Inventory 1000 Set To Start Its 2024 Collection With 46 Entries Set For Barber Opener
After This Weekend, Might 17-19, At Barber Motorsports Park All The MotoAmerica Courses Will Have Began Their Seasons
IRVINE, CA (Might 16, 2024) – The MotoAmerica Inventory 1000 Championship could also be a late starter in 2024, however you get the sensation that it’s going to be well worth the wait with 46 entries champing on the bit to lastly get the sequence began at Barber Motorsports Park this coming weekend, Might 17-19.
With all the opposite lessons having began their championship seasons, solely Inventory 1000 and Royal Enfield Construct. Prepare. Race. have but to run a race in 2024. That can all change this weekend at Barber Motorsports Park with these two lessons becoming a member of a full docket of Metal Commander Superbike, Supersport, BellissiMoto Twins Cup, and Junior Cup in a jam-packed MotoAmerica weekend on the picturesque observe positioned on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama.
Inventory 1000 – Who Can Beat King Gillim?
Because the defending MotoAmerica Inventory 1000 Champion, Actual Metal Motorsports’ Hayden Gillim have to be the odds-on favourite to repeat that championship. In spite of everything, he received six of the ten races in 2023 to take the title by 25 factors over Kaleb De Keyrel, who isn’t participating within the sequence this 12 months.
Gillim is on a brand new bike and in a brand new group for 2024, however he’s proud of each and rode his new Honda CBR1000RR-R SP to ninth- and sixth-place finishes within the two Metal Commander Superbike races in his first race outings on the bike at Highway Atlanta. The Kentuckian is one among six riders within the class who will probably be chasing Honda contingency cash on the CBRs.
So the place will Gillim’s competitors come from? How about Orange Cat Racing’s Travis Wyman, who was third in final 12 months’s title chase with a lone win and 5 different podium finishes? Wyman has additionally switched groups however will follow the trusted BMW M 1000 RR. Or Motorsport Exoctica’s two-time Inventory 1000 Champion Andrew Lee, one other who’s BMW mounted.
And may you ever depend out BPR Racing’s Bryce Prince, or Ashton Yates on the Jones Honda CBR1000RR-R SP? There’s additionally Gabriel DaSilva on a GMR (Geoff Might Racing)/Jones Honda, Benjamin Smith on a FLO4LAW Racing Yamaha YZF-R1, and Eire’s Richard Kerr on the AMD Motorsport RK Racing Honda.
You get the image. The listing goes on and on with a big group of riders who may problem Gillim. The opening spherical ought to give us some solutions.
Supersport – PJ Leads Them In
Rahal Ducati Moto’s PJ Jacobsen couldn’t have began his 2024 Supersport Championship marketing campaign at Highway Atlanta any higher. How about two wins underneath two dramatically totally different circumstances? In race one, Jacobsen received within the dry. The next day he received within the rain, proving that up to now it doesn’t matter what’s thrown at him, the New Yorker can deal with it.
And as if the grins on the Rahal Ducati Moto group couldn’t get any larger, Corey Alexander arrives at Barber second within the championship after ending fourth and second within the sequence opener on his Ducati Panigale V2. The third member of the Rahal squad, Kayla Yaakov, wasn’t so lucky at Highway Atlanta as she completed ninth in race one and crashed out of race two.
Strack Racing’s Mathew Scholtz is sizzling off his first MotoAmerica Supersport races and resides proof that you simply shouldn’t quit. Scholtz’s debut within the class began horribly with technical difficulties sidetracking most of his observe and qualifying classes and forcing him to start out from the fourth row in each races. Though issues didn’t fall into place till the race, Scholtz was prepared for it, and he by some means fought by to complete third and fourth within the pair of races, and that places him third within the sequence standings and simply 4 factors behind Alexander coming into Barber.
Altus Motorsports’ Jake Lewis additionally received his season off to a stable begin with a sixth within the dry race one and a 3rd in race two’s rainstorm, placing him fourth within the standings heading into spherical two.
