For the second time of the 2017 Superbike World Championship, the Red Bull Honda World Superbike team will use the American Jake Gagne as a substitute.
Kawasaki's Jonathan Rea can make history this weekend at Magny-Cours World Superbike, where he can become the only rider to claim three back-to-back titles.
We sat down with Kawasaki Racing Team's Jonathan Rea at Laguna WorldSBK, and asked him about the current racing season and where he sees MotoAmerica going.
Due to his impressive performance so far in 2017 World Superbike, Marco Melandri has extended his contract with the Aruba.it Ducati Racing team for 2018.
The 2017 World Superbike Championship headed to America for the only time this season, the action taking placed at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca—home of the infamous Corkscrew.
In this week’s first segment, Senior Editor Nic de Sena tells all about the Aprilia RS 660 Trofeo. The fabled Italian racing marque has produced a track-only version of its excellent streetbike, and Nic gave it a good thrashing around Laguna Seca recently. Even if you’re not a track junkie, you’ll find this to be an interesting take on an already really good machine.
In the second segment, Associate Editor Teejay Adams chats with teen racing sensation Kayla Yaakov. Kayla made a name for herself in the smaller classes as she was growing up, but having just turned 16 a few weeks ago, she was able to move up a class and race 600 Supersport for Tytler’s Racing at the last Moto America race of this year. In case you’re thinking this may be hype—she finished on the podium in 3rd place, having started the race 13th on the grid. That’s a heck of an accomplishment for a first race in the most competitive class of them all. Teejay chats with Kayla about growing up and where it all started.
From all of us here at Motos & Friends… we hope you enjoy this episode!