz (11) and the rest in sports Park. Photos by Brian J. Nelson. 32—Roadracing World, June 2023

number of crashes in the turn. Petersen, pushing to stay close to Gagne, added to the turn’s reputation by losing rear traction and sliding out. “If you want to beat Jake,” explained Petersen afterward, “you have to take some risks at the beginning of the race in those first few laps.” As a result, Gagne finished the first lap with a 1.2-second advantage, which he pushed out to 6.5 seconds by lap 11 thanks to another Race Lap Record of 1:22.463 on lap two. And aside from a big, unexpected slide that caused him to run off track and lose one second on lap 15, Gagne took his third win of the season by a deceptively small margin of 2.935 seconds. “I was surprised on my gap,” said Gagne. “Even on the first lap I think I had a half-second on my board, or something. So, I think that kind of gave me that little bit of a separation in the beginning. Put my head down. I was surprised to see 1:22.4, honestly. Really surprised. So, those first couple laps gave me a good break. We made some improvements on the bike. It was a little easier for me to ride. It was turning a little better than it was yesterday. This is obviously a track that really, really suits the Yamaha. So, I wanted to come in here and take advantage of that.” Behind Gagne, Scholtz and Beaubier dueled over the runner-up spot. Beaubier, who switched from the R5 rear tire compound he used in Race One to a softer R3 compound for Race Two, was second at the halfway point but made a mistake that let Scholtz by. The battle came down to the final lap. Scholtz defended his line in many corners, successfully holding Beaubier at bay. Then Scholtz’s tight entry in the final corner caused him to push his front tire. Seeing this, Beaubier squared the corner up, got a terrific drive, and looked to have the momentum he needed to pass Scholtz before the finish line. But when Scholtz drifted from right to left, Beaubier lost his momentum and Scholtz hung on to second place. Escalante got a good start, passed Herrin in the early laps, and matched the pace of Scholtz and Beaubier, which pulled him away from his pursuers and put him in fourth place, matching his career-best Superbike finish. Jacobsen was stuck behind hard-braking Herrin until lap 14, and by the time he made a pass it was too late to improve his position and Jacobsen finished fifth. Herrin said that while his bike's rear grip had improved slightly in Race Two, he started pushing his front tire late in the race and the best he could do was hang on to sixth. Alexander (seventh), Yates (eighth), and Escalante’s teammate Toni Elias (ninth) crossed the finish line separated by 1.3 seconds. After the race, Elias said he struggled with frontend feeling all weekend. Gillim was 10th again in Race Two. iMathew Scholtz with wife Kiara and Westby Racing truck driver Olli Rajasarri on the grid. (Left) Richie Escalante (54), Josh Herrin (2), and PJ Jacobsen (99) fought for fourth in Superbike Race Two, with Escalante prevailing. (Above) The Race Two podium, winner Gagne with Mathew Scholtz (left) and Cameron Beaubier (right) while Gagne's Crew Chief Jon Cornwell holds the team trophy. Photos by Brian J. Nelson. to see 1:22.4, honestl prised. So, those fir gave me a good bre some improvements o was a little easier for was turning a little was yesterday. This track that really, real maha. So, I wanted to and take advantage o Behind Gagne, Beaubier dueled over spot. Beaubier, who the R5 rear tire comp in Race One to a so pound for Race Two, the halfway point bu take that let Scholtz came down to the fin defended his line in m successfully holding bay. Then Scholtz’s the final corner cause his front tire. Seeing squared the corner up drive, and looked to Cameron Beaubier (6) runs wide late in Race Two and Mathew Scholtz (11) is going for a pass; Cam Petersen (45) has already crashed, pitted for repairs, and rejoined the race. number of cra turn. Petersen, stay close to G to the turn’s re losing rear tracti ing out. “If you w Jake,” explained terward, “you have t risks at the beginning o those first few laps.” As a result, Gag the first lap with a 1.2 vantage, which he push seconds by lap 11 thank (Left) Richie fought for fo (Above) The (left) and C Cornwel Roadracing World, June 2023—33

Supersport The first of MotoAmerica’s new extended Supersport races (including mandatory pit stops) started with Tyler Scott taking the holeshot and leading the first two laps of the 37-lap race on his Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki GSX-R750. Xavi Fores then passed Scott on the brakes at Turn Five and started pulling away on his Ducati. Shortly afterwards, it started raining, and it looked like the race was going to be a duel between crafty veterans Fores and Josh Hayes, whose Squid Hunter Racing team had just committed to running the full season. Then four riders crashed in the tricky conditions in the final corners, causing the race to be stopped with a red flag. During the stoppage it started raining harder, but before long the rain stopped, forcing teams to rethink their tire decisions. Most of the top riders lined up for the restart on rain tires, except for Stefano Mesa, who had slicks on his Tytlers Cycle Racing Kawasaki ZX-6R and later admitted that it was a bad decision. Shortly after the first lap of the restart was completed, the race was stopped by another red flag for a crash at the exit of the Turn 10/11 chicane on the back straightaway. Disrupt Racing’s Cory Ventura had fallen and suffered a compound fracture of his left tibia and fibula along with fractures in his left foot. During this stoppage the track began to dry, and riders had to revisit their tire choices. Most top riders chose to do the restart on slicks, but Hayes and Scott chose to go back out on rain tires saying later they knew they would have to come in for a pit stop anyway and hoped they would take advantage of the tires on the still-drying track before they switched. It didn’t work out that way because the track was too dry already. Scott got the holeshot, but was quickly passed by Fores and Mesa. Fores led until lap 10 of the 22-lap restart, when he pitted his Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati NYC Panigale V2 for a new rear slick and fuel. Mesa held the lead for two laps, until he pitted on lap 12 of the restart for a new rear slick and fuel. After their pit stops were complete, Fores led by 2.5 seconds over Mesa, and from there Fores extended his advantage until he won the double-points race by 9.815 seconds. Mesa was a lonely second. Third place went to North East Cycle Outlet Racing Yamaha’s Anthony Mazziotto, who pitted on the same lap as Fores and passed Michael Gilbert to earn the position. Gilbert opted not to change his tires during his pit stop, but he had enough pace to finish fourth. Hayes overcame his tire choice and a relatively slow pit stop to salvage fifth. Scott, who broke Josh Herrin’s All-Time Lap Record of 1:26.361 with a 1:26.348 during qualifying, held off his teammate Teagg Hobbs to finish sixth by 0.426-second. Considering he also started the race on rain tires and had to wait until the lap after Scott to pit and change them, it was a strong finish for Hobbs. Mazziotto’s teammate CJ LaRoche finished eighth, the last rider on the lead lap, in spite of crashing during the first restart. 3D Motorsports Suzuki’s Damian Jigalov (ninth) and Hopkins Racing Yamaha’s Sean Hopkins (10th) rounded out the top 10 finishers. (Left) Xavi Fores (12) leads Tyler Scott (70), Josh Hayes (4), Stefano Mesa (37), Teagg Hobbs (79). and Cory Ventura (28) early in the Supersport race. (Above) Winner Fores on the podium with team rep Eraldo Ferracci, second-place Mesa, and third-place Anthony Mazziotto III. Photos by Brian J. Nelson. Rocco Landers (97) leads Gus Rodio (96), Blake Davis (1), Kayla Yaakov (131), Dominic Doyle (25), Jackson Blackmon (18), Joseph Lemandri Jr. (62), Chris Parrish (128), Ray Hofman (171), and Cassidy Heiser (67) early in Twins Cup Race Two. 34—Roadracing World, June 2023

REV’IT! Twins Cup Rodio Racing—Powered by Robem Engineering Aprilia teammates Rocco Landers (the pole-sitter and fill-in rider for injured Ben Gloddy) and Gus Rodio were pulling away from the field in Race One when it started raining. Landers and Rodio gestured on the start/finish straight trying to get the race stopped, and Landers then intentionally slowed and dropped down the order. Rodio stayed on the gas but crashed his RS 660 on lap seven of a scheduled 14. Several other riders crashed shortly after, and Race Direction stopped the race. Rodio and some of the other riders picked their bikes up and rode back to the pits to prepare for the restart, which is allowed as long as the rider was actively competing at the time of the red flag and gets their bike back to the pits within five minutes of the race being stopped. But when the grid for the restart was issued, Rodio was not on the grid sheet. (More on this in MotoAmerica Inside Info; see page 40). On the restart, The Wagbar MP13 Racing Yamaha’s Kayla Yaakov, riding in her first race since breaking her leg in pre-season testing, led from the pole position. Landers, meanwhile, restarted from ninth on the grid, but Landers was able to catch and pass Yaakov on lap three of the restart and win by 1.148 seconds. Yaakov finished second in her first-ever Twins Cup race. Dominic Doyle placed third, his first podium of the season, on his Team Iso Yamaha YZF-R7. Cycle Tech Yamaha’s Hayden Schultz (fourth) and N2 Racing/BobbleHeadMoto Yamaha’s defending Champion Blake Young rounded out the top five Twins Cup finishers. Landers and Rodio again jumped out in front of the field early in Race Two, but Rodio was unable to match Landers’ pace for long and slipped backward into a battle over second place with Davis, Doyle, and Yaakov. As the group navigated the final right-hander on lap nine of 14, Doyle hit the back of Rodio’s machine and both riders crashed. Landers went on to win by 5.430 seconds. Davis rode a defensive final lap to finish second, 0.245-second ahead of third-place Yaakov. Schultz finished fourth, and Cassidy Heiser was fifth on his Chiefs Racing Team Yamaha. Doyle remounted and finished 13th, while Rodio DNF. Junior Cup Race One came down to a last-lap fight between Bad Boys Racing’s Avery Dreher, Yandel Racing’s Yandel Medina, Altus Motorsports’ Alessandro Di Mario, and SportbikeTrackGear. com’s Max Van. Dreher led into the final corner. Medina tried to make a pass on Dreher but came up short and lost his drive. Dreher rode on to take his third straight victory in the class. Van nearly collided with a weaving Medina on the run to the checkered flag but was able to pass him and secure the runner-up spot. Medina salvaged third, while Di Mario was pinched off by Medina and Van on the run to the stripe and was fourth. Bicknese Racing’s Hayden Bicknese was in the hunt for the lead until he faded on the final laps and ended up fifth. All five riders were on Kawasaki Ninja 400s. Race Two was an even bigger battle with Levi Badie and Chase Black joining the fray. Belgian rider Badie and Bicknese, both also on Kawasakis, went back and forth on the final lap. Bicknese led into the final corner, but he said he hit the rev limiter at the exit, affecting his drive. Badie got a better drive and was able to beat Bicknese to the line in a photo finish. Dreher was a very close third, Van was fourth, Medina placed fifth, Di Mario took sixth, and Black finished seventh, 1.651 seconds behind Badie. Steel Commander Stock 1000 Riding a Disrupt Racing Suzuki GSXR1000R, Hayden Gillim took convincing wins in both Stock 1000 races. The Kentuckian won red-flag-shortened Race One by 4.521 seconds and full-length 14-lap Race Two by 5.066 seconds. Orange Cat Racing BMW teammates Ezra Beaubier and Kaleb De Keyrel took podium finishes in both races. Beaubier was alone in second and De Keyrel was just ahead of Travis Wyman Racing BMW’s Travis Wyman when the red flag (Above) Rocco Landers (97) and teammate Gus Rodio (96) lead Kayla Yaakov (131) and others in Twins Cup Race Two. (Right) Yaakov was second and third in the two Twins Cup races at Barber. Photos by Brian J. Nelson. hit the rev lim exit, affecting his d got a better drive and w beat Bicknese to the lin to finish. Dreher was a third, Van was fourth placed fifth, Di Mario d Bl k fi i h d 97) and teammate a Yaakov (131) and Two. (Right) Yaakov the two Twins Cup y Brian J. Nelson. Roadracing World, June 2023—35

stopped Race One. Fifth place in Race One went to Nolan Lamkin, who rode a Tom Wood Powersports BMW S 1000 RR. In Race Two, De Keyrel passed Beaubier down the back straightaway on the final lap to secure the runner-up spot by 0.389-second. Taylor Knapp was fourth on his Taylor Knapp Racing BMW S 1000 RR, just ahead of fifth-place Lamkin. Mission Mini Cup by Motul Alpha Omega’s Ryder Davis won all four 190 Ohvale races in the double-doubleheader Mini Cup event at Barber Motorsports Park. (Two races for each of the five classes were run on Friday, and two races for each of the five classes were run on Saturday.) Historic GP’s Mahdi Salem won 160 Ohvale Race One of Round One, before Stadler Racing’s Nathan Gouker won the three remaining 160 Ohvale races. Jacobsen Motorcycle Training/ Bettencourt Racing’s Nathan Bettencourt won all four Stock 125 sprints. Ryan Clark Racing’s Ryan Clark won three of the four Stock 110 races, while Peterman Racing’s Cole Peterman won the other Stock 110 race and the first two Stock 50 races. Cory Texter Racing/Roof Systems’ Cruise Texter (the son of Mini Cup Series Director and former Pro racer Cory Texter) won Stock 50 Round Two Race One, and SWG Motorsports’ Weston Fager took first place in Stock 50 Round Two Race Two. Round Two Race Two. (Left) Avery Dreher (99) leads Junior Cup Race One, from Alessandro Di Mario (70), Hayden Bicknese (69), and Max Van (48). (Above) Dreher, Di Mario, Bicknese, Van, and Jediah Cumbermack (93) lead in Race Two. (Below) The Race Two podium with winner Levi Badie, second Bicknese, and third-place Dreher. (Above) Hayden Gillim and son Stone celebrate a big win in Stock 1000 Race Two, with second-place Kaleb De Keyrel (left) and Ezra Beaubier (right). (Right) Double-winner Gillim. (Far Right) Gillim (69) leads Beaubier (16), De Keyrel (51), Taylor Knapp (44), and the rest at Barber. Photos by Brian J. Nelson. 36—Roadracing World, June 2023

