VOLUME 57 ISSUE 32 AUGUST 11, 2020 P75
LANDERS HEADS EAST
Rocco Landers will join the world's
fastest junior racers when the
Washington teenager races in the
Red Bull Rookies event in Austria
this weekend. However, thanks to
the resumption of MotoAmerica rac-
ing activities earlier than in Europe,
he's got more racing miles under
his belt this year than most in the
Rookies Cup. "As of right now just
going to try to go as fast as I can
from practice one and see if I can
get up there during the race," Land-
ers said. "I know that track is good
for someone who hasn't been to
those tracks quite so many times. It
seems somewhat simple."
LEWIS IN
Jake Lewis made another appear-
ance in the MotoAmerica Superbike
paddock, this time on the Celtic
HSBK Racing Ducati left vacant by
the injured PJ Jacobsen. The team,
which normally runs in Stock 1000,
elected to run Lewis in the Super-
bike category but the Kentuckian
found the going tough. "The team's
great to work with, but it's a struggle
going fast," Lewis said. "I didn't
have a great feeling with the rear
and couldn't feel the tire biting into
the tarmac. The torque in second
gear wasn't what we hoped, and
we lost ground on corner exit. The
bike's easy to ride but you have to
charge to go fast. It wasn't an easy
week, for sure." Lewis finished with
eighth- and 11th-place finishes.
LIKE A WIN
Josh Herrin hailed his fourth place
in race two as "better than any
win I've ever got." Herrin, who has
struggled with the often-recalcitrant
Briefly...
This podium is starting
to look pretty familiar.
Scholtz (left), Beaubier
and Gagne (right) making
the series look very
Yamaha-ish right now.
