The 2022 MotoAmerica Supersport Championship season was the 8th season of the MotoAmerica Supersport class. The defending class champion was Sean Dylan Kelly, who vacated his title during 2022 to race internationally in Moto2.^[1]

Impact of Next-Generation Supersport Regulations

The 2022 Supersport season was noteworthy for the adoption of the FIM's Next-Generation Supersport rules. Prior to the introduction of the Next-Generation concept, Supersport grids consisted mainly of 600cc four-cylinder motorcycles produced by the Japanese manufacturing companies, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Honda and Suzuki. To encourage participation by a wider range of motorcycle manufacturers, the FIM devised a new formula to balance the performance of larger-displacement motorcycles with the existing quartet of 600cc supersport motorcycles.^[2]

In response to MotoAmerica's adoption of Next-Generation Supersport regulations, WarHorse HSBK Racing NYC partnered with Ducati to form a single-rider team to campaign the Ducati Panigale V2 in MotorAmerica Supersport. On November 12, 2021 the team announced that former-MotoAmerica-Superbike champion, Josh Herrin, had signed with the team to race the 2022 Daytona 200 and the 2022 MotoAmerica Supersport season.^[3] Herrin would go on to win 9 of 18 races during the 2022 season, taking the championship by a 106pt margin.

Though Sean Dylan Kelly had taken the 2021 Supersport championship aboard a Suzuki GSX-R600, MotoAmerica received Supersport entries from teams who intended to compete under Next-Gen rules with the Suzuki GSX-R750. California-based Team Hammer prepared the GSX-R750 for its return to competition, which led the team to form a technical partnership with UK-based Bike Sports Development to retro-fit the GSX-R750 with a compulsory throttle-by-wire racing kit.^[4] During 2022, Team Hammer's throttle conversion kit was the only homologated throttle upgrade for Next-Generation Supersport competition, signifying that MotoAmerica Supersport was the global development laboratory in 2022 for the GSX-R750.^[5] In February 2022, Team Hammer announced it would retain Sam Lochoff and add Liam Grant to their Supersport rider lineup.^[6] In April 2022, the team also added the 2021 Junior Cup champion, Tyler Scott, to their roster just before the first event at Road Atlanta.^[7] Team Hammer scored four consecutive podiums in the first four races of the 2022 season. Their success prompted other teams to adopt Suzuki's 750cc platform. Altus Motorsports switched from the GSX-R600 to the GSX-R750 for Round 2 at Virginia International Raceway^[8] and 3D Motorsports LLC followed at Road America.^[9]

The Return of Josh Hayes

The 2022 Supersport season also marked the return of four-time AMA Pro Superbike champion, Josh Hayes, who planned to participate at select events with the Squid Hunter racing team aboard a Yamaha R6. Hayes entered the 2022 MotoAmerica season just 3 wins shy of Miguel Duhamel's record for career wins in AMA Pro Roadracing competition. After narrowly missing victory at the 2022 Daytona 200,^[10] Hayes scored his first victory of the 2022 season during Race 1 at Virginia International Raceway.^[11] After a 3-event break, Hayes was asked to sub for Kevin Olmedo, who could not compete with the N2 Racing Bobblehead Moto Team due to illness.^[12] The partnership with N2 Racing did not produce additional victories for Hayes, but when he reunited with the Squid Hunter racing team at New Jersey Motorsports Park, the 47-year-old scored his 85th and 86th career victories to tie Duhamel's record.^[13] With one event remaining in 2022, Hayes hoped to break Duhamel's record at Barber Motorsports Park, but he suffered a high-speed crash during free practice. The crash broke Hayes' leg, and he was forced to end the 2022 season as the co-record-holder for career wins in Ama Pro Roadracing competition.^[14]

Calendar and results

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Round	Circuit	Date	Race 1 Winner	Race 2 Winner
	Daytona International Speedway	March 10–12	Non-championship event	Non-championship event
1	Road Atlanta	April 22–24	Josh Herrin	Josh Herrin
2	Virginia	May 20–22	Josh Hayes	Josh Herrin
3	Road America	June 3–5	Tyler Scott	Jason Farrell
4	The Ridge	June 24–26	Josh Herrin	Josh Herrin
5	Monterey	July 8–10	Josh Herrin	Josh Herrin
6	Brainerd	July 29–31	Rocco Landers	Rocco Landers
7	Pittsburgh	August 19–21	Rocco Landers	Josh Herrin
8	New Jersey	September 9–11	Josh Hayes	Josh Hayes
9	Alabama	September 23–25	Rocco Landers	Josh Herrin

