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Niccoló Canepa is a two-time World Endurance Champion, a test rider for Yamaha, and a riding coach for Yamaha's World Superbike team. This week, Canepa has his race face on as he prepares to battle, along with his two World Endurance YART Yamaha teammates, in Daytona 200 for the first time. We caught up with Canepa this week at Daytona International Speedway for the newest Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podcast to talk about his three different careers in racing and more.

JD Beach is back as a full-time MotoAmerica Superbike racer for the 2024 season and he couldn't be happier. Armed with a Tytlers Cycle Racing BMW M 1000 RR, Beach is confident of being in the fight at the front of the Steel Commander Superbike pack when the series gets rolling at Road Atlanta in April, and he can't wait for the season to get started. We caught up with Beach from his rental house in Florida where he has been training with former flat track teammate Dallas Daniels and others to chat about the coming season, his new bike and much more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

Rocco Landers can breathe easy for the first time in his short but successful career as he will show up to Daytona International Speedway with a contract to race for one of the best teams in the paddock - Vance & Hines Motorsports. Landers, who at just 19 has 48 MotoAmerica wins (29 in Junior Cup, 15 in Twins Cup and four in Supersport) on his resume, will make his debut in the Mission King Of The Baggers class on a RevZilla/Mission/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson at Daytona while also hoping to continue his previous success in the BellissiMoto Twins Cup Series on a new RevZilla/Mission/Vance & Hines Suzuki GSX-8R. We chatted with Landers on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to chat about all that and more.

Peter Hickman is the all-time Isle of Man TT lap record holder at 136.358 mph. He's also won 13 TTs, putting him ninth all-time. And now he's coming to Daytona International Speedway to race in his first Daytona 200 on his PHR Performance Triumph. We caught up with the Brit during his pre-Daytona visit to Texas and the Colin Edwards Texas Tornado Boot Camp to talk about his Daytona debut. For obvious reasons, we also couldn't resist finding out all we could about the Isle of Man TT  for this week's Off Track With Carruthers And Bice Podcast.

So, who is Troy Herfoss, you ask? The newest member of the Indian Motorcycle/Progressive/Mission Foods team is a three-time Australian Superbike Champion, an AMA Supermoto Champion (during Supermoto’s heyday) and an XGames silver medalist in Supermoto. And now he’s making a change. A big change. With his debut set to come in the Mission King Of The Baggers races at Daytona, Herfoss will embark on a new journey. He will be racing in a new series, in a new country and on a completely different type of motorcycle than he’s ever raced before. We caught up with the Aussie to chat about all that and more as we close in on his debut at Daytona in March.

Alex Arango may end up being the busiest man in the MotoAmerica paddock during the 2024 season. With a gaggle of as many as eight riders on his TopPro Motorsports team, including former MotoAmerica Supersport Champion Sean Dylan Kelly, Arango will also be joining Kelly on the team's BMW M 1000 RRs in the Steel Commander Superbike Championship. We caught up with Arango from his dealership in Florida to talk about his plans for the team and much more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

Jake Lewis will be busy doing what he loves most this coming MotoAmerica season... racing motorcycles and living life in the paddock. And he'll definitely be spinning a lot of laps with the Kentuckian set to grid up in three drastically different classes this season - Mission King Of The Baggers, Supersport and Super Hooligan National Championship. To be ready for the challenge his Altus Motorsports (Supersport) and Team Saddlemen teams (Baggers and Hooligan), Lewis has been busy training and to carry less weight on his big frame. We chatted with Lewis to talk about all of that and more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. There are times when a racer wins a championship and finds himself without a ride for the following year. It happens to the best of them, including Wayne Rainey who won a Superbike title for Kawasaki only to watch as the team disbanded for the following season. Well, Xavi Forés finds himself in the unenviable position of looking for a ride after winning the 2023 MotoAmerica Supersport title. We caught up with the Spaniard to talk about that and more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

MotoGP and World Superbike star, Danilo Petrucci, drops in for a chat about the season ahead and takes in some listener questions. Every Thursday, Greg Haines gets the latest news, results and opinions from the world of motorcycle racing.

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Cameron Petersen had a horrible 2023 season in the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship with a badly injured wrist ruining his year. With surgery and rehab behind him, Petersen is ready for the 2024 Steel Commander Superbike series and his testing program starts next week in Arizona. We caught up with the South African for this week's Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podcast to discuss the injury, the season past and his excitement for getting back to the MotoAmerica paddock and back on his Yamaha YZF-R1 Superbike.

