AMASBK: Pegram Enjoying Early Success on Yamaha

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AMA Pro Racing Press Release: There is no question that Josh Herrin and Martin Cardenas have been atop all recent headlines and deservedly so after their stellar performances during  AMA Pro Road Racing’s first round of action at Daytona International Speedway last month. Josh Hayes, defending three-time AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike Champion, never even [...]

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Chasing Hayes Three-time AMA SuperBike Champion Josh Hayes picks up at Daytona where he left off last season: leading the pack.

Josh Hayes in-action

Josh Hayes dominated AMA Pro SuperBike practice and provisional qualifying in cool, windy conditions Thursday at Daytona International Speedway. The three-time premier-class title-winner lapped the 2.90-mile “short” course in 1 minute, 37.746 seconds, .639 seconds quicker than his best time in the same session last year and just .283 seconds slower than his pole-winning performance. [...]

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Return To Bonneville Licensing, legality, cool people and high speeds at the salt flats.

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[ SCTA Speed Week began with a rider/driver’s meeting and great news about the future of the Bonneville Salt Flats from Kevin Oliver of the Bureau of Land Management. Oliver told the group that the salt flats were a “critical environmental concern” for the BLM, and the maintenance of this public land was one of [...]

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Josh Hayes: “The War Is Done.” Is the two-time and reigning AMA Pro SuperBike champion poised for a “three-peat?”

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[ Josh Hayes powers out of the heat haze at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Next stop for AMA Pro Racing is New Jersey Motorsports Park, where Hayes intends to “go faster than we did last year.” ]   July’s AMA SuperBike event at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca was a race for second place, with Blake [...]

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The State of the Superbike The ins and outs of class warfare.

The State of the Superbike

We have two upsets for the price of one this month. Aprilia vanquishes the bleeding-edge Ducati for top honors among the Exotics while the apparent overdog Workhorse, the BMW S1000RR, returns to Munich to lick its wounds inflicted by, of all things, a Honda! A Honda without traction control or an unabashedly in-your-eardrums engine note [...]

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2012 Superbike Shootout Nine bikes, two tracks, Workhorses and Exotics, we search for the ultimate roadlegal track weapon in two price ranges.

Superbikes 2012

  Workhorse Shootout Exotic Shootout   Superbike by the Numbers Street Smarts   Rubber Wonders The Pirelli Question   A Shout Out to the Shootout The State of the Superbike  

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2012 Superbike Shootout: By the Numbers A statistical breakdown of hot laps.

Miller-Map

Located near the southern shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, Miller Motorsports Park is one of America’s premier roadrace venues. MMP offers multiple course configurations ranging from a lengthy, 4.5-mile Full Course to a 3.08-mile Perimeter Course or, when spit in half, comprises two distinctly different 2.2-mile circuits, aptly named the East Course and West [...]

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2012 Superbike Shootout: Workhorses The most affordable high-performance machines in the world face off.

Workhorses: Superbikes 2012

Budgets are tight these days, right? But that doesn’t mean you have to give up any of life’s necessities like big horsepower, awesome handling or incredible brakes. These machines prove this point. Our group of five Workhorses in this less-costly class range from the $13,799 Suzuki GSX-R1000 to the $16,490 BMW S1000RR. Three have traction [...]

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Street Smarts Superbikes all, but home is really on the road.

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On the street, these nine superbikes are like caged animals, which is exactly why we took them to Miller Motorsports Park to feed. At a world-class racing venue, you can unlock their pens and let their predatory instincts take over. The reality, however, is that most people who purchase one of these potent machines will [...]

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Josh Hayes: “I know I can race with those guys” Two-time AMA Pro SuperBike champion dominates at Miller Motorsports Park. Is the Superbike World Championship in his future?

Two-time AMA Pro SuperBike champion Josh Hayes

Josh Hayes demonstrated once again this past Memorial Day weekend at Miller Motorsports Park that he is the best Superbike racer in America. The Gulfport, Mississippi, native decimated the AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike field, winning the 16-lap race in record time by 7.774 seconds. Hayes’ Monster Energy Graves Yamaha teammate, Josh Herrin, and championship [...]

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