INTERVIEW I ROAD RACER TYLER SCOTT
P102
and then I could start doing track days
and WERA.
I still always did flat track in the back-
ground, and I still do. I'm quite competi-
tive, too. I went to a pro AFT race earlier
this year, and I was in a podium posi-
tion, and I just had a mechanical.
So, once I started getting on the
bigger bikes, I liked it more and more,
mainly because the time you get in flat
track is very little. You do six laps on a
short track and, it's like, two minutes.
When I first got introduced to road rac-
ing, I loved the time that I got. When I got
on the faster bikes, I just loved it more
and more. Flat track was always on the
same level. I just kept moving up. At
the end of 2018, we got an invitation to
Spain for the Red Bull Rookies Cup. We
went there not thinking too much of it.
What circuit was that?
I don't know. It wasn't a big GP track
[Guadix venue in southeast Spain, Ed.].
It's almost like a borderline cart track.
There was two days there and you had
to make it out of the first day. There
were a bunch of fast Americans—myself
and Gabriel DaSilva made it out of the
first day, and the second day, in the last
session, I dropped a bunch of time.
That's what got me the ride for 2019.
In 2019, I did the Red Bull Rookies
Cup partnered with the Lagasse team
Scott upped the
ante by taking
a career-first
MotoAmerica
Supersport win in
race one at Road
Atlanta, surprising
everyone but
himself.
