For more information on MotoAmerica, visit www.MotoAmerica.com. Asked about the situation regarding the American Racing Team, the Californian said, “I think it’s a great opportunity for American Racing. Click here for all the latest MotoGP news. AHRMA Announces 2021 Tentative Roadrace Schedule, Indian Motorcycle and RSD Enter King Of The Baggers, 2021 Mama Tried Show and Race Announcement, Klock Werks Sponsoring Travis Wyman Racing BMW at MotoAmerica Season Finale, GEICO Motorcycle Announced as 2020 EnduroCross Title Sponsor, Trystan Hart Signs With FMF KTM Factory Racing Team Through 2023. ”. Joe Roberts is changing teams. The 2019 season marked the first time now WorldSBK-bound Garrett Gerloff would show his true potential on a 1000cc machine, but it came too late for the Texan to become a force within the championship standings. And at only 26, Beaubier has more than enough time on his side to stake his claim as the greatest domestic Superbike racer of all time. Even so, Beaubier didn’t just go out and demolish the opposition for the remainder of the year. In a statement confirming the departure of Roberts from American Racing that was released on Thursday, team boss Eitan Bitbul mentioned, “a great opportunity to bring over a very strong American talent for the 2021 season has recently come into play.”. There will be some changes within our team, but we will always have the same goal.”. We use cookies and browser activity to improve your experience and personalize both the content and advertising you see. Another man interested in this ride is Cameron Beaubier, who is not particularly young at 27 but who, having won the MotoAmerica no three occasions, in … Beaubier has long been linked with a move to the World Superbike Championship and has made his desire to step up from the national scene known. Yet by the sixth round of the series in Laguna Seca, he was 39 points adrift. Rennie Scaysbrook is our Road Test Editor. Comment 2. “One thing I will say—we struggled a little bit here and there with some stuff—but I am pretty proud that I was able to settle for a second or third, or a fourth at times because, in the past, I would end up in crashing in the gravel trap. “Everything kind of fell into our hands at Barber,” said Beaubier. After a tough season in 2019 using an uncompetitive KTM chassis, the squad has proved itself to be competitive in 2020 with Roberts scoring three pole positions and a debut grand prix podium at Brno. Photography by Brian J Nelson. A lifetime rider, the Aussie made the trek across the Pacific to live the dream in the U.S. of A. He’s a legend,” says Beaubier. Cameron Beaubier Headed to WorldSBK for 2019? Looking on to 2020, it’s all change in Yamaha, as the official factory-run team is no more, putting an end to one of the most dominant outfits in American Superbike history with four titles each for Hayes and Beaubier and one for Josh Herrin. That desire to compete abroad came at just the right time, as the American Racing Team were spun into action to replace the outgoing Roberts. We just kept pushing each other in all the practices and races. For the fourth time in five years, we find ourselves chatting with Monster Energy Yamaha’s Cameron Beaubier as the premier Superbike racer in the United States. As it turns out, the gods were smiling on Cameron Beaubier and the Monster Energy Yamaha team. Pole position, fastest lap, and two race wins, both of which after a come-from-behind charge, put him in the best possible place with regards to the championship. That goal will be another Cycle News interview, a by-product of fifth MotoAmerica Superbike Championship in six years, which, if it comes true, is a record only bettered by Mat Mladin, who took six titles in seven years with his seventh and final title coming in his last season of 2009. CN. Click here for all the latest Road Racing news. “Stanboli has those electronics dialed, plus some other parts like his custom tank and subframe. As reported earlier this week, Roberts confirmed on Thursday he will join Italtrans in 2021. Cameron Beaubier is finally leaving MotoAmerica for the world stage, with reports putting the American in the Moto2 paddock, with the aptly named … In a statement confirming the departure of Roberts from American Racing that was released on Thursday, team boss Eitan Bitbul mentioned, “a great opportunity to bring over a very strong American talent for the 2021 season has recently come into … Like. Cameron Beaubier moves to Moto2, Joe Roberts changes teams Off-season moves in the roadracing scene . Rennie Scaysbrook | Road Test Editor Share. “To be able to come back after that was going to be tough, especially for how strong Toni was at the beginning and middle of the season. He is a nice guy and