RESULTS MEDALLIA SUPERBIKE RACE ONE (All on Dunlop tires) (May 20): 1. Jake Gagne (Yam), 16 laps, 22:27.408, 101.742 mph; 2. Cameron Petersen (Yam), -1.869 seconds; 3. Mathew Scholtz (Yam), -6.153; 4. Cameron Beaubier (BMW), -9.031; 5. PJ Jacobsen (BMW), -12.974; 6. Josh Herrin (Duc), -20.291; 7. Richie Escalante (Suz), -20.580; 8. Ashton Yates (BMW), -28.851; 9. Corey Alexander (BMW), -29.150; 10. Hayden Gillim (Suz), -33.909; 11. David Anthony (Hon), -34.899; 12. Toni Elias (Suz), -38.064; 13. Max Flinders (Yam), -53.278; 14. Travis Wyman (BMW), -57.903; 15. Benjamin Smith (Yam), -61.474; 16. Nolan Lamkin (BMW), -71.522; 17. Joseph Giannotto (BMW), -72.476; 18. Jason Waters (BMW), -83.886; 19. Gabriel Da Silva (Kaw), DNF; 20. Danilo Lewis (BMW), DNF. Race Distance, 16 laps, 38.080 miles; Race Time, 22 minutes, 24.408 seconds; Race Average Speed, 101.742 mph; Victory Margin, 1.869 seconds; Fastest Lap, Gagne, 1:22.806, 103.472 mph, Lap 2. MEDALLIA SUPERBIKE RACE TWO (All on Dunlop tires) (May 21): 1. Gagne, 20 laps, 28:02.887, 101.825 mph; 2. Scholtz, -2.935 seconds; 3. Beaubier, -3.096; 4. Escalante, -8.860; 5. Jacobsen, -14.959; 6. Herrin, -22.096; 7. Alexander, -34.291; 8. Yates, -35.072; 9. Elias, -35.508; 10. Gillim, -39.201; 11. Da Silva, -87.617; 12. Giannotto, -1 lap; 13. Waters, -1 lap; 14. Lamkin, -1 lap; 15. Petersen, DNF; 16. Zachary Butler (Yam), DNF; 17. Anthony, DNF; 18. Flinders, DNF; 19. D. Lewis, DNF; 20. Smith, DNF. Race Distance, 20 laps, 47.600 miles; Race Time, 28 minutes, 2.887 seconds; Race Average Speed, 101.825 mph; Victory Margin, 2.935 seconds; Fastest Lap, Gagne, 1:22.463, 103.901 mph, Lap 2. MEDALLIA SUPERBIKE COMBINED QUALIFYING: 1. Gagne, 1:22.503, 103.851 mph; 2. Petersen, 1:22.838; 3. Scholtz, 1:22.905; 4. Escalante, 1:23.015; 5. Beaubier, 1:23.026; 6. Jacobsen, 1:23.487; 7. Herrin, 1:23.690; 8. Yates, 1:24.221; 9. Gillim, 1:24.493; 10. Elias, 1:24.659; 11. Anthony, 1:24.959; 12. Alexander, 1:25.069; 13. Flinders, 1:25.252; 14. T. Wyman, 1:25.807; 15. Smith, 1:26.581; 16. D. Lewis, 1:28.734. MEDALLIA SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP POINT STANDINGS (After 4 of 22 races): 1. Gagne, 95 points; 2. Beaubier, 74 points; 3. Scholtz, 63 points; 4. Herrin, 49 points; 5. Escalante, 43 points; 6. TIE, Petersen/Alexander, 33 points; 8. Jacobsen, 32 points; 9. Elias, 28 points; 10. Gillim, 24 points. SUPERSPORT RACE (All on Dunlop tires) (May 20): 1. Xavi Fores (Duc), 28 laps, 44:43.653, 89.395 mph; 2. Stefano Mesa (Kaw), -9.815 seconds; 3. Anthony Mazziotto (Yam), -22.271; 4. Michael Gilbert (Suz), -30.627; 5. Josh Hayes (Yam), -42.639; 6. Tyler Scott (Suz), -49.398; 7. Teagg Hobbs (Suz), -49.824; 8. CJ LaRoche (Yam), -97.199; 9. Damian Jigalov (Suz), -1 lap; 10. Sean Hopkins (Yam), -1 lap; 11. Nicholas Ciling (Yam), -1 lap; 12. Nathan Seethaler (Kaw), -1 lap; 13. Carl Soltisz (Suz), -2 laps; 14. Chuck Ivey (Yam), -2 lap; 15. Timothy Frey (Yam), -2 laps; 16. Corey Hart (Suz), -3 laps; 17. Mallory Dobbs (Kaw), -3 laps; 18. David Ortiz (Yam), -5 laps; 19. Kevin Horney (Yam), DNF; 20. Cory Ventura (Suz), DNF; 21. Jaret Nassaney (Suz), DNF; 22. Declan van Rosemalen (Yam), DNF; 23. Dylan Yelton (Yam), DNF; 24. Jordan Tropkoff (Suz), DNF. Race Distance, 28 laps, 66.640 miles; Race Time, 44 minutes, 43.653 seconds; Race Average Speed, 89.395 mph; Victory Margin, 9.815 seconds; Fastest Lap, Fores, 1:27.500, 97.920 mph, Lap 2. SUPERSPORT QUALIFYING: 1. Scott, 1:26.348, 99.226 mph; 2. Hayes, 1:26.764; 3. Mesa, 1:27.017; 4. Fores, 1:27.021; 5. Hobbs, 1:27.272; 6. Ventura, 1:27.885; 7. Mazziotto, 1:27.934; 8. Nassaney, 1:28.565; 9. LaRoche, 1:28.573; 10. Gilbert, 1:28.718; 11. Soltisz, 1:29.016; 12. Jigalov, 1:29.956; 13. Ciling, 1:30.643; 14. Ortiz, 1:31.501; 15. Seethaler, 1:31.534; 16. Van Rosmalen, 1:31.549; 17. Hopkins, 1:31.628; 18. Yelton, 1:31.897; 19. Tropkoff, 1:32.219; 20. Dobbs, 1:32.258; 21. Ivey, 1:32.525; 22. Hart, 1:32.820; 23. Frey, 1:33.019; 24. Edgar Zaragoza (Kaw), 1:33.270; 25. Horney, 1:33.526; 26. Alejandro Thermiotis (Suz), 1:33.546; 27. Joshua Booth (Yam), 1:33.927. Roadracing World, June 2023—37

SUPERSPORT CHAMPIONSHIP POINT STANDINGS (After 3 of 16 races): 1. Fores, 100 points; 2. Mesa, 73 points; 3. Hayes, 54 points; 4. Scott, 53 points; 5. Gilbert, 48 points; 6. Mazziotta, 45 points; 7. Hobbs, 38 points; 8. Jigalov, 30 points; 9. LaRoche, 26 points; 10. Soltisz, 15 points. JUNIOR CUP RACE ONE (all on Dunlop tires) (May 20): 1. Avery Dreher (Kaw), 11 laps, 17:51.077, 87.994 mph; 2. Max Van (Kaw), -0.506-second; 3. Yandel Medina (Kaw), -0.621; 4. Alessandro Di Mario (Kaw), -0.635; 5. Hayden Bicknese (Kaw), -4.511; 6. Levi Badie (Kaw), -9.000; 7. Chris Clark (Kaw), -9.510; 8. Rossi Moor (KTM), -10.674; 9. Jayden Fernandez (Kaw), -14.515; 10. David Roth (Kaw), -20.075; 11. Logan Monk (Kaw), -23.441; 12. Logan Cunnison (Kaw), -23.447; 13. Gabrielly Lewis (Kaw), -23.514; 14. Jake Vandal (Kaw), -33.953; 15. Carson King (Kaw), -34.127; 16. Trenton Keesee (Kaw), -40.878; 17. Isaac Woodworth (Kaw), -43.484; 18. Nicky Mutschler (Kaw), -44.813; 19. Jasmine Nichols (Kaw), -44.995; 20. Aiden Sneed (Yam), -45.109; 21. Dylan Singh (Kaw), -45.570; 22. Charles Ceparano (Kaw), -45.942; 23. Chase Black (Kaw), -47.835; 24. Ryan Barbour (Kaw), -48.615; 25. Jonathan Hollingsworth (Kaw), -57.780; 26. Landen Smith (Kaw), -58.314; 27. Elisa Gendron (Kaw), -97.713; 28. Ivan Rivera (Kaw), DNF; 29. Kreece Elliott (Kaw), DNF; 30. Jediah Cumbermack (Kaw), DNF. Race Distance, 11 laps, 26.180 miles; Race Time, 17 minutes, 51.077 seconds; Race Average Speed, 87.994 mph; Victory Margin, 0.506-second; Fastest Lap, Medina, 1:36.0075, 89.180 mph, Lap 6. JUNIOR CUP RACE TWO (all on Dunlop tires) (May 21): 1. Badie, 11 laps, 17:44.648, 88.525 mph; 2. Bicknese, -0.003-second; 3. Dreher, -0.118; 4. Van, -0.298; 5. Medina, -0.728; 6. Di Mario, -1.010; 7. Black, -1.651; 8. Fernandez, -17.993; 9. Cunnison, -18.131; 10. Elliott, -18.343; 11. Roth, -18.464; 12. Monk, -18.526; 13. Sneed, -19.171; 14. Keesee, -27.294; 15. Lewis, -35.864; 16. Ceparano, -39.214; 17. Mutschler, -40.965; 18. Woodworth, -40.989; 19. Nichols, -42.714; 20. Singh, -58.321; 21. Hollingsworth, -58.363; 22. Smith, -58.585; 23. Barbour, -61.132; 24. Gendron, -102.241; 25. Cumbermack, DNF; 26. Moor, DNF; 27. Vandal, DNF; 28. Clark, DNF; 29. Rivera, DNF; 30. King, DNF. Race Distance, 11 laps, 26.180 miles; Race Time, 17 minutes, 44.648 seconds; Race Average Speed, 88.525 mph; Victory Margin, 0.003-second; Fastest Lap, VanDenBrouck, 1:35.623, 89.602 mph, Lap 4. JUNIOR CUP QUALIFYING: 1. Dreher, 1:35.940, 99.698 mph; 2. Di Mario, 1:36.199; 3. Bicknese, 1:36.420; 4. Van, 1:36.432; 5. Badie, 1:36.691; 6. Black, 1:36.882; 7. Roth, 1:36.889; 8. Medina, 1:37.039; 9. Rivera, 1:37.041; 10. Moor, 1:37.520; 11. Fernandez, 1:37.652; 12. Clark, 1:37.961; 13. Elliott, 1:38.020; 14. Sneed, 1:38.098; 15. Keesee, 1:38.361; 16. Vandal, 1:38.411; 17. Cumbermack, 1:38.522; 18. Cunnison, 1:38.555; 19. Monk, 1:39.111; 20. King, 1:39.580; 21. Lewis, 1:39.629; 22. Ceparano, 1:39.631; 23. Woodworth, 1:39.776; 24. Mutschler, 1:39.939; 25. Barbour, 1:40.151; 26. Hollingsworth, 1:40.151; 27. Singh, 1:40.341; 28. Smith, 1:40.856; 29. Nichols, 1:41.383; 30. Gendron, 1:46.293; 31. Aaron Rothenberger (Kaw), 1:46.293. JUNIOR CUP POINT STANDINGS (After 4 of 12 races): 1. Dreher, 91 points; 2. Van, 73 points; 3. Bicknese, 63 points; 4. Medina, 48 points; 5. Badie, 35 points; 6. Black, 33 points; 7. Cunnison, 27 points; 8. Clark, 26 points; 9. TIE, Di Marion/Fernandez, 23 points. REV’IT! TWINS CUP RACE ONE PART TWO (All on Dunlop tires) (May 20): 1. Rocco Landers (Apr), 5 laps, 7:41.354, 92.857 mph; 2. Kayla Yaakov (Yam), -1.148 seconds; 3. Dominic Doyle (Yam), -6.125; 4. Hayden Schultz (Yam), -6.876; 5. Blake Davis (Yam), -7.369; 6. Jackson Blackmon (Yam), -9.227; 7. Cassidy Heiser (Yam), -10.085; 8. Chris Parrish (Yam), -10.377; 9. Ray Hofman (Apr), -11.529; 10. Joseph LiMandri Jr (Yam), -15.129; 11. Jacob Crossman (Apr), -15.312; 12. Darren James (Yam), -21.526; 13. Jeffrey Purk (Yam), -22.470; 14. Chase Brown (Apr), -24.269; 15. Jeff Bean (Yam), -32.812; 16. Jason Madama (Yam), -33.010; 17. Ryan Smith (Apr), -33.193; 18. Joseph Bittner (Apr), -35.054; 19. Agustin Sierra (Apr), -42.998; 20. Alexander Steinhoff-Arnot (Suz), -43.775; 21. Brogan Richards (Suz), -50.778; 22. Rodney Vest (Yam), -52.581; 23. Evan Garver (Apr), -52.705; 24. Eric Reed (Yam), -61.702; 25. Gino Angella (Yam), -62.475; 26. Eddie Kaye (Kaw), DNF. Race Distance, 5 laps, 11.900 miles; Race Time, 7 minutes, 41.354 seconds; Race Average Speed, 92.857 mph; Victory Margin, 1.148 seconds; Fastest Lap, Landers, 1:30.708, 94.457 mph, Lap 3. REV’IT! TWINS CUP RACE TWO (All Dunlop Tires) (May 21): 1. Landers, 14 laps, 21:13.644, 94.180 mph; 2. Davis, -5.430 seconds; 3. Yaakov, -5.675; 4. Schultz, -18.376; 5. Heiser, -18.917; 6. Parrish, -22.538; 7. LiMandri, -22.766; 8. Blackmon, -23.541; 9. Hofman, -41.679; 10. Garver, -47.753; 11. C. Brown, -48.867; 12. James, -48.997; 13. Doyle, -53.310; 14. Ryan Wolfe (Suz), -58.257; 15. Crossman, -60.993; 16. Purk, -69.071; 17. Bean, -76.851; 18. Smith, -77.065; 19. Steinhoff-Arnot, -80.121; 20. Sierra, -85.952; 21. Madama, -90.685; 22. Bittner, -92.193; 23. Garver, -1 lap; 24. Reese Brown (Suz), -1 lap; 25. Vest, -1 lap; 26. Reed, -1 lap; 27. Richards, -1 lap; 28. Thomas Ceparano (Apr), -1 lap; 29. Angella, -1 lap; 30. Kaye, -2 laps; 31. Gus Rodio (Apr), DNF. Race Distance, 14 laps, 33.320 miles; Race Time, 21 minutes, 13.644 seconds; Race Average Speed, 94.180 mph; Victory Margin, 5.430 seconds; Fastest Lap, Landers, 1:29.668, 95.552 mph, Lap 4. REV’IT! TWINS CUP QUALIFYING: 1. Landers, 1:29.135, 96.124 mph; 2. Yaakov, 1:30.357; 3. Rodio, 1:30.422; 4. Doyle, 1:30.637; 5. Davis, 1:30.756; 6. Schultz, 1:31.046; 7. Blackmon, 1:31.188; 8. Parrish, 1:31.779; 9. LiMandri, 1:32.413; 10. Hofman, 1:32.834; 11. Heiser, 1:33.038; 12. Garver, 1:33.555; 13. James, 1:33.881; 14. Alex Arango (Apr), 1:33.974; 15. Wolfe, 1:34.079; 16. Crossman, 1:34.099; 17. Sierra, 1:35.141; 18. C. Brown, 1:35.209; 19. Bittner, 1:35.591; 20. Purk, 1:35.669; 21. Kaye, 1:35.917; 22. Bean, 1:36.039; 23. Smith, 1:36.058; 24. Madama, 1:36.086; 25. Steinhoff-Arnot, 1:36.301; 26. R. Brown, 1:36.827; 27. Garver, 1:37.518; 28. Vest, 1:38.255; 29. Reed, 1:38.415; 30. Brad Faas (Apr), 1:38.542; 31. Richards, 1:38.595; 32. Chloe Maddrill, 1:39.231; 33. Angella, 1:39.466; 34. Michael Blaum, 1:39.478; 35. Ceparano, 1:39.760; 36. Kayleigh Buyck, 1:39.994; 37. Mike Boyce (Apr), 1:43.646. REV’IT! TWINS CUP POINT STANDINGS (After 6 of 13 races): 1. Davis, 87 points; 2. TIE, Rodio/Schultz, 85 points; 4. Landers, 75 points; 5. Blackmon, 67 points; 6. Mesa, 49 points; 7. Parrish, 48 points; 8. LiMandri, 45 points; 9. Doyle, 39 points; 10. Heiser, 37 points. STEEL COMMANDER STOCK 1000 RACE ONE (All on Dunlop tires) (May 20): 1. Hayden Gillim (Suz), 14 laps, 17:18.777, 98.978 mph; 2. Ezra Beaubier (BMW), -4.541 seconds; 3. Kaleb De Keyrel (BMW), -9.008; 4. Travis Wyman (BMW), -9.661; 5. Nolan Lamkin (BMW), -13.572; 6. Taylor Knapp (BMW), -17.679; 7. Joseph Giannotto (Kaw), -21.841; 8. Jason Waters (BMW), -31.528; 9. Gabriel Da Silva (Kaw), -34.044; 10. Zachary Butler (Yam), -46.613; 11. Manuel Segura (Suz), -46.801; 12. Justin Miest (Kaw), -47.140; 13. Michael Henao (BMW), -48.361; 14. Ryan Burke (Yam), -51.761; 15. JC Camacho (Kaw), -54.323; 16. John Knowles (Suz), -59.609; 17. Bobby Davies (Yam), -65.163; 18. Anthony Norton (Kaw), -72.458; 19. Christian Guffy (Suz), -75.892; 20. Michael Butler (Yam), -75.958; 21. Tyler Jackson (Kaw), -76.441; 22. Trevor Watson (Hon), -78.440; 23. Steven Shakespeare (Suz), -83.359; 24. Anthony Reale (Suz), -83.447; 25. Stefan Dolipski (BMW), -83.897; 26. Dan Dickerman (Yam), -85.117; 27. Andrew Bolton (Suz), -1 lap; 28. Kyle Kearcher (Yam), -1 lap; 29. Dario Chavarro (Hon), -1 lap; 30. Jonathan McCroskey (Yam), -1 lap; 31. William Posse (Suz), DNF; 32. Jesse Ruehling (Yam), DNF; 33. Alex Arango (BMW), DNF. Race Distance, 14 laps, 33.320 miles; Race Time, 17 minutes, 18.777 seconds; Race Average Speed, 98.978 mph; Victory Margin, 4.541 seconds; Fastest Lap, Gillim, 1:25.521, 100.186 mph, Lap 2. STEEL COMMANDER STOCK 1000 RACE TWO (All on Dunlop tires) (May 21): 1. Gillim, 14 laps, 20:14.669, 98.753 mph; 2. De Keyrel, -5.066 seconds; 3. E. Beaubier, -5.455; 4. Knapp, -8.148; 5. Lamkin, -9.684; 6. Da Silva, -24.884; 7. Waters, -29.094; 8. Giannotto, -29.332; 9. Burke, -42.519; 10. Camacho, -43.196; 11. Arango, -48.870; 12. Knowles, -49.567; 13. Z. Butler, -49.926; 14. Miest, -50.819; 15. Segura, -52.600; 16. Norton, -67.361; 17. Jeremy Simmons (Yam), -67.406; 18. Henao, -68.324; 19. Posse, -71.974; 20. Guffy, -75.215; 21. M. Butler, -75.276; 22. Jackson, -76.178; 23. Reale, -78.998; 24. Watson, -80.601; 25. Davies, -85.193; 26. Dickerman, -106.757; 27. Bolton, -1 lap; 28. Kearcher, -1 lap; 29. Geoff Gruber (Suz), -1 lap; 30. Shakespeare, DNF; 31. McCroskey, DNF; 32. T. Wyman, DNF; 33. Chavarro, DNF. Race Distance, 13 laps, 33.150 miles; Race Time, 18 minutes, 46.772 seconds; Race Average Speed, 105.913 mph; Victory Margin, 6.085 seconds; Fastest Lap, Knapp, 1:26.451, 106.187 mph, Lap 4. STEEL COMMANDER STOCK 1000 QUALIFYING: 1. Gillim, 1:25.246, 100.509 mph; 2. E. Beaubier, 1:25.629; 3. De Keyrel, 1:25.671; 4. Knapp, 1:25.841; 5. T. Wyman, 1:26.245; 6. Lamkin, 1:26.632; 7. Waters, 1:26.932; 8. Da Silva, 1:27.304; 9. Giannotto, 1:27.332; 10. Arango, 1:28.441; 11. Burke, 1:28.531; 12. Camacho, 1:28.551; 13. Z. Butler, 1:29.537; 14. Segura, 1:29.665; 15. Miest, 1:30.036; 16. Henao, 1:30.063; 17. Ruehling, 1:30.145; 18. Knowles, 1:30.212; 19. Norton, 1:30.307; 20. Davies, 1:30.366; 21. Guffy, 1:30.962; 22. Posse, 1:30.965; 23. Watson, 1:31.261; 24. Simmons, 1:31.272; 25. M. Butler, 1:31.369; 26. Jackson, 1:31.400; 27. Jason Lee (Yam), 1:31.706; 28. Gary Virgin, 1:31.823; 29. Shakespeare, 1:31.919; 30. Kearcher, 1:31.949; 31. Dickerman, 1:31.997; 32. Bolton, 1:32.058; 33. McCroskey, 1:32.712; 34. Reale, (Above) Nathan Gouker (1) leads Mahdi Salem (10) and Mac MacClugage (30) in a 160 Ohvale Mini Cup race. (Below) Grober Reyes (19) leads Weston Fager (71) and Cruise Texter (26) in a Stock 50 Mini Cup race. (Right) Winner Salem is flanked by second-place Kruz Maddison (left) and Gouker on a 160 podium. SUPERSPORT CHAMPIONSHIP POINT STANDINGS (After 3 dina, -0.728; 6. Di Mario, -1.010; 7. Black, -1.651; 8. FerREV’IT! TWINS CUP 21): 1. Landers, 14 -5.430 seconds; 3. Heiser, -18.917; 6. 8. Blackmon, -23.5 -47.753; 11. C. Brow Doyle, -53.310; 14. man -60993; 16 (Above) Nathan Gouker (1) leads Mahdi Salem (10) and Mac MacClugage (30) in a 160 Ohvale Mini Cup race. (Below) Grober Reyes (19) leads Weston Fager (71) and Cruise Texter (26) in a Stock 50 Mini Cup race. (Right) Winner Salem is flanked by second-place Kruz Maddison (left) and Gouker on a 160 podium. 38—Roadracing World, June 2023

