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The World Supersport 300 championship is on its penultimate lap, with the entry-level racing series set to end following the 2025 racing season. According to an announcement from the Superbike Commission which sets the regulations for production-based racing, the 300 class will be replaced by a new entry-level series for 2026 and beyond.

The 2024 Isle of Man TT is done and dusted, and a new King of the Mountain has been crowned, Joey’s own nephew Michael Dunlop. With three more victories, he now stands at 29 TT wins, the most successful rider in TT history, breaking the 24-year-old record held by ‘Yer Maun.’ But the fortnight also saw a new force emerge, Davey Todd, who won his first two TT races. The Milwaukee BMW Motorrad rider nipped Peter Hickman in the first RL360 Superstock TT Race by a scant 2.2 seconds, the lead pinging back and forth throughout.

AMA Pro Racing announced a new American Flat Track Adventure Trackers class, which will debut with an exhibition race at the inaugural Sturgis TT on Aug. 11. The class will feature 1,000cc and larger adventure bikes such as the Harley-Davidson Pan America, the BMW R 1300 GS, and the KTM 1390 Super Adventure.

For two weeks, the otherwise tranquil British Crown dependency roars to life with the sound of high-performance engines and the collective adrenaline of thousands of fans. The Isle of Man TT is no ordinary event; this is where legends are born, and none loom larger than the Dunlop family.

If, in 2024, you were to plonk yourself beside virtually any segment of the 37 ¾ mile Isle of Man TT Mountain Course, and witness the incredible sound, sight, and fury of race bikes blasting past a mere few feet away, you would be experiencing virtually the same thing (more speed and less tweed notwithstanding) as someone in that same spot 117 years ago. Keeping this event alive and thriving despite a world that has changed beyond what that person in 1907 could have ever imagined is the challenge. And the pull of tradition vs. the push of progress is where the friction lies.