Rahal Racing, Ben Spies Coming to MotoAmerica in 2024

The Rahal family has secured funding from primary sponsor XPEL to run a two-bike team in MotoAmerica Supersport. Ben Spies will be the team principal.

Hopefully it does better than their indycar team haha.

Hopefully his mom stays home.

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Hopefully it does better than their indycar team haha.

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They have a win this year, don't they? Thought I read somewhere that the Indy team finally notched another win.

Anyway, it's an interesting development for MotoAmerica. I guess Next Gen Supersport could be a segue for other private racing teams elsewhere in motorsport. The big displacement bikes are cheap to run and everything is homologated. Superbike is still quite pricey by comparison, and it's difficult to get to the sharp end. Signing Ben Spies for team principal was a good way to make a splash.

We'll see what happens. I'm cautiously optimistic, but I also don't want MotoA to be taken over by the privateer cage cult, but there aren't many options remaining.

They won one race, with their second Driver. Graham is nowhere and has been for years.

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They won one race, with their second Driver. Graham is nowhere and has been for years.

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Lundgaard could be a championship contender in the not so distant future. Graham did show some form late in the season with two poles and a P2 finish at the Indy RC but obviously that doesn't tell us a lot about how their AMA team will perform.