1:32.732; 35. Dolipski, 1:32.948; 36. Chavarro, 1:33.369; 37. Gruber, 1:33.764; 38. Mitchell Walz (Yam), 1:34.206; 39. Lindsay McGregor, 1:37.791. STEEL COMMANDER STOCK 1000 CHAMPIONSHIP POINT STANDINGS (After 4 of 10 races): 1. Beaubier, 86 points; 2. TIE, Gillim/De Keyrel, 60 points; 4. Knapp, 50 points; 5. Wyman, 46 points; 6. Lamkin, 41 points; 7. Geoff May, 36 points; 8. Giannotto, 34 points; 9. Waters, 32 points; 10. Z. Butler, 20 points. MINI CUP RESULTS ROUND ONE STOCK 50 RACE ONE (May 19): 1. Cole Peterman (Hon); 2. Weston Fager (Hon), -29.229 seconds; 3. Cruise Texter (Hon), -37.204; 4. Grober Reyes (Hon), -50.064. Race Distance, 7 laps, 3.262 miles; Race Time, 5 minutes, 30.420 seconds; Race Average Speed, 35.540 mph; Victory Margin, 29.229 seconds; Fastest Lap, Peterman, 45.634, 36.762 mph. STOCK 50 RACE TWO (May 19): 1. Peterman; 2. Fager, -32.235 seconds; 3. Texter, -43.933. Race Distance, 7 laps, 3.262 miles; Race Time, 5 minutes, 27.899 seconds; Race Average Speed, 35.813 mph; Victory Margin, 32.235 seconds; Fastest Lap, Peterman, 45.365, 36.980 mph. STOCK 110 RACE ONE (May 19): 1. Ryan Clark (Kaw); 2. Cole Peterman (Kaw), -0.138 second; 3. Gabriel Datis (Kaw), -22.056; 4. Joel Laub (Kaw), -22.320; 5. Jacob Davis (Kaw), -41.753. Race Distance, 11 laps, 5.126 miles; Race Time, 7 minutes, 39.456 seconds; Race Average Speed, 40.164 mph; Victory Margin, 0.138-second; Fastest Lap, Peterman, 40.199, 41.732 mph. STOCK 110 RACE TWO (May 19): 1. Peterman; 2. Davis, -11.328 seconds; 3. Laub, -18.145; 4. Datis, -21.550; 5. Clark, -10 laps. Race Distance, 12 laps, 5.592 miles; Race Time, 8 minutes, 23.835 seconds; Race Average Speed, 39.956 mph; Victory Margin, 11.328 seconds; Fastest Lap, Peterman, 40.604, 41.315 mph. STOCK 125 RACE ONE (May 19): 1. Nathan Bettencourt (Hon); 2. Cole Varnes (Yam), -35.124 seconds; 3. Marques Williams II (Yam), -35.441. Race Distance, 12 laps, 5.592 miles; Race Time, 8 minutes, 00.434 seconds; Race Average Speed, 41.902 mph; Victory Margin, 35.124 seconds; Fastest Lap, Bettencourt, 39.515, 42.455 mph. STOCK 125 RACE TWO (May 19): 1. Bettencourt; 2. Williams, -29.349 seconds; 3. Varnes, -29.577. Race Distance, 12 laps, 5.592 miles; Race Time, 8 minutes, 9.279 seconds; Race Average Speed, 41.145 mph; Victory Margin, 29.349 seconds; Fastest Lap, Bettencourt, 39.726, 42.229 mph. MISSION MINI CUP BY MOTUL 160 OHVALE RACE ONE: (All on Ohvale motorcycles) (May 19): 1. Mahdi Salem; 2. Kruz Maddison, -3.906 seconds; 3. Nathan Gouker, -6.650; 4. Mac MacClugage, -1 lap; 5. Reese Frankenfield, -1 lap; 6. Connor Raymond, -1 lap; 7. Brayden Fager, -1 lap; 8. Ercel Abbott Jr, -1 lap; 9. Alessandro Giganti, -1 lap; 10. Joel Laub, -1 lap; 11. Ryan Clark, -1 lap; 12. Cooper Glover, -2 laps; 13. Roman Darby, -2 laps; 14. Nevaeh Gaugain, -2 laps; 15. Gabriella Giganti, -2 laps; 16. Rossi Garcia, -8 laps. Race Distance, 16 laps, 7.456 miles; Race Time, 7 minutes, 44.459 seconds; Race Average Speed, 43.343 mph; Victory Margin, 3.906 seconds; Fastest Lap, Gouker, 36.815, 45.568 mph. MISSION MINI CUP BY MOTUL 160 OHVALE RACE TWO: (All on Ohvale motorcycles) (May 19): 1. Gouker, 16 laps; 2. Salem, -4.404 seconds; 3. Frankenfield, -9.196; 4. Maddison, -15.055; 5. Garcia, -16.756; 6. Raymond, -25.008; 7. Fager, -28.568; 8. Abbott, -38.203; 9. Laub, -1 lap; 10. A. Giganti, -1 lap; 11. Clark, -1 lap; 12. Darby, -1 lap; 13. Gaugain, -2 laps; 14. G. Giganti, -3 laps; 15. MacClugage, -6 laps. Race Distance, 16 laps, 7.456 miles; Race Time, 10 minutes, 10.787 seconds; Race Average Speed, 43.946 mph; Victory Margin, 4.404 seconds; Fastest Lap, Gouker, 36.974, 45.372 mph. MISSION MINI CUP BY MOTUL 190 OHVALE RACE ONE: (All on Ohvale motorcycles) (May 19): 1. Ryder Davis; 2. Joshua Raymond, -0.169-second; 3. Mahdi Salem, -16.598; 4. Nathan Bettencourt, -16.982; 5. Derek Sanchez, -31.906; 6. Valen Gomez, -1 lap. Race Distance, 16 laps, 7.456 miles; Race Time, 9 minutes, 51.436 seconds; Race Average Speed, 45.384 mph; Victory Margin, 0.169-second; Fastest Lap, Davis, 36.115, 46.452 mph. MISSION MINI CUP BY MOTUL 190 OHVALE RACE TWO: (All on Ohvale motorcycles) (May 19): 1. Davis; 2. Salem, -19.947 seconds; 3. Sanchez, -24.393; 4. Bettencourt, -24.578; 5. Gomez, -1 lap. Race Distance, 16 laps, 7.456 miles; Race Time, 7 minutes, 59.935 seconds; Race Average Speed, 41.946 mph; Victory Margin, 19.947 seconds; Fastest Lap, Davis, 41.946, 46.812 mph. MINI CUP RESULTS ROUND TWO STOCK 50 RACE ONE (May 20): 1. Cruise Texter (Hon); 2. Weston Fager (Hon), -0.424-second; 3. Grober Reyes (Hon), -25.387. Race Distance, 5 laps, 2.330 miles; Race Time, 4 minutes, 10.637 seconds; Race Average Speed, 33.467 mph; Victory Margin, 0.424-second; Fastest Lap, Texter, 48.139, 34.849 mph. STOCK 50 RACE TWO (May 20): 1. Fager; 2. Texter, -6.120 seconds; 3. Reyes, -9.005. Race Distance, 5 laps, 2.330 miles; Race Time, 4 minutes, 17.350 seconds; Race Average Speed, 32.594 mph; Victory Margin, 6.120 seconds; Fastest Lap, Texter, 48.038, 34.922 mph. STOCK 110 RACE ONE (May 20): 1. Ryan Clark (Kaw); 2. Jacob Davis (Kaw), -12.469 seconds; 3. Gabriel Datis (Kaw), -12.942; 4. Joel Laub (Kaw), -28.803. Race Distance, 10 laps, 4.660 miles; Race Time, 8 minutes, 16.618 seconds; Race Average Speed, 40.537 mph; Victory Margin, 12.469 seconds; Fastest Lap, Clark, 40.537, 41.259 mph. STOCK 110 RACE TWO (May 20): 1. Clark; 2. Laub, -5.192 seconds; 3. Datis, -16.499; 4. Davis, -1 lap. Race Distance, 10 laps, 4.660 miles; Race Time, 6 minutes, 52.950 seconds; Race Average Speed, 40.625 mph; Victory Margin, 5.192 seconds; Fastest Lap, Clark, 40.527, 41.395 mph. STOCK 125 RACE ONE (May 20): 1. Nathan Bettencourt (Hon); 2. Marques Williams II (Yam), -21.153 seconds; 3. Cole Varnes (Yam), -33.217. Race Distance, 10 laps, 4.660 miles; Race Time, 6 minutes, 42.509 seconds; Race Average Speed, 41.679 mph; Victory Margin, 21.153 seconds; Fastest Lap, Bettencourt, 39.641, 42.320 mph. STOCK 125 RACE TWO (May 20): 1. Bettencourt; 2. Williams, -17.476; 3. Varnes, -1 lap. Race Distance, 10 laps, 4.660 miles; Race Time, 6 minutes, 6.868 seconds; Race Average Speed, 41.155 mph; Victory Margin, 17.476 seconds; Fastest Lap, Bettencourt, 39.825, 42.124 mph. MISSION MINI CUP BY MOTUL 160 OHVALE RACE ONE: (All on Ohvale motorcycles) (May 20): 1. Nathan Gouker; 2. Mac MacClugage, -3.928 seconds; 3. Reese Frankenfield, -10.937; 4. Connor Raymond, -11.386; 5. Rossi Garcia, -18.956; 6. Kruz Maddison, -19.870; 7. Brayden Fager, -25.126; 8. Joel Laub, -29.173; 9. Alessandro Giganti, -29.762; 10. Ercel Abbott Jr, -29.884; 11. Ryan Clark, -30.077; 12. Gabriel Datis, -1 lap; 13. Roman Darby, -1 lap; 14. Gabriella Giganti, -2 laps; 15. Nevaeh Gaugain, -8 laps. Race Distance, 11 laps, 5.126 miles; Race Time, 6 minutes, 51.329 seconds; Race Average Speed, 44.863 mph; Victory Margin, 3.928 seconds; Fastest Lap, Gaugain. MISSION MINI CUP BY MOTUL 160 OHVALE RACE TWO: (All on Ohvale motorcycles) (May 20): 1. Gouker; 2. Mac MacClugage, -5.439 seconds; 3. Frankenfield, -7.690; 4. Garcia, -12.857; 5. Maddison, -13.675; 6. Fager, -19.742; 7. Laub, -1 lap; 8. A. Giganti, -1 lap; 9. Clark, -1 lap; 10. Datis, -1 lap; 11. Darby, -1 lap; 12. G. Giganti, -2 laps; 13. Gaugain, -2 laps; 14. Raymond, DNF; 15. Abbott, DNF; 16. Cooper Glover, DNF; 17. Mahdi Salem, DNF. Race Distance, 12 laps, 5.592 miles; Race Time, 5 minutes, 38.187 seconds; Race Average Speed, 44.645 mph; Victory Margin, 5.439 seconds; Fastest Lap, Gouker, 36.767, 45.628 mph. MISSION MINI CUP BY MOTUL 190 OHVALE RACE ONE: (All on Ohvale motorcycles) (May 20): 1. Ryder Davis; 2. Mahdi Salem, -7.780 seconds; 3. Nathan Bettencourt, -9.587; 4. Derek Sanchez, -19.208; 5. Cole Varnes, -1 lap. Race Distance, 12 laps, 5.592 miles; Race Time, 5 minutes, 34.163 seconds; Race Average Speed, 45.183 mph; Victory Margin, 7.780 seconds; Fastest Lap, Davis, 36.010, 46.587 mph. MISSION MINI CUP BY MOTUL 190 OHVALE RACE TWO: (All on Ohvale motorcycles) (May 20): 1. Davis, 12 laps; 2. Salem, -15.335 seconds; 3. Bettencourt, -15.423; 4. Sanchez, -34.338; 5. Varnes, -10 laps. Race Distance, 12 laps, 5.592 miles; Race Time, 7 minutes, 16.189 seconds; Race Average Speed, 46.152 mph; Victory Margin, 15.335 seconds; Fastest Lap, Davis, 36.140, 46.419 mph. STOCK 50 CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS (After 8 of 12 races): 1. Fager, 157 points; 2. Peterman, 150 points; 3. Texter, 149 points; 4. Reyes, 32 points. Roadracing World, June 2023—39

