It’s Tight At The Prime In REV’IT! Twins Cup As The Sequence Heads To Ridge Motorsports Park
Simply Two Factors Separate Prime Three As MotoAmerica Visits Washington State
IRVINE, CA (June 22, 2023) – The REV’IT! Twins Cup Championship is again on monitor this coming weekend at Ridge Motorsports Park, June 23-25, after a one-round hiatus and meaning numerous consideration will rightfully fall on what’s the closest title battle within the MotoAmerica Championship after three rounds and 6 races.
So how shut is it? Simply 20 factors separate the highest 5 riders within the title chase and solely two factors separate the highest three because the collection arrives on the racetrack positioned on the Olympic Peninsula area of Washington State.
Along with the REV’IT! Twins Cup and the premier MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike lessons, the MotoAmerica weekend at Ridge Motorsports Park will function three different lessons of racing: Supersport, Mission Tremendous Hooligan Nationwide Championship and Royal Enfield’s Construct. Practice. Race.
REV’IT! Twins Cup – Battle Royale
As beforehand talked about, championships don’t get a lot nearer than this one.
On the very prime of the REV’IT! Twins Cup Championship sits N2 Racing/BobbleHeadMoto’s defending collection champion Blake Davis, one in all two riders within the prime 5 to attain factors in all six races to this point. Davis has one victory and just one different podium end, however he’s managed even on dangerous days to stroll away with factors and that’s what has him atop the standings.
Behind him by simply two factors are Rodio Racing – Powered by Robem Engineering’s Gus Rodio and Cycle Tech’s Hayden Schultz.
Rodio arrives in Washington making an attempt to overlook the distress of scoring zero factors at Barber Motorsports Park and Schultz arrives with chunks of factors from all six races, together with three podiums. Rodio’s season, in the meantime, began with a win and three second-place finishes earlier than derailing in Alabama. Each discover themselves in stable positions on the prime of the standings.
The most popular rider within the class is Rodio’s quasi-teammate Rocco Landers, the winner of the final three races after lacking the opening two races of the season at Daytona Worldwide Speedway. Landers is the all-time win chief in Twins Cup with 12 race victories, 9 of which got here in his championship-winning yr in 2020.
Trackday Winner/Blackmon Racing’s Jackson Blackmon is fifth within the championship heading to Ridge Motorsports Park – 20 factors behind Davis.
Supersport – Can Fores Keep Good?
There have been 150 championship factors up for grabs from the 5 Supersport races held thus far in 2023 and Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati’s Xavi Fores has 150 of them in his pocket as he arrives for what might be his first laps at Ridge Motorsports Park. It begs the query: Will he preserve that good season alive in Washington?
The 150 factors that Fores has secured places him atop the title chase by 37 factors over Tytlers Cycle Racing’s Stefano Mesa with Mesa an extra 30 factors forward of Squid Hunter Racing’s Josh Hayes.
If not for Fores’ season, we’d be speaking about how briskly and constant Mesa has been along with his 4 runner-up finishes and the truth that his fourth-place end within the opening race at Highway Atlanta is his solely non-podium end.
Hayes, who’s simply 4 factors forward of Imaginative and prescient Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Tyler Scott, has additionally been stable with three podiums from the 5 races. Scott has two podium finishes and is 9 factors forward of Michael Gilbert Racing’s Michael Gilbert with Gilbert’s scorecard that includes a fourth and 4 fifth-place finishes.
Mission Tremendous Hooligan Nationwide Championship – O’Hara Defends
Solely two Mission Tremendous Hooligan Nationwide Championship races have been held thus far in 2023 and people happened method again in March at Daytona Worldwide Speedway. And each have been received by defending class champion Tyler O’Hara and his Indian Motorbike/Progressive/Mission Meals-backed Indian FTR1200.
O’Hara’s profitable run at Daytona places him 14 factors away from his teammate Jeremy McWilliams, who in flip is 12 factors forward of Grey Space Racing’s Mark Worth and his KTM 890 DUKE R. Worth was eighth in race one at Daytona and third in race two. McWilliams returned to Northern Eire with third- and second-place finishes to indicate for his journey to Florida.
Roland Sands Design/Indian Motorbike’s Bobby Fong was second in race one at Daytona however failed to complete race two. Fong might be pulling double responsibility at Ridge Motorsports Park as he can even be racing within the Medallia Superbike class.
Royal Enfield Construct. Practice. Race. – Moore Wins To Come?
After two dominating performances within the opening spherical of the Royal Enfield championship at Highway America, it doesn’t seem as of but that anybody will have the ability to problem Maryland’s Mikayla Moore. Moore didn’t simply win these two races; she annihilated the competitors and didn’t appear to place a wheel fallacious in her Construct. Practice. Race. debut.
If anybody can rise to the problem it’s more likely to be final yr’s champion Kayleigh Buyck. Buyck failed to complete race one at Highway America, however she was the closest competitors to Moore in race two, ending 11.7 seconds behind, after Moore had received race one by 17.2 seconds.
Texan Crystal Martinez, who like Buyck is in her second yr of Royal Enfield racing, is second within the factors after two podium finishes at Highway America. She trails Moore by 17 factors and is simply 4 factors forward of Utah’s Aubrey Credaroli.
Pre-Ridge Help Class Notes
Final yr’s two Supersport races at Ridge Motorsports Park have been received by Josh Herrin, who went on to assert the 2022 MotoAmerica Supersport Championship for the Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati workforce. Herrin beat Rocco Landers and Sam Lochoff in race one earlier than beating Tyler Scott and Kevin Olmedo in race two. Herrin has moved to the Medallia Superbike class for 2023 the place he at present sits third within the championship.
Anthony Mazziotto swept to a doubleheader wins within the REV’IT! Twins Cup class final yr with the New Jerseyan beating Kaleb De Keyrel and Hayden Schultz in race one and Schultz and Cody Wyman in race two.
The category with essentially the most entries at Ridge Motorsports Park this yr? Mission Tremendous Hooligan Nationwide Championship with 35 riders set to do battle on each Saturday and Sunday. Eight of these 35 entries are from the Pacific Northwest states of Washington and Oregon with 10 Californians driving up the coast to compete in Shelton.
About MotoAmerica
MotoAmerica is North America’s premier bike street racing collection. Established in 2014, MotoAmerica is residence to the AMA Superbike Championship in addition to extra lessons together with Supersport, Inventory 1000, Twins Cup, Junior Cup, and King Of The Baggers. MotoAmerica is an affiliate of KRAVE Group LLC, a partnership together with three-time 500cc World Champion, two-time AMA Superbike Champion, and AMA Corridor of Famer Wayne Rainey; ex-racer and former supervisor of Crew Roberts Chuck Aksland; motorsports advertising government Terry Karges; and businessman Richard Varner. For extra info, please go to www.MotoAmerica.com and observe MotoAmerica on Fb, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube.
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