AMA Superbike Championship

MotoAmerica Superbike Championship

Josh Herrin in 2024
Category	Superbike racing
Country	United States
Inaugural season	1976
Riders' champion	Josh Herrin
Makes' champion	Ducati
Teams' champion	HSBK Warhorse Ducati NYC
Official website	http://www.motoamerica.com
Current season

AMA Superbike Championship is an American motorcycle racing series based in the United States. The series is organized by MotoAmerica and is sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) as well as the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM).^[1] For most of its existence it has been considered the premier motorcycle road racing series in the United States. The championship features “highly modified, production based liter class motorcycles” competing at premier tracks across the country.^[2]

The AMA Superbike Championship can trace its roots back to the AMA Open Production event that began in 1973.^[3] AMA Open Production was hosted alongside the AMA Road Race National at Laguna Seca Raceway in 1973 and 1974. By 1976, the event became a major class, appearing at all 4 AMA Grand Nationals that season, and its name was changed to Superbike Production.^[4] In 1986, the AMA made the Grand National Championship into a dirt-track-only series splitting off the road-racing rounds into their own series, the Superbike Production events became the AMA Superbike Championship.^[5] In 2015 MotoAmerica became the series organizer, resulting in all AMA Superbike Championship events being held under the MotoAmerica name.^[6]