STOCK 110 CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS (After 8 of 12 races): 1. Peterman, 145 points; 2. Datis, 141 points; 3. Clark, 133 points; 4. Davis, 115 points; 5. Laub, 113 points. STOCK 125 CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS (After 8 of 12 races): 1. Bettencourt, 200 points; 2. Williams, 124 points; 3. Varnes, 94 points; 4. Dylan Cunningham, 76 points; 5. Tyler Cunningham, 68 points; 6. Colin Sweeley, 32 points. MISSION MINI CUP BY MOTUL 160 OHVALE CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS (After 4 of 12 races): 1. Gouker, 75 points; 2. Maddison, 69 points; 3. Frankenfield, 68 points; 4. TIE, Raymond/Fager, 42 points; 6. MacClugage, 40 points; 7. Laub, 37 points; 8. Clark, 30 points; 9. TIE, A. Giganti/Darby, 25 points. MISSION MINI CUP BY MOTUL 190 OHVALE CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS (After 4 of 12 races): 1. Davis, 100 points; 2. Salem, 76 points; 3. Bettencourt, 61 points; 4. Raymond, 31 points; 5. Sanchez, 26 points; 6. Colin Sweeley, 23 points; 7. Varnes, 22 points. MOTO- MOTO- AMERICA AMERICA INSIDE INFO For the last several seasons MotoAmerica has held its season finale at Barber Motorsports Park in September, but because Virginia International Raceway (VIR) did not offer MotoAmerica its traditional event date in May this season, MotoAmerica shuffled its schedule and as a result moved the Barber event to May. The event at Barber included the new “extended” Supersport race format. According to MotoAmerica COO Chuck Aksland, many people contributed to the idea of the new format, which was designed to create more interest with the inclusion of strategy and pit stops, which could offer more TV exposure for teams not running at the front of the race. The new race format came with lots of new rules to follow. For starters, riders are required to make a pit stop, but what they do during the pit stop is not mandated. For instance, changing tires is not mandatory, but because stock-capacity fuel tanks are required, refueling is a necessity due to the race length. But those pit stops have a mandatory length – the time it takes to travel from one end of pit lane to the other at the maximum allowed pit lane speed 37 mph (60 kph) plus nine seconds for the pit stop. This was calculated by MotoAmerica to be 55 seconds at Barber. If a rider uses less time than that they receive a three-second penalty immediately plus the full 55 seconds, and if they speed on pit lane they get a 15-second penalty. According to MotoAmerica’s Niccole Cox, no one at Barber came close to going under the 55-second mandatory pit stop time. Gus Rodio, the Twins Cup Championship point leader coming into the event, was not allowed to restart Race One after it was stopped due to rain and seven riders, including Rodio, crashed because of the rain. Because races are stopped due to unsafe track conditions, riders who crash during the time of a red flag are allowed to restart races as long as they are actively competing at the time the red flag comes out and as long as they get their motorcycle back to pit lane within five minutes of the race being stopped. Rodio crashed his Aprilia just prior to the red flag stopping Race One, and he did ride his motorcycle back to pit lane within five minutes, but MotoAmerica did not allow Rodio to take the restart of the race while fellow racer Darren James, who was seen on TV feeds sitting on a tire wall with his bike leaning against the same wall, was allowed to restart. Why? “The call was actually made when [Rodio’s] head was down in the gravel trap,” said Niccole Cox, MotoAmerica’s Operations Director and a member of the three-person Race Direction team. “The call was made because he was originally up and on his knees and instead of getting up and walking towards Junior Cup Faces, On The Podium: (Left) SportbikeTrackGear.com Racing's Max Van. (Right) Yandel Racing's Yandel Medina. Photos by Brian J. Nelson. Junior Cup Faces: (Above, Left) Bad Boys Racing's Avery Dreher, on the podium. (Above, Right) Bad Boys Racing's John Ludwig, on the grid. (Below) Levi Badie and his father, David, in front of the podium at Barber. Photos by Brian J. Nelson. 40—Roadracing World, June 2023

the motorcycle, he lifts his visor showing he’s of sound mind and body enough to lift his visor, and then crouches back down for four seconds with his head in the gravel. So, the call was made based on that information. “After the team questioned the call—even though the call can’t be reversed, we can’t rerun the race—the team came up and wanted to discuss and understand. We looked more into it to see if there was other evidence that showed something different than what our opinion was. And there was no other evidence. In fact, there was evidence that showed even more Race Direction’s judgement was correct. “It’s fairly specific in the rulebook what actively competing is,” said Cox. “You must be riding on the racetrack, you must be trying to repair or restart the machine, attempting to rejoin. There needs to be an attempt, and we did not see in that Race Direction any bit of Gus attempting to rejoin.” So, what about the riders known to have crashed, who displayed behavior to indicate they were not actively competing, yet they were allowed to restart, like James? “When we are doing a restart we are asking the corner marshals, ‘Who are the bikes that are down?’” said Cox. “Rick Hobbs [Race Director] and I had a list of four bikes that were down. Then we started the investigation as Race Direction as to who was actively competing and who was not actively competing. We looked at the four bikes we were told were down. I found another bike that was down using the replay system and we analyzed every single one of those bikes. “After the start procedure passed the point of no return, we were told that #606 [Ryan Wolfe] and #229 [Darren James] had crashed and there was no ability to look into it. At that point, it was past the point where we could. When I looked into it afterwards, yes indeed 606 and 229 had crashed. We were not given the call that they crashed, and they were allowed to continue because we were not given the call that they crashed, and because all you can do as an official is make the best decision you can at that moment with the information that you have.” So, they slipped through the cracks? “Yes,” said Cox. (Above) Tyler Scott (70) and Stefano Mesa (37) lead Xavi Fores (12), Josh Hayes (4), Teagg Hobbs (79), Cory Ventura (28), Michael Gilbert (55), Jaret Nassaney (59) and others on lap 1 of the extended Supersport race, in front of a large crowd at Barber Motorsports Park. Photos by Brian J. Nelson. Roadracing World, June 2023—41

By Michael Gougis Even after Superbike World Championship officials took steps to rein in Alvaro Bautista and his rampaging Ducati Panigale V4 R, the reigning World Champion destroyed the field in Spain, earning three wins and building a big lead in the title chase. Winner of all three races last year at the 2.89-mile Circuit de Barcelona, Bautista set a new lap record and took pole position in qualifying, then led every lap of Race One, every lap of the Superpole sprint race, and all but one lap of Race Two. It was the third time this season Bautista has won all three races on the weekend, and he now has won 11 of 12 races this season. The only time he has not won was when he crashed in the Superpole race in tricky conditions in Indonesia. Bautista left Spain leading Toprak Razgatlioğlu 236-167, the 69-point gap representing more than the maximum number of points available over a WorldSBK weekend. Third was Razgatlioğlu's factory Yamaha teammate Andrea Locatelli, with 133. Before the weekend, WorldSBK organizers trimmed 250 rpm from the Ducati Panigale V4 R rev limit and gave Kawasaki another 250 rpm. This was done in hopes that the racing would be closer. But if you wanted to get the clearest possible picture of this year's Superbike campaign to date, all you had to do was look into the eyes of six-time Champion Jonathan Rea and 2021 Champion Razgatlioğlu. After Superpole, they looked defeated, like racers who knew that they didn't have a chance of winning and didn't expect things to get better. Factory Ducati rider Michael Ruben Rinaldi topped the first practice session, ahead of Rea, Razgatlioğlu, and Bautista. Back from a stand-in MotoGP ride for Repsol Honda, Iker Lecuona was fifth on his Honda CBR1000RR-R, ahead of Yamaha YZF-R1 riders Locatelli and Dominique Aegerter. Bautista was quickest in the second session, ahead of Rinaldi and Rea, with American Garrett Gerloff fourth on his Bonobo Action BMW M 1000 RR. Saturday was more of the same, with Bautista quickest in practice, ahead of Locatelli and Rinaldi, with Gerloff fourth again. And when Superpole came around, Bautista took it up another notch, setting a new best lap record at 1:40.264, ahead of Aegerter, Rea and Rinaldi. Factory Kawasaki team rider Alex Lowes rebounded from a crash at the end of practice to take sixth, behind Lecuona. Razgatlioğlu was eighth, unable to explain his lack of one-lap pace. In Race One, Bautista took the point ahead of Rinaldi, Rea and Locatelli, who was pushed down to sixth by Razgatlioğlu and Axel Bassani by lap three. A nasty crash on the next lap involving Eric Granado led officials to red-flag the race. Grenado was diagnosed with a concussion and ruled out of action. It was the second time Grenado has been forced to miss a race this season—he sat out Race Two in Indonesia with digestive illness, like many in the paddock. Bautista was fully in charge during the restart, pulling away from the field by more than half-asecond a lap. Behind him, Rinaldi and Bassani scrapped fiercely for second, a battle that would end with Bassani firing up the inside and hitting Rinaldi in Turn 11, with Rinaldi crashing out of the race. Officials gave Bassani a long-lap penalty, and when Bassani rode through the penalty loop, he went outside of the lane, forcing officials to study that incident—but ultimately penalizing him no further. He was credited with finishing seventh. That left Rea in second but with Razgatlioğlu on his tail, lap after lap. Razgatlioğlu's Yamaha looked even more out of shape than usual during his hard-braking, rear-wheel-in-the-air corner entries, but he decided to risk one pass on Rea, going into Turn One on the last lap. It was perfect, and Rea had no answer as Razgatlioğlu took second behind Bautista, who ALL BAUTISTA, AGAIN! MOTUL FIM SUPERBIKE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Catalunya, Spain (Above) Race One Start: Alvaro Bautista (1) leads Jonathan Rea (65), Dominique Aegerter (77), Michael Ruben Rinaldi (21), and the rest at the start of Race One on Saturday. (Below) Bautista has won 11 of 12 races in 2023. WorldSBK photos. 42—Roadracing World, June 2023

