Former Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup Champions J.D. Beach and Jake Gagne will race in the AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike Championship and former AMA Sports Horizon Award winner Hayden Gillim and Tomas Puerta will compete in the AMA Pro Motorcycle-Superstore.com SuperSport division for a new team created by former AMA Pro 250cc racer Danny Walker and Twitter co-founder Jeremy LaTrasse.

The Colorado-based team will use Yamaha YZF-R6s and be known by two names: Beach and Gagne will race under the RoadRace Factory/Red Bull name, while Gillim and Puerta will ride under just the RoadRace Factory banner.

“I didn’t want to do a race team. Jeremy did,” Walker told Roadracingworld.com during a media event/team test Tuesday at Chuckwalla Valley Raceway. “I know better. This is nuts. Why would you do this? It’s insane. He wanted to do a race team, and it took him a while to talk us into it. We said, alright, we’ll do a team as long as we get to help the kids, as long as we give them an avenue because it sucks right now. There’s no rides available. There’s nowhere for them to go.”

Originally, the race team was only to be an opportunity to help out Gillim and Puerta and to promote Walker’s newest project, the RoadRace Factory. Then Red Bull contacted Walker asking if there was some way to make room on their team for Beach and Gagne, and the team expanded to four riders.

“Our goal is have an avenue so Jake and J.D. can get back over,” to Europe, said Walker, who sponsored Gagne’s Moto2 wild card entry at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2011.

As for the new RoadRace Factory, “It’s the same idea as the American Supercamp,” said Walker, “to be able to push yourself and the bike at 110% without the consequence to make everything a reflex. Being able to train those reflexes at a slower speed isn’t anything new. [Michael] Schumacher and all the [open-wheel race] car guys have been doing it for years by training with shifter karts in the off-season. That’s the same thing we’re doing, but to do it on the next level, on pavement and getting the feel for sliding the thing around on the pavement, I hadn’t figured out how we were going to set up so you could do that.”

The first piece to the puzzle was financial backing from LaTrasse, which allowed Walker to obtain 15 new Yamaha WR250F four-stroke motocross bikes and convert them to supermoto trim with reworked suspension, big front brakes, Dunlop sportbike tires, LeoVince exhaust systems, mounts for GoPro digital video cameras, lap timers and a lot of crash guards.

“Because this is the first road race school where it’s OK to crash,” said Walker. “You don’t want to bring a shiny new set of leathers to the RoadRace Factory.”

Although he hasn’t confirmed a 2012 schedule yet, Walker hopes to run the RoadRace Factory on paved kart tracks across the country during the summer, including some events held in conjunction with AMA Pro Road Races.

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The RoadRace Factory/Red Bull squad’s test continues through Wednesday at Chuckwalla Valley Raceway.