To say that Ben Gloddy had a rough 2023 MotoAmerica season would be an understatement. As one of the favorites to challenge for the Twins Cup Championship, Gloddy's season unraveled before it really got started as a crash in the first race of the season at Daytona left him with severe injuries. It wasn't until the final round of the season at New Jersey Motorsports Park that Gloddy returned to action and his results were impressive with fourth- and fifth-place finishes in the two races. We caught up wtih Gloddy this week to chat about the good and the bad of 2023 on this episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

Josh Herrin has been around a long time and he's hopeful of being around a lot longer. Using his old teammate Josh Hayes for inspiration, Herrin says he would like to race for another 10 years. in 2023, Herrin finished second in the 2023 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship with two wins and 12 podiums on the Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati NYC Panigale V4 R and although he's not completely sure what his plans are for 2024, it's seemingly a lock that he will be on the same team for the coming season. We caught up with Herrin from his Murrieta, California, to talk about the seasons past and the year ahead on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

Graham Rahal is the co-owner of the Rahal Ducati Moto team that will make its MotoAmerica debut in the Daytona 200 in March. At just 34 years old, Rahal is not only a six-time winner in IndyCar, but he's also a hugely successful business owner, including his ownership of Ducati Indianapolis and Ducati Cleveland. He's a die-hard motorcycle fanatic and loves the Ducati brand. In 76 days, his new team of PJ Jacobsen, Corey Alexander and Kayla Yaakov will take their Rahal Ducati Moto Panigale V2s on track at a MotoAmerica event for the first time in the opening practice session for the Daytona 200. We got the chance to chat with Rahal for this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

MotoAmerica fans got good news this week with the announcement that 2021 MotoAmerica Supersport Champion Sean Dylan Kelly will return to the series in 2024. Even better news was the fact that Kelly will do so on a TopPro Racing BMW M 1000 RR in the premier Steel Commander Superbike Championship. We caught up with the Floridian this week for the Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podcast to talk about his return to MotoAmerica after a two-year stint in the Moto2 World Championship.

Avery Dreher burst onto the scene in a big way in 2023. The 17 year old earned his first Junior Cup podium in style in the opening round with a win at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. From there he didn't look back, winning the next day and taking four wins out of the first five races of the season. Dreher wrapped up the title early, ending the year 43 points clear of his nearest competitor. We caught up with the Floridian to chat about his championship-winning season and more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

Seventeen-year-old Blake Davis isn't messing around. The Virginian started his MotoAmerica career as soon as he turned 14, making his debut at Road Atlanta with a ninth-place finish. Davis finished 10th in the 2020 Junior Cup Championship and was eighth in the 2021 title chase. But it mattered not. Although Davis didn't win a race and didn't win a title, hanging around in Junior Cup wasn't in his plan so he jumped up to Twins Cup and won the title in his first attempt. This past season he defended that title but now it's on to bigger things as he moves up to Supersport. We talked to the talented youngster on this week's Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podcast to learn more about his rapid ascension and a goal of being MotoAmerica Superbike Champion.

With three Junior Cup victories and multiple podium finishes on his resume, it's time for Max Van to make a move up in class and he will do exactly that with a jump to the MotoAmerica Supersport Championship in 2024. Max took time out of his job as sales manager for his father's company, SportbikeTrackGear.com, to chat with us about the past, the present the future, his love of doing pushups, snowmobiling and his other off-track activities on this week's Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

Joe LaMandri Jr. is an up-and-coming MotoAmerica rider who made his Supersport debut earlier this year as a fill-in rider for the injured Michael Gilbert. We chatted with the native New Yorker on the eve of his home race at New Jersey Motorsports Park to discuss the move up in class and more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. 

Dallas Daniels recently finished second to nine-time AMA Grand National Champion Jared Mees in the 2023 AFT Mission Twins Championship. But this weekend, Daniels is back in the MotoAmerica Championship for the first time since 2019 as he's set to race in the REV'IT! Twins Cup class on an Estenson Racing Yamaha YZF-R7 at New Jersey Motorsports Park. We caught up with the former Junior Cup racer to talk about his season in flat track, his love of road racing, and all things motorcycles.

The guys welcome 19-year-old professional motorcycle road racer, and youngest member of the Royal Enfield - Build, Train, Race program to the show. Having grown up in her dad's garage turning wrenches and riding on the track since she could walk, Mikayla was a shoo-in for the cutting edge race program and has proved she's the one to beat on the track.

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