MotoAmerica | Silly Season | 2025

And Honda is all in again in racing this season

 

I'd like to announce I will pay $250,000.00 to the winner of any 2025 MA SBK race while riding an eligible Yamaha model.*

Spoiler

only if you ride a 1978 TZ750, bone stock.

Wanted to equal/better Honda's SBK contingency for MA SBK.

 

Honda has had pretty good contingency lately so no surprises there. Lmfao they prob weren’t banking on HG doing so well in it.

that’s their problem and I hope he makes 100k on contingencies alone.

 

A big difference is Steve Polk. I had the privilege of working side by side with him an as an engines guy there’s ain’t much better.

hes basically the guy that made the Harley Xg 750 from a 40hp street beginner bike to a full on double over head cam, 4 valve heads. Making over 100hp to the rear.

yea I know in STK you can’t do all that but just saying, I feel like a pretty damn bright engine guy and I felt like I was in elementary school and he was at Harvard.

 

You nailed it, the class rules hamstring builders to keep costs inline. Not a complaint, it’s just the basis for those who wanna ride a literbike but not find $1.3 mill a season to do it.
IMO you could have Pops Yoshimura, Jeremy Burgess, Guy Coulon, and Terry Vance all working on it and without the ability to go full SB - you’re still ending up short on performance but also, the real drawback is the extremely basic electronics package it has which means premature tire wear and a VERY lively machine to handle vs just twisting the go stick and letting the computer save your ass.

 

No one has brought one yet but the CBR600RR was re homologated by Honda through 2032. It's allowed a the full Moto2 engine essentially (Spec HRC head and Cams). I've seen legit dyno print outs of them making 140hp at the wheel.

Thing is you'd need to import a Euro or Japanese model as the NA model didn't get the update, yet.

 

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I believe the GSX-R is allowed the Yoshimura ECU

 

It's not part of Honda's MotoAmerica contingency program so I doubt anyone would go through the trouble.

https://hondaridered.com/events/serie/677c2235d2436e15fe3c47a3

 

Makes sense since the North Ame I can model didn't get the "race" upgrades that the Euro and Jap one did. Still a damn good, well understood chassis that has its only flaw (lack of power) solved by the HRC spec kit.

Seems like a good privateer option.

 

Honda is seemingly putting more effort into their WSSP program this season. If that goes well I suspect it'll make it's ways stateside

 

Thinking there is a chance we could see HG on the Euro model in the 200 and at the Loudon Classic.

 

No HG in the 200. No word on the classic yet.

 

Baz announced he's out at WSBK but has different plans to announce soon.

I've heard he was testing a bagger in Florida, an Indian specifically.

 

Man, hope its NOT the Roland Sands bike.

 

Damn, I guess that means he's not coming back to HSBK.

 

Typo, HSBK is what I meant.

 

Ah. I didn't put two and two together anyway haha.

 

Hsbk-1 superbike 2025.

 

Some names to add to supersport based on the early entries for the preseason test
https://www.motoamericaregistration.com/Results/2025/PST/25_1_PST_SSP_P1_entry.pdf

Looks like Max is on the M4 team this year
Aiden back on MP13 MV
Jeff Bean V2

And heard on the Carruthers and Bice podcast that C Black would be running talent cup this year.

 

Good for Aiden and MP13.

What ever happened with Tamburini? He disappeared after some promising results.