MotoAmerica Releases Schedule For Opening Round
The first round of the MotoAmerica series is set to kick off in just over a month, as a support series to MotoGP at the Circuit of the Americas, and the series has now released a schedule for the weekend. The Supersport and combined Superbike/Superstock 1000 classes will be there, with the latter two classes racing twice over the course of the weekend.
Things get rolling for MotoAmerica a day earlier than MotoGP on Thursday, April 9 with the classes set to take part in a 45-minute practice session each (1 to 1:45 p.m. for Superbike/Superstock 1000, 2 to 2:45 p.m. for Supersport) on the opening day of festivities at COTA.
On Friday the racers of MotoAmerica will take to the track two more times with Superbike/Superstock qualifying set to take place from 11:55 a.m. to 12:25 p.m., followed later in the day by a 40-minute qualifying session for Supersport from 4:05 to 4:45 p.m.
Saturday’s MotoAmerica action will start at 7:50 a.m. with a 20 minute Supersport warm-up session with a Superbike/Superstock warm-up session following a few hours later at 11:55 a.m.
At 4:15 on Saturday afternoon the MotoAmerica Series kicks off with its first race of the new era with the Supersport riders doing battle for the first time in their 12-lap final on the 3.4-mile Circuit of the Americas. The Supersport race will be followed on Saturday by the opening round of the MotoAmerica Superbike/Superstock 1000 Series with defending four-time AMA Superbike Champion Josh Hayes beginning his title defense in the first of the two 15-lap Superbike races scheduled for 5 p.m.
On Sunday, the Superbike/Superstock 1000 racers get a warm-up session at 7:50 a.m. with the second of the combined Superbike/Superstock 1000 doubleheader closing out the weekend of action at COTA later that afternoon with a 3:30 p.m. race start.
Tickets can be purchased for all the action at the Circuit of the Americas by clicking on the following link: http://circuitoftheamericas.com/motogp/tickets.
For a complete schedule for the weekend, click on the following link: http://www.motoamerica.com/sites/motoamerica.com/files/attachments/2015/03/2015_cota_schedule-ma.pdf
Troy's been riding motorcycles and writing about them since 2006, getting his start at Rider Magazine. From there, he moved to Sport Rider Magazine before finally landing at Motorcycle.com in 2011. A lifelong gearhead who didn't fully immerse himself in motorcycles until his teenage years, Troy's interests have always been in technology, performance, and going fast. Naturally, racing was the perfect avenue to combine all three. Troy has been racing nearly as long as he's been riding and has competed at the AMA national level. He's also won multiple club races throughout the country, culminating in a Utah Sport Bike Association championship in 2011. He has been invited as a guest instructor for the Yamaha Champions Riding School, and when he's not out riding, he's either wrenching on bikes or watching MotoGP.
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