was 11.084 seconds clear on the penultimate lap and won by nearly nine seconds at the finish line. The Tissot Superpole race was another Bautista showcase. Bautista led Rinaldi, Rea and Razgatlioğlu for the first two laps. Then Razgatlioğlu passed Rea for third and took second from Rinaldi on the next lap. On the penultimate lap, spots of rain started to fall and Rinaldi dropped back through the pack. Rea moved into second, ahead of Razgatlioğlu, but the Yamaha rider responded quickly and took the spot back. On the last lap, going into Turn One, Rea was hard on the brakes when he was destabilized by turbulence in the wake of Razgatlioğlu's Yamaha. Rea drifted just slightly wide, kissed the white line, fell and slid what seemed like forever before coming to rest in the gravel trap, out of the race. Bautista won, Razgatlioğlu went on to an uncontested second, and his Yamaha teammate Locatelli inherited third. Razgatlioğlu led Race Two ahead of Bautista for the first lap, but Bautista re-passed on lap two and pulled away. Rinaldi and Lowes got ahead of Razgatlioğlu, with Lowes holding the final podium position until lap seven, when Razgatlioğlu came through again. Rinaldi looked like he had second place wrapped up, leading Razgatlioğlu by nearly four seconds at one point, but his lap times slowed dramatically as the race wound down; his fastest lap was a 1:42.028, but he had slowed into the 1:45 range in the last two laps, and Razgatlioğlu dug deep and pulled out one more lap in the 1:43s. It was enough to beat Rinaldi to the line by 0.060-second, and Rinaldi's crew looked upset in the garage. Bautista's crew, on the other side, was all smiles. Once again, the margin of victory was more than eight seconds, and their rider had never been seriously challenged all weekend. It was perfection, complete domination. (Above) Yamahas were strong, Dominique Aegerter (77) qualifying on the front row, Andrea Locatelli (55) third in the Superpole Sprint, and Toprak Razgatlioğlu (54) second in all three races. (Right) Jonathan Rea (65) was on the front row, but took only one podium finish in three starts. (Below, Left) Michael Ruben Rinaldi (21) got knocked out of Race One and caught out by the rain in the Superpole sprint but held on for a World Superbike podium finish in Race Two. (Below, Right) Fenton Seabright (47) leads Enzo Valentim (39), Petr Svoboda (53), Dirk Geiger (60), Jeffrey Buis (6), Juan Pablo Uriostegui (51), Jose Osuna Saez (77), winner Mirko Gennai (26), Marco Gaggi (93), Daniel Mogeda (88), and Galang Hendra Pratama (99) in Supersport300 Race Two. Razgatlioğlu dug deep and pulled out one more lap in the 1:43s. It was enough to beat Rinaldi to the line by 0.060-second, and Rinaldi's crew looked upset in the garage. Bautista's crew, on the other side, was all smiles. Once again, the margin of victory was more than eight seconds, and their rider had never been seriously challenged all weekend. It was perfection, complete domination. alifying on the front row, rak Razgatlioğlu (54) secfront row, but took only Rinaldi (21) got knocked e sprint but held on for a nton Seabright (47) leads ffrey Buis (6), Juan Pablo i (26), Marco Gaggi (93), upersport300 Race Two. Roadracing World, June 2023—43

WORLDSBK NOTES hGerloff Is BMW's Best: American Garrett Gerloff might not have been able to repeat his podium of last year at Catalunya, but he was the highest-placed BMW rider of the weekend, ninth in Race One, seventh in the Superpole race, and 10th in Race Two. hPetrucci Disqualified: Barni Spark Racing Team rider Danilo Petrucci was disqualified after Race One for not having his chest protector with him in the post-race gear check. Petrucci said he had removed the protector, handed it to his assistant, and sent the assistant to get him a bottle of water. As a result Petrucci lost his 10th place finish, but was more upset by the fine of Euros 1320 (about $1,449)! hSupersport300 Dressing- Down: With almost all of the riders cruising around waiting to catch someone else's draft, race officials stopped the Supersport300 Superpole session, gathered all the riders into pit lane World Supersport: Bulega, Sofuoglu Win Nicolo Bulega won Supersport Race One, beating Marcel Schroetter and Bahattin Sofuoğlu, brother of five-time Supersport World Champion Kenan Sofuoğlu. In Race Two, Sofuoğlu took his first Supersport win, over Schroetter and Stefano Manzi. Bulega led the Championship with 152 points, ahead of Schroetter with 119 and Manzi with 116. World Supersport300: Buis, Gennai Split Wins Jeffrey Buis won Saturday's Supersport300 race and finished third on Sunday in Spain, while Mirko Gennai, third on Saturday, won on Sunday. Petr Svoboda was locked out of the podium spots but still held onto the Championship lead with 69 points, ahead of Gennai with 57 and Samuel di Sora with 50. RESULTS CATALUNYA FIM SUPERBIKE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RACE ONE RESTARTED (All on Pirelli Tires) (May 6): 1. Alvaro Bautista, Spain (Duc), 17 laps; 2. Toprak Razgatlioğlu, Turkey (Yam), -8.864 seconds; 3. Jonathan Rea, Great Britain (Kaw), -8.927; 4. Andrea Locatelli, Italy (Yam), -13.992; 5. Dominique Aegerter, Switzerland (Yam), -14.206; 6. Iker Lecuona, Spain (Hon), -15.809; 7. Axel Bassani, Italy (Duc), -18.222; 8. Xavi Vierge, Spain (Hon), -20.607; 9. Garrett Gerloff, USA (BMW), -20.841; 10. Remy Gardner, Australia (Yam), -23.475; 11. Philipp Oettl, Germany (Duc), -31.286; 12. Bradley Ray, Great Britain (Yam), -31.823; 13. Loris Baz, France (BMW), -32.859; 14. Hafizh Syahrin, Malaysia (Hon), -40.429; 15. Ivo Miguel Lopes, Portugal (BMW), -46.947; 16. Tom Sykes, Great Britain (Kaw), -50.828; 17. Lorenzo Baldassarri, Italy (Yam), -1 lap; 18. Alex Lowes, Great Britain (Kaw), -7 laps, DNF, crash; 19. Isaac Vinales, Spain (Kaw), -8 laps, DNF, crash; 20. Michael Rinaldi, Italy (Duc), -16 laps, DNF, crash; 21. Eric Granado, Brazil (Hon), -17 laps, DNF; 22. Oliver Konig, Czech Republic (Kaw), -17 laps, DNF; 23. Scott Redding, Great Britain (BMW), -17 laps, DNF, crashed. Disqualified, Danilo Petrucci, Italy (Duc). Race Distance, 17 laps, 49.193 miles; Race Time, 29 minutes, 6.615 seconds; Race Average Speed, 101.394 mph; Victory Margin, 8.864 seconds; Fastest Lap, Bautista, 1:41.747, 102.385 mph, Lap 3. FIM SUPERBIKE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SUPERPOLE RACE (All on Pirelli Tires) (May 7): 1. Bautista, 10 laps; 2. Razgatlioğlu, -2.110 seconds; 3. Locatelli, -2.385; 4. Lecuona, -2.868; 5. Lowes, -2.965; 6. Aegerter, -3.257; 7. Gerloff, -3.398; 8. Rinaldi, -4.102; 9. Vierge, -4.884; 10. Bassani, -6.031; 11. Petrucci, -6.154; 12. Redding, -9.424; 13. Oettl, -10.428; 14. Ray, -14.325; 15. Lopes, -14.441; 16. Syahrin, -21.393; 17. Baldassarri, -23.623; 18. Baz, -26.209; 19. Sykes, -26.566; 20. Vinales, -34.300; 21. Rea, -1 lap, DNF, crash; 22. Gardner, -1 lap, DNF, mechanical. Race Distance, 10 laps, 28.937 miles; Race Time, 17 minutes, 10.303 seconds; Race Average Speed, 101.110 mph; Victory Margin, 2.110 seconds; Fastest Lap, Bautista, 1:41.386, 102.750 mph, Lap 2. FIM SUPERBIKE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RACE TWO (All on Pirelli Tires) (May 7): 1. Bautista, 20 laps; 2. Razgatlioğlu, -8.583 seconds; 3. Rinaldi, -8.643; 4. Lowes, -11.366; 5. Rea, -12.824; 6. Vierge, -15.242; 7. Locatelli, -15.771; 8. Aegerter, -16.516; 9. Lecuona, -18.946; 10. Gerloff, -19.637; 11. Bassani, -21.561; 12. Petrucci, -23.410; 13. Gardner, -25.255; 14. Oettl, -29.381; 15. Ray, -34.437; 16. Baz, -37.717; 17. Lopes, -37.757; 18. Baldassarri, -2 laps, DNF, retired; 19. Redding, -6 laps, DNF, retired; 20. Vinales, -12 laps, DNF, retired; 21. Sykes, -20 laps, DNF, crash; 22. Syahrin, -20 laps, DNF, crash. Race Distance, 20 laps, 57.875 miles; Race Time, 34 minutes, 17.010 seconds; Race Average Speed, 101.287 mph; Victory Margin, 8.583 seconds; Fastest Lap, Bautista, 1:41.730, 102.403 mph, Lap 4. FIM SUPERBIKE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFYING: 1. Bautista, 1:40.264, 103.900 mph; 2. Aegerter, 1:40.737; 3. Rea, 1:40.761; 4. Rinaldi, 1:40.771; 5. Lecuona, 1:40.783; 6. Lowes, 1:40.971; 7. Gardner, 1:41.071; 8. Razgatlioğlu, 1:41.122; 9. Gerloff, 1:41.141; 10. Locatelli, 1:41.233; 11. Petrucci, 1:41.420; 12. Vierge, 1:41.423; 13. Redding, 1:41.703; 14. Bassani, 1:41.834; 15. Oettl, 1:41.965; 16. Baz, 1:42.028; 17. Baldassarri, 1:42.197; 18. Granado, 1:42.297; 19. Ray, 1:42.307; 20. Lopes, 1:42.399; 21. Syahrin, 1:42.456; 22. Sykes, 1:42.609; 23. Konig, 1:43.055; 24. Vinales, 1:43.862. FIM SUPERBIKE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP POINT STANDINGS (After 12 of 36 races): 1. Bautista, 236 points; 2. Razgatlioğlu, 167 points; 3. Locatelli, 133 points; 4. Rea, 100 points; 5. Bassani, 91 points; 6. Aegerter, 73 points; 7. Rinaldi, 72 points; 8. Vierge, 68 points; 9. Lowes, 62 points; 10. Lecuona, 56 points; 13. Gerloff, 39 points. FIM SUPERSPORT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RACE ONE (All on Pirelli Tires) (May 6): 1. Nicolo Bulega, Italy (Duc), 18 laps; 2. Marcel Schroetter, Germany (MV), -0.626 second; 3. Bahattin Sofuoğlu, Turkey (MV), -3.996; 4. Glenn Van Straalen, Netherlands (Yam), -4.991; 5. Federico Caricasulo, Italy (Duc), -5.467; 6. Stefani Manzi, Italy (Yam), -7.002; 7. Jorge Navarro, Spain (Yam), -8.900; 8. Valentin Debise, France (Yam), -9.553; 9. Nicholas Spinelli, Italy (Yam), -12.693; 10. Niki Tuuli, Finland (Tri), -12.946. Race Distance, 18 laps, 52.087 miles; Race Time, 31 minutes, 52.426 seconds; Victory Margin, 0.626-second; Fastest Lap, Sofuoğlu, 1:45.255, 98.973 mph, Lap 6. FIM SUPERSPORT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RACE TWO (All on Pirelli Tires) (May 7): 1. Sofuoğlu, 18 laps; 2. Schroetter, -0.420 second; 3. Manzi, -0.500; 4. Debise, -2.563; 5. Van Straalen, -7.036; 6. Caricasulo, -7.237; 7. Spinelli, -7.749; 8. Tuuli, -8.148; 9. Navarro, -10.173; 10. Raffaele De Rosa, Italy (Duc), -10.782. Race Distance, 18 laps, 52.087 miles; Race Time, 31 minutes, 50.395 seconds; Victory Margin, 0.420-second; Fastest Lap, Bulega, 1:45.166, 99.057 mph, Lap 9. FIM SUPERSPORT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFYING: 1. Bulega, 1:44.243, 99.934 mph; 2. Schroetter, 1:44.517; 3. Caricasulo, 1:44.684; 4. Tom Edwards, Australia (Yam), 1:44.777; 5. Van Straalen, 1:44.860; 6. Navarro, 1:44.861; 7. Debise, 1:44.875; 8. Manzi, 1:44.882; 9. Sofuoğlu, 1:44.899; 10. Yari Montella, Italy (Duc), 1:45.013. FIM SUPERSPORT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP POINT STANDINGS (After 8 of 24 races): 1. Bulega, 152 points; 2. Schroetter, 119 points; 3. Manzi, 116 points; 4. Caricasulo, 98 points; 5. Tuuli, 75 points; 6. Debise, 65 points; 7. Sofuoğlu, 64 points; 8. TIE, Oncu/Van Straalen, 63 points; 10. Navarro, 60 points. FIM SUPERSPORT300 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RACE ONE (All on Pirellis) (May 6): 1. Jeffrey Buis, Netherlands (Kaw), 12 laps; 2. Samuel Di Sora, France (Kaw), -0.052 second; 3. Mirko Gennai, Italy (Yam), -0.098; 4. Petr Svoboda, Czech Republic (Kaw), -0.341; 5. Humberto Maier, Brazil (Yam), -0.346; 6. Dirk Geiger, Germany (KTM), -0.481; 7. Daniel Mogeda, Spain (Kaw), -0.540; 8. Matteo Vannucci, Italy (Yam), -0.806; 9. Jose Luis Perez Gonzalez, Spain (Kaw), -0.849; 10. Galang Hendra Pratama, Indonesia (Yam), -1.025. Race Distance, 12 laps, 34.725 miles; Race Time, 23 minutes, 27.488 seconds; Race Average Speed, 88.817 mph; Victory Margin, 0.052-second; Fastest Lap, Di Sora, 1:55.236, 90.401 mph, Lap 2. FIM SUPERSPORT300 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RACE TWO (All on Pirellis) (May 7): 1. Gennai 12 laps; 2. Vannucci, -0.027 second; 3. Buis, -0.183; 4. Perez Gonzalez, -0.332; 5. Mogeda, -0.400; 6. Geiger, -0.578; 7. Enzo Valentim, Brazil (Yam), -0.620; 8. Maier, -0.691; 9. Jose Manuel Osuna Saez, Spain (Kaw), -0.745; 10. Svoboda, -0.797. Race Distance, 12 laps, 34.725 miles; Race Time, 23 minutes, 34.182 seconds; Race Average Speed, 88.397 mph; Victory Margin, 0.027-second; Fastest Lap, Di Sora, 1:55.821, 89.944 mph, Lap 2. FIM SUPERSPORT300 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP POINT STANDINGS (After 4 of 16 races): 1. Svoboda, 69 points; 2. Gennai, 57 points; 3. Di Sora, 50 points; 4. TIE, Buis/Maier, 49 points; 6. Perez Gonzalez, 46 points; 7. Geiger, 45 points; 8. Vannucci, 44 points; 9. Valentim, 26 points; 10. Mogeda, 22 points. (Above) American Garrett Gerloff. Photo by Michael Gougis. (Below) Danilo Petrucci. Barni Racing photo. a Marcel Schroetter (23) leads Bahattin Sofuoğlu (54) in Supersport. Schroetter was second on his MV Agusta F3 800 RR in both races; Sofuoglu was third in Race One and won Race Two. 44—Roadracing World, June 2023

