This weekend, Josh Herrin is racing both his normal MotoAmerica Superbike class as well as in the WorldSBK Championship as a Wild Card entry at Laguna Seca. In doing so, Josh will join an exclusive group of road-racing legends. Go Josh! Give ’em hell!
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When Attack Performance/Herrin Compound Superbike rider Josh Herrin competes at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca next weekend, he?ll join a special group of motorcycle road racers who have competed as Wild Card entrants at World Superbike races held in the U.S.
Josh Herrin joins an elite list of legends that includes MotoAmerica race director Doug Chandler and rider representative Thomas Stevens, Scott Russell, Miguel Duhamel, Freddie Spencer, Mat Mladin, Anthony Gobert, Ben and Eric Bostrom, Nicky and Roger Hayden, Aaron Yates, beIN Sports race broadcast commentator Jason Pridmore, M4 ECSTAR Suzuki team principal Chris Ulrich, and others. Doug Chandler won race two in the World Superbike round at Brainerd International Raceway in 1990.
Wild Card entrants have been part of the U.S. rounds of the Superbike World Championship almost since the beginning. In fact, during WSBK?s second-ever visit to America soil ? at Minnesota?s Brainerd International Raceway in 1990 ? Doug Chandler put his Muzzy Kawasaki ZX-7 Superbike on the pole and very nearly won race one with a three-second lead until he suffered a mechanical problem. He came back to win race two.
In 1995, Smokin? Joe?s Honda riders Miguel Duhamel and Mike ...