Saturday’s Junior Cup race had a lot of drama with a couple of crashes changing the way things finished. I’m used to those, and hopefully we can grunt it out tomorrow.” It might be a different story tomorrow, but luckily these races are a little bit shorter than the Superbike races. After the crash this morning, I feel fine, luckily. The guys have been very nice, letting me do the stuff I do on the street and let me be me at the track. I feel like when I’m having fun, I’m in that mode where nothing can stop me. That’s the whole thing about this year is having fun. So, at the end of the race, I was just having fun waving back because it felt like it was a funny thing to do. To me, it’s kind of like a motivator and gets me having fun and forgetting a little bit about the pressure that’s on me. Then, the second time I looked back, I was just kind of trying to see if somebody else was behind him so I knew if he makes a pass on me, can we battle, can we not? I saw him wave. “I don’t know if it was Tyler the whole time or not, or somebody caught back up. 7 or something at one point, I kind of settled into the pace I was doing thinking that I was going to be able to maintain the gap,” said Herrin. Rocco Landers finished third on his Landers Racing Yamaha to make it three different motorcycle brands on the podium. Keeping Herrin honest for the majority of the 19-lap race was polesitter Tyler Scott, the Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki rider hounding Herrin, but eventually finishing second and a little over one-and-a-half seconds adrift of him. We’ll see how those races go in the future.”Īfter suffering a crash that was not his fault in Supersport final qualifying, Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati NYC rider Josh Herrin bounced back in a big way, notching his sixth win of the season and third victory in a row in the afternoon’s race. He goes good at Pittsburgh and some of those other tracks that are not always my best. I know the second half of the season is going to be more in Hayden’s favor, so I’m just kind of preparing myself for that. Kind of like what I said at the last race – if I can just keep doing this, then the points will take care of themselves. This morning we had our direction and things were working a lot better. We made some pretty big changes and then went back to where we started and then went back again. I was a little bit frustrated in Q1 just because we went around in circles a little bit. Really just have to give a hats-off to the team because it wasn’t that easy yesterday. I just said I was going to go out there and ride the race and if those guys were coming with me, it was going to be a fun battle. So, I was really forcing myself to go slower, but the times were coming a little bit easier that way. I have a tendency when I go out those first couple laps just to over-ride and end up making mistakes, or just pushing a little bit too hard and ending up going slower. “Honestly, my whole plan was to kind of go out and ride a little more relaxed. “Once I saw plus three on my board, I kind of calmed down a little bit,” Alexander said. Disrupt Racing Suzuki’s Gillim, who is second to Alexander in the point standings, finished third. The New Yorker’s gap at the checkered flag was nearly five seconds over second-place finisher Champ School BPR Racing Yamaha rider Bryce Prince, the former MotoAmerica regular returning to the paddock just for the Laguna Seca round. The Tytlers Cycle/RideHVMC Racing BMW rider expected a close battle at the front, but it never materialized, and Alexander led the 14-lap race from start to finish. The Yuasa Stock 1000 class had one race at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, and polesitter Alexander made the most of it. The win was Alexander’s fourth in a row and fifth of the season and it gives him a 17-point lead over Hayden Gillim in the race for the MotoAmerica Yuasa Stock 1000 Championship. Corey Alexander, however, had a different idea of how the race would play out and he turned it into a blowout, the Tytlers Cycle/RideHVMC-backed New Yorker taking control from the get-go and never looking back. Nelsonīased on practice and qualifying at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, the Yuasa Stock 1000 race was set to be a thrill-fest of epic proportions. Corey Alexander made the Yuasa Stock 1000 class his own on Saturday with a runaway win at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.
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