ROUND 4 / JUNE 14-16, 2024
BRAINERD INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY
ROAD RACE I MOTOAMERICA/FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIP
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going and try to keep this lead."
The race weekend proved
another good one for the War-
horse HSBK Racing Ducati team,
especially
Herrin, who seems
now to be on a consistent run of
podium form, with two second
places from Brainerd match-
ing nicely with his race-two win
from
Road America. With team-
mate Baz taking third in race
one, it marked
the first time both
Ducatis were on the box and
the fourth race in a row in which
either one was on the podium.
"We can't leave here and be
super happy with a second, but
I'm content with it," Herrin said.
get ahead of ourselves. Going
into this race, we made some
changes this morning, and I told
my data guy, 'Nick, we need to
smooth this bike out.' On the
warmup lap out there, I'm like,
'I think we smoothed it out too
much.' We took a lot of torque
away. At first, when I had some
grip, I'm like, 'This thing is slow,'
but once the tire started go
-
ing away, it played in my favor,
for
sure. You just kind of roll it
around like a 600. It was slip-
pery out there. So, what we did
with
the electronics definitely
helped out there. Kudos to the
team. We're just going to keep
That would go hand in hand
with Fong's hard-fought race-one
win, in which he used the Yama-
ha R1M's corner-speed superior-
ity to fend off a sustained attack
from
teammates Herrin and
Loris Baz. The three crossed the
line in that order, separated by
six-tenths of a second.
"I would have never thought
I would even be in this position
last year or even leading up to
the season," Fong said after
race two. "The goal is just to
get on some podiums and see
what we can do. But now we're
in this thing, and we've just got
to be smart. We're not going to
