Cameron Beaubier Leads An Ultra-Close Q1 As The Pack Closes In On Ben Spies’ Lap Record
LEXINGTON, OH (August 16, 2024) – Ben Spies’ 16-year-old Superbike lap record at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course will live for at least another day as Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Cameron Beaubier flirted with the mark but couldn’t quite get it done on a sunny and breezy day at the iconic racing facility.
Steel Commander Superbike and Mission King of the Baggers headline three-day event
LEXINGTON, Ohio (Aug. 16, 2024) - Superbike racing has officially returned to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course today for the first time since 2014 with the Permco MotoAmerica Superbikes at Mid-Ohio three-day event, Aug. 16-18.
The last time Cameron Beaubier turned a wheel in anger at Mid-Ohio Sport Car Course was the last time the AMA Superbike Series raced at the iconic track – 10 years ago. Beaubier won race one and was second in race two. Fast forward to now and it was Beaubier who was best on the day in the Dunlop official test that leads into this weekend’s Permco Superbikes at Mid-Ohio event.
Beaubier’s best lap was a 1:24.126 and it came in the second of the four sessions on an overcast day at Mid-Ohio and he was the only rider in the top five to do his best lap in the second session – even though he led all of the first three sessions and elected to sit out the fourth session due to a light rain falling.
With weather seemingly always a factor when the AMA Superbike Series visited Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, and the track needing a resurface to allow races to be safely held in the rain, delays “back in the day” were commonplace. But the last of the AMA Superbike races held at the iconic racetrack, prior to this coming weekend’s MotoAmerica races on a repaved racetrack, was all of that in a nutshell.
The Supersport Championship Battle Is White Hot As The Series Heads To Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course For The First Time In 10 Years
IRVINE, CA (August 14, 2024) - Ever since the contact between Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz and Rahal Ducati Moto’s PJ Jacobsen in the second of two Supersport races at Ridge Motorsports Park (with Jacobsen getting the brunt of it), tension has been running a tad high between the two championship rivals. When Jacobsen put two impressive passes on Scholtz in places you wouldn’t expect at the very next round at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca to snatch two victories, the heat was turned up even more. And what we have now is a good old-fashioned rivalry for the rest of us to enjoy.
Do you think we’re excited to be racing at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio, after 10 years away from the iconic racetrack? For a strong statement about our enthusiasm, all you need to look at is the entry list for this weekend’s MotoAmerica Superbikes at Mid-Ohio event.
Originally run under the AMA Superbike Championship name, the inaugural Superbike race was held at Mid-Ohio in 1983 and won by Steve Wise. This weekend's Permco MotoAmerica Superbikes at Mid-Ohio (Aug. 16-18) marks the 33rd running of the event featuring the 48th and 49th all-time Superbike races at the legendary track. As Superbike racing returns to Mid-Ohio for the first time in 10 years, it's a perfect time to look back on the history professional motorcycle road racing at the track:
IRVINE, CA (August 13, 2024) – The last time the AMA Superbike Championship raced at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, a baby-faced, 24-year-old named Josh Herrin was struggling his way through a miserable Moto2 World Championship campaign and wishing he was at Mid-Ohio. That was 2014. This is now. And Herrin arrives at Mid-Ohio as the leader of the 2024 MotoAmerica Steel Commander Superbike Championship in the series’ return to the Buckeye State after a 10-year hiatus.
