Old Guard Vs. New Guard Set For MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Season-Opening Battle

The Medallia Superbike Series Opens At Road Atlanta, April 21-23, With
Five-Time Champion Cameron Beaubier Back On A Superbike

IRVINE, CA – April 18, 2023 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – The old guard returns to the MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship this coming weekend, April 21-23, at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta for the opening round of the 2023 title chase and when they arrive, they are going to find the young guard standing at the gates with weapons drawn.

Leading the slightly grizzled old guard is five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier, the Californian making his highly anticipated return to the championship after spending the past two years in the Moto2 World Championship. He’ll be joined by 2017 MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Toni Elias with the Spanish former World Champion returning to full-time action after a mostly idle 2022. The third of the former class champions returning to the premier Medallia Superbike ranks is Josh Herrin, the 2013 AMA Superbike Champion climbing back up to the Superbike class after earning last year’s MotoAmerica Supersport crown.

Leading the young guard is none other than Jake Gagne, the two-time and defending MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Champion who has amassed 29 Superbike race wins in the absence of his former teammate Beaubier in a classic, while-the-cat’s-away-the-mouse-will-play scenario. Gagne will be joined at the gate by his Fresh N Lean Progressive Yamaha teammate Cameron Petersen and the third of the big three, Westby Racing’s Mathew Scholtz.

And how’s this for a stat? Nine of the last 10 AMA Superbike Championships have been won by men who will race in the opening round at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta – Herrin (2013), Beaubier (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020), Elias (2017) and Gagne (2021, 2022).

Additionally, Beaubier (54 wins), Elias (32 wins), Gagne (29 wins), Herrin (8 wins), Scholtz (5 wins) and Petersen (3 wins) have a combined 131 Superbike wins between them. And let’s also remember that one of the riders ready to battle, Elias, has a Moto2 World Championship on his resume.

That, my friends, is a stacked field of top-notch racers ready to fight in the opening round of the 2023 MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship and that doesn’t even factor in the horde of hungry non-winners hoping to taste success in the class for the first time in 2023.

When Beaubier departed for Grand Prix racing in 2021, it was Gagne who took over the top spot on…