N2 Racing/BobbleHeadMoto’s Blake Davis gave Jacobsen suits in race one and was within the hunt once more in race two earlier than crashing out. The teenager’s 20 factors from ending second in race one places him fifth within the championship, albeit 30 factors behind Jacobsen.
Forty-nine riders have entered the Supersport class for the Barber spherical.
BellissiMoto Twins Cup – It’s Nonetheless Rodio
Whereas the vast majority of the MotoAmerica lessons are simply getting going, it already looks like midseason for the BellissiMoto Twins Cup riders as they’ve two rounds and 4 races already within the financial institution. And nobody has extra factors than Rodio Racing – Powered by Robem Engineering’s Gus Rodio, who began his season with 4 straight podiums on his Aprilia RS 660 – two of which have been victories within the sequence opener at Daytona Worldwide Speedway.
Rodio arrives in Alabama with a useful 22-point lead, however that is removed from over contemplating that the primary of the chasers is RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki’s Rocco Landers – the 2020 Twins Cup Champion and the category chief in victories with 16. Landers and his new Suzuki GSX-8R received for the primary time in 2024 in race one at Highway Atlanta.
Giaccmoto Yamaha Racing’s Dominic Doyle is the lead Yamaha rider at this level within the season as he’s slotted into third within the title chase along with his first win of the 12 months coming in race two at Highway Atlanta. Doyle and his YZF-R7 are six factors behind Landers and 28 behind Rodio.
Rodio’s teammate Alessandro Di Mario is fourth within the championship, 15 factors away from TopPro Racing’s Avery Dreher and Koch Racing’s Sean Ungvarsky with these two tied for fifth.
Junior Cup – Medina By A Level
Aside from the Metal Commander Superbike sequence, which has Cameron Beaubier and Jake Gagne tied for the lead within the championship, the Junior Cup Championship is the closest one as its sequence heads to its second spherical at Barber.
New York Security Observe Racing’s Yandel Medina sits atop the standings however by only a single level over Wolfe Racing’s Ryan Wolfe and by simply seven factors over BARTCON Racing’s Matthew Chapin.
Medina has the factors lead by advantage of his two podiums at Highway Atlanta – a 3rd in race one and his first profession MotoAmerica victory in race two. Wolfe, in the meantime, was the mannequin of consistency with two second-place finishes in Georgia. Chapin was one other first-time winner at Highway Atlanta with the Maryland rider profitable race one earlier than struggling within the moist race two to complete seventh.
The most important shock from the opener was Unhealthy Boys Racing’s defending class champion Avery Dreher. And for all of the unsuitable causes. Dreher crashed out of what gave the impression to be victory in race one after which salvaged a fifth within the rain in race two. He’s 30 factors adrift of Medina heading into spherical two.
Royal Enfield Construct. Prepare. Race. – Moore To Come
It will take a courageous particular person certainly to wager in opposition to Mikayla Moore within the Royal Enfield Construct. Prepare. Race. sequence opener at Barber Motorsports Park. In spite of everything, she not solely received final 12 months’s title, however she additionally received each single race for an ideal seven-win season.
Nevertheless, who is aware of who lurks beneath the Royal Enfield cover for the sequence opener as 13 of the Continental GT 650s will line up for 2 races at Barber with most of these new to this system.
The very best ending returnee apart from Moore is Aubrey Credaroli, the Utah resident racing her Continental GT 650 to sixth within the championship with a finest end of third at Highway America.
Pre-Race Barber Assist Class Notes…
Yamaha leads the best way within the variety of entries for the primary spherical of the 2024 Inventory 1000 Championship with 14 Yamaha YZF-R1s entered. BMW is second with seven S 1000 RRs and 6 M 1000 RRs entered whereas Honda jumps as much as six entries for CBR1000RR-R SP racers. Suzuki and Kawasaki, in the meantime, have 5 entries every for the GSX-R1000 and ZX-10R, respectively.
