Ben Bostrom and Matt Wait
Matt Wait (95) and Ben Bostrom
(11)are jus t now beginning to
make a se rious mark In AMA
road rac ing. With a measure of
s uccess under the ir belts
already , the two friendly rivals
are being heralded as the future
of the sport.
By Scott Rousseau
t w oul dn 't be hard to make
the case that America has certainly spawned its fair sha re
of motorcycle road racing su perstars.
Just look at the record books. Both
th e p restigious A MA Na tion al a n d
World C hampio ns hi p Road Ra ci n g
Se ries have been .th e playgrou nd fo r
such greats as Ra ybo rn , Rob erts,
Spencer, Lawson, Rainey and Chan d lera ll ha ve epitomized America 's might ,
whether wavi ng th e fl ag at home o r
ab road. It is a trad itio n that is cu rrentlv
bei ng contin ue d by suc h recent grad uates as Russell, Hale and Ed wards II on
the world stage while Chris Carr, Larry
Peg ram a n d Sha w n Higbe e a re just
begin nin g d own the road w hic h ma y
lead . to star sta tus by competing in the
p inn acle of America n ro ad racin g, th e
A..'v1A Supe rbike Series.
Yet it is in the nature of racin g' s elite
hard-cores to consta ntly peer back down
the road and try to see who will next be
comin g around th e corner of success .
Thus far it seems tha t the assembly may
have already begun to po int fingers at
two yo u ng racing rivals as th e "new
futur e " o f A m e r ica n road racin g Mitchell's Modes to Ha rley-Davidson' s
Matt Wait and Barte ls' Harley-Davidso n/Zero Gravity rider Ben Bostrom.
Although friends off the race track,
the two are notabl e rivals on it. The pair
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