Teams and riders

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2022 Entry List
Team	Constructor	No.	Rider	Rounds
Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati NYC	Ducati	2	Josh Herrin	All
Squid Hunter	Yamaha	4	Josh Hayes	2,8-9
Blackall Racing LLC	Yamaha	11	Tony Blackall	1,3,7
		73	Neal Scalf	3,7
Star Race Team	Kawasaki	12	Jamie Starace	9
Team Velocity Racing	Yamaha	13	Chuck Ivey	1,3,7
BobbleHeadMoto / N2 Racing	Yamaha	16	Kevin Olmedo	1-5
		4	Josh Hayes	6-7
		99	Emerson Amaya	9
Tango Racing	Kawasaki	17	Roberto Hernan Medina	1
Nitido Racing	Yamaha	18	Christian Miranda	9
North East Cycle Outlet	Yamaha	20	CJ LaRoche	All
		88	Benjamin Smith	All
Mi Scusi Racing Team	Yamaha	22	Sloan West	2
		91	Thomas McQuigg	2
Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki	Suzuki	24	Cory Ventura	5-7
		44	Samule Lochoff	1-4,8,9
		70	Tyler Scott	All
		90	Liam Grant	All
Disrupt Racing	Suzuki	25	Dominic Doyle	6-9
		60	Carl Soltisz	All
EZ Racing	Yamaha	27	Edgar Zaragoza	All
		89	Ivan Munoz	5
DMK Racing	Kawasaki	29	David Kohlstaedt	4-5
Catalyst Reaction Racing	Yamaha	30	Michael Kim	5
MP13 Racing	Yamaha	33	Chad Lewin	1-3,5
PDR Motorsports	Yamaha	35	Diego Perez	1–3,5
Mallory Dobbs Racing	Kawasaki	36	Mallory Dobbs	4-5
Mesa37 Racing	Kawasaki	37	Stefano Mesa	3
Team Schwags	Yamaha	38	Jonathan Schweiger	1,3
Hopkins Racing	Yamaha	39	Sean Hopkins	9
Mosites Motorsports	Kawasaki	43	Gary Yancoskie	7
All Hustle Racing	Yamaha	46	Nick Patenaude	1
Duo Rotae Racing	Yamaha	47	Harm Jansen	5
Turn One Racing	Yamaha	49	Blake Holt	3,9
Allegro Racing	Suzuki	52	Douglas Jacobsen	9
Dirty T Race Team	Suzuki	54	Jordan Tropkoff	3,5,7
Wawa Racing Team	Kawasaki	55	Sahar Svik	5
		56	Orel Madar	5
LFrey Racing	Yamaha	58	Timothy Frey	9
Altus Motorsports	Suzuki	59	Jaret Nassaney	All
		75	Justin Jones	1-4
Miller Racing	Kawasaki	61	Austin Miller	2
Seethaler Racing	Yamaha	62	Nathan Seethaler	7
Max Angles Racing Team	Kawasaki	64	Max Angles	1
Rosso Racing	Yamaha	65	Aldo Rovirosa	5
Coleman Racing	Kawasaki	66	Patrick Coleman	1,5
3D Motorsports LLC	Suzuki	68	Luke Power	All
HONOS Racing	Yamaha	71	Jorge Ehrenstein	5
Hot Sauce	Kawasaki	74	Chris Sarbora	1,4,5,7-9
Burdett Racing	Yamaha	77	Matt Burdett	1
Thermiotis Racing	Yamaha	78	Alejandro Thermiotis	1
Farrell Performance	Kawasaki	85	Jason Farrell	3
Reded Racing Team	Yamaha	86	Rodrigo Donde	3
129Photos.com Racing Team	Kawasaki	87	Kevin Netto	9
Open Source Racing	Yamaha	92	Joel Ohman	4-5
Landers Racing	Yamaha	97	Rocco Landers	All

Championship standings

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Scoring system

Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.

