Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati Prepared For Two-Rider Competitors in 2024 Metal Commander MotoAmerica Superbike Championship
Sunnyvale, Calif. — Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati is proud to announce that Josh Herrin and former WorldSBK and MotoGP star Loris Baz will entrance a two-rider Ducati crew on the 2024 Metal Commander MotoAmerica Superbike Championship.
In what’s going to undoubtedly be one of the crucial aggressive line-ups in MotoAmerica Superbike historical past, Herrin and Baz will make the most of the strengths of the WorldSBK-winning Ducati Panigale V4 R in an try to say a primary MotoAmerica/AMA Superbike title for Ducati within the trendy period.
Herrin will compete with Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati for a 3rd season after claiming the 2022 MotoAmerica Supersport Championship, the 2023 Daytona 200 on the Ducati Panigale V2, and two race wins on the Panigale V4 R in MotoAmerica Superbike, finally ending a second general behind 2023 MotoAmerica Superbike Champion, Jake Gagne. He’s decided to go one higher in 2024.
For Baz, the favored Frenchman will probably be again on American soil after two seasons racing within the WorldSBK Championship. Baz final competed in MotoAmerica for Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati in 2021, ending fourth within the sequence standings.
Loris Baz (Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati–#76)
“Final 12 months was a troublesome with an enormous damage, and I needed to return again to America with the identical crew I had in 2021. I’ve at all times stated the folks I met within the Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati squad had been the most important household I made in racing. We saved in touch throughout my two WorldSBK years with the hope we’d see one another once more sooner or later, so the actual fact this has occurred makes me joyful.
“I’m again coaching one hundred pc now with none ache in my ankle and I’m actually wanting ahead to seeing all of the American followers once more. I’ve saved in contact with a lot of them since I final competed in MotoAmerica. It’s going to be a fantastic season!”
Josh Herrin (Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati–#2)
“I’m actually enthusiastic about 2024 and being teammates with Loris Baz,” Herrin stated. “The prospect to be teammates with Loris was truly one of many causes that I signed with the crew within the first place again on the finish of 2021, and though I’ve had two superior teammates over final two years, being teammates Baz was one thing I actually needed and I’m joyful we’re lastly making that occur.”
“Having a teammate in MotoAmerica Superbike goes to be big for the crew. With an additional rider, the outcomes ought to be even higher than final 12 months as a result of we’ll get twice the information, and Loris and I can work collectively and arrange the very best bike for our season.”
Bobby Shek (Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati Group Supervisor)
“Lastly, after three years, we’ve arrived at a two-rider factory-supported program. Each Josh and Loris are extremely aggressive world riders on well-sorted Ducati Superbikes, so we’re very optimistic that we are going to be combating for wins early within the season,” Shek stated.
“We did a great job final 12 months when Josh and the bike had been new to one another and now with one other season of information within the financial institution, we count on even higher outcomes.”
Spherical one of many 2024 Metal Commander MotoAmerica Superbike Championship will probably be held at Michelin Raceway Street Atlanta on April 19-21.
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