Chris Fillmore of Oxford, Mich., has won the 2011 AMA Pro Vance & Hines XR1200 Championship.
Fillmore ended the season on a victorious note, winning the 2011 AMA Pro Road Racing season finale at New Jersey Motorsports Park. The Bruce Rossmeyer/Geico racer finished the season with five wins and eight podium appearances in nine races in the Harley-Davidson XR1200 spec racing series. Fillmore finished the season with 231 points, ahead of runner-up Steve Rapp’s 202 points.
The July 8-10 Mid-Ohio round of the 2011 AMA Superbike series featured the debut of two new superbikes, the Erik Buell Racing 1190RS and the KTM RC8R Race Spec.
Chris Fillmore (11) finished an impressive seventh place in a red-flagged Race One for KTM-HMC Racing while Geoff May (99) placed eleventh on the Amsoil EBR 1190RS. The second race saw both riders finish in the top ten with Fillmore in ninth and May in the ten spot.
KTM announced it will race a full factory entry in three rounds of the 2011 AMA Superbike Championship.
The Austrian manufacturer is teaming up with HMC Racing and racer Chris Fillmore to enter the series with the KTM 1190 RC8 R Race Spec.
HMC Racing owner Mitch Hansen and KTM have worked together in the past, winning ten national Supermoto titles together. Hansen also played a major role in the U.S. Red Bull Rookies Cup which featured KTM racebikes. Fillmore raced for two seasons on the HMC KTM Supermoto team, finishing second overall in the 2008 championship.
