Cameron Beaubier and Toni Elias: The Champions of Utah

MotoAmerica reaches enters final straight with checkered flag in sight

The racing may be fast and furious, but the beautiful mountainous backdrop will leave spectators cool, calm and collected.

The MotoAmerica jamboree is heading to Salt Lake City Utah Motorsports Campus for round seven of the competition, the third-to-last of the season. That means that motorbike matters are starting to become a touch serious with four riders currently weaving through the chicanes of supremacy in the superbike standings.

Cameron Beaubier is still top of the tree with six race wins this season, but being pushed hard by Josh Hayes, Roger Hayden and Tony Elias. The tarmac-chomping quartet is only separated by a total of 19 points. Hayden and Elias are the riders in form with one victory apiece in the last round in Alabama. Hayden himself was most pleased with what ended up being the rider’s first MotoAmerica win in his career. “I have a lot of confidence right now in myself, the team and everybody so I'm looking forward to it," declared the Yoshimura Suzuki rider.

If Elias and Hayden have the form, then Josh Hayes has the history with the road-racing legend winning both races in Utah last year despite a hot pursuit from current reigning champion, Cameron Beaubier. The race for supremacy in Salt Lake City and the superbike standings continues on Friday and Saturday.

Jack Miller Claims First Career MotoGP Win

Valentino Rossi looks to prove he is still the master of Assen

The MotoGP season may be closing in on the halfway point of the campaign with most manic riders and biggest beasts of bikes heading to Assen, Netherlands, but the drama is not slowing down for a second. No siree, Bob.

It is the usual suspects at the top of the standings, led by Marc Marquez, but Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi are hot on the Spaniards heels - or exhaust pipe perhaps - after a remarkably dramatic Catalan GP which saw a victory for Rossi and Lorenzo taken off the track by a clumsy Andrea Iannone, something that almost certainly still smarts a little. The ‘Doctor’ is very much in the house in the Netherlands, a track where Rossi has had seven premier class wins, including the epic victory from 2015 which saw the start of the current standings leader, Marquez.

This leaves Rossi just 22 points off his Spanish rival at the top and looking to continue the form which saw the Italian best the rest of the field in Barcelona. “I love Assen, it is one of my favorite tracks,” announced the Movistar Yamaha rider. And the Assen track loves Rossi, too.