ROAD RACE
FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 5/ JULY 10-11, 2021
WEATHERTECH RACEWAY / MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA
P76
has been the trend this season,
Kelly, who started from the pole
both days, prevailed with his sixth
and seventh race victories of the
season over Escalante.
"That wasn't an easy race,"
Kelly said after Sunday's vic-
tory. "I was really happy about
the weekend. Truthfully, another
solid job. We got the double.
Did the pole yesterday. We've
been in the fight the entire time.
Just working away. Really happy,
honestly, with how I'm working
with the team. This is exactly what
I want to be doing every single
weekend. Definitely proud of the
job. Today's race was a little bit
more tough than yesterday. Richie
and I started off with some close
battles and a few rubs, which is
honestly one of the best ways to
with that. I could kind of keep a
steady rhythm from there and not
have to brake too hard. That's
all it was. If I was only racing
Superbike this year, I probably
would have ridden the Super-
bike, but both would have been
a lot. I would have jeopardized
both. So, my plan was just to
focus on this. Pretty minimal laps
for a race weekend. After doing
double duty riding on the Harley
only is like a vacation, so it was
pretty awesome. Got it done."
SUPERSPORT
M4 Ecstar Suzuki's Sean Dylan
Kelly and Honos HVMC Racing
Kawasaki's Richie Escalante
continued what has been a
season-long, round-by-round
and race-by-race battle, but as
lous recovery from his injury, and
he talked about it after the race.
"Those guys are world-class
doctors and surgeons, putting
me back together, knowing
exactly the timeline and how he
needed to fix everything for me
to be able to get what I needed
to get done," Wyman said. "Hon-
estly, we didn't make any chang-
es to the bike, ergonomically, for
me to ride it. Friday, it was just
a matter of, okay, this is the lap
time I can do without braking so
hard that I'm screaming in my
helmet. Then here's a lap I can
do when it really sucks. Then just
decided from there how hard I
wanted to push. I pushed pretty
hard in the beginning of the race
and saw the board grow pretty
quickly, so I was pretty happy
Sean Dylan Kelly (40) won both Supersport races.