Final 12 months’s two Inventory 1000 races have been received by Hayden Gillim. Gillim beat Ezra Beaubier and Kaleb De Keyrel in race one and De Keyrel and Ezra Beaubier in race two. The wins have been Gillim’s first of the 12 months after he suffered by a dismal opening spherical at Highway Atlanta. He left Barber trailing Beaubier by 26 factors.
The Supersport class final 12 months at Barber was one among two “prolonged” races that featured pit stops. MotoAmerica has axed that and has gone again to the normal sprint-race doubleheader. Final 12 months’s prolonged race was received by Xavi Forés over Stefano Mesa and Anthony Mazziotto.
It was a clear sweep final 12 months for Rocco Landers within the BellissiMoto Twins Cup races with the then-Aprilia RS 660-mounted Landers besting Kayla Yaakov and Dominic Doyle in race one earlier than beating Blake Davis and Yaakov in race two.
In Junior Cup motion in 2023 it was Avery Dreher and Levi Badie splitting victories. Dreher topped Max Van and Yandel Medina in race one with Baddie besting Hayden Bicknese and Dreher in race two.
The Royal Enfield Construct. Prepare. Race. program didn’t compete at Barber final 12 months as their opening spherical wasn’t till the Highway America spherical the primary weekend in June.
Hayden Gillim (1:24.183) is the Inventory 1000 lap document holder at Barber; Tyler Scott (1:26.348) has the lap document for Supersport; Kaleb De Keyrel (1:29.088) has the quickest lap for a Twins Cup bike; and Rocco Landers (1:34.782) is the lap document holder for the Junior Cup class.
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Extra, from a press launch issued by Rahal Ducati Moto:
RACE PREVIEW:
BARBER MOTORSPORTS PARK
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., (05.16.2024) – Following a profitable race weekend at Highway Atlanta, the trio of Rahal Ducati Moto riders and crews have journeyed to Barber Motorsports Park, simply exterior of Birmingham, Alabama, for rounds three and 4 of competitors.
Previous to the Highway Atlanta race, PJ Jacobsen, Corey Alexander, and Kayla Yaakov all examined on the 16-turn course. With the momentum carried from the final two races, the group seems to be so as to add to its statistics and acquire extra {hardware} over the following three days.
Tomorrow’s schedule will host Apply and Qualifying 1, with Qualifying 2, Time Assault, and Race 1 on Saturday, adopted by a warm-up and Race 2 on Sunday.
QUOTE BOARD:
COREY ALEXANDER (No. 23 Curler Die + Forming Ducati Panigale V2): “After ending Highway Atlanta on such a excessive notice, I’ve been looking forward to this weekend at Barber [Motorsports Park]. It hasn’t all the time been one among my strongest tracks, however fortunately we had day of testing just a few weeks again and with the enhancements we made following, I’m excited to see what we are able to do on the Curler Die Ducati.”
PJ JACOBSEN (No. 15 XPEL Ducati Panigale V2): “We’re trying ahead to Barber [Motorsports Park] this weekend. We had a very good check on the observe earlier than Highway Atlanta, so I believe we’ve got a reasonably good setup heading into the race weekend. I’m trying ahead to it – particularly after leaving Atlanta with two wins. I really feel nice proper now, I like Barber so much, and I do know the group has been working laborious to get every little thing achieved in Atlanta. Hopefully, we are able to maintain entering into that very same course and struggle for wins each weekend on the XPEL machine. I don’t know what the climate will probably be like, however I believe we’re prepared for any situation.”
KAYLA YAAKOV (No. 19 XPEL Ducati Panigale V2): “Barber [Motorsports Park] is all the time my favourite observe to go to on the MotoAmerica calendar. From the fan environment, to the observe itself, it’s an incredible place that all the time hosts nice racing. I’m trying ahead to the weekend and to maintain bettering on the XPEL bike and on this class. Let’s go!”
BEN SPIES (Workforce Principal): “We’re trying ahead to racing at Barber. After a very good weekend at Highway Atlanta the morale of the group is nice. We had check at Barber earlier than Atlanta, so hopefully we are able to come off the truck with some good emotions and tempo for all three riders.”
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