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Cycle News 2024 Issue 16 April 23

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mind, it was like, 'Okay, I've won the race. Just don't mess up.' You've got no idea how nerve- racking that is when you're in that position. How good is this? Indian one, two, and three. It's a perfect weekend for me." The result sees Herfoss vaulted into the points lead on 135 ahead of Wyman's 126 and O'Hara third on 79 points. BellissiMoto Twins Cup The second round of the Bellis- siMoto Twins Cup series had Rocco Landers giving Suzuki its first class win on the new RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Suzuki GSX-8R, the former an Indian Motorcycle 1-2-3. "It was a weird race for me," Herfoss said after race two. "I got a really big gap in the first two laps. The first lap, especial - ly—three seconds. Then it said five after lap two. I had already slowed down in my mind, and I assumed that everyone was on wets. Dane took the pit board down after the gap went out and just had the lap count. So, I was like, 'Okay, the gap is going out a long way.' Then, when I hear Tyler's on slicks, I'm like, 'Wow. I was way too cautious. He could have been coming fast.' That's what it was like. I've never been in that situation where I've liter - ally gone off the start and, in my Herfoss qualified an incred- ible 0.75 of a second clear of the field in the dry on the factory S&S/Indian Motorcycle entry ahead of Bobby Fong (SDI/ Roland Sands Racing/Indian Motorcycle) and Kyle Wyman (Harley-Davidson Factory Rac - ing). He then took the two-lap Challenge win over defending number one Hayden Gillim (RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson) and Wyman to bag $5000, the race-one win after a stellar fight with Wyman and Gillim, and a 13-second win in the tricky wet conditions in race two over teammate Tyler O'Hara, with Max Flinders taking a popular podium in race two for ROUND 1 / APRIL 19-21, 2024 ROAD ATLANTA / BRASELTON, GEORGIA OFF-ROAD I FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP P94 Rocco Landers (97) handed a first win to Suzuki on the new GSX-8R in race one of Twins Cup. Dominic Doyle (25) would triumph in race two.

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