for a meeting, and told them that cruising around waiting for a tow was unacceptable. “If it is necessary, I stop the race. If it is necessary, I cancel the race. Go to the track and race like riders, not like stupid kids,” FIM representative Antonio Lima told them. hBautista Re-Signs For 2024: Reigning Champion Alvaro Bautista confirmed before the weekend that he has signed to continue with the Aruba.it factory Ducati team in 2024. hSykes Leaves Kawasaki For BMW: After a wretched start to the season, beset with technical malfunctions that put him out of more than one race, 2013 World Champion Tom Sykes left the Puccetti Kawasaki team and joined the factory BMW team to replace the injured Michael van der Mark. Sykes rode for BMW in the past, taking pole at Catalunya in 2021. hRazgatlioğlu To BMW: Toprak Razgatlioğlu is leaving Yamaha and has signed to join the ROKIT-sponsored BMW factory Superbike team for 2024. Razgatlioğlu has raced for Yamaha in WorldSBK since 2020, winning the World Championship in 2021, scoring a total of 31 race wins and 47 additional podium finishes, while the BMW effort has been struggling. “Toprak is undoubtedly one of the best riders in the field at the moment, which he proved by winning the 2021 World Championship title," said Marc Bongers, BMW Motorrad Motorsport Director. "He’s not just a fast motorcycle racer, he’s also a great personality off the track. We are convinced that Toprak will settle into the BMW Motorrad Motorsport family very quickly. We are looking forward to our collaboration and to our future together.” THE SECRET WEAPON TO BETTER BRAKES… Converts standard OE Calipers to Race-Spec • Reduces thermal conductivity by 94% • Dramatically improves piston retraction— reduces brake drag • Improves brake release for greater control exiting the apex • Virtually FMJNJOBUFTnVJECPJMt*ODSFBTFTUPQTQFFE 18630 Collier Ave., Ste. G Lake Elsinore, CA 92530 P: (951) 471-3476 · F: (951) 471-3536 Brake Tech USA, Inc. www.braketech.com ÌUSMCA coaches are insured; follow a code of conduct; are trained in best coaching practices; pass a background check; and are certified in CPR/heart health, concussion, heat and first aid protocols. Ask For USMCA Certified Coaches! Find out more at www.usmca.org 64.$"DFSUJmFEDPBDI+PTI)BZFT MFGU XPSLTXJUI,BZMB:BBLPW (Above) Alvaro Bautista re-signed for 2024. Ducati photo. (Below, Left) Toprak Razgatlioğlu. Yamaha Photo. (Below, Right) Tom Sykes. Kawasaki Photo. Roadracing World, June 2023—45

erything performs as expected. Near the engine workshop there is a “dirty room” for cutting and grinding, and another room dedicated to parts washing. Along one wall are five solvent parts cleaners for engine parts, and along the other wall are five solvent parts cleaners for chassis parts. In between are media blasters, and the other walls have tabletop wash bays. Several wash bays for entire motorcycles are located outside. At the end of one hallway is the parts department; technicians walk up to a service window and submit a request for parts, and parts-room employees fill the order from about $4-million worth of parts kept on hand. At the end of the building is a machine shop with special computerized mills, lathes, valve-cutting and porting machines. There is also one mill and one lathe that are only used by Roger De Coster. Yes, that Roger De Coster, the five-time 500cc Motocross World Champion, AMA Hall of Famer, FIM Legend, and the Motorsport Director of KTM and Husqvarna North America. Instead of sitting at a desk, De Coster, 78, can usually be found in the machine shop fabricating something for the race teams. His most obvious contribution is the engine room wall racks that hold dozens of engines, but he also makes custom tools for his technicians. Asked what he thinks of the new facility, De Coster said, “It's really nice. I feel like it’s a little bit over the top for some guys playing with dirt bikes, but it's nice that we have everything in one building.” When Stefan Pierer bought KTM in 1992, the company was selling about 20,000 motorcycles per year. When I visited KTM’s previous home in California in 2017, the KTM Group was selling about 200,000 motorcycles per year. In 2022, Pierer Mobility AG and its 6,500 dealers sold over 375,000 motorcycles plus another 118,000 bicycles and E-bikes. What may seem a bit over the top today can also be seen as an investment in the future. KTM Headquarters CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23 (Above) The engine department in the motorsports building features wall racks (made by Roger De Coster) that hold dozens of engines by their cases. (Below, Left) The WP suspension shop. Photos by John Ulrich. (Below, Right) Motorsport Director of KTM and Husqvarna North America and former World Champ Roger De Coster (left) in the new machine shop with John Hinz (right), the CEO of KTM North America and Pierer New Mobility North America. Photo by David Swarts. 46—Roadracing World, June 2023

Lots of kids follow their parents into motorcycling and motorcycle racing. Not a lot of them have a parent who tested a Moriwaki Suzuka 8-Hours machine at the storied Japanese racetrack or who professionally raced and managed a flat track team at the nation's highest level. So it was almost inevitable that Cole Varnes followed his father Mike into motorcycling. Literally. "My first ride was when I was two years old, on a (Yamaha) PW50," says Varnes. "My dad towed me on a four-by-four. I had training wheels on it! I mostly stayed on the whole time." After several years of racing flat track, Varnes made the move into road racing on a Yamaha TTR110 at Sandy Hook Speedway. At the age of nine, his first race resulted in a fifth-place finish, a lonely ride by himself, Varnes recalls. His first race win came a bit later that season. They say you make your own luck. Varnes came ready for anything, and when the flag dropped at the New Jersey Motorsports Park kart track, he and his bike were more ready than anyone or anything else. "It was a rain race, and since I was a flat tracker, I was pretty good in the wet. And we had the flat track tires that we could put on, and they really helped in the rain—they're actually rain tires for scooters," Varnes says. Varnes has raced an Ohvale 190 in MotoAmerica Mini Cup competition, with a best finish of fifth, and found the bike a lot of fun to ride. "There's a lot of power in it— you get it down, it's one of the most fun bikes to ride," he says. But he has decided to race in the Moto America Stock 125 class for the rest of the season on his Yamaha TT-R125. His favorite part of racing? "The competitiveness. Being on the track and just trying my hardest," he says. Tomorrow’s Road Racing Champions May Already Be Racing On Tracks Across North America, Honing The Skills That Could One Day Carry Them To The Top. THE KIDS’ PAGE By Michael Gougis "Being On The Track And Just Trying My Hardest ..." Cole Varnes, Age 12 Birdsboro, Pennsylvania Cole Varnes` aCole Varnes (24) on his Yamaha TT-R125 at Sandy Hook Speedway. Photo by CJ Event Photos/courtesy Mike Varnes. Cole Varnes` his Yamaha TT-R125 way. Photo by CJ Event y Mike Varnes. Photo by Mike Varnes. Roadracing World, June 2023—47

