MotoAmerica, North America’s premier bike street racing sequence, is thrilled to announce that three-time World Champion Kenny Roberts will make a welcome return to American street racing as a staff proprietor within the 2025 Components Limitless Expertise Cup, a championship designed to organize younger North American racers who’ve the need and expertise to compete on the world stage of MotoGP.
Roberts, who was influential as a staff proprietor in getting American street racers Eddie Lawson, Wayne Rainey, John Kocinski, and Kenny Roberts Jr. to be World Champions, is hopeful of giving younger racers the chance to hitch these legends as Grand Prix racers by way of MotoAmerica’s new Expertise Cup program.
Partnering with Fastrack Racing’s Arney Wick, Roberts will initially begin the sequence with one rider and that rider is none apart from three-time American Flat Monitor (AFT) Singles Champion Kody Kopp. Kopp will make his street racing debut within the opening spherical of the Expertise Cup on the MotoGP occasion at Circuit of The Americas, March 28-30, on the KrämerAPX-350 MA.
The Krämer APX-350 MA bike has been particularly designed and engineered for the MotoAmerica Expertise Cup as it’s designed to assist a pipeline from the U.S. circuits straight into the European techniques that finally feed MotoGP groups.
“That is the primary time I can see an avenue the place we will get younger People to MotoGP,” Roberts stated. “Manufacturing bike racing has by no means executed it for me because it’s actually sophisticated since you should be on the suitable bike, and many others. The Expertise Cup will give us the chance to actually see the expertise of the rider. I nonetheless assume dust monitoring is step one, and the Expertise Cup offers us an opportunity to place a younger dust tracker on the gear that’s the identical as everybody else’s and that hasn’t been the case till now. This is step one again into the world area and I’d like to listen to the American Nationwide Anthem on the podium earlier than I slip off the groove.”
Kopp is the winningest AFT Singles rider in historical past as he has amassed 21 victories whereas capturing three straight championships.
“I’m extraordinarily excited to start the following chapter of my profession and I’m honored to be part of a staff with Kenny Roberts,” Kopp stated. “I’m excited to get to work and I can’t wait to experience the bike.”
“Clearly, having Kenny as a staff proprietor in MotoAmerica is a win for everyone,” stated MotoAmerica President Wayne Rainey. “His presence within the paddock will create curiosity within the Expertise Cup each right here and internationally. Kenny and his staff are additionally bringing in Kody Kopp, a flat monitor champion, and it is going to be fascinating to observe his growth underneath Kenny’s steerage. Kody couldn’t ask for a greater particular person to be taught from as Kenny has really executed all of it – as each a racer and a staff proprietor.”
The staff can have extra data on staff companions and construction within the close to future.
