Mathew Scholtz was having a hell of a season on his Westby Racing Yamaha YZF-R1. Right up until the point when he wasn't. It all went horribly wrong at Indianapolis Motor Speedway when Scholtz and Cameron Beaubier crashed and Beaubier's bike struck Scholtz' leg. The result was surgery, the end of the South African's season and a lot of off-season rehab. But that was then and this is now and Scholtz has recovered and is ready to get down to the business of competing for the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship in 2021. We talked to Scholtz on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to chat about last year and the season to come. 

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Jake Lewis will be back in the MotoAmerica paddock in 2021 after sitting out the majority of the 2020 series. Lewis is set to headline the Altus Motorsports team, racing a Suzuki GSX-R1000 in both Stock 1000 and the Superbike Cup in the HONOS Superbike class. We spoke to the Kentuckian for this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to discuss everything from Lewis' job as a UPS driver to the coming season of MotoAmerica racing. 

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Jeff Purk is the racing dentist. That's right.  A dentist. When he's not blazing around racetracks as a regular in the MotoAmerica Series, Purk is a practicing dentist in Iowa. We caught up with "the racing dentist" this week for our 118th episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to see what it takes to do two completely different things - dentistry and motorcycle racing. 

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The highs and the lows for PJ Jacobsen in 2020 were definitely more on the low end of the scale. After winning the opening round of the MotoAmerica Stock 100 Series at Road America 1, Jacobsen had a frightening crash when he had to jump off his Ducati at speed when it caught fire during morning warmup for round two. The result were serious burns to Jacobsen's lower body. The New Yorker tried to come back at Road Atlanta, but the injuries were too severe for him to continue. So just like that his season was over. We caught up with Jacobsen this week for Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to see how he's doing and what his future plans consist of. 

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2017 MotoAmerica Superstock 600 Champion Jason Aguilar finished on the Supersport podium three times in 2020 en route to fourth in the championship. This week, Aguilar announced that six years of racing a 600 are behind him as the Californian made the it public that he was going Superbike racing in 2021. Aguilar will race a RiderzLaw-backed Yamaha YZF-R1 in the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship and we caught up with him to talk about his plans and aspirations in this episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. 

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Richard Stanboli's Attack Performance team took over the official Yamaha Superbike team for the 2020 MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike Championship and they hit the ground running with Cameron Beaubier riding the team's Yamaha YZF-R1 to his first MotoAmerica Superbike title while his teammate Jake Gagne ended the series in second. Those familiar with Stanboli and his previous teams weren't totally surprised, but a one-two in his first season with the team was impressive. We caught up with Stanboli for this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to chat about everything from Cameron Beaubier to the Superbike electronics and everything in between.

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Not many can say they are "living their best life" in 2020, but Garrett Gerloff most certainly is. The Texan ended up 11th in his debut season of World Superbike racing, scoring three podiums near the end of the season - including a second-place finish in Portugal. If that wasn't enough, Gerloff got the call to go ride Valentino Rossi's Yamaha M1 for a day at the Valencia circuit in Spain when Rossi tested positive for COVID-19. And he made the best of that with an impressive outing in the rain in the first session and an even more impressive outing on a drying track in the afternoon session. Although he didn't get to race, everybody in the MotoGP paddock now knows who Garrett Gerloff is and that could pay dividends in the years to come. We interrupted Gerloff's cycling for some insight into his season on this episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

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A three-time AMA 750 Supersport Champion, 1992 AMA Superbike Champion, 1993 World Superbike Champion, a two-time 500cc Grand Prix podium finisher, Suzuka 8 Hour winner... oh and five-time Daytona 200 winner, Scott Russell had a hell of a career. Now a competitive cyclist, we caught up with Mr.  Daytona for this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to talk about the past, the present and the future. 

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Keith McCarty, Motorsports Racing Division Manager for Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., is retiring from his position after 44 years. He joined Carruthers and Bice on this episode of Off Track to talk about his incredible career in which he worked with legendary racers from Bob "Hurricane" Hannah to Josh "Hurricane" Hayes. We also asked him about his love of road racing and the important part he played in developing riders like Garrett Gerloff and Cameron Beaubier into champions and world-class stars. You won't want to miss this one.

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2008 AMA Formula Xtreme Champion and a five-time AMA Superbike race winner, Jake Zemke had a stellar racing career that lasted for some 18 seasons. And the always-smiling Zemke is still in the MotoAmerica paddock as the manager of several current racers and the manager, rider coach and confidant of five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier.  We caught up with Zemke for this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to discuss his career and his relationship with Beaubier and the rest of his clients.

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