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P128 FEATURE I MOTOAMERICA 2025 TOP 10 Superstock 1000/Stock 1000 championship with three title wins. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, Lee announced he's split from OrangeCat Racing, who will be making the step up to the premier Superbike cat - egory in 2026. There's no word yet on where Lee will be riding next year. engine and piloted by AMA veteran Corey Alexander. The air-cooled machine in striking pink gradually got quicker as the season pro - gressed, to the point where it and Alexander were fighting for the podium at Mid-Ohio's final round. Don't count them out for a full-on title assault in 2026. 7 LEE MAKES IT A TRIPLE Andrew Lee's career has been one of the most up-and-down in recent American racing history. A former two-time champion in the Stock 1000 class on a Ka - wasaki, Lee has spent much of the last five years in the racing wilderness, picking up odd rides here and there but finally land- ing on his feet in the OrangeCat BMW team for 2025. Lee made good on the op- portunity in what will be the final year of the category, using the BMW M 1000 RR to take four race wins from a possible 10 and fend off the challenge of teammate Jayson Uribe and the Real Steel Honda of JD Beach, who was having a revival year with consistent podiums and late-season wins. As such, Lee will go down as the most successful rider in the history of the MotoAmerica 6 THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT After the MotoAmerica Junior Cup effectively became a one- make Kawasaki Ninja 400/500 Cup over the past few seasons, MotoAmerica went official and scrapped the class and installed the new Talent Cup, the field riding identical Kramer APX-350 MA machines. The series also gave select riders the chance to try out for Andrew Lee gets hoisted by his teammate Jayson Uribe as the final (and all-time most successful) MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Champion.