INTERNATIONAL SERIES FIM MotoGP World Championship 7/7-9 Sokol International Racetrack, Kazakhstan** 8/4-6 Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire, UK 8/18-20 Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria 9/1-3 Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 9/8-10 Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano, San Marino 9/29-10/1 Mobility Resort Motegi, Motegi, Japan 10/13-15 Mandalika International Street Circuit, Kuta, Indonesia 10/20-22 Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit, Phillip Island, Australia 10/27-29 Chang International Circuit, Buriram, Thailand 11/10-12 Sepang International Circuit, Sepang, Malaysia 11/17-19 Lusail International Circuit, Doha, Qatar* 11/24-26 Ricardo Tormo Circuit, Valencia, Spain *=Evening Race For additional info, call 011-41-950-9500, www.motogp.com, www.fim-live.com. (Enel) FIM MotoE World Championship 8/4-6 Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire, UK 8/18-20 Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria 9/1-3 Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 9/8-10 Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano, San Marino For additional info, call 011-41-950-9500, www.motogp.com, www.fim-live.com. FIM Superbike World Championship 6/30-7/2 Donington Park, Donington, England 7/28-30 Autodrom Most, Most Czech Republic 9/8-10 Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours, France 9/22-24 MotorLand Aragon, Alcaniz, Spain 9/29-10/1 Autodromo Internacional do Algarve, Portimao, Portugal 10/13-15 Circuito San Juan Villicum, San Juan, Argentina 7/14-16 Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari di Imola, Imola, Italy For additional info, call 011-41-950-9500, www.worldsbk.com, www.fim-live.com. FIM Endurance World Championship 8/4-6 Suzuka 8-Hours, Suzuka Circuit, Japan 9/14-17 Bol d’Or 24-Hour, Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France For additional info, call 011-41-950-9500, [email protected], www.fim-live.com. FIM Sidecar World Championship 8/4-6 Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria 8/18-20 TT Circuit Assen, Assen, The Netherlands 10/7-8 Oschersleben, Motorsport Arena, Oschersleben, Germany 10/27-29 Circuito do Estoril, Estoril, Portugal For additional info, call 011-41-950-9500, [email protected], www.fim-live.com. Northern Talent Cup 8/4-6 Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria 9/22-24 Hockenheimring, Hockenheim, Germany For additional info, visit www.northerntalentcup.com. NATIONAL SERIES (U.S.) MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North America Road Racing Series 7/7-9 WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, CA 7/28-30 Brainerd International Raceway, Brainerd, MN 8/18-20 Pittsburgh International Race Complex, Wampum, PA 9/8-10 Circuit of The Americas, Austin, TX 9/22-24 New Jersey Motorsports Park, Millville, NJ For additional info, call (714) 242-5954, [email protected], www.motoamerica.com. AMA Sanctioned ASRA Championship Series Presented by Pirelli Tire 7/29-30 NCBike, Garysburg, NC 8/19-20 Roebling Road Raceway, Bloomingdale, GA 9/16-17 Blackhawk Farms Raceway, South Beloit, IL 10/19-22 Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, FL For additional info, call (725) 755-7550, [email protected], www.asraracing.com. AMA Sanctioned ASRA Team Challenge Series Presented by Michelin Tire 7/15 Blackhawk Farms Raceway, South Beloit, IL 8/12 Summit Point Motorsports Park (Main), Summit Point, WV 9/3 New Jersey Motorsports Park (Thunderbolt), Millville, NJ 10/20 Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, FL For additional info, call (725) 755-7550, [email protected], www.asraracing.com. (Progressive) AMA Pro American Flat Track (AFT) 7/1 West Virginia Half-Mile, West Virginia Motor Speedway, Mineral Wells, WV 6/17 Du Quoin Mile, Du Quoin State Fairgrounds, Du Quoin, IL 6/24 Lima Half-Mile, Allen County Fairgrounds, Lima, OH 7/8 Orange County Half-Mile, Orange County Fair Speedway, Middletown, NY 7/22 Bridgeport Half-Mile, Bridgeport Speedway, Bridgeport, NJ 7/30 Peoria TT, Peoria Motorcycle Club, Peoria, IL 8/6 Buffalo Chip TT, Sturgis Buffalo Chip, Sturgis, SD 8/12 Castle Rock TT, Castle Rock Race Park, Castle Rock, WA 9/2 Springfield Mile I, Illinois State Fairgrounds, Springfield, IL 9/3 Springfield Mile II, Illinois State Fairgrounds, Springfield, IL For additional info, call (386) 492-1014, www.americanflattrack.com. Bagger Racing League 7/15-16 Blackhawk Farms Raceway, South Beloit, IL* 11/18-19 Willow Springs Int’l Raceway, Rosamond, CA *=doubleheader For additional info, visit www.baggerracingleague.com. (Bridgestone) AHRMA American Historic Racing Series 6/23-25 New Jersey Motorsports Park, Millville, NJ 7/14-16 Classic MotoFest, WeatherTech Rcwy Laguna Seca, Monterey, CA 7/28-30 Gingerman Raceway, South Haven, MI 8/4-6 Blackhawk Farms Raceway, South Beloit, IL 9/8-10 Talladega Gran Prix Raceway, Munford, AL 10/5-8 Barber Vintage Festival, Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, AL For additional info, call (888) 41-AHRMA (412-4762), www.ahrma.org/contact. AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days (VMD) 7/20-23 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, OH For additional info, call (770) 720-720-5010, FAX (770) 720-5015, [email protected], www.wera.com. (Pirelli) WERA National Challenge Co-Sanctioned by AMA 7/20-23 AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, OH – Limited Schedule, DH 8/11-13 Pittsburgh International Race Complex, Wampum, PA 9/9-10 Summit Point Motorsports Park (Main), Summit Point, WV 10/19-22 Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, AL DH=Doubleheader Round For additional info, call (770) 720-720-5010, FAX (770) 720-5015, [email protected], www.wera.com. (Dunlop) N2/WERA Endurance Series 7/15 Roebling Road Raceway, Bloomingdale, GA 8/11-12 Pittsburgh International Race Complex, Wampum, PA 9/9 Summit Point Motorsports Park, Summit Point, WV 10/20 Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, AL For additional info, call (770) 720-720-5010, FAX (770) 720-5015, [email protected], www.wera.com. NATIONAL SERIES (NON-U.S.) (mi-bike Motorcycle Insurance) Australian Superbike Championship 10/27-29 Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit, Phillip Island, Victoria 12/1-3 The Bend Motorsport Park, South Australia *Night Race For additional info, call (03) 9684 0500, [email protected], www.asbk.com.au. (Bennetts) British Superbike Championship 7/7-9 Snetterton 300, Norfolk 7/21-23 Brands Hatch (GP Circuit), Kent 8/11-13 Thruxton Circuit, Hamptonshire 8/26-28 Cadwell Park, Lincolnshire 9/15-17 Oulton Park, Cheshire 9/29-10/1 Donington Park (GP Circuit), Donington 10/13-15 Brands Hatch (GP Circuit), Kent For additional info, visit www.britishsuperbike.com. (Bridgestone) Canadian Superbike Championship 7/20-23 Atlantic Motorsport Park, Mill Village, NS* 8/18-20 Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Bowmanville, ON** 9/15-17 Shannonville Motorsport Park, Belleville, ON *=two races for all classes, **=two races for all support classes, and three Superbike races For additional info, call (647) 618-8289, [email protected], www.csbk.ca. CIV Italian Championship Series 7/29-30 Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano, San Marino 9/2-3 Autodromo del Mugello, Scarperia, Italy 10/7-8 Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari di Imola, Imola, Italy For additional info, visit www.civ.tv. FIM JuniorGP Series 7/1-2 Autodromo Internacional do Algarve, Portimao, Portugal 7/15-16 Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 10/7-8 MotorLand Aragon, Alcaniz, Spain 11/4-5 Ricardo Tormo Circuit, Valencia, Spain For additional info, visit www.fimcevrepsol.com. French Superbike Championship 6/30-7/2 Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours, France 7/14-16 Circuit Pau Arnos, Armos, France 8/25-27 Circuit Carole, Trembley-en-France 9/29-10/1 Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France For additional info, visit www.fsbk.fr. IDM (German) Superbike Series 7/21-23 Schleizer Drieck, Schleiz, Germany 8/4-6 Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria 9/1-3 TT Circuit Assen, Assen, Netherlands 9/22-24 Hockenheimring, Hockenheim, Germany For additional info, call 49-711-182-1850, [email protected], www.idm.de. MFJ Superbike All-Japan Road Race Championship 8/19-20 Mobility Resort Motegi, Motegi 9/2-3 Autopolis Circuit, Kamitsue, Oita 9/23-24 Okayama International Circuit, Mimasaka, Okayama 10/14-15 Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka City, Mie For additional info, http://superbike.jp. CLUB RACING SERIES (U.S./Canada) AFM Series 9/23-24 Thunderhill Raceway Park, Willows, CA 10/TBD Buttonwillow Raceway Park (New Track), Buttonwillow, CA TBD WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, CA TBD=To Be Determined For additional info, call (510) 833-RACE, [email protected], www.afmracing.org. Alaska Motorcycle Road Racing Series 6/23-24 Tanacross Race Course, Tok, AK 7/15-16 Tanacross Race Course, Tok, AK 8/5-6 Tanacross Race Course, Tok, AK For additional info, call (907) 727-1191, [email protected]. ASMA Series 7/15-16 Sandia Speedway, Albuquerque, NM* 9/16-17 The Podium Club at Attesa, Casa Grande, AZ 10/14-15 Arroyo Seco Raceway (CW), Deming, NM 11/11-12 Arroyo Seco Raceway (CCW), Deming, NM* * Round of the North/South Challenge between ASMA and SMRI CW=Clockwise, CCW=Counter-Clockwise For additional info, call (979) 494-4794, [email protected], www.asmaracing.com. CCS Atlantic Roadracing Championship Series 7/29-30 NCBike, Garysburg, NC 8/12-13 Summit Point Motorsports Park (Main), Summit Point, WV 9/2-3 New Jersey Motorsports Park (Thunderbolt), Millville, NJ For additional info, call (725) 755-7550, [email protected], www.asraracing.com. CCS Florida Atlantic Roadracing Championship Series 7/8-9 Roebling Road Raceway, Bloomingdale, GA 8/5-6 Homestead-Miami Speedway, Homestead, FL 8/19-20 Roebling Road Raceway, Bloomingdale, GA 10/19-22 Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, FL For additional info, call (725) 755-7550, [email protected], www.asraracing.com. CCS Mid-Atlantic Roadracing Championship Series 7/1-2 New Jersey Motorsports Park, Millville, NJ 7/29-30 NCBike, Garysburg, NC 8/12-13 Summit Point Motorsports Park (Main), Summit Point, WV For additional info, call (725) 755-7550, [email protected], www.asraracing.com. CCS Mid-West Roadracing Championship Series 7/15-16 Blackhawk Farms Raceway, South Beloit, IL 8/26-27 Autobahn Country Club, Joliet, IL 9/16-17 Blackhawk Farms Raceway, South Beloit, IL For additional info, call (725) 755-7550, [email protected], www.asraracing.com. CCS Southeast Roadracing Championship Series 7/8-9 Roebling Road Raceway, Bloomingdale, GA 7/29-30 NCBike, Garysburg, NC 8/19-20 Roebling Road Raceway, Bloomingdale, GA 9/30-10/1 NCBike, Garysburg, NC 10/19-22 Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, FL For additional info, call (725) 755-7550, [email protected], www.asraracing.com. 40th Annual CCS Race of Champions 10/19-22 Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, FL For additional info, call (725) 755-7550, [email protected], www.asraracing.com. CMRA Series 6/30-7/2 MotorSport Ranch, Cresson, TX 8/4-6 Eagles Canyon Raceway, Decatur, TX 8/25-27 MotorSport Ranch, Cresson, TX 9/29-10/1 Hallett Motor Racing Circuit, Hallett, OK 10/27-29 MSR Houston, Angleton, TX For additional info, call (817) 570-9779, [email protected], www.cmraracing.com. CRA (California Roadrace Association) Series 8/11-13 Buttonwillow Raceway Park (New Track), Buttonwillow, CA 9/TBA Buttonwillow Raceway Park (New Track), Buttonwillow, CA 10/TBA Buttonwillow Raceway Park (New Track), Buttonwillow, CA CW=Clockwise, CCW=Counter-Clockwise For additional info, www.race-cra.com. CRA (Central Roadracing Association) Series 6/30-7/2 Brainerd International Raceway (Competition Course), Brainerd, MN 8/11-13 Brainerd International Raceway (Competition Course), Brainerd, MN 9/1-3 Brainerd International Raceway (Competition Course), Brainerd, MN 9/22-24 Brainerd International Raceway (Competition Course), Brainerd, MN For additional info, visit www.cra-mn.com. CVMA 2023-2024 Winter Series 10/7-8 Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA 11/18-19 Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA 12/16-17 Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA 1/TBD Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA 2/TBD Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA 3/TBD Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA 4/TBD Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA TBD=To Be Determined For additional info, call (760) 360-2834, [email protected], www.cvmaracing.com. Motogladiator Series 7/15-16 New Jersey Motorsports Park (Lightning), Millville, NJ 7/22-23 Carolina Motorsports Park, Kershaw, SC 8/12-13 NCBike, Garysburg, NC 9/17 Summit Point Motorsports Park (Shenandoah), Summit Point, WV 9/18 Summit Point Motorsports Park (Main), Summit Point, WV 10/7-8 NCBike, Garysburg, NC For additional info, call (908) 334-3653, [email protected], www.motogladiator.com. MRA Series 7/15-16 High Plains Raceway (Full), Deer Trail, CO* 7/29-30 Pueblo Motorsports Park, Pueblo, CO 8/26-27 High Plains Raceway (North), Deer Trail, CO 9/23-24 High Plains Raceway (Full), Deer Trail, CO *=includes 4-hour endurance race For additional info, visit www.mra-racing.org. NEMRR Series 8/5-6 New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, NH 9/9-10 New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, NH 9/30-10/1 New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, NH For additional info, call (603) 738-2190, [email protected], nemrr.com. ROAD RACING, SCHOOL, & TRACK DAY CALENDAR 2023 WARNING! Event dates and locations are subject to change by promoters and sanctioning bodies. Before you set out on a cross-country trek, be sure to verify the event date and location, using the additional info included in each listing. 48—Roadracing World, June 2023

