Johnny Lewis - Supermoto Racer Super Moto Super Motard

Biography

Johnny Lewis

At age 18, Johnny with the support of Bryan Peckinpaugh started an all new team called Team Evolve Moto www.EvolveMoto.com . With many new and many following sponsors, the team and Johnny will be fighting for the XBux/ AMA Supermoto Championship.

Changing his position from racer only to racer/ team manager Johnny is taking on alot this 2008 season, seeing the future of his team and the sport of supermoto.

Throughout this year, people around Johnny will see his team evolve into a team like know other. Bringing many new companies to the sport of supermoto and building not only his team but the future of supermoto.

How he got to managing his own team

Growing up Johnny raced flat track starting at age 6 on his first yamaha, a PW 50. after the first race his dad knew it was time to get a faster bike and saw that he enjoyed the races and figured they would continue going to races. Johnny's dad, always a motorcycle rider, but never raced was limited to knowledge about racing and learned as quick if not quicker then Johnny. With great bikes and a every willing father, they traveled to many races, not always staying at there local tracks. His father saw the importance of going to new tracks and learning on many different types of dirt and racing other racers.

Within 10 years, Johnny won hundreds of flat track races, Regional, and National races, with 5 AMA Sports Amateur Flat Track Championships, Cycle News Fast Brain Award, AMA Sports Flat Track Horizon Award, and the AMA Sports Athlete of the year.

After finishing his amateur career, Johnny made a jump to the AMA Supermoto National Champion with the Factory supported HMC/ KTM Generations of Sonoma Wines Team. With a July birthday, he missed the first round of the Supermoto season, but made a name for himself by getting the holeshot over Mark Burkhart and the rest of the AMA Supermoto Lites field and finished 4th in his first professional race. The next season he got the ride with HMC Factory KTM Team and 2 seasons later, Johnny has 8 podiums and 1 AMA pro career win. After great support from many people around him, he started his own team!

Birth Date: July 1, 1989

Home Town Coatesville, Pa USA

Weight 160 Lbs

Height 6 Ft

Occupation Pro Racer

Hobbies Racing, Dirt Track, Motocross, Trials, and Marketing myself

Career Highlights 2007- 5 podiums in the AMA Supermoto Unlimited Championship and Lites Champions (1 race)

2006- First Career Professional Win, 3 Podiums, 4th

AMA Pro Supermoto Unlimited Championship

                                                  2005- Seventh in AMA Pro Supermoto Lite Championship

                                                        2004- AMA Sports Athlete of the Year, AMA Sports

                                                        Dirt Track Horizon Award Winner, 3 AMA Sports

National Dirt Track Championships

Total of 5 AMA Sports Dirt Track Championships

Cycle News Fast Brain Award Winner

Race Team Evolve Moto

Current Race Bike XBux/ AMA Supermoto- 2008 Yamaha YZF 250

Favorite Food Sushi

Favorite Drink Water

2006 Goggled Articles