Over 115 course dates planned for 2024
LEXINGTON, Ohio (Feb. 1, 2024) - The Mid-Ohio School’s 32nd season of operation is fast-approaching with enrollments for course dates now open. The full 2024 schedule is available at midohioschool.com, and customers can register online or by calling 419-884-4000.
The 1987 AMA Superbike season featured a Wayne Rainey/Kevin Schwantz rivalry that began in America and would ultimately find its way to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean and the 500cc World Championship. At Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for the seventh round of the 10-round AMA Superbike series, the rivalry caught fire as both riders and their teams ended up protesting the other over the legality of their motorcycles.
Greenbelt, Md. — The National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) announced today that Kokosing Construction Co. Inc. of Mansfield, Ohio, won a 2023 Quality in Construction Award for excellence in construction of an asphalt pavement. The company is being recognized during the association’s 69th Annual Meeting.
With MotoAmerica set to bring AMA Superbike racing back to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, August 16-18, we’re taking a closer look at past Superbike races at the iconic racetrack in Lexington, Ohio.
Team Honda’s Fred Merkel left Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course with the points lead in both the AMA Superbike Championship and the Camel Pro Road Race Championship (which combined points from Formula One and Superbike races to crown a single AMA Road Race Champion) with his Superbike victory in the 1986 running of the Mid-Ohio National.
With MotoAmerica set to bring AMA Superbike racing back to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, August 16-18, we’re taking a closer look at past Superbike races at the iconic racetrack in Lexington, Ohio.
John Bettencourt ended a seven-year drought between AMA Superbike wins when he stormed to victory at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in 1985. The victory was Bettencourt’s second career Superbike win, but his first since he won at Loudon in 1978.
In September of 1984, Fred Merkel accomplished what no other rider had thus far done. He gave Honda its first AMA Superbike Championship, and he did so at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in the ’84 series finale.
Merkel took the lead on the sixth lap of the 2.4-mile course and from there he was never headed, taking the first of what would be three straight AMA Superbike Championships.
Five race weekends planned for 2024 spectator schedule
LEXINGTON, Ohio (Jan. 9, 2024) – Ticket sales open today at 10 a.m. ET for all five major race weekends scheduled for 2024 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Individual events and Mid-Ohio Season Race Passes will be available at advance pricing online at midohio.com.
Registration for North America's largest motorcycle swap meet is also open to previous swap meet vendors
PICKERINGTON, Ohio — The American Motorcyclist Association is pleased to announce that tickets to the 2024 Permco AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days — which is set to run July 26-28 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio — are now available for purchase to AMA members.