Rocco Landers, thanks to swap-
ping positions with the youngster
by taking the win in race two af-
ter Landers took the gold in race
one with Herrin second.
The result effectively puts on
hand on the championship for
Herrin, as he bids to join the
three-class club of riders who
have won three different AMA
national classes to go with his
Superbike and Stock 1000 titles.
Herrin heads into the next
round at New Jersey Motor-
sports Park only needing to finish
ahead of Landers in race one,
or leave NJMP with 51 points in
hand to put the title out of reach.
"We were at least able to hold
off that three-race lead and get
that win under our belt," Her-
rin said. "It felt like it had been
a while since we won; it's only
been three races, but it felt long
and getting beat by the kids isn't
fun—it's hard, mentally."
Landers dominated race one,
taking the win by 6.5 seconds
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from Herrin, his third straight win,
as he is finally showing the speed
everyone expected of him since
joining the Supersport class after
dominating the junior champion-
ships. Suzuki's Tyler Scott came
home for another podium in third.
Herrin responded in the race,
knocking out a five-second win
over Landers with Scott again third.
STOCK 1000
Two races for the Stock 1000
contingent at PittRace saw
Hayden Gillim roll back the years
with his first win of the season in
race one on the Disrupt Racing
Suzuki. The Kentuckian headed
Andrew Lee (Cycle World/
MYOWNRACE
11 MATHEW SCHOLTZ
3-2 SUPERBIKE
"We have a joke that the team [is] going
to break my wrist before every single race,
and hopefully we'll just finish it like this
now," Scholtz said, a er returning from his
broken wrist from Brainerd. "But honestly,
when I was out there racing and stuff, I
don't really no ce the wrist too much. The
only problem for me today was the last
four or five laps, my fingers began going
numb. That was the worst part of it, really.
A er the race finish, I could feel the wrist
throbbing a lot, but when I was out there
riding, I didn't no ce it. So, I can't blame
it on that. Jake [Gagne] was definitely the
quickest guy today."
(Above) Mathew Scholtz was
back to his backing-it-in best after
breaking his wrist at the previous
round at Brainerd.