Pos	Rider	Bike	RAT		VIR		RAM		RID		MON		BRA		PIT		NJE		ALA		Pts
			R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2
1	Josh Herrin	Ducati	1	1	4	1	2	3	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	2	4	2	1	387
2	Rocco Landers	Yamaha	4	3	3	5	3	15	2	4	3	3	1	1	1	2	3	16	1	9	281
3	Tyler Scott	Suzuki	DNS	5	2	3	1	Ret	5	2	2	2	4	12	3	3	Ret	6	5	3	229
4	Benjamin Smith	Yamaha	3	Ret	9	7	15	4	6	11	5	10	6	5	4	5	5	3	4	6	173
5	Luke Power	Suzuki	8	7	6	Ret	4	2	Ret	5	6	Ret	7	8	10	7	8	8	Ret	2	149
6	Josh Hayes	Yamaha			1	2							3	3	5	6	1	1			148
7	Jaret Nassaney	Suzuki	11	8	5	Ret	9	7	7	10	7	Ret	8	9	9	9	6	5	6	4	137
8	Kevin Olmedo	Yamaha	6	4	8	6	6	8	4	3	4	4									114
9	Samuel Lochoff	Suzuki	2	2	12	4	7	Ret	3	15							7	12	Ret	5	107
10	Stefano Mesa	Kawasaki					5	5							7	4	4	2	3	7	102
11	Carl Soltisz	Suzuki	13	11	18	Ret	8	9	10	7	9	9	9	7	12	12	10	9	11	12	98
12	CJ LaRoche	Yamaha	12	10	13	9	11	11	12	9	10	8	11	11	11	11	9	11	Ret	8	95
13	Liam Grant	Suzuki	14	12	10	Ret	10	16	9	6	DNS		10	10	13	13	11	10	8	16	72
14	Cory Ventura	Suzuki									8	5	5	4	6	8					61
15	Dominic Doyle	Suzuki											Ret	6	8	10	Ret	7	7	11	47
16	Alejandro Thermiotis	Yamaha	10	9	14	8	Ret	12	8	Ret	DNS	6									45
17	Edgar Zaragoza	Yamaha	20	14	16	11	19	18	15	14	13	12	12	Ret	15	14	13	14	12	15	34
18	Diego Perez	Yamaha	5	DNS	7	Ret	Ret	6			17	14									32
19	Jason Farrell	Kawasaki					13	1													28
20	David Kohlstaedt	Kawasaki							11	8	11	7									27
21	Justin Jones	Suzuki	15	13	19	10	14	10													18
22	Max Angles	Kawasaki	9	6																	17
23	Blake Holt	Yamaha					12	Ret											10	Ret	10
24	Christian Miranda	Yamaha																	9	13	10
25	Chad Lewin	Yamaha	7	Ret	17	DNS	Ret	Ret			Ret	DNS									9
26	Sean Hopkins	Yamaha																	13	10	9
27	Emerson Amaya	Yamaha															12	13	Ret	Ret	7
28	Jordan Tropkoff	Suzuki					21	14			12	19			Ret	Ret					6
29	Joel Ohman	Yamaha							14	12	Ret	18									6
30	Mallory Dobbs	Kawasaki							13	13	21	21									6
31	Sloan West	Yamaha			11	Ret															5
32	Aldo Rovirosa	Yamaha									20	11									5
33	Rodrigo Donde	Yamaha			Ret	13											14	17			5
34	Neal Scalf	Yamaha					16	13							Ret	15					4
35	Nathan Seethaler	Yamaha			20	12									19	20					4
36	Chris Sarbora	Kawasaki	18	15					DNS	DNS	16	16			16	18	15	15	DNS	Ret	3
37	Jorge Ehrenstein	Yamaha					18	Ret			18	13									3
38	Kevin Netto	Kawasaki																	15	14	3
39	Douglas Jacobsen	Suzuki																	14	17	2
40	Gary Yancoskie	Kawasaki													14	17					2
41	Sahar Zvik	Kawasaki									14	20									2
42	Patrick Coleman	Kawasaki	16	17							15	DNS									1
43	Austin Miller	Kawasaki			15	Ret															1
44	Harm Jansen	Yamaha									Ret	15									1
45	Orel Madar	Kawasaki									DNS	Ret									0
46	Jonathan Schweiger	Yamaha	22	20			17	Ret													0
47	Thomas McQuigg	Yamaha			Ret	Ret															0
48	Roberto Hernan Medina	Kawasaki	DNS	Ret																	0
49	Tony Blackall	Yamaha	Ret	Ret			20	17							18	16					0
50	Chuck Ivey	Yamaha	17	16																	0
51	Ivan Munoz	Yamaha									19	17									0
52	Timothy Frey	Yamaha																	16	18	0
53	Nick Patenaude	Yamaha	19	18																	0
54	Jamie Starace	Kawasaki																	Ret	19	0
55	Chris Murphy	Yamaha													17	19					0
56	Matt Burdett	Yamaha	21	19																	0
57	Michael Kim	Yamaha									Ret	22									0
Pos	Rider	Bike	RAT		VIR		RAM		RID		MON		BRA		PIT		NJE		ALA		Pts

References