A Whole Lot Of Perfection At Barber Motorsports Park On Sunday. The second of two Stock 1000 races at Barber Motorsports Park featured a slugfest that went .
American Kensei Matsudaira with Another Top 10 Finish in ESBK Moto4 Race at Jerez After two consecutive rounds at circuits where American Kensei Matsudaira, age 12, rode for the first time during the race weekend, it was back to familiar territory for the penultimate round of the RFME ESBK Moto4 championship at Circuito de Jerez - Ángel Nieto in Andalusia, Spain. Being the second round at the venue this season, all the riders were up to pace quickly and the competition was fierce. Kensei endured the worst qualifying result of the season in 20th after a difficult session in wet but drying conditions. In Saturday s Race One, Kensei s bike stalled at the start but Kensei was able to bump start the engine and continue the race, albeit several seconds behind the entire grid. He was able to quickly catch the pack and by the fifth lap, had worked his way to the leaders and was fighting for the lead in
American Kensei Matsudaira to Represent USA at FIM Speedway World Championship SGP4 Race at Malilla, Sweden Japanese-American road racer Kensei Matsudaira will make his international speedway racing debut on July 15, 2023 at the FIM Speedway GP of Sweden - Malilla. Kensei, age 12, was selected to represent the US in the FIM Speedway World Championship in the launch of the SGP4 youth category on a new entry-level world championship bike for 11 to 13 year old racers. 18 riders from around the world have been invited to race in this special one-time event at one of World Speedway s most famous venues. I ve always wanted to race speedway in Europe, so I m very excited to have this opportunity to race at a FIM Speedway World Championship race, Kensei said. I m proud to represent the US and American speedway, and hoping to do as well as I can to make Team USA Speedway proud. Team USA Speedway manager Steve Evans added,
American Kensei Matsudaira Takes Another Top 5 Finish at Estoril, Portugal for ESBK Moto4 Championship Round 4 In his first outing to Circuito Estoril in Portugal, 12-year-old American Kensei Matsudaira began the race weekend with tricky conditions with intermittent rain making the first three practice sessions wet. However, Kensei showed his strong pace after a single dry free practice by topping the qualifying charts for most of the session and finally qualifying in second place just 0.05 second off pole, his best qualifying result of the season. In Race One held on Saturday, Kensei finished in fifth place only 0.5 second from the winner after fighting through a race-long battle in the 15-rider top group. However, he was demoted to sixth after a one-position penalty for exceeding track limits on the final lap was applied. Sunday morning was another tricky affair with a wet warmup session, but Kensei again demonstrated strong pace in Race Two held in the afternoon in