MotoAmerica Off Track with Carruthers and Bice – Details, episodes & analysis

Mathew Scholtz is a happy guy. And he should be. The South African is coming off an 11-win season in which he earned his second successive MotoAmerica Supersport title, and the end result of those two years of domination have led him back to the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship for the 2026 season. A five-time MotoAmerica Superbike race winner, Scholtz will be aboard a Yamaha YZF-R1 with the team that helped him win the past two Supersport titles - Strack Racing. Scholtz knows that the task is a big one, but he's ready for the challenge as the team gets closer to starting its off-season testing program. We caught up with Scholtz from his home in Georgia to discuss the year that was and the year to come on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

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MotoAmerica COO Chuck Aksland joins us on this episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice from the season finale at New Jersey Motorsports Park to talk about the recently completed 2025 MotoAmerica Championship, making the Daytona 200 a points-paying race, Superbike and Superbike Cup rules, the 2026 schedule and much more.

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Motorcycle companies aren’t normally owned by engineers, but maybe they should be. Joe Karvonen is the owner of Krämer Motorcycles U.S.A. and he’s an engineer who learned his trade at the Motorcycle Mechanics Institute. He’s also a club racer and a track-day rider. A perfect fit for a company that manufactures track-day and race bikes, including the purpose-built Krämer APX-350 MA that is being raced in MotoAmerica’s new Parts Unlimited By Motul Talent Cup. We caught up with Karvonen at the recent Road America round to talk about Krämer, the Talent Cup, and much more on this week’s episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. 

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This week's podcast episode is a special one, and not just because we recorded it at Road America. Carruthers and Bice had the distinct pleasure of talking to motorcycle road racing legend Freddie Spencer, who is currently in charge of Royal Enfield's Build. Train. Race. program, which has its first round this weekend at Road America. Spencer is also Chairman of the Track Stewards in MotoGP, so we also discussed that important role. And, we couldn't let Spencer go without discussing his incredible racing career, highlighted by his double GP Championship in 1985 in both 250cc and 500cc. This is definitely a must-see episode, so check it out.

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We have something a little different for this week’s episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice as we’ve brought in MotoAmerica Operations Manager Niccole Cox and Race Director Rick Hobbs to discuss the "controversial"  incidents at MotoAmerica’s Barber Motorsports Park round last weekend. We’ve seen and heard from the teams and riders involved and thought it appropriate to hear from those who made the decisions that have been criticized. 

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Xavi Fores had a perfect beginning to his MotoAmerica Supersport season at Road Atlanta with victories in both races and a perfect 50-point tally at the top of the championship. This weekend, the Spaniard will do battle with America's best on an unfamiliar racetrack - Barber Motorsports Park, the site of what will be the first of the two "extended" Supersport races that will feature mandatory pit stops. Fores has plenty of experience on a variety of motorcycles on a variety of racetracks around the world and he also has endurance-racing experience. So don't expect him to struggle. We caught up with the likeable Fores for this week's Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podcast to talk about new MotoAmerica adventure.

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Gabriel Da Silva pulled off the surprise of the weekend in the 2021 MotoAmerica Championship finale when he won the Supersport race in a downpour at Barber Motorsports Park. Da Silva was the talk of the town after beating the man who had just won the Supersport title - Sean Dylan Kelly. But just as quickly as he arrived on the scene, Da Silva was gone and surprisingly not a part of the 2022 MotoAmerica season. Well, now he's back and will compete for the Stock 1000 Championship and the Superbike Cup on a Steel Commander Corp.-backed Kawasaki ZX-10R. We chatted with Da Silva about that wet Sunday in Alabama and his plans for the 2023 season on this week's edition of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

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The Mission Mini Cup By Motul series kicks off May 5-6 at Carolina Motorsports Park in South Carolina with some new classes and a new series manager, Cory Texter. A two-time AMA Production Twins Champion, Texter recently retired from racing and will be focusing his efforts on his new gig as Mini Cup series manager and the off-season flat track races he promotes via Cory Texter Productions. We caught up with Texter for this week's Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podcast to discuss his new role, the new classes in the series, and more. 

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Jake Gagne's defense of his MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship begins today at Michelin Raceway Laguna Seca with the two-time champ hoping to make it three straight titles. We caught up with Gagne at Road Atlanta on the eve of the opening round to chat about that and more on this episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

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Benjamin Smith has been racing in the MotoAmerica Championship for seven years and his list of accomplishments includes winning the 2017 KTM RC Cup Championship. Next week, Smith will embark on his biggest challenge to date when he makes his Superbike debut in the 2023 MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship season opener at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. We caught up with Smith for this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to talk about his Superbike debut, MotoAmerica seasons past and the fact that he will earn his college degree from Penn State in early May. 

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