Rahal Ducati Moto's PJ Jacobsen rolls into this weekend's penultimate round of the MotoAmerica Supersport Championship trailing his season-long rival Mathew Scholtz by 25 points. To have any real chance of taking the title, Jacobsen probably needs to win all four of the remaining races, including this week's two races at Circuit of The America. We caught up with Jacobsen prior to the start of the weekend to chat about the title chase, his first season with the Rahal team, his two dynamic passes in Supersport racing at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, and more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

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Strack Racing's Mathew Scholtz heads to Circuit of The Americas in Austin Texas, next week with a 25-point lead in the 2024 MotoAmerica Supersport Championship. Left without a ride when the Westby Racing Superbike team folded at the end of last season, Scholtz took a step back to race in the Supersport class. And  it's worked to perfection. The South African, who now calls Georgia home, has won seven races and has stood on the podium in 13 of 14 races. He's also had some battles royale with his rival in the title chase, PJ Jacobsen. We caught up with Scholtz prior to the final two rounds of the title chase to talk about his season, the rivalry with Jacobsen, his past, and his future on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

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If you want to learn more about the black art of motorcycle racing tires, then listening to his episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice is a must. The guys are joined this week by Dunlop Senior Race Technician Tony Romo, who does a great job of explaining Dunlop's role in the MotoAmerica paddock, why tires work, how they work and everything in between.

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This week's Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podcast features a chat with five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier between sessions at the Dunlop Official test day at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Thursday, the eve of the series' return to the iconic track for round seven of the MotoAmerica Championship, August 16-18. Beaubier talks about returning to the site of one of his 2014 victories, his season thus far, his heel injury and much more.

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Spend any time with Larry Pegram and there's one thing that's certain - you're gonna laugh. But in case you don't know, Pegram is no joke when it comes to racing a motorcycle. Any kind of motorcycle. Case in point: Pegram has won three AMA Superbike races and multiple AMA Grand National Flat Tracks. At the ripe young age of 51, Pegram recently raced in the MotoAmerica Supersport class at our WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca round, finishing 15th and 11th in the two races. Next weekend, August 16-18, Pegram is going to throw his leg over the TopPro Suzuki GSX-R750 again as MotoAmerica brings the series back to Pegram's home track of Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. We chatted with Pegram about his racing, past and present, his new challenge of racing cars with his teenaged daughter, and his highly successful business, Pure Ohio Wellness, in this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

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Richie Alexander has been round the racing block more than a few times and always with success. Let's see... the New Yorker raced, winning an AMA Supersport Championship in 1998, he was instrumental in bringing Michael Jordan into the AMA paddock as a team owner, he's managed teams with his nephew Corey Alexander as the rider, and he's currently playing a big role in helping Rahal Ducati Moto succeed it in its first year of MotoAmerica racing with PJ Jacobsen, Kayla Yaakov and Corey Alexander all in the top six in the current Supersport Championship. Additionally, Alexander and his family own and operate Hudson Valley Motorcycles in Ossing, New York, the oldest continually running motorcycle dealership in the country. We caught up with  the life-long motorcyclist for this episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to talk about all that and more.

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If you race motorcycles in the MotoAmerica Championship, chances are you have Dr. Tom Bryan's phone number on speed dial. If you don't, you should. Bryan is basically our surgeon to the stars and his list of patients reads like a who's who of motorcycle racing. We caught up with Bryan for this week's Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to talk about things of which  we had very little knowledge. And we're now the wiser for it.

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Intelligent and well-spoken, Jayson Uribe may be the perfect podcast guest. He's also pretty handy on a motorcycle. Oh, and he's also a fire fighter and an entrepreneur. We caught up with Uribe hot off his two second-place finishes in the Stock 1000 class at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca and leading into a break for the Californian before the Stock 1000 Championship showdown at New Jersey Motorsports Park in September for this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. 

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Ben Spies modestly calls himself the "team mascot" for the Rahal Ducati Moto team in the MotoAmerica Supersport Series but, with all self-deprecation aside, Spies plays a big role in the success of the newest team in the paddock. We caught up with Spies on the eve of the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca round of the championship to discuss the team's success and more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

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Scoring points in the MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Championship isn’t an easy accomplishment these days. Case in point: Last year only 34 riders scored at least one point in the title chase and 64 of them tried at least once. If you’re a privateer racing well behind the likes of Hayden Gillim, you’re working towards earning those valuable championship points. Red Lobo Racing’s Manny Segura is one of those riders who scored points last year and is trying to do the same this year. We were able to track Segura down for a chat this week of the newest episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

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