Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Yamaha Factory Racing 2019: Cameron Beaubier (4) Yamaha 6 Yamaha Factory Racing 2020: Cameron Beaubier (5) Yamaha 16 Yamaha Factory Racing 2021: Jake Gagne: Yamaha 17 Yamaha Factory Racing 2022: Jake Gagne (2) Yamaha 12 Yamaha Factory Racing 2023: Jake Gagne (3) Yamaha 11 Yamaha Factory Racing 2024: Josh Herrin (2) Ducati 7 Tytlers Cycle Racing
American motorcycle racers by populated place (2 C)-Puerto Rican motorcycle racers (1 C) M. American motocross riders (1 C, 91 P) S. American speedway riders (1 C, 49 P)
In 2012, 250cc bikes replaced the 125cc bikes, with the class re-branded as Moto3, retiring the two-stroke bikes from Grand Prix motorcycle racing. [5] MotoE was introduced in 2019 as a "World Cup" until 2022 and thus statistics from that time span is not included here. [6] MotoE gained World Championship status in 2023.
Kenneth Leroy Roberts (born December 31, 1951) is an American former professional motorcycle racer and racing team owner. In 1978, he became the first American to win a Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championship. [1] [2] He was also a two-time winner of the A.M.A. Grand National Championship.
As the popularity of the series grew the long established Daytona 200 motorcycle race, which had begun on a course constructed on the beach in 1935, and had moved to the asphalt auto-racing track in 1961, switched to Superbikes. The race had been one of the few venues where FIM style Formula 1 500cc machines raced in the United States, but by ...
He retired from motorcycle racing at the completion of the 1961 season and turned his attention to auto racing. He was also a member of the AMA (American Motorcycle Association District 36) Sanctioned San Jose Motorcycle club (The Dons) which includes such famed alumni as Sam Arena, Tom Sifton, Kenny Eggers and Sam Arena Jr.
Roland Robert Free (November 18, 1900 – October 11, 1984) was an American motorcycle and automobile racer best known for breaking the American motorcycle land speed record in 1948 on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. A picture of Free, prone and wearing a bathing suit, has been described as the most famous picture in motorcycling. [1] [2]
Gary Jones (born April 22, 1952) is an American former professional motocross and desert racer. [1] He competed in the AMA Motocross Championships from 1971 to 1976. Jones is notable for winning the inaugural AMA 250cc motocross national championship in 1972.