MotoAmerica Twins : Robem Engineering RA#1 Press Release. Blackmon Twins Cup lap record

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Hamilton, OH – Jackson Blackmon, Toby Khamsouk, and Carl Price successfully debuted their Robem Engineering MotoAmerica-spec Suzuki SV650’s last weekend at the opening round of the 2020 MotoAmerica Twins Cup championship as the series kicked off at scenic Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.  The pace was fast all weekend, as expected, and Jackson Blackmon’s charge to 2nd place on Sunday was highlighted by his setting of a new MotoAmerica Twins Cup lap record in the process.

Jackson Blackmon was content, but not too thrilled, with his 5th place finish in race 1 on Saturday and some strategic changes were made for Sunday’s race.  A tire-choice gamble paid huge dividends on Sunday as Blackmon ran down the leaders halfway through the 8-lap event and the race to the checkered flag was on.  Blackmon’s plan to take advantage of a double-draft on the long run to Road America’s start/finish line unfortunately came up just short with Blackmon taking 2nd place by a scant 0.081 seconds.

Toby Khamsouk set the pace early, out qualifying his teammate Blackmon by 5/100ths of a second, and continued to drop his laptimes all weekend.  Khamsouk fought through some mechanical issues to finish 7th in Saturday’s race but substantially improved his pace on Sunday as he pushed to a hard-fought 6th place finish in race 2. Blackmon and Khamsouk sit 3rd and 6th, respectively, in the overall points standings and look forward to a re-match as the MotoAmerica series returns to Road America for round 2 on June 26th.

Not to be overshadowed by his younger teammates, plastic surgeon Dr. Carl Price acquainted himself quickly with the easy-to-ride Robem Engineering Suzuki SV650 and dropped over 4 seconds off his personal best laptime set in 2019.  While in the mix for championship points all weekend, Dr. Price came up just a few positions short and is more motivated than ever to win some highly-coveted MotoAmerica purse money.

Robem Engineering’s partners for the 2020 season were instrumental in the performance of the team’s Suzuki SV650’s and more improvements are on the horizon.  Team sponsors include Millennium Technologies, aRacer USA, Yoshimura R&D, Dymag wheels, Blud Lubricants, Vortex Racing, SBS Brakes, Velocity Calibrations, NGK spark plugs, Chicken Hawk Racing, Web Cam Inc, JE Pistons, RBoM Racing and CopoulosBuilt.   

Robem Engineering manufactures custom-machined parts for Twins Cup competitors and continues to refine their offerings with race-proven research and development.  Robem Engineering is also the distributor of aRacer high-performance ECU’s and fuel-management software for MotoAmerica participants. Visit robemengineering.com and follow Robem Engineering on social media platforms, such as Facebook, for further updates.
(photo credits: Sara Chappell Photography)(#18 Jackson Blackmon and #27 Toby Khamsouk)(#532 Dr. Carl Price)

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