Building Grassroots Roadracing into the Professional Ranks
Chuck Askland and Cory Texter – MotoAmerica – joins myself and Clint to discuss MotoAmerica’s upcoming Mini Cup National Final at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. The Mini Cup Series provides an accessible entry into roadracing and allows young racers to develop technical skills and sportsmanship.
For registration and more information on the Mini Cup, visit motoamerica.com/mini-cup/
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“The challenges with road racing as opposed to motocross, is, you know, you can go to a dealership and buy a bike and go directly to the motocross tracks or the hare scrambles. So, what we’ve tried to do in Mini Cup is make it very similar as well.
So we’ve brought on these like, stock classes: Stock 50, Stock 110, Stock 125. Where basically you can buy a dirt bike, change the tires and go race with us. We’ve tried to make it more accessible where it’s not a secret how to come out and race with us. We try to make it easy for parents to get involved and once they’re involved, just try to keep them on the pavement.
I think when parents come out, they come to one of our events, they see how much track time they get. And I’ve noticed they’ve appreciated how efficiently we run the program. We do a minute by minute schedule like the pro series does.”
Cory Texter – MotoAmerica Mini Cup Manager, professional dirt track racer and podcast host
