MOTOAMERICA
AMA/FIM NORTH AMERICA ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 2 / APRIL 12-14, 2019
CIRCUIT OF THE AMERICAS / AUSTIN, TEXAS
P90
the face, but it was good. It gave me
some motivation."
Fourth in race one went to a fading
Herrin. The California resident was
running up the front with teammate
Elias but dropped back in the latter
stages to be 1.9 seconds off the win.
Rounding out the top 10 in race one
at COTA was JD Beach (Estensen
Yamaha), Jake Lewis (M4 Ecstar
Suzuki), Mathew Scholtz (Westby
Yamaha), David Anthony (ADR Fly Ka-
wasaki), Cameron Petersen (Omega
Moto Yamaha) and Kyle Wyman
(KWR Ducati).
Race two on Sunday was sweet
redemption was Herrin, who diced
wheel to wheel with teammate Elias
for the entirety of the 15-lap encoun-
ter, pulling away in the final two laps
to take an emphatic win by 0.958
seconds—his first riding for Yoshimu-
ra Suzuki.
Herrin also had the misfortune of
having his front fender explode at top
speed down the back straight with
three laps to go, but "I didn't even
notice it. I was only aware of it when
the guys told me back in the pits.
(Above) Garrett Gerloff (31)
rode like a man possessed
in race one, charging from
last to a season-first podium
in third. (Below) JD Beach
(95) had an up and down
weekend, taking a fifth but
not finishing race two with a
mechanical problem.
Toni and Josh and whoever else, they
were kind of dicing and catching each
other, slowing each other up and gave
me the opportunity to come back. I
was fired up from having to start in
the back of the grid. Kind of a slap in
