This past weekend’s Round Six MotoAmerica race at Utah Motorsports Park witnessed a couple of spectacular crashes, with both riders fortunately walking away pretty much unscathed. Their bikes, though" Not so much…
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Among the crashes during round six of the 2018 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship last weekend at Utah Motorsports Park, the two most notable ones were by defending champ and Yoshimura Suzuki Factory Racing rider Toni Elias on Friday during Superbike Qualifying Practice 1 and by Attack Performance/Herrin Compound/Yamaha rider Josh Herrin during Sunday Morning Superbike warmup.
Both incidents were spectacular to behold. Elias? get-off started out as a simple lowside up and ended up in a conflagration, or as Elias described it, a ?an America-Japanese barbecue.? Herrin?s moment began and ended in drama, with him highsiding to the sky as his bike cartwheeled off the track and separated its handlebars, forks, front wheel, and front brakes from the rest of the machine. While Elias was none the worse for wear, his Suzuki GSX-R1000 Superbike was charred almost beyond recognition. Herrin bruised his tailbone and right hand, but was mostly okay, while his Yamaha YZF-R1 Superbike was a bona fide basket case.
When Elias was able to start the race on Saturday and also on Sunday, but Herrin was unable to start on Sunday despite appearing relatively fit physically, many fans wondered how MotoAmerica?s one-bike rule affected the situation. With both...