MotoAmerica has made a couple rule changes to encourage participation in the class. 1st: You can now use connecting rods that are lighter than stock. Prior to this rule change you had to use...
Aboard his SV650, Wayne Dangerous makes up a gap on 2nd/3rd place riders George Demetropolis and Bart DeFrancesco and secures 2nd place on the last lap in ASRA Thunderbike at VIR. Behind the Scenes,...
LWT Racer Team / MotoAmerica / Road Racing
by Sam Wiest · Published December 7, 2017 · Last modified December 11, 2017
LWTRacer.com is excited to announce their participation in select MotoAmerica rounds fielding a two rider team in the Twins class. Brian McGlade (#272) and Sean Dougherty (#889) will be riding Suzuki SV650s built by...
Dreams do come true. If you’re like me, you love the racing of the lightweight class. The speed of these bikes makes the racing near perfect. You can spend as little or as much...
Left to right, #60 Sam Wiest, #80 Ralph Staropoli, #25 Chris Kolster The ASRA Thunderbike series hit the pavement at VIR but the championship leader Ray Hoffman was absent. Ralph Staropoli on his Honda...
WERA hosted a “Best of the West” Lightweight Twins cash purse race out at Willow Springs. Bradley Champion, riding for Zoran’s TWF Racing, has been on a tear last year and a half setting...
-Race Results / ASRA / Daytona
by Sam Wiest · Published October 19, 2016 · Last modified November 6, 2016
With a small grid of only SV650s, there was hope that well, a SV 650 could actually win an ASRA Team Challenge at Daytona. A race which is normally dominated but the heavy hitting...
It was 2015 all over again; Xavier Zayat was stellar once again for the 2016 RBoM Lightweight Superbike Challenge. The set up for 2016 was a bit different from the 2015 event as the...
Another light grid for the GTL class filled with LWT Racer teams. Like NJMP, all the teams (4) were heading out from the same pit. The start of the race had teams in a...
A low turn out at the ASRA Team Challenge New Jersey Motorsports Park round left LWT 171, LWT 60, and LWT 216 to fight over which podium spot was rightfully theirs. Todd Alberico would...
The ASRA Thunderbike national at Summit Point started off tight. The 12 minute qualifying sessions had 3 riders fighting for pole position. McGlade, DeFrancesco, and Wiest would be separated by two tenths of a...
Round 2 of the ASRA Team Challenge took on Blackhawk Farms Raceway this past weekend in South Beloit, IL. A total of nine teams would enter the lightweight class. LWT #171 coming in with...
