VOL. 48 ISSUE 8 APRIL 5, 2011
(Above) Herrin has a large entourage
of friends and family. Here he spends
time with them at his favorite Dublin
sandwich shop.
(Left) Running RC cars around his
Supermoto track is one of the ways
Herrin winds down after training or
race weekends.
ers who hang out at the Herrin's
place. They let people camp
there and ride the track for $50
a day, so there's an ever-changing group of riders in and out of
the place. Add to that the various
dogs, cats, horses and alligators
on the premises and you have
quite a cast of characters to say
the least.
Having the support team of
his family and friends in Georgia
is one thing Herrin will miss by
racing overseas. He and Teesha
are still weighing their options in
terms of where they'll base themselves out of in Europe.
"England would be nice because the team will be there,"
Herrin said. "There's going to be
other Americans over there like
Tommy Aquino and James Rispoli. It would be great if we could
all live close and train together.
We're also considering Belgium."
THE OTHER FAMILY
Herrin considers himself part of
Yamaha's family as well. "It's the
only team I've ridden for since
I was 14," he explains. "I have
close relationships with so many
people at Yamaha. I'll always consider myself a Yamaha guy."
Herrin hopes his path with
Caterham in Moto2 may eventually lead him back to Yamaha.
The team would eventually like to
contest MotoGP and Josh would
love nothing better than the team
to associate with Yamaha and
run their motors when and if they
make the jump. And, of course,
Herrin hopes to eventually make
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the jump to MotoGP as well.
Herrin isn't upset that Yamaha
didn't re-up his contract after winning the Superbike Championship.
"They have Cameron [Beaubier] coming up and he's ready
to make that jump to Superbike,"
Herrin says. "And they'll go with
Josh [Hayes] as long as he wants
to race."
Herrin also has nothing but
good things to say about his former teammate Hayes.
"It was definitely a racer-to-racer-relationship, no doubt," Herrin
said of Hayes. "The first person
you want to beat is your teammate. But off the track, no matter what happens on the track,
I'm still going to be nice to them.
Even if someone is beating me
up on the track afterwards I'm going to say, 'Hey let's go ride some
Supermoto and have some fun.'
"The way I look at it is we're all
racers, we love what we're doing so we have that in common
right off the bat. Even the falling
out I had with Danny Eslick a few
years ago. That was probably the
worst I've ever seen it with another rider and I still asked him
to come out and put on a school
here. You've got to be able to put
that stuff behind you or eventually
everyone on the track would be
your enemy.
"Josh [Hayes] has asked me
to go bike riding with him a few
times and he's taken care of me
a couple of times when I've celebrated too much after a race so,
yeah, I consider him a friend. But
