Wayne Rainey implied at the MotoAmerica season finale that the Match Races might be coming back. That would be amazing. To see the top MotoAmerica versus the British Superbike Series riders would give a huge international boost to our American riders. In honor of the possible renewal of the Transatlantic, here’s an advertisement promoting the very first Match Race, which took place in 1971.

A typically clever British ad for the first Anglo-American Match Races in 1971. The Brit vs. America event was later also call the Transatlantic Match races. Could the series be revived soon? There was talk of a renewal of the event at the MotoAmerica finale.