SUPERSPORT
MOTOAMERICA AMA/FIM NORTH AMERICAN ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 8 / AUGUST 7-9, 2015
INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY/INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
P96
getting up there. I finally just let
it go this weekend and really
wanted to ride and have fun. I
think that's what I've been miss-
ing the whole time."
To add to the fun factor and
the win, Gerloff moved up into
second in the championship
behind teammate Beach, five
points ahead of Herrin with two
races left in 2015.
THE WAR
It's not Beach's first champion-
ship, but it was a long hard road
to get another. In the grand
scheme of things, five years isn't
that long, but it is when you are
a racer. And when those years
are filled with some hard times,
a half-decade can feel even
couldn't be happier."
All racers love a "W," but
winning a closely fought battle,
especially in the dry, means so
much more.
"Gosh, when I won at Atlanta
it was awesome and it was super
cool, but it just didn't feel like a
real win, being in the wet," he
said.
Since a win at the second
round of the championship in
Atlanta, Gerloff has been trying
everything to get back there.
"After that I've just been work-
ing my butt off trying to get back
on the top step of the podium
and it just hasn't been clicking,"
he said. "I've just been battling
with a lot of stuff, mentally, just
trying to figure out why I'm not
of a second.
Getting his first win in the dry—
his second this season—was
such a massive relief for Gerloff.
It was almost hard to find the
words.
"Just crazy, it doesn't even
feel real," Gerloff said. "Just to
have it happen here at Indy right
in front of the World Champion-
ship, in front of the whole team
and with JD [Beach] winning the
championship…I've wanted that
for a long time, but he definitely
deserved it this year. I just have
to thank my whole team for not
giving up on me, for staying with
me. I wasn't going to give up on
them. I was giving it everything
I had and it finally came to-
gether here at Indianapolis. I just
Beach took home the
title a weekend early.