I think next year it would be interesting to see him on a Moto2 bike because he has been on Superbikes for a long time. By Jensen Beeler 07/03/2018 No Comments. Beaubier will thus be running for Attack Performance run by Richard Stanboli out of Huntington Beach, alongside a new teammate in former WorldSBK rider and Superstock 1000 Champion Jake Gagne, as Gerloff heads to Europe as part of the GRT Yamaha squad to partner Italian Federico Caricasulo in World Superbike. Cameron Beaubier with outgoing crew chief Rick Hobbs. I just had to put my head down after that. You just got to keep your head down and keep chipping away. One of the few moto journalists based on the East Coast, Ron Lieback joined the motorcycle industry as a freelancer in 2007, and is currently Online Editor at Ultimate Motorcycling. Beaubier (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019) Josh Herrin (2013) Finishing runner up in both Barber races was Beaubier’s factory Yamaha teammate, Garrett Gerloff. We’re on the same bike, and if he’s going a few 10ths faster than me, or if I’m going a few 10ths faster than him, it would elevate our game throughout the season. Cameron Beaubier proved the value of self-belief in 2019, turning around what seemed an unassailable deficit into a last-round, last-race championship victory. “I think that was really good for me because we kind of fed off each other. If he needs a tow next year, then I am happy to help!”. He would lose the championship lead he held since round one at the final race of the year by just five points. Winning the title had extra meaning for Beaubier as a going-away present for Hobbs, who has crewed for everyone from Jamie James, Steve Crevier, Eric Bostrom, Kurtis Roberts, Alex and Aaron Gobert, Josh Hayes, and the late Nicky Hayden. OMG Racing Announce Isle of Man TT Debut With James Hillier and David Johnson. That put us a little bit back in it, at least in sniffing distance.”. What followed was unthinkable—crashing out in race one at his home round of Sonoma, which gave Elias a massive 59-point advantage heading into Sunday’s race two. I was glad that I was able to say to myself at times, ‘I don’t have it today,’ or ‘my bike doesn’t have it today,’ and bring home a third or something like that. “We were kind of struggling, but we just kept digging, we never gave up. For the fourth time in five years, we find ourselves chatting with Monster Energy Yamaha’s Cameron Beaubier as the premier Superbike racer in the United States. That particular avenue was closed, however, as Pata Yamaha selected Andrea Locatelli to partner Toprak Razgatlioglu. He didn’t try to race me or nothing, so that was cool. A first victory was also a very real possibility at last weekend’s French Grand Prix before. He won both races there last year. As recently as September he said, “If I got that Pata (Yamaha) opportunity (in World Superbike), I would jump all over it.”. Tweet. “The first day, I felt so good,” Beaubier says, recounting one of those ties where it feels like you’re riding in slow motion, and everything happens easy. He is also the author of "365 to Vision: Modern Writer's Guide (How to Produce More Quality Writing in Less Time). Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email. Copyright 2020 CycleNews. We use cookies and browser activity to improve your experience and personalize both the content and advertising you see. “That Attack bike is freaking good,” Beaubier says with a laugh. Zac / @kawazacky 10/19/2020. Copyright 2020 CycleNews. Beaubier clinched his fifth national Superbike title at Indianapolis last weekend and it appears he is the rider most likely to fill the vacant seat in the American Racing squad across to the intermediate category on the world stage. “This year, it was really good mentally, I feel like,” Beaubier said. And this year had it all—a maturing and sometimes threatening teammate in Garrett Gerloff, an old rival in Toni Elias, and a points deficit to turn around that looked near impossible with three rounds to go. Every year he’s been really competitive at Barber, so it was not like the normal Toni I’ve been used to seeing.”. Moto2, Priority, Racing, Roadracing. [Garrett] Gerloff took care of me. “It was really cool being able to wrap the championship up for Hobbs in his last year because he’s a legend. Cameron Beaubier Claims 4th MotoAmerica Superbike Title on R1, Midwest Triumph Ride-In: Clouds and Showers Couldn’t Overpower the Event, 2019 Indian Chieftain Recall: Unsafe Bright Tail Light, 2021 KTM 890 Adventure First Look (9 Fast Facts with Specs and Photos), 2021 Husqvarna Rockstar Edition Enduros First Look: TE 300i + FE 350, 2021 Honda Grom First Look: 5-Speed and More HP.

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