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OMRRA Series 7/14-16 Portland International Raceway (w/chicane), Portland, OR* 9/15-17 Ridge Motorsports Park, Shelton, WA* *shared event with WMRRA For additional info, call (503) 841-6185, [email protected], www. omrra.com. PanAmerican Superbike Series 7/1-2 Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, AL 7/29-30 Carolina Motorsports Park, Kershaw, SC 8/26-27 Roebling Road Raceway, Bloomingdale, GA 9/15-17 Talladega Gran Prix Raceway, Munford, AL For additional info, call (954) 816-6321, [email protected], www.panamsbk.com. SMRI Series 7/15-16 Sandia Motorsports Park, Albuquerque, NM 8/12-13 Sandia Motorsports Park, Albuquerque, NM 9/16-17 Sandia Motorsports Park, Albuquerque, NM 10/21-22 Sandia Motorsports Park, Albuquerque, NM For additional info, call/FAX (800) 647-5028, smri@smri-racing. org, www.smri-racing.org. TrackAddix/Ducati Omaha Racing Series 7/23 Motorsports Park Hastings, Hastings, NE 8/20 Motorsports Park Hastings, Hastings, NE 9/24 Motorsports Park Hastings, Hastings, NE For additional info, call (402) 235-1446, information@TrackAddix. com, www.TrackAddix.com. UtahSBA Series 7/8 Utah Motorsports Campus (West), Grantsville, UT 8/12 Utah Motorsports Campus (East), Grantsville, UT 8/13 Utah Motorsports Campus (West), Grantsville, UT 9/2 Utah Motorsports Campus (East), Grantsville, UT For additional info, call (801) 690-9821, www.utahsba.com. WERA Sportsman Series Atlantic Coastal Region 7/15-16 Roebling Road Raceway, Bloomingdale, GA 9/2-3 Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Braselton, GA - V 9/9-10 Summit Point Motorsports Park, Summit Point, WV – M, V M=includes Minis, RS=includes New Racer School, V=Vintage For additional info, call (770) 720-5010, FAX (770) 720-5015, [email protected], www.wera.com. WERA Sportsman Series Mid-Central Region 7/29-30 Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, AL – DH, M, RS, V 8/19-20 Talladega Gran Prix Raceway, Munford, AL – DH, M, RS, V 9/2-3 Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Braselton, GA – DH, V DH=Doubleheader Round, M=includes Minis, RS=includes New Racer School For additional info, call (770) 720-5010, FAX (770) 720-5015, [email protected], www.wera.com. WERA Sportsman Series North Central Region 7/15-16 Grattan Raceway Park, Belding, MI – DH, M, RS, V 7/20-23 AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, OH – Limited Schedule, DH, V 8/11-13 Pittsburgh International Race Complex, Wampum, PA – M, V 9/30-10/1 Nelson Ledges Road Course, Garrettsville, OH – DH, M, RS, V DH=Doubleheader Round, M=includes Minis, P=includes Practice Day, RS=includes New Racer School For additional info, call (770) 720-5010, FAX (770) 720-5015, [email protected], www.wera.com. WERA Sportsman Series Southeast Region 7/15-16 Roebling Road Raceway, Bloomingdale, GA – M 7/29-30 Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, AL – DH, M, RS, V 8/19-20 Talladega Gran Prix Raceway, Munford, AL – DH, M, RS, V 9/2-3 Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Braselton, GA – DH, V DH=Doubleheader Round, M=includes Minis, P=includes Practice Day, RS=includes New Racer School For additional info, call (770) 720-5010, FAX (770) 720-5015, [email protected], www.wera.com. 50th WERA Grand Nationals Finals (GNF) 10/19-22 Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, AL - P P=includes Practice Day For additional info, call (770) 720-5010, FAX (770) 720-5015, [email protected], www.wera.com. WMRRA Series 7/14-16 Portland International Raceway (w/chicane), Portland, OR* 9/1-4 Pacific Raceways, Kent, WA** 9/15-17 Ridge Motorsports Park, Shelton, WA* *shared event with OMRRA, **endurance race on Monday For additional info, visit www.wmrra.com. USCRA Road Racing Series (Vintage) 7/8-9 Canaan Motor Club, Canaan, NH 8/12-13 Canaan Motor Club, Canaan, NH 9/4 New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, NH For additional info, call (516) 851-7508, [email protected], www.race-uscra.com. ARL Series (Canada) 7/8-9 Atlantic Motorsport Park, Mill Village, NS 8/12-13 Atlantic Motorsport Park, Mill Village, NS 9/9-10 Atlantic Motorsport Park, Mill Village, NS For additional info, call (902) 221-8658, www.atlanticroadracing.com. CMRA Series (Canada) 6/30-7/1 Rocky Mountain Motorsports, Carstairs, AB For additional info, visit www.roadracing.org. EMRA Series (Canada) 7/14-16 Stratotech Park Int’l Raceway, Ft. Saskatchewan, AB** 8/12-13 Stratotech Park Int’l Raceway, Ft. Saskatchewan, AB 9/1-3 Rad Torque Raceway, Edmonton, CA** **=Doubleheader For additional info, email [email protected], www.emra.ca. MRA Series (Canada) 7/29-30 Gimli Motorsports Park, Gimli, MB 8/26-27 Gimli Motorsports Park, Gimli, MB 9/26-27 Gimli Motorsports Park, Gimli, MB For additional info, call (204) 642-6660, www.mrasuperbike.ca. SOAR Series (Canada) 7/28-30 Grand Bend Motorplex, Grand Bend, ON 8/25-27 Grand Bend Motorplex, Grand Bend, ON 9/8-10 Grand Bend Motorplex, Grand Bend, ON 9/29-10/1 Grand Bend Motorplex, Grand Bend, ON For additional info, email [email protected], www.soaracing.ca. WMRC Series (Canada) 7/15-16 Mission Raceway Park, Mission, BC 8/12-13 Mission Raceway Park, Mission, BC 9/2-4 Mission Raceway Park, Mission, BC 10/14-15 Mission Raceway Park, Mission, BC For additional info, email [email protected], www.wmrc.ca. MINI RACING SERIES 2WTD Mini Racing (Minis) 10/14 Horsethief Mile, Rosamond, CA 11/18 Apex Racing Center, Perris, CA For additional info, call (619) 913-0071 or (619) 882-4585, www.2wheelstrackdays.com. Central Illinois Mini Moto Series (Minis) 6/24-25 Mid-State Kart Club, Mechanicsburg, IL** 7/15 Mid-State Kart Club, Mechanicsburg, IL 8/20 Mid-State Kart Club, Mechanicsburg, IL 9/17 Mid-State Kart Club, Mechanicsburg, IL 10/8 Mid-State Kart Club, Mechanicsburg, IL* *=endurance race, **=doubleheader For additional info, call (217) 454-7697, centralillinoisminimoto@ gmail.com, www.centralillinoisminimoto.com. FIM MiniGP Canada Series 6/24-25 Greg Moore Raceway, Chilliwack, BC 7/1-2 Strathmore Motorsports Park, Strathmore, AB 7/29-30 Lombardy Raceway Karting, Lombardy, ON 8/5-6 Lombardy Raceway Karting, Lombardy, ON 9/15-16 Shannonville Motorsport Park, Shannonville, ON For additional info, call (416) 629-8989, [email protected], www.supersonicschool.com. Canadian Mini Superbike Championship Series (CMSBK) (Minis) 7/29-30 Lombardy RacewayKarting, Lombardy, ON 8/5-6 Lombardy Raceway Karting, Lombardy, ON 10/8 Lombardy Raceway Karting, Lombardy, ON* *=endurance race For additional info, call (416) 629-8989, [email protected], www.supersonicschool.com. MotoAmerica Mini Cup by Motul Series (Minis) 7/15-16 New Jersey Motorsports Park, Millville, NJ* 8/18-19 Pittsburgh International Race Complex, Wampum, PA 9/22-23 New Jersey Motorsports Park, Millville, NJ *=standalone event For additional info, call (714) 242-5954, info@motoamerica. com, www.motoamerica.com. NJMiniGP Series (Minis) 6/24-25 New Jersey Motorsports Park (Avenger), Millville, NJ – P, S 7/22-23 New Jersey Motorsports Park (Liberator), Millville, NJ – P, S 8/5-6 New Jersey Motorsports Park (Avenger), Millville, NJ – P, S 8/26-27 New York Race Complex, Morrisontown, NY – P, S 10/7-8 New Jersey Motorsports Park (Liberator), Millville, NJ – S, E P=Practice Day, S=Sprint racing, E=Endurance racing For additional info, visit www.njminigp.com. NorthWest Mini Moto & Endurance Challenge (Minis) 8/19-20 Mac Track, McMinnville, OR 9/2-3 Mac Track, McMinnville, OR For additional info, call (720) 984-2250, email nwminimoto@ gmail.com, www.northwestminimoto.com Sandy Hook Mini Moto Road Race Series (Minis) 6/24 Sandy Hook Speedway, Street, MD 7/8 Sandy Hook Speedway, Street, MD 7/29 Sandy Hook Speedway, Street, MD 8/12 Sandy Hook Speedway, Street, MD 9/30-10/1 Sandy Hook Speedway, Street, MD 10/14 Sandy Hook Speedway, Street, MD* 10/28 Sandy Hook Speedway, Street, MD 11/4 Sandy Hook Speedway, Street, MD *=Sandy Hook 200/100/50 endurance races For additional info, call (717) 615-1820, info@sandyhookspeed way.com, www.sandyhookspeedway.com. South Florida MiniGP Series (Minis) 7/28-29 Carolina Motorsports Park, Kershaw, SC – P, S 9/2-3 Andersen Racepark, Palmetto, FL – P, S 10/7-8 Herrin Compound, Dublin GA – P, S 11/4-5 Bushnell Motorsports Park, Bushnell, FL – P, S C=Camp, P=Practice Day, S=Sprint Racing For additional info, call (954) 552-1355, [email protected], www.sflminigp.com. Southeast Mini Moto Series (Minis) 7/1 Twin Fountains Raceway, Bell Buckle, TN 8/26 Lamar County Speedway, Barnesville, GA 9/30 MidPond Raceway & Events Complex, Columbiana, AL 10/7 Lamar County Speedway, Barnesville, GA 11/18 Lamar County Speedway, Barnesville, GA For additional info, call (770) 468-4595, [email protected]. Texas Mini Grand Prix Series (Minis) 7/8 Speedsportz Racing Park, New Caney, TX* 7/29-30 North Texas Karters, Denton, TX 8/19-20 Gulf Coast Kartway, Katy, TX 9/16-17 North Texas Karters, Denton, TX 10/7-8 North Texas Karters, Denton, TX 11/11-12 Gulf Coast Kartway, Katy, TX *=6-Hour Endurance Race Only For additional info, call (979) 260-0456, TMGPS@Phillipskids. com, texasminigrandprix.com. SCHOOLS/ TRACK DAYS (U.S.) 2Fast Motorcycle Track Days & Instruction 6/29 Ridge Motorsports Park, Shelton, WA 7/7 Pacific Raceways, Kent, WA 7/9 Ridge Motorsports Park, Shelton, WA 7/14 Portland International Raceway, Portland, OR 7/22-23 Oregon Raceway Park, Grass Valley, OR 7/26 Ridge Motorsports Park, Shelton, WA 8/19-20 Oregon Raceway Park, Grass Valley, OR 8/24 Pacific Raceways, Kent, WA 8/26-27 Oregon Raceway Park, Grass Valley, OR 8/28-29 Ridge Motorsports Park, Shelton, WA 9/22-23 Ridge Motorsports Park, Shelton, WA 9/1 Pacific Raceways, Kent, WA 9/21 Pacific Raceways, Kent, WA For additional info, call (425) 877-8776, 2fast.trackdays@gmail. com, www.2-fast.org. 2 Wheels Track Days 6/24-25 Streets of Willow, Rosamond, CA 7/8 Willow Springs International Raceway, Rosamond, CA 8/25-26 Streets of Willow, Rosamond, CA 9/16 Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA 10/13 Streets of Willow, Rosamond, CA 11/10 Willow Springs International Raceway, Rosamond, CA 11/11-12 Streets of Willow, Rosamond, CA 12/1 Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA For additional info, call (619) 913-0071 or (619) 882-4585, www.2wheelstrackdays.com. 3:16 Trackdays/America Superbike Camp 7/17 Harris Hill Raceway, San Marcos, TX 10/16 Harris Hill Raceway, San Marcos, TX 11/6 Circuit of The Americas, Austin, TX For additional information, visit 316trackdays.com. AHRMA Academy of Roadracing, Track Days & Ed Bargy Advanced Track Riding Technique Workshop 6/23 New Jersey Motorsports Park, Millville, NJ – A, EB 7/14 WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, CA - A 7/28 Gingerman Raceway, South Haven, MI - A 8/4 Blackhawk Farms Raceway, South Beloit, IL – A, EB 9/8 Talladega Gran Prix Raceway, Munford, AL – A, EB A = Academy, EB = Ed Bargy Workshop, TD = Track Day For additional info, visit www.ahrma.org/contact. Alaska Motorcycle Track Days 7/15-16 Tanacross Race Course, Tok, AK 8/5-6 Tanacross Race Course, Tok, AK For additional info, call (907) 727-1191, [email protected]. Apex Assassins Track Days 6/3-4 Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA 9/23-24 Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, NV For additional info, call (702) 858-3068, support@apex assassins.com, www.apexassassins.com. Apex Track Days 7/7 Utah Motorsports Campus (West), Grantsville, UT 8/11 Utah Motorsports Campus (Perimeter), Grantsville, UT 9/1 Utah Motorsports Campus (East), Grantsville, UT 10/7 Utah Motorsports Campus (West), Grantsville, UT For additional info, call (413) 650-APEX (2739), info@apextrack days.com, www.apextrackdays.com. Aprilia Racers Days Track Day/ Demo Program 6/26 Ridge Motorsports Park, Shelton, WA 7/17 WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, CA 9/18 Shannonville Motorsport Park, Shannonville, CA 9/25 New Jersey Motorsport Park, Millville, NJ For additional info, visit https://storeusa.aprilia.com, www.aprilia.com. California Superbike School 7/5-6 Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, CA** 7/10-11 Ridge Motorsports Park, Shelton, WA 7/12-13 Ridge Motorsports Park, Shelton, WA ** 7/14-15 Ridge Motorsports Park, Shelton, WA 7/22 Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, AL 7/23-24 Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, AL ** 7/31-8/1 VIRginia International Raceway, Alton, VA 8/2-3 VIRginia International Raceway, Alton, VA ** 8/7-8 Pittsburgh International Race Complex, Wampum, PA 8/9-10 Pittsburgh International Race Complex, Wampum, PA ** 8/14-15 New Jersey Motorsports Park, Millville, NJ 8/16-17 New Jersey Motorsports Park, Millville, NJ ** 8/21-22 Ridge Motorsports Park, Shelton, WA 8/23-24 Ridge Motorsports Park, Shelton, WA ** 9/16-17 Streets of Willow, Rosamond, CA 9/18-19 Streets of Willow, Rosamond, CA ** 9/23-24 Thunderhill Raceway Park, Willows, CA 9/25-26 Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, CA** 9/29-30 Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, NV ** 10/1-2 Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, NV ** 10/21-22 Streets of Willow, Rosamond, CA 10/23-24 Streets of Willow, Rosamond, CA – R 11/25-26 Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, NV ** **=Two-Day Camp, R=Code RACE Program For additional info, call (800) 530-3350 or (323) 224-2734, [email protected], www.superbikeschool.com. Carters@thetrack Track Days 7/8-9 Thunderhill Raceway Park (East), Willows, CA 7/22-23 Thunderhill Raceway Park (East), Willows, CA 8/12-13 Thunderhill Raceway Park (East), Willows, CA 9/2-3 Thunderhill Raceway Park (East), Willows, CA 9/22 Thunderhill Raceway Park (East), Willows, CA 9/30-10/1 Thunderhill Raceway Park (East), Willows, CA 10/2-3 Thunderhill Raceway Park (East), Willows, CA* 11/4-5 Buttonwillow Raceway Park, Buttonwillow, CA *=Novice School For additional info, call (707) 367-5697, [email protected], www.cartersatthetrack.com. CLASS Motorcycle School with 3x AMA Superbike Champion Reg Pridmore 10/19-20 Streets of Willow, Rosamond, CA** **D-Day event For additional info, call (805) 933-9936, [email protected], www.classrides.com. Classic Track Day 11/12 Streets of Willow, Rosamond, CA 12/3 Willow Springs International Raceway, Rosamond, CA For additional info, call (310) 980-7129, [email protected], www.classictrackday.com. Ed Bargy Advanced Riding and Racing School 9/23 Roebling Road Raceway, Bloomingdale, GA 11/18 Roebling Road Raceway, Bloomingdale, GA 12/16 Roebling Road Raceway, Bloomingdale, GA For additional info, call (404) 683-6071, [email protected], www.edbargy.net. Evolve GT School and Track Days 6/26 Summit Point Motorsports Park (Main), Summit Point, WV 6/26 VIRginia International Raceway (North), Alton, VA 7/1-2 Atlanta Motorsports Park, Dawsonville, GA 7/7 Roebling Road Raceway, Bloomingdale, GA 7/8-9 Pineview Run Auto & Country Club, LaFayette, NY 7/8-9 Polecat Training Center, Fayetteville, TN 7/14 Blackhawk Farms Raceway, S. Beloit, IL 7/15-16 NCBIKE, Garysburg, NC 7/15-16 New Jersey Motorsports Park (Lightning), Millville, NJ 7/16 VIRginia International Raceway (Patriot), Alton, VA 7/17 VIRginia International Raceway (North), Alton, VA 7/22-23 Carolina Motorsports Park, Kershaw, SC 7/23 Summit Point Motorsports Park (Shenandoah), Summit Point, WV 7/24 Summit Point Motorsports Park (Main), Summit Point, WV 7/28 NCBIKE, Garysburg, NC 7/29-30 Pineview Run Auto & Country Club, LaFayette, NY 8/4-6 Pittsburgh International Race Complex, Wampum, PA 8/12-13 NCBIKE, Garysburg, NC 8/18 Roebling Road Raceway, Bloomingdale, GA 8/19-20 Pineview Run Auto & Country Club, LaFayette, NY 8/26-27 Polecat Training Center, Fayetteville, TN 9/2-3 Atlanta Motorsports Park, Dawsonville, GA 9/2-3 NCBIKE, Garysburg, NC 9/10-11 New Jersey Motorsports Park (Thunderbolt), Millville, NJ 9/15 Blackhawk Farms Raceway, S. Beloit, IL 9/16-17 Pineview Run Auto & Country Club, LaFayette, NY 9/17 Summit Point Motorsports Park (Shenandoah), Summit Point, WV 9/18 Summit Point Motorsports Park (Main), Summit Point, WV 9/29 NCBIKE, Garysburg, NC 9/30-10/1 Atlanta Motorsports Park, Dawsonville, GA 10/7-8 NCBIKE, Garysburg, NC 10/8 Summit Point Motorsports Park (Shenandoah), Summit Point, WV 10/9 Summit Point Motorsports Park (Main), Summit Point, WV 10/14-15 Pittsburgh International Race Complex, Wampum, PA 10/14-15 Polecat Training Center, Fayetteville, TN 10/19 Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, FL* 11/4-5 NCBIKE, Garysburg, NC *=Team Hammer Advanced Riding School For additional info, call (702) 602-2770, [email protected], www.evolvegt.com. Fast Line Track Days 6/24-25 NCM Motorsports Park, Bowling Green, KY 7/8-9 Putnam Park Road Course, Mt. Meridian, IN 9/2-3 NCM Motorsports Park, Bowling Green, KY For additional info, call (513) 328-4637, info@fastlinetrackdays. com, fastlinetrackdays.com. 50—Roadracing World, June 2023