MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series. is excited to announce its nine-round, 20-race MotoAmerica Superbike Championship in 2026 that will kick off in mid-April at Road Atlanta and conclude in late September at New Jersey Motorsports Park.
The 2026 championship will also mark the 50th anniversary of the first official AMA Superbike race held at Daytona International Speedway in March of 1976. Reg Pridmore captured that Superbike Championship on a BMW R90S.
All nine rounds next year will feature the premier Superbike and Motovation Supersport classes, with the Superbikes again set to have two tripleheaders – at VIRginia International Raceway and New Jersey Motorsports Park.
In addition to the Superbike and the newly revised Superbike Cup and Supersport classes, the championship will feature five additional classes at select rounds – Mission King Of The Baggers, Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul, Twins Cup, Mission Super Hooligan National Championship, and Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race.
The 2026 Motovation Supersport series will consist of 19 races as the 84thrunning of the Daytona 200 will be the opening round of the championship, March 5-7, in Daytona Beach, Florida, bringing even greater importance to the already prestigious Daytona 200. In the four years since MotoAmerica took over the running of the “Great American Motorcycle Race,” the 200 has been a standalone race and not a round of the Supersport Championship.
Paying championship points for the Daytona 200 is nothing new as for the majority of its years it was the opening points race of the AMA Championship.
The sophomore season of the Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul will see the ultra-competitive class racing 16 times, with the series’ youngest riders set to battle at all the Superbike rounds except for Road America and Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. The Talent Cup racers will again get the chance to showcase their skills to the world as their series will begin at Circuit of The Americas during the MotoGP weekend in Texas, March 27-29.
Mission King Of The Baggers will race 14 times next year, with doubleheaders at Daytona International Speedway, Road Atlanta, Road America, WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Circuit of The Americas, and New Jersey Motorsports Park.
The Mission Super Hooligan National Championship will join the Baggers at six of the rounds – Daytona, Barber, Ridge Motorsports Park, Laguna Seca, Mid-Ohio, and VIR.
The ever-popular SC-Project Twins Cup will battle 14 times and will start its season at Daytona with six more rounds at Road Atlanta, Barber, Road America, Mid-Ohio, VIR, and NJMP.
The women of the Royal Enfield Build.Train.Race. series will again chase an eight-race championship with their schedule set to be released shortly.
“This has been our best season to date,” said MotoAmerica COO Chuck Aksland. “The racing has been outstanding, and the Superbike Championship looks set to go right down to the last lap at New Jersey. We’ve had some incredible crowds this year and we can’t wait to see even more fans join us in 2026. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of AMA Superbike racing will make it a season to remember.”
