Karel Hanika, Marvin Fritz and Ben Young Finish Top 10 at the 2024 Daytona 200 on Bridgestone Motorcycle Tires Three riders finished in the top 10 at the 82nd running of the Daytona 200 on Bridgestone BATTLAX race tires: Karel Hanika (fifth place), Marvin Fritz (sixth place) and Ben Young (ninth place). Bridgestone marked its largest presence to date at the Daytona 200, providing full engineering support, sponsorship and BATTLAX race tires to 15 riders from seven different countries. All finishing Bridgestone-shod riders advanced significantly from their starting grid position. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 10, 2024) – Bridgestone Americas (Bridgestone) today announced that three Bridgestone-backed riders secured top 10 finishes at the historic 82nd running of the Daytona 200. Karel Hanika rode his YART-ProKASRO Yamaha R6 to a fifth place finish, followed by YART teammate Marvin Fritz in sixth place and Ben Young of Team BATTLAX in ninth. This was a record showing for Bridgestone BATTLAX r
Former AMA Superbike Champion Josh Herrin was the quickest rider Tuesday, August 8 and quickest overall during a private two-day test at Circuit of The Americas (COTA), near Austin, Texas. Riding his Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati Panigale V4 R with an R5-compound rear Dunlop Sportmax Slick, Herrin did a one-lap time attack on the 3.4-mile, 20-turn road course during the cooler conditions of the morning that resulted in a 2:09.966. “I’m super happy with what we were able to accomplish at the test,” Herrin wrote in a text message to Roadracingworld.com. “We started with settings that were very difficult to be fast on and we worked very well together as a team to find a good setup. It was important for us to come and get some testing in since we haven’t ridden the bike much this year on a non-race weekend. To be fastest is a huge bonus because I’m not normally fast